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To me, it seems that the modern software startup is geared up to provide highly customized solutions to customers. Software that easily bends to the customers needs, rather than customer changing their processes to make use of software.

I am very much excited for the future of CSS. And I love that functions are a part of it.

I spent 3 months this year testing out a reporting system for large quantities of dynamic data.

My requirement was to generate pdf reports, but didn't want any reporting tools and installations. Especially something like Microsoft Excel, which the old system was based on.

After a lot of tests and proof-of-concept apps, I finally zeroed down to simple, pure, self contained html, that I am generating from a python script.

And it's glorious.

I am generating interactive charts when the html is viewed in the browser, and hiding all of them and only printing static svg images when in print mode, using css media print queries.

And there is so much more.

The format is awesome for ingestion by ai models.

At 600M, if keeping a spine has a risk of slight reduction in that wealth, then the spine is thrown out in a jiffy.

No rich man or woman is a friend of society.

That is why governments fear revolt from the poor. They have nothing more to lose.

First time I have come across this idea that not all is known about the chemicals we put into our bodies

I always assumed the research and trials are there just for that.

I understand from an engineering perspective.

Newton invented and used Calculus to great effect, long before it was formally proven to be consistent and logical.

Thank you

Could you please give me examples of this extensibility.

Curious to know if MySQL has any distinct advantages over Postgres at this point.

I just started using claude. I am loving it.

For context, I have been programming for 25 years now, mainly out of self interest.

I find joy in relegating mundane tasks to claude, while working on the broader picture with my trusty pen and paper.

I don't give "Build me this end to end" type tasks.

I do the program on paper. The architectural aspects. And instruct claude to flesh out lower level stuff.

I have rooftop solar and a small EV. Saves me a lot on electricity and fuel costs.

Installed capacity is 5kW. Which is generally sufficient as we use very less power.

I have induction stoves, so gas fuel for kitchen is minimized.

Planning to put a solar based offgrid chiller unit for air conditioning next.

If I want to have a good AI pair programmer, whose job is only to implement my ideas, rather than give me ideas, what would be the best choice?

One could get an iPhone 18 and an iPad Air for the same cost as this.

I wonder where in the training data does this behaviour exist that the LLMs are doing it.

It's as if the training data is filled with internet discussions on approaches to hacking and the LLMs are mimicking it.

The power of the other tools mostly shines in large scales. For most applications, though, performance of postgres more than suffices.

I tried to use rabbitmq for a small app, installed it, configured it and then it didn't work. Spent a day jumping through hoops getting it right.

Dumped it and used postgres, in half an hour. Worked like a charm.

If NASA made a lightbuld, it would outlast the universe !

The one thing I hate about flutter is the ui code having an ungodly amount of nested brackets.

On what hardware do you run the model locally, if so?

The last bit of the last bit of what you said is what Warren Buffett has been saying for decades.

I still wish we had more phones that have eink screens in them.

I love the folding ones, but if only I had a folding eink screen, that would be glorious !

Or at least, something close.

I loved technical books from Mir publishers. Russian authors have a special place in my heart for explaining complex technical topics in concise yet engaging way.

Books like Problems In physics by I E Irodov were my favourites

I have done everything from desktop apps to web apps and a bunch in between. Regular debugging is good enough for me. Never had the need to go down into call stack level.

Even with embedded programming, regular C debugger has always been enough.

I am, for 20 years now. I do embedded stuff too. Still.

I see posts like this, this deep dive into the call stacks and am always humbled and reminded of the limits of my knowledge about computers and programs.

I love these articles. Like. Of the million possible ways this could go, squiggles were the one, and it was from decisions of one man, on a whim. Yet, they completely change the world.

Been using Angular v21 for a very complex app. Have had a wonderful experience, in terms of the cognitive load to make and work with components, state and data flow.

Signals and signal stores make it very easy.

Did the whole coding by hand, no ai coding tools too.

When all the prompts are by AI, and all the commits by AI, and all the use by AI,only then will corporations realize that..something ..

I just want to know what exactly is wrong with it?

I get the history with Ferrari cars and their aesthetic and all.

But it looks like what one would expect from the man who designed iPhone.

Would these maintain their signature under repeated use? Or regular wear and tear?

> there is no 1st party Apple made hiking and topography map on the Apple Watch is such a failure

I remember a time when Apple was chided for integrating functionalities of popular apps into its OS.

Apple created an incredibly awesome device, and its up to the market to make full use of its potential. Why would it be a failure for Apple to not make such an app?

LaTeX has a huge learning curve, and a mess of online information.

I tried to use it to generate automated reports, and was frustrated at every turn. My usage scenario was a completely offline system to generate reports of a few dozen pages, which included graphics, tables and other visualizations.

1. The whole system download is about 1 or more Gigs. 2. Each report is accompanied by half a dozen files. 3. The choice of packages to use, and the versons to use, is all confusing, with various books and site using various packages, often further customized. 4. The syntax is confusing and jarring, at least to me.

Finally, I ended up using simple template tools to generate HTML with proper semantic structing and CSS print media queries to generate my reports.

I do appreciate the fact that my requirement does not involve laying out content over multiple pages, something which LaTeX is good at. That is very difficult to achieve with HTML and CSS.

But, for use cases where each document page is independent, HTML, CSS and print media queries are great.

You can also use all the exciting javascript visualization libraries to generate awesome graphics.

I think after the initial euphoria dies down, and the models reach a capability plateau, the use cases will start to come to fore.

I am an experienced developer, and, if I know what I am doing, then AI tools are an average junior programmer that I can beckon.

I have also dabbled in music creation with AI, first generating the lyrics, and then the music with vocals. Is it good. Nope. Is it average, some might say so. Is it a great use of my time, sure. Like a paid video game.