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JaggerJo··on Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creation
Agreed.
JaggerJo··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
what a broken ecosystem.. The crazy thing is not that the package exists, but that it is used by JS devs.
JaggerJo··on Why the AfD Wins
It's not what I say, it's what the numbers say.

The car industry is struggling - but the German economy is more than VW..

JaggerJo··on Why the AfD Wins
The real underlying issue is the economic pressure - much worse in East Germany than in West Germany. People have problems, but the real problems are not immigration or green politics.

IMO they explain it well here:

Inside The Rise of Germany's New Far-Right

https://youtu.be/l2SjWowpynY?si=9P4R6CtrNrXEsYx0

JaggerJo··on Why the AfD Wins
“Germany's economy will grow by 1.3% in 2026, RWI said, upwardly revising its forecast of 0.8% growth in June.”

https://www.reuters.com/business/germanys-rwi-institute-upgr...

JaggerJo··on Git hosting that never leaves Europe
I would want to know the pricing before I’d move anything there.

It should cost money - I just want to know how much.

JaggerJo··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
motan | Software Developer C#/.NET (4 openings) | Isny im Allgäu, Germany | ONSITE (partial home office) | Full-time | NO VISA (EU work authorisation required)

motan builds the equipment that feeds plastics processing - drying, mixing and conveying material into injection molding and extrusion machines. Our equipment runs in manufacturing worldwide.

We're hiring 4 C#/.NET developers.

Full job posting: https://www.motan-group.com/en/news/career/jobs/detail/softw...

I'm the architect of the software platform. My mail is in my profile - write me directly if you are interested or have questions.

JaggerJo··on Claude Fable 5
Only a matter of time now until we can run models with Opus like capabilities on our own hardware.

This will probably when the bubble bursts..

JaggerJo··on Claude Fable 5
IMO we are reaching the point where AI models are simply a commodity. Opus (since ~4.6) is sufficient for everything I tried coding wise. I use it to write features (but I review and understand every line it spits out) and to review code.

For code review I also still review everything myself, but use Opus to catch stuff I missed and to judge if a PR is even ready for me to review.

After just updating Claude Code to the latest version I thought about picking Fable (the bigger model) instead of Opus.

But I have no reason to. Opus does everything I want it to do. It could do it faster - that would be an improvement. But for the normal stuff we reached the point where better models are not worth it IMO.

There still might be cases where you want to throw Fable at it.

JaggerJo··on Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness
Yup - IMO it’s just the wrong tool for the job.
JaggerJo··on Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness
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JaggerJo··on Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
finally!
JaggerJo··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Hope we’ll do the same in germany.
JaggerJo··on The window chrome of our discontent
Let’s hope macOS 27 fixes liquid glass. For now I’m not updating.
JaggerJo··on Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts
+1 exact same situation.

having Tahoe on my MacBook made me appreciate Sequoia on my mac Studio. A real downgrade..

JaggerJo··on Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
Yeah - It feels similar to me.

Why share something that anyone can just “prompt into existence”?

Architecture wise and also just from a code quality perspective I have yet to encounter AI generated code that passes my quality bar.

Vibe coding is great for a PoC but we usually do a full rewrite until it’s production ready.

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Might be a hot take, but I don’t think people who can’t code should ship or publish code. They should learn to do it and AI can be a resource on the way.. but you should understand the code you “produce”. In the end it’s yours, not the AIs code.

JaggerJo··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
Most solutions already exist as open source software.
JaggerJo··on Would you choose the Microsoft stack today if starting greenfield?
.NET 10 + Avalonia is rock solid for cross platform UI
JaggerJo··on Banned in California
It’s in progress. Most of Europe slept on that - thats true.

But pretty sure we’ll figure it out over the next decade.

JaggerJo··on Banned in California
It’s good if you’re rich I assume
JaggerJo··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
I hope with change in leadership correction of these things will be possible again. Not just Alan Dye, but Tim Cook is rumored to leave in the next year too.
JaggerJo··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
> ..Jobs would've crucified a few people

And rightfully so. Tahoe is not just a step back, but it throws away so many good design elements that have been there for ages - and for no good reason.

I really hope they revert most of the design changes in macOS 27. I don't mind the Liquid Glass - the other changes they made to expose/highlight Liquid Glass are the real issue.

IMO we reached peak design in 2013 with Mavericks.

JaggerJo··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
Hah, really? If you enter recovery mode and install an OS via network it installs the OS the device originally shipped with, right?

On an Intel-based Mac:

- If you used Option-Command-R to start up from Internet Recovery, you might get the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac.

- If you used Shift-Option-Command-R to start up from Internet Recovery, you might get the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102655

JaggerJo··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
Good that Alan Dye is no longer at apple. Liquid Glass on macOS is a mass. The icons, the floating side menus, the inconsistent corners, the new tabs in Safari..

On iOS it's totally fine, but on macOS it's a disaster. I've only updated one machine so far and will keep all others on Sequoia until this mess is resolved.

JaggerJo··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
+1 I only updated my MacBook Air and really don’t like it. Will keep all other macs on Sequoia until macOS 27 hopefully fixes most of the issues.
JaggerJo··on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
Should be the default!
JaggerJo··on Deprecate like you mean it
Thats madness. Just remove deprecated functions after a reasonable time period.
JaggerJo··on Litestream VFS
because liters works at the lowest level (virtual file system) all other things should just work.
JaggerJo··on You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds
You can still do this!

The only difference is that a lot of apps prioritize cross platform UIs over good, fast native UIs.

WinForms and WPF are still well supported.

JaggerJo··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
Nice! A screenshot in the readme would be a great addition. I was looking for a native macOS Teams client a while ago - but to my knowledge this is the first 3rd party Teams client.

The Microsoft Teams client frustrates me daily.

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