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The one thing I’m having a hard time with is determining what the right level of effort is. What signals and indicators do you use to know when you’re doing enough or too much?

StackTopherFlowon I can't recommend Grafana anymore

It’s challenging to read for me too.

StackTopherFlowon Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26

Are there any settings to improve the ui? I enabled reduced motion turned but iOS 26 is still intolerable.

StackTopherFlowon The uv build back end is now stable

Huge thank you for all the amazing work the astral team is doing. uv is an absolute game changer and I can’t imagine going back to a pre-uv world.

StackTopherFlowon Mapbox Geospatial MCP Server

I wonder if Esri will provide a similar MCP offering.

StackTopherFlowon S5cmd: Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool

Awesome work. I love seeing a community project step up and make a better solution than a multi trillion dollar company.

StackTopherFlowon U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts

I’d love to see a collection of every attempt to add encryption back doors to apple/iPhone products. It feels like they never stop trying.

StackTopherFlowon "We're building a new static type checker for Python"

Doing the lord's work

StackTopherFlowon "We're building a new static type checker for Python"

Have you tried beartype? It's worked well for me and has the least overhead of any other runtime type checker.

https://github.com/beartype/beartype

StackTopherFlowon New Zealand welcomes digital nomads by loosening visitor visa rules

New Zealand citizenship is looking mighty appealing these days.

StackTopherFlowon Breaking Up with Long Tasks or: how I learned to group loops and wield the yield

I agree with you. I rarely find myself in a situation where a piece of async code forces me to refactor a synchronous code to be async.

A lot of junior devs I've worked with don't understand that putting `async` in front of a function doesn't actually make it asynchronous.

StackTopherFlowon Postgres UUIDv7 and per-back end monotonicity

I agree, optimizing for readability and maintainability is almost always the right choice.

StackTopherFlowon Minimal Vanilla JavaScript Framework

This breaks the browser’s forward / backward navigation. Also, a readme or description would be helpful to understand what this is supposed to be.

StackTopherFlowon Show HN: I built an AI tool to help with ADHD task paralysis

The signup page breaks the back button. I had to close the window to come back to this post.

Also 3 days is too short for a trial.