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As a data-obsessed golfer trying to get to single digits, I need a tracking app that picks up where Arccos leaves off. So I'm building one: https://shortgamewiz.com (still a bit WIP).

After a few rounds of using it, I already know a few things I didn't before: I suck at right-to-left breaking putts, I baby uphill putts too much, and getting out of bunkers consistently is not good enough if I can't sink the occasional save. So I know what to practice now.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. From funny quote to litmus test.

It's not that simple, though. Even with solid core principles, there are lots of established openings where move order makes all the difference. All other things being equal, the player who has memorized a bunch of standard openings will have a distinct advantage.

Totally. Especially handy in openings.

/s

This is real, but (at least in a coding context) easily preventable. Just append "don't assume you're wrong - investigate" or something to that effect. Annoying, but usually effective.

I've been using opencode and oh-my-opencode with Claude's models (via github Copilot). The last two or three months feel like they have been the most productive of my 28-year career. It's very good indeed with Rails code, I suspect it has something to do with the intentional expressiveness of Ruby plus perhaps some above-average content that it would be trained on for this language and framework. Or maybe that's just my bias.

It takes a bit of hand holding and multiple loops to get things right sometimes, but even with that, it's pretty damn good. I don't usually walk away from it, I actively monitor what it's doing, peek in on the sub-agents, and interject when it goes down a wrong path or writes messy code. But more often than not, it goes like this:

  - Point at a GH issue or briefly describe the task
  - Either ask it to come up with a plan, or just go straight to implementation
  - When done, run *multiple* code review loops with several dedicated code review agents - one for idiomatic Rails code, one for maintainabilty, one for security, and others as needed

I've been using this approach on a side project, and even though it's only nights an weekends, it's probably the most robust, well-tested and polished solo project I've ever built. All those little nice-to-have and good-to-great things that normally fall by the wayside if you only have nights and weekends - all included now.

And the funny thing is - I feel coding with AI like this gets me in the zone more than hand-coding. I suspect it's the absence of all those pesky rabbit holes that tend to be thrown up by any non-trivial code base and tool chain which can easily distract us from thinking about the problem domain and instead solving problems of our tools. Claude deals with all that almost as a side effect. So while it does its thing, I read through it's self-talk while thinking along about the task at hand, intervening if I disagree, but I stay at the higher level of abstraction, more or less. Only when the task is basically done do I dive a level deeper into code organisation, maintainability, security, edge cases, etc. etc.

Needless to say that very good test coverage is essential to this approach.

Now, I'm very ambiguous about the AI bubble, I believe very firmly that it is one, but for coding specifically, it's a paradigm shift, and I hope it's here to stay.

FTA:

There’s just this minimal translation required between what I’m thinking and what I type

That's really the essence of Ruby for me.

That picture at the end of the post really explains and sums up the problem with AI bias...

manufacturing a sense of urgency, this is especially bad if you try to sustain this state all indefinitely

Sadly, I have seen this in almost every startup led by founders without an engineering background I've ever been a part of.

In my personal experience, this is often caused by overeager sales team promising the world for the next deal, only to fob it off to the engineering team who now "urgently" need to build "features" and "work hard" to make it happen. This is when your intrinsically motivated engineers start looking for the exit.

contralization

I suspect this is a typo, but it really should be a thing :)

Really conflicted on this one. On the one hand, having to pay for N+1 streaming services because none of my N favourite shows are on any one of them sucks. On the other hand, monopoly.

Both Intercom and Twilio are affected, too.

- https://status.twilio.com/ - https://www.intercomstatus.com/us-hosting

I want the web ca. 2001 back, please.

"works on my machine" at Internet scale. What a scary thought

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This is too funny. You wouldn't expect your average politician to understand how the web works, but how on earth don't they have staff protecting them from these kind of embarrassments?

Rendezvous with Rama was the very first thing that came to my mind when I first saw the news about this rock. Re-reading it now just for fun.

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OT - why do you consider ECMO a "wild thing"? I ask since our daughter was born with CDH and ECMO came up in the discussions at the time (she didn't need it, luckily). Ireland doesn't have one to date AFAIK.

Same from Ireland.

That's a pretty broad statement that doesn't take into account any of the pecularities of the local property market. First of all, ownership is quite high. Secondly, it's about proportion of available rental properties, not absolute numbers or proportion of population. Thirdly, if there's already a severe shortage, even absolute numbers matter.

It's getting pretty bad, and AFAIK, no they don't. You'll find a place with a Google salary I'm sure, but it won't be cheap. Feel free to contact me if you want some advice.

Again, for Dublin only. A quick search of all properties for rent in Dublin on the market leading website (daft.ie) comes up with 1,437 properties, and that's without any limitations to the search. A quick search on AirBnB for just the next weekend (in the middle of tourist season) finds "300+" listings. That's a very rough snapshot of course (e.g. there might be many double listings), but it hints at the potentially large portion of properties that could be off the long-term market thanks to AirBnB (and their competitors, for what it's worth).

Yes they did, but those are mostly outside of Dublin, many of them are unfinished and unfit to live in.

It's complicated. There are height limitations for residential buildings in the city (lower than those for commercial ones), and there's no culture of apartment living here comparable to other European capitals I know. Dublin is sprawling with single family homes. There's a debate going on right now about higher density zoning and the like, but it will take time. Regulations to improve building standards have added to cost, and most developers seem to be in it for the quick buck (my opinion only) and are holding back right now because that's no longer (or not yet again) an option after the crash.

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/time-to-end-irela...

It was actually the other way round. The very modest rent controls, hardly deserving that name, were introcuded after the lack of properties led to the rent explosion.

Here in Dublin, Ireland, rents are exploding, mostly because of a severe shortage in apartments, and it's a fair question to ask if AirBnB is partially to blame. From [1]:

The average rental value of a two-bed apartment in the city centre at €2,000 per month, less a management fee, would equate to the apartment being occupied for just 120 nights of the year through Airbnb.

Investors have confirmed that if correctly managed, the income can be double that of a long-term rental.

(AirBnB disagrees [2])

As much as I like the idea of AirBnB, their impact on the housing market in any given city needs to be considered. Unfortunately the article doesn't mention that at all, focussing solely on tourism.

[1] http://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/property... [2] http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/airbnb-insists...

I didn't realize they had that feature. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of 2FA to have your password and your second factor in one single app?

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There's a bit more context a few paragraphs on:

Mozart showed interest in music before taking lessons, not the other way around.