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Slight tangent, but every ms, μs, and ns counts too. We've gotten awfully carefree with response times and wasted compute cycles.

I've become an Antigravity convert mainly because of the generous limits, especially on the Anthropic models. User since day 1.

No worries, it just grated a bit to be called AI slop by the person you were responding to and I assumed you agreed with them too.

Which part of the post feels LLM written to you? Not snark, I’m genuinely curious.

I’ve recently started writing again, after well over a decade, so I’m not very up to date on how things are done and perceived. FWIW, I write these on Google Docs and then port them over to my site. Earlier posts had an AI disclaimer saying I used Google Docs which presumably uses AI for spellchecking and obvious grammar issues but it ticked people off so I’ve stopped adding those.

Somewhere along the way, installing became side-loading and the rot started taking hold.

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I've been a big fan of TanStack start and have a few small apps (<10k users) in production running on TSS.

The DX is smooth, the defaults are sane, and things generally makes sense if that makes sense. There are plenty of skills available so Claude Code and Codex know how to work with it too.

If you're maybe finding Next a bit bloated these days, I'd recommend giving this a try. Plus Tanner, the creator, responds to almost every mention on Twitter so it's easy to get eyeballs on issues that you might face. :)

Same here. I've been trying to get more into the physical world, with a tech angle, rather than just pure software. As you said, using my hands is what keeps me sane, makes the world seem a little more real, if that makes sense?

I do mention cases where the browser model doesn't work, like accessing Lidar sensors. Just didn't want to bloat the post with too many examples. But I totally agree with you on this front: not everything can be done as a PWA.

Fair enough. I've read a bit too much LLM written non-tech posts these year that I'm a bit fatigued. I figured people would just want to know this upfront. Moved it to the bottom now.

The site is already back online after the post. You can check yourself. If I really did have malicious content on the site, this post would have had zero effect on the result.

Oh wow, I didn’t even think of this use case. Could I please get in touch for a bit more info?

Ha, thank you. I spent more time than I'm willing to admit to come up with it.

I use my older, much longer domain for email and identity (it used to be #3 on SERP for "Sid"). This one is just for giggles so I can blog in peace without affecting the main one.

I can't be 100% sure but googling showed nothing. My site was up for almost 6 weeks with no issues. I used the domain for Apple's review process too. No issues at all.

I just wanted to cover all the bases. The site has one outgoing link to the App Store and 3 screenshots.

The domain has no history as far as I could search and the site was up for almost 6 weeks with no issues before it was nuked. I used it with Apple's review process!

To request a formal review, you must be a verified owner in Search Console.

I'm shocked there was no notification, or alert, of any kind. One moment you're there, the next, you're gone and no one will talk to you. Insanity.

The eternal tech outage aphorism: It's always DNS, except for when it's BGP.

The author is the CTO of Zerodha, India’s largest online brokerage. Not that it matters, just an observation.

What is creative about generating an article from a stub? The kernel of the article around which the LLM constructs the content? I'm not trying to be an ass, just curious.

My biggest sorrow right now is the fact that my beloved emdash is a major signal for AI generated content. I've been using it for decades now but these days, I almost always pause for a second.

I'm too poor for Claude Max 20x. Not that it needs that firepower but eh, there's no real way. As I mentioned, almost every single quirk can be willed away with a little bit of attention and effort.

At this point, I'm not sure whether you're a clawdbot running amok..

GitHub is barely at one-nine reliability this year. I just hope they get their act together because when they're down, it's a major, major pain.

I wonder how much of this is botched AI adoption versus simply a cultural issue.

Thank you, will just give it a whirl on a S3 instead.

Bit of a noob question: is this limited to the S3 or can I try running it on a C3 too?

Thank you, it's been a lot of fun. I just wish I still had a copy of the site I created in my early teens.

I made a multiversal personal site, haha. Try the different modes with the switcher at the top. https://ssiddharth.com

I’m building Sink It for Reddit (https://gosinkit.com), a browser extension to make Reddit usable on the web. It’s similar to RES with broader support for all the different Reddit UIs (there are 4).

It’s mostly free with only old Reddit features gated behind a one time $5 fee. The app has a few hundred thousand users on the Apple platforms but recently it was invited to join Mozilla’s Recommended Extensions program so I’m hoping to grow the non-Apple user base.

Which app is this, if you don't mind divulging?

Chrome on Android, unfortunately, doesn’t support extensions. I have a Firefox version for Android and I reckon Brave should pick up and install the desktop version for Chrome too.

I do have a version for Edge too though it’s often a few versions behind as the Edge team takes too darn long to approve. If anyone on the Edge team is reading this, please DM. https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/sink-it-fo...