Torsten Curdt

I have told Claude to f off so many times — I fear it might have learned that from me.

Sorry!

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It feels like there is a good overlap with this nix based project:

clan.lol

Things I could not figure out from the docs yet:

- secrets management
- deploying branches as subdomains

...but looks really interesting.

Credit to @reckless.bsky.social for asking these questions. I've given The Verge stick for an overt unwillingness to engage on these points in print, and seeing them finally discuss the most seismic mobile platform story of the past 15 years with @timbl.bsky.social is a great start.

The benevolent dictator model feels tempting for #OSS - faster, fewer debates. Then a PR argument with the single person in charge reminds me:

Speed isn’t health. Community is.

IMO this isn't generational at all. But I am glad to see there are more and more people seeing the light.

AWS is usually great tech with a poor DX.

Kids are a good way to explain LLMs.

- Trained on limited data.
- Answer based on that limited data are often incorrect and/or involve poo references.
- Hallucinate answers like they can't eat because there are squirrels in the wardrobe.
- Will say yOu'Re aBsOluTeLy RighT and do the opposite anyway

May I c&p that to my timeline? 🙃

But seriously: After so many years I still haven't figured out why the same happens to me for some things but not others.

Mit einer Generation die Tennissocken gut findet wird es niemals Frieden geben.

YouTube video by Venus Theory It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now

Music Streaming Is Broken

www.youtube.com/watch?v=plle...

Very worth a watch. I knew things are broken - just could not imagine to what extend. 🤯

Paywall. Kannst Du eine Executive Summary geben?

‘If you want to give people easy access to an AI-overview-free Google search, send them to this page’

udm14.com

cable tester showing the results of a slightly better usb-c cable

Shoutout to USB-C for simplifying things.
Now I only need one cable...

...and a tester to check if the cable should actually work.

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This is my most popular printable so far.

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What's your most popular?

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Next: Amiga 500?

I see very different outcomes for junior and senior devs - but my testing group is too small to make a generalised statement.

It's always the question whether is faster to review the code vs writing it yourself. This can vary dramatically depending on the complexity and risk of the tasks at hand.

"I didn't understand how to use it. Didn't bother to ask support for help. Wasted my time on this free app!1!! Stay away!" 1 star.

I’m not especially AI-positive or AI-negative, but can we please stop calling generated images "AI art"? That feels like a huge misrepresentation of what art actually is.

If you don't think the image says it all, anyone with minuscule amount of accessibility training can tell you that the iOS26 control center looks like a brain fart.

I do believe sanity will prevail and they make some more adjustments before the release.

Fingers crossed.

I guess the official term is "shut down" but it makes you wonder.

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding * More on this story: The scientists warning the world about ocean acidification – ‘evil twin’ of the climate crisis The world’s oceans are in worse health than realised, scientists have said today, as they warn that a key measurement shows we are “running out of time” to protect marine ecosystems. Ocean acidification, often called the “evil twin” of the climate crisis, is caused when carbon dioxide is rapidly absorbed by the ocean, where it reacts with water molecules leading to a fall in the pH level of the seawater. It damages coral reefs and other ocean habitats and, in extreme cases, can dissolve the shells of marine creatures. Continue reading...

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study

I just found out:

When turned off, Apple Silicon laptops boot when ANY key or even the trackpad is pressed.

I don’t think I have ever been less excited about a #WWDC than this year. Apple has been such a shitty developer hostile company with their rent seeking in recent times it’s hard to be excited.

🚨 New blog alert:
Postgres 18 beta 1 was released last week, and includes native support for UUIDv7.
Great opportunity to explain why UUIDv7 is a great fit for your database keys, and show you how to use them in PG18.

www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7

Maintainer burnout is real and saying "no" is important - but closing issues via stale bot doesn't sit right with me either.
No judgement - but I will never do it. [FLW]

Because it's not like the issues are gone - they are just hidden. I rather mark issues worth solving. Feels more positive.

I have seen projects that used Rails just as API for SPAs. Nothing wrong with that (other than it being Ruby maybe).

If it's really the SPA angle: Now that SPAs aren't as favored as they once were - shouldn't that give Rails a chance for a comeback?

🤷‍♂️

I am just not sure it was in their hands.

Hm. Can you point to why you think the JavaScript angle mattered for Rails as a project? To me it always felt like it was Ruby falling out of favour that caused the decline of dominance. Or do you mean the SPA vs Rails angle?

They got the fundamentals right - but personally I find it a shame we are stuck with that "good enough" interface.

"...or will ever succeed in future"

That’s a pretty bleak outlook :)