JustSkyfall

If I had to guess, it's because the phone market is largely dominated by Apple and Samsung, and so it'd be/has been very hard for OnePlus to actually sell their phones there.

I've been using pgdog (https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog) and it has worked really well for my needs!

Big congrats on the release!

I have been using Rails 8 for the past few months on a work project, but the Hanakai ecosystem looks really, really interesting.

My one question would be whether or not Hanakai supports Inertia or Svelte views - we've been moving away from ERB recently, which has made it much easier to write interactive code due to the ecosystem, and I'd rather not throw that DX away!

The problem with these benchmarks is that the Chinese models tend to be incredible on paper, and absolutely terrible in practice :/

In the UK you get thrown in prison for making a slightly unfriendly tweet.

Do you? The closest thing I can think about is how someone was jailed for encouraging arson attacks on asylum hotels. I'd be extremely surprised if the US had zero cases of somebody receiving a police visit after threatening to kill the President or bomb a school or something...

(FWIW I do think the UK needs stronger free speech protections, but saying that you'll be immediately jailed for writing unfriendly tweets is a huge stretch)

Would be more impressive if the safeguards weren't so trigger-happy!

It's interesting how every time there's a layoff, the blog post always has a title like "Preparing for what's next" or "An update on our workforce" or "Getting ready for the agentic era"!

Probably a good idea in all honesty. xAI is a deeply unserious lab

re: #1, Blacksmith (https://blacksmith.sh) exists and it works pretty well!

I mean, considering that it's been 13 years since the release, I think they did pretty well!

This is really cool (especially considering that the pricing is way better than Persona/Stripe Identity)!

That being said, what security measures does Didit take, and has it gone through e.g. auditing or SOC 2?

Rails 8 is surprisingly good nowadays. It absolutely still has its share of problems (e.g. Bundler being slow, the frontend story being crappy without Inertia, lack of types which is a biggie, memory) but it is still a fantastic framework imo.

And I agree! It's something I touch upon halfway iirc, but their suffering shouldn't be something to laugh at or mock. It's genuinely upsetting to see to be honest.

At the same time though, I don't think it's healthy to let them go on with 4o either (especially since new users can start chatting with it)

People are not happy with this because 4o, at least from what I've heard, seems to be much more willing to go down the relationship/friend path than 5.2 and Claude and the like.

My theory is that the vast majority of users won't have an Android with root access/a jailbroken iPhone, which reduces the risk of using a virtual camera? Then they can just block emulators/rooted/jailbroken devices which increases the barrier to entry.

Supabase seriously needs to work on its messaging around RLS. I have seen _so_ many apps get hacked because the devs didn't add a proper RLS policy and end up exposing all of their data.

(As an aside, accessing the DB through the frontend has always been weird to me. You almost certainly have a backend anyway, use it to fetch the data!)

The government is somewhat complicit - there are even reports that the police take escapees back to their captives for a bribe

You can definitely vibecode an app, but that doesn't mean that you can necessarily "get smarter"!

An example: I vibecoded myself a Toggl Track clone yesterday - it works amazingly but if I had to rewrite e.g. the PDF generation code by myself I wouldn't have a clue!

https://skyfall.dev - this post reminds me I should write more though!

Reading the article and randomly stumbling across my name was certainly something to say the least.. here’s to hoping my next posts are written in better circumstances though!

Seems to be back up?

Not if you’re using Workers/Pages!

Location: near London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unfortunately not.

Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Svelte, Astro, React. I do have some experience with Rails and can and have shipped features to production, but I'm not as comfortable with it as the other technologies.

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: hi@skyfall.dev

Hi! I’m a high-school student looking for a part-time role or internship at a company building something ambitious. I learn quickly, thrive in small teams (see below!) and love taking projects from idea to shipped product.

I currently volunteer for a nonprofit (for teens into STEM) called Hack Club [1], have ran programs there, and have also worked on some of their flagship programs - in other words, I'm no stranger to scrappy teams and can ship a project from start to finish.

Outside of Hack Club, I've worked on projects like Vortex, a tempmail service comprising of a custom SMTP server written in Rust, and a frontend made with React Router, a WakaTime plugin for Figma, and a bunch of others you can see on my website [3] and GitHub [4].

[1] https://hackclub.com. Super cool org, if you know folks aged 18 or under into tech then I think they'd really like it!

[2] https://vortex.skyfall.dev. Way too proud of this one :D

[3] https://skyfall.dev/projects. Not an exhaustive list!

[4] https://github.com/skyfallwastaken

They’re pretty infamous for having constant outages and downtime, wouldn’t recommend for something serious

You can use it without internet after the first signin!

No I haven't, I literally learned about this 30 minutes before starting the blog post. I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption that your service provider will not 40x your bill with a week's notice!

I'm genuinely really surprised it took that long for someone to make that, genuinely very creative

Great project you got there! How was your experience w/ the Telegram API?

Yep, I'm getting random issues too

I presume he’s saying that Bluesky’s a very left wing social media platform.