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For any SF based people the Roxy Theater in the Mission is one of the few operating theaters that STILL use this (bc the others burned down)
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/sf-roxie-theater-projection...
if you donate you can get a tour :)
Hah as a satified customer this is really heartwarming to see
A bit tangential but i really think the .nyc domain is underappreciated.
SF/Mountain View etc don't even have one! you get a little piece of the NYC brand just for you!
https://www.chrisbako.com/ and https://www.chrisbako.nyc/
handmade :)
Mm this is my experience as well, but I'm not particularly worried about software engineering a whole.
If anything this example shows that these cli tools give regular devs much higher leverage.
There's a lot of software labor that is like, go to the lowest cost country, hire some mediocre people there and then hire some US guy to manage them.
That's the biggest target of this stuff, because now that US guy can just get equal or hight code in both quality and output without the coordination cost.
But unless we get to the point where you can do what I call "hypercode" I don't think we'll see SWEs as a whole category die.
Just like we don't understand assembly but still need technical skills when things go wrong, there's always value in low level technical skills.
I found the same algorithm! The top down solution didn't really work.
Very fun game
yes! I looked into implementing adblock on the iPhone notification tray and it didn't look like it was possible. Glad someone is working on it for android.
Apps shouldn't be allowed to send notifications for Ads! I give any app on my phone one chance to be annoying and then turn them off.
This feels like something where we should be able to use an on device classifier or even LLM to bucket notifications, similar to a spam inbox.
Even better if they can pull any potential coupons out for use later without flavor text from the notification itself.
Hey! Thanks for publishing this.
Would be interested in seeing the breakdown between uplift vs company size.
e.g. I work in a FAANG and have seen an uptick in the number of lines on PRs, partially due to AI coding tools and partially due to incentives for performance reviews.
Agree, the death of the junior SWE is greatly exaggerated. (At least in FAANG)
Maybe there was some idea that if AI actually solved software engineering in a few years you wouldn't need any more SWEs. Industry is moving away from that idea this year.
Very cool, I was thinking about building a similar thing when I saw the Flock discourse, but got busy with the holidays.
Any interesting technical details? Getting the actual data from govt meetings looked like it was the hardest part to me.
Interesting tool, do you have some domain knowledge as an analyst or something similar? I've always been curious what research tools analysts are using outside of like, Google.
Very cool, this is exactly what I was looking for to answer the how question.
These projects look awesome, if I'm ever in the UK I'll checkout their museum.
I actually wrote the post so thank you! I hadn't found that guys website and will check it out.
There's a really interesting history of automata at Disney too, someone made a very good video about it here if you haven't seen it!
I mean if you're getting X number of users per day and you don't need to pay for bandwidth or anything, there's gotta be SOME way to monetize down the line.
If your userbase or the current CEO likes it or not.
Interesting that this announcement is tied in with one for Claude Code revenue.
Feels like maybe AI companies are starting to feel the questions on their capital spending? They wanna show that this is a responsible acquisition.
Very cool. If you're interested in things like this you might wanna checkout CGP Grey's videos on tracking down various stories from books through archives.
That's a cool setup.
I've always wanted to get into wardriving but I've never had an opportunity.
is this something you have to do for work or is there a network of wardrivers out there?
I live in NYC so it'd probably be closer to warwalking, but still could be fun.
Interesting, I wonder if using a regular sff pc fan might work if you don't need the touchscreen.
Just thermal paste to the battery hah
Mm maybe hugged to death getting an error on startup
Update Error! An error occurred while parsing the update feed.
this is the right way to try and tackle this problem imo. too much focus in AI dev tooling has been on building "products" that only half work.
making codebases understandable to humans, and LLMs etc, is a better approach
self documenting, interpretable systems would actually solve a lot of dev churn in big companies
plus it's not like artifacts have to be limited to code once that's figured out
Very cool! I have a sketchy pipeline for exporting my data from Gmaps to my personal site and always thought about building something like this.
This could be a really interesting as a digital forensics thing.