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One MacBook Air with a glowing Apple logo on the lid, please!

Lots of em dashes.

“Read that clause again”

“That’s the whole thing in one sentence”

“Here’s why that breaks”

“Same shape, exactly”

“Here’s the cruel part”

“But look at the shape of it”

I had to stop reading the first paragraph because of how bad it is.

It’s a frequently used metaphor in LLM responses.

I made an edit to my post because you're not the only one to point this out. Just wanted to say thanks again!

Why can’t I scroll on mobile Safari on this site? What in the world are we doing with websites these days where a user can’t even scroll?

Dang, I didn't know that. I thought it was decent enough to get people exposed to doas(1), pkg_add(1), syspatch(8), etc... from which they could then read the man pages.

Thanks for pointing this out and I appreciate the other recommendations in this thread. Massive +1 for @jcs. That dude is awesome and puts out great stuff.

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Anyone know a decent place where I can buy a giant print of this for my wall?

I blew a few minds a week ago when I told my younger coworkers about man pages. I hit ‘em with the `man man` and one dude was like “whoa!”

It’s 60Hz. “Pro Motion” is Apple speak for 120Hz, which as of right now, is only reserved for the MacBook Pro machines.

Anyone know a good resource for getting started writing a compiler? I'm not trying to write a new LLVM, but being a "software engineer" writing web-based APIs for a living is leaving me wanting more.

There is supposed to be some event "creators" were invited to from Jan 27-29 [1]. I have yet to hear anything about it.

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/23/apple-invites-creators-...

Well this certainly mucked with the width of the mobile HN site.

Yes, I do!

I’m not a big fan of dark mode and I seem to be in the minority these days. Probably 99% of my colleagues at work use dark mode and when I screen share I get the usual “ah, my eyes!”

The interesting thing is, I’ve noticed when I read white on black and look elsewhere I see horizontal lines in my vision. So really I’m the one who should be shouting about their eyes. Maybe that’s just me, though?

I guess I want my computing experience to be like that of reading a book. Not sure I’d like white text on black paper.

I never heard of manus so I clicked the About Us page. Wow, it is insufferable.

I’d be interested in this as well. I want a quiet machine with a decent display and a long battery life. Right now the MacBook Air checks those boxes but I’d be very interested in an alternative that I can throw Linux / OpenBSD on.

I had no idea this existed and it’s not too far from me. This is cool as hell.

You would think a conference that advocates for quality software would have a better website.

If you want to go the k8s route, it’s worth checking out https://tilt.dev/.