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Skimmed the article. Pretty close to my workflow using fastlane with tauri.

Useful sanity check!

Hats off to you on the ham license! My friend just got hers too!

Re: markdown and hugo, that's an excellent combo. You could easily setup a raspberry pi or $5/mo vps to serve it behind caddy/traefik/nginx and have a working multipage app (mpa) in a weekend.

Or a few minutes with AI haha

I've found that one of the areas I enjoyed least is now what I spend a lot of time on now: testing!

Property-based testing in particular has uncovered a number of invariants in every code base I've introduced it to.

tbf depending on the agent/model a lot of the tests end up being thrown out so it's possible I _should_ handwrite more tests, but having better prompts and detailed plans seems to mitigate that somewhat

Good description of my thoughts on vibe coding / agentic engineering.

Spend a lot more time on architecting and testing than hand rolling most repos now.

Hats off to people who enjoy the minutia of programming everything by hand, but turns out I enjoy the other aspects of software development more.

This is my experience too. I'm primarily a python dev, but have been routinely using other backend languages (rust, go, etc) that I'm familiar with but not at the same level.

Just having ~13yrs experience heavily weighted in one language with some formal studying of others makes directing llms a lot simpler.

Learning syntax, primitives, package managers, testing, etc isn't that much of a lift compared to how I used to program.

Was helping a non-dev colleague who's using claude cowork/code to automate reporting the other day. They understand the business intelligence side well, but were struggling with basic diction to vibe code a pyautogui wrapper to pull up RDP and fill out a MS Access abstraction on a vendor DB.

Think we'll be fine for another 5-10 years as a profession

I've been a fan of the em dash since college. Only recently learned what the shortcut on macos is (opt-shift-dash) but setup text expansion a decade ago.

Think we need better AI tells than that

Big mise fan. Basically took the baton from asdf and added way better performance and dx.

Odd that aube is missing deno from their benchmarks though

Been following zed for at least a year now.

Tried switching multiple times from vscode but it's just not feature complete for my use cases. Off top:

- no expanding tabs to fill the window until another one is clicked

- file picker hides .gitignored files

- vertical terminal tabs would be nice

- restart doesn't automatically load the previous window (most recent project)

- while faster/more responsive than vscode on large codebases, still pretty heavy compared to its AI-averse fork, gram; thus I can't use it on the macbook neo

Until some/all of that is improved, it's just uncanny valley territory with no particular killer feature to migrate. Appreciate all the work they've put into it (especially remote ssh parity!) though and like what they're doing in broad strokes

I remember the OG XPS 13 had what Dell called "project sputnik". To my knowledge, it was the first time a Dell laptop shipped with Ubuntu, if not Linux.

Really wanted one, but was a poor recent college grad at the time.

Chaos agent hahaha

I think it would be unhealthy for Linux in the long term

Mostly agree until this line. MS enshittifying their ecosystem is the resting state and if you believe in the free market (I don't btw), customers voting with their money or data (since they're the product) should be applauded.

TBF Apple does this too on macOS and arguably iOS. I think a lot of their longstanding pushes to merge the two OSes is hostile to their user base who want stronger separations of concerns; a desktop OS has different requirements and capabilities than a phone or a tablet.

Would love to have a Neo with Sequoia which in itself is a step back from Sonoma, but I haven't truly loved any of their OSes since Mountain Lion.

100%

With ssh access to the underlying arch/fedora fork, it'd be an easy fix with AI

The only two moats MS has for desktop OS usage are:

1) Kernel-level DRM for multiplayer games (looking at you, Marathon)

2) Intentionally nerfed MSO 365 apps on web and macOS

You could make a strong case that MDM (which InTune uses as well) negates the AD + GPO advantages of the past 20+ years in enterprise.

browserstack might be a good option to test a bunch of browsers and their different versions on real devices.

Never used it personally, but might get some mileage out of the free plan before their time-based usage expires.

https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate-self-hosted/getti...

Been running cachyos for months, drama-free

Are you me?? I'm literally building highly personalized and/or idiosyncratic software with claude to solve personal and professional problems.

Thanks to tauri, I've now made two desktop apps and one mobile app for the first time in the last two months.

None of this was nearly as feasible just a year ago

I've also used "do you need affirmation or advice."

I like your 3 H's though!

Thanks for the excellent comment! Now excuse me while I go export my spotify history to play around with duckdb <3

Works on macos too (unix by way of bsd)

bitfield/script has some nice abstractions for bash builtins and coreutils

https://github.com/bitfield/script

By default, it's `~/Library/Caches/uv/environments-v2/` on macos.

Can find via `uv cache dir`

See: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/reference/cli/#uv-cache-dir

Get the feeling with the pending IPO, there might be some challengers to discord that get more traction due to the protracted enshittification of the platform (cf. bluesky)

I run a lot of small form factor (SFF) machines including NUCs, Minisforums, and a Mac Studio.

At idle, they aren't loud or consuming much electricity compared to sleep/shutdown.

Fruit co devices in particular are extremely efficient; the Studio is rated at 6W idle, 145W max consumption (cf. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102027 )

Your username checks out re: moving to Scandinavia haha

Love cachyos. Such a great OS. Wanted to love bazzite, but it's got too many opinionated takes and rpm-ostree is a PITA. pacman does have its pitfalls, but aside from upgrades, it's been appliance-level stable for a 100% gaming laptop docked to my tv

cachyos has been nearly flawless for a non-steam deck (gpd win mini 2). Upgrades broke my tv being set to the primary display under gamemode but that was an easy fix.

The other game changer (heh) was going all in on amd: cpu, integrated gpu, and discrete gpu via oculink.

Nvidia may be the best overall performance for gaming and ai workloads, it still doesn't play nice with linux gaming

I mostly agree with you. Now with proton/steamos, the only games that need windows are multiplayer games with kernel-level anticheat mechanisms (e.g., destiny 2).

Otherwise, spot-on to my MO

I used to love Netflix when they started out as DVD mailers. Except when the postal service shattered "Fear and Loathing" pushing its viewing out by days. At one point was renting three movies at a time!

So much better than Blockbuster or Hollywood Video. Was able to see an exponential amount of foreign films, documentaries, and indie films that weren't popular enough to stock in brick and mortar shops. For less money.

Think Netflix jumped the shark well over a decade ago. Remember they had star ratings and good recommendations that weren't heavily monetized outside of keeping you on the platform itself.

Another merger isn't going to roll back the clock.

Thanks for the new word re: prolix! Couldn't quite pin down why heavily AI generated posts/documentation felt off — aside from an amorphous _feeling_ — until today.

Thanks for this. Used Firefox since 1.0. Donate to their non-profit arm every month.

Chrome is openly hostile to users and Safari is such a vanilla experience with poorly implemented extensions.

Until Ladybird drops, I don't plan on switching browsers.