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Claude or not, building has never been a blocker for me tbh. Hosting on the other hand
I want this but for podcasts. I pick a podcast I subscribe to say the Tim Ferris show and I see book mentions by episode/theme/tim/guest with links to favorite/library/amazon. Life's too fragile for me to make something public like that but it's fairly easy is'nt it. Every passing year I'm surprised it doesn't exist yet, especially nowadays given how easy it is to obtain transcripts.
Re:Ghostty 1.4.0 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:14PM (#50278374)
How does rex's config work? Is it static or programmable ala wezterm.
Re:FreeDNS on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:32PM (#50222847)
I wouldn't think much of it. It was a popular design trend for a while there; some just never updated. I don't blame them, it's fairly decent on readability and minimalism.
I have similar prejudices until I was dragged to a Minnesotan winter activity where everyone drives into the middle of a frozen lake and park in a large circle while a bunch of drivers race their cars in circles in the middle. It was surreal.
These incidents will bring back the appeal for dumb appliances, hopefully.
They posted a link here which has illustrator’s commission site.
Some of these keywords are so valuable that I see them all forming a consortium of sorts to share access amongst themselves.
Re:macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @11:46AM (#49895353)
I’ve been experiencing much of the same as well. There seems to be some kind of oversight over keeping previously stabilized affordances intact through each upgrade, at least in the past couple of years. It’s my theory that it’s likely to do with some kind of newly introduced AI steps in their process which doesn’t care so much about small nuanced ui spots like this but check plenty of other boxes.

Another instance in watch os is the total removal of access to the app switcher And quick jump to precious app. It’s been driving me nuts.

Re:Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @12:06AM (#49721974)
It's less about proving a photo's truth than about attesting it.
Good for you! Could you share the name of that particular test here? I'm confident I'm clear but might want to include that test in case I need to in the future.
This seesawing of perspectives on apple’s ai strategy reminds me of that Alan Watts story:

Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer said, “Maybe.” The next day the horse came back bringing seven wild horses with it, and in the evening everybody came back and said, “Oh, isn’t that lucky. What a great turn of events. You now have eight horses!” The farmer again said, “Maybe.”

The following day his son tried to break one of the horses, and while riding it, he was thrown and broke his leg. The neighbors then said, “Oh dear, that’s too bad,” and the farmer responded, “Maybe.” The next day the conscription officers came around to conscript people into the army, and they rejected his son because he had a broken leg. Again all the neighbors came around and said, “Isn’t that great!” Again, he said, “Maybe.”

Re:OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:28PM (#48810084)
Used to work for that model. Great device for it’s time.
I believe their motivation leans towards tackling advertising based exploitation.
I doubt they’ll go beyond the currently bundled Safari iCloud Private Relay, which I quite appreciate actually.
Re:Homebrew 6.0.0 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @04:55PM (#48496281)
A saving grace is they're perfect for linux distros.
Re:Homebrew 6.0.0 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:47PM (#48495483)
I don't think homebrew allows throttling bandwidth but it does let you set maximum concurrent downloads though. I believe the default is twice number of cores; you must have quite a few :) Set this to your preference:

HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY

This one is getting a lot of undue flak. Not only does it require explicit confirmation, it’s also contained entirely within the passwords app which already has access to all your passwords because you chose to trust it.

If you use this app, open it and look at how many entries fall under the “security” section. Everyday another password is compromised and added to the list, just too many to keep up. So, albeit apprehensively, I for one appreciate this feature.

Re:Various LLM Smells on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:37PM (#48315869)
These LLM idioms are constantly being consumed every day and are bound to make it into the next, if not current, generation's vernacular. It's going to be unbearable.
Re:Hokusai and Tesselations on Saturday April 25, 2026 @03:51PM (#47904042)
There is a i18n “English” button on top right. Unless you meant something else.
I have never been more stress-free than when I was running nixos as a daily driver. Had to return to macos as primary unfortunately but still use nix as much as possible.
Make it opt-in then.
Living in developing countries taught me to never plugin expensive computers without a surge protector UPS.
Re:Helix: A post-modern text editor on Sunday March 08, 2026 @05:30AM (#47295870)
Not op but I’ll vouch for the mini.nvim plugin suite. While I take advantage of their high configurability, their defaults are well thought out and I happily use some like that as well.
Re:Helix: A post-modern text editor on Saturday March 07, 2026 @05:24AM (#47286284)
Neo/vim does this with community and built-in “text objects”.

https://neovim.io/doc/user/usr_04/#_text-objects

Re:I baked a pie every day for a year and it changed my life on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:21PM (#47171504)
I love your website! Your url has a typo, here's it fixed in the meantime https://www.niche-museums.com
Re:Vim 9.2 Released on Saturday February 14, 2026 @12:49PM (#47016581)
> For over 30 years, Vim has been "Charityware," supporting children in Kibaale, Uganda. Following the passing of Bram Moolenaar, the ICCF Holland foundation was dissolved […] and its remaining funds were transferred to ensure continued support for the Kibaale project. […] Vim remains Charityware. We encourage users to continue supporting the needy children in Uganda through this new transition.

I settled on vim for its technical merits but Bram using his goodwill to fund a charity like this for so long always made me feel good about my choice.

Re:Monosketch on Friday February 13, 2026 @11:58AM (#47004904)
Likewise. I can unreservedly say it’s one of my best app purchases of all time.
Re:What Functional Programmers Get Wrong About Systems on Monday February 09, 2026 @08:29PM (#46954160)
reader mode

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