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This feels like the image of the plane that returns from battle with bullet holes, and the engineer being asked to path up where the holes to make it stronger. Only to be told to patch where there weren't holes as those planes didn't make it home.

While not an exact fit of an analogy, those tests patch what was a problem with Postgres in the wild. What it doesn't cover are the things that worked in Postgres without tests, but may fail in port and go undetected.

What timing. I was just preparing my Sony Vaio PCT-C1MHP only yesterday to try and sell. I remember seeing this in a movie around 2000 (probably Charlies Angels) and got one.

https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computer.html?c=64

About 15 years ago I used to have a Silhouette cutter printer. You could get a cutting blade and it would cut shapes out of paper and card. I remember putting a pen in there and using it to write with it on paper. It was cool.

Very fun. I can only imagine building this with Claude and testing needed a bit of mental concentration.

React was one of those ways of building software that gave me back the giddy excitement I had learning Visual Basic as a kid.

It’s hard to explain, but the way everything was encapsulated as a component just clicked for me and suddenly the whole app could be composed.

I think it was when they introduced functional components. And when it comes to hooks, I love them.

Not to say other frameworks didn’t do the same, there was something special about React.

I’m working on Flowtelic. A workflow driven note-taking system that aims to get you thinking deeper, but also help you work on the most important thing next if you’re stuck. While not essential, it’ll be enhanced with a local first AI approach.

https://www.flowtelic.com

As someone who tried to sort many lego sets lately, I do like this. The problem lies that modern lego has so many unique forms that it feels like you'll have many bins with one or two pieces in.

I just compared this on my Mac book M1 Max 64GB RAM with the following:

Model: qwen3.59b Prompt: "Hey, tell me a story about going to space"

Ollama completed in about 1:44 Lemonade completed in about 1:14

So it seems faster in this very limited test.

What incredible work. I found his video on all the smoking products he found really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3gK-X32cy8

This is actually one of those things I think the EU should consider regulating. It then means kids can have proper parental controls as they often get introduced to things by being handed a parents phone every now and then.

This is my site: https://www.productgenome.com/

It's where I'm exploring the range of products I'm building/testing which gives a bit of context to why I'm interested in certain areas.

I picked up on that also. I feel that a lot of humans would also get confused about whether you mean the eye on the left, or the subject's left eye.

Thanks, and great feedback about the use of dollars!

Thanks. I’m based in the UK so have a good grasp on that, but I’ve reviewed someone’s resume from the US just as easily. Generally, English speaking and preferably in a digital related field, but a lot of the common pain points seem to be universal. It’s only difficult when it’s a field that’s highly niche as hard to know what’s common knowledge.

I like to play the role of the person doing the hiring, hence why the form asks for an example job description.

I’ve gone old school. After reviewing a few people’s CV’s the easiest format was for me to record a video with the feedback, so I put a site together for that:

https://resume.fail/

No AI, you just buy my time.

I’m also looking to do a couple freebies if anyone wants to anonymise their CV and let me use it for a promo example.

The problem I face with building web apps where the elements are draggable or clickable, is that the browser also selects the text. The easiest solution is to disable text selection.

But I’d love to know if there’s a better solution to keep text selection somehow.

I tried looking this up and it sounds like it will be supported. But then again, we don’t have the ability to install Fortnite as that’s blocked in the EU.

I noticed that as well so fixed it out of auto mode and onto the Claude 4 Sonnet 4. It takes longer but gives a better results.

I also saw that it was 0.8x the ‘credit cost’ thinking still that I had 500.

Now to learn that the 500 has gone and you get unlimited only on auto shows how easy it has been to misunderstand what they’re trying to say.

Also, I’ve no idea how to find out the cost of MAX. Especially as their web agent has the text MAX next to the selected non-max model.

Siri to book a flight? I just want it to reliably tell me what time a specific meeting is tomorrow, know that when I ask for where Mount Etna is, I don’t mean a city in the USA, and stop just ignoring me randomly when I talk to it.

Apple are much further behind with Siri than they realise.

I'm working on a resume review service. Really simple, submit your resume and I'll record a video analysis of it. I created it because every so often I get asked to review someone's resume and they've found it very helpful, and it's my way to address the poor resumes I've received when hiring.

https://resume.fail

I wasn’t sure how good CSS was and whether it would be good for layouts and such. Then I found the CSS Garden and it was the shining light that made me understand its power.

Similarly, it was ExtJS that made me realise that web sites could be just as good as desktop apps.

I'm currently making about $1K a month on my book/course Atomic Note-Taking which has sold in 69 countries—something I didn't anticipate!

https://atomicnotetaking.com

Along side this I'm build a note-taking app—flowtelic that aims to help you get into flow and have an autotelic experience. It's to put into software the goals of my note-taking book where I feel other apps are missing the mark.

I have a waitlist if anyone is interested

https://join.flowtelic.com

Can I confirm that the reason it's not preferred to have comments in data-formats is because it's to be machine read only and as such should be as efficient as possible and not contain information that wont be used?

Seeing as I can only see the use case as a file format to be read/written by humans in the loop, then maybe the conversation should be about compiling the file format to a data format for compatibility outside of the user tooling.

I would guess the double-slit experiment to fit this analogy.

You know, I think that has. I remember this happening, but the recent years I’ve been into London on occasion, this doesn’t seem to be a problem anymore.

Same here, which is interesting when you see it next to more blue-blue. Maybe it's the relative effect.

That sounds like it was caught by luck, unless there was some test explicitly with that configuration in the QA process?

That's exactly how I read it. Sounds like they have a set of underlying templates to train from, and one of those must have been some type of Apple Weather app recreation.

It’s more subtle than that, imagine being able to edit a high poly count mesh on a low spec machine. So not just final rendering, but really the main application state. This is what something like After Effects could benefit from.

When I tested a full ray-traced FPS demo in the browser and never noticed that the render was done server side, that’s when I believed this is possible.

This is a very nice project and any competition to After Effects is very welcome.

One model I'd love to see is a web based front end, but all video processing happens in the backend.

Then ship the app as a combined front/backend, or just the front end that connects to a remote backend. That backend could be a server in a studio with beefed up specs, or offloaded to the cloud for solo animators working on complex projects.

Seeing a project like this give me hope that we could decouple what the app does, vs how to control the app.