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Maybe that can happen through custom instructions. But I guess, by default the agent will happily do extra work and spend lots of tokens on “redundant” projects.

Google Fonts is no longer best practice due to worse performance and privacy (and the questionable ethics of giving stuff to Google for free) compared to self-hosted fonts. So, OP should take this suggestion with a grain of salt.

It’s similar for the productivity/launcher app Raycast. They’re trying to find new USPs compared to the many copycats.

It would certainly be nice if someone continued the work. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for it. Seems like an unthankful job (although I’m sure many projects using Demo now would be happy if it’s still supported, at least).

These are great links, thanks a lot.

+1, a great read.

I guess you cannot see the almost-invisible borders of the images. They group the image and text together a bit better. But yeah, the design fails to be accessible in less ideal viewing conditions for sure.

Possible, but highly unlikely in GitHub’s case.

Not really. Rich entitled tech bros don’t dictate how the world works. There is lots of progress possible without needing the vast majority of people to pay a huge price for it.

I guess the point (at least for me) is a bit to get rid of weird intransparent algorithms that seemingly got worse over the past couple of years. Using a platform like last.fm where it’s clearer that recommendations are based on genres and similar listeners is still ok and encouraged, and probably as close to getting recommendations from real humans as possible.

I also find arguments like this quite weak. YouTube, Facebook et al work like absolute horseshit compared to other websites and web apps. If anything, they proof that these big companies manage to make simple web applications as bloated and slow as possible.

… and makers don’t have an incentive to even deliver such features, because people are already buying them?

At least I wouldn’t know what’s stopping them from building actually-useful features, tech-wise. Or was it just always a bad idea because fridge placement is random and items are often hard to find/detect?

I think it’s at least equally important to be sceptical of bad ideas, in order to let good ideas win. From a consumer perspective, smart fridges are usually bad.

Potentially! Would be interesting to hear if anyone manages to block internal Apple shenanigans with Little Snitch successfully and feasibly (without constant toggling of rules or alike).

That mindset shift surely started quite some years ago? At least in my book they’re actively hindering standards/compatibility with other ecosystems, greenwashing their products, squeezing out third-party developers, and design/UX is also going downhill at least since Liquid Glass (or rather since Jobs left).

Why do you think it’s (more) interesting?

A similar product would be Birdbuddy (a birdfeeder with a camera and logging functionality), albeit very commercial and closed-source.

Waterfox also works well!

I guess it’s good to warn about bad actors early and throughly!

My first thought was “ah, this must be a JVM for Kotlin by the creators of Kotlin (Jetbrains)!”

… and run all kinds of scripts to verify the code, ignoring any pre-configured linters.

That implies that Claude writes better code by default, which isn’t necessarily true. Especially as projects get bigger, you can easily end up with unmaintainable LLM-written code if you don’t actively intervene and know a cleaner way.

The “(all genders)” bit is probably just based on the fact that they translated the German job ad (in German you have to be more explicit with the male/female/all versions of titles, because the default is usually just the male form). So, it’s not a qualification, but just a way to be inclusive to applicants of all genders (we have a diversity problem in our industry).

The salary is bound to the limits of the public salary bands (collective agreement), that’s where the maximum comes from. (And, you can live quite well in Berlin with ~100k € per year.)

I think it’s implied that accepting these kinds of PRs will take time away from working on actual improvements to the codebase. So, on the long term it’s better to be strict with these kinds of silly contributions, and focus on changes that matter more (e.g. features or fixes).

Many people care and should care. Of course if a piece of software (or any project/tool, really) gets a lot of usage, it’ll indirectly make its creators more powerful. I wouldn’t want to make a person more powerful if they support horrible causes (like in DHH’s case), especially if there are many alternative routes to choose from that are less questionable.

I disagree. Technology is inherently political, and it’s valuable and important to get informed and reminded about the many horrible people that are directly or indirectly tied to any mentioned organizations and projects.

Neat! I like these opinionated lists, especially when it’s easy to browse and cherry-pick useful stuff. It’d be very good to mention how compatible the features are, though. Especially with newer CSS features, it’s easy to overestimate how ready they are for all browsers.

For that, there could just be links to the related MDN and/or caniuse.com pages.

You like using Google and Microsoft products as an end user (even ignoring all the ethical issues with these companies)? That seems surprising to me. I find their products so horrible compared to e.g. Fastmail.