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But how many goats does pouchdb have? I'm betting 0.

Slightly off-topic because it’s for MacOS, but the new Image Playground has been fantastic for generating assets while I’ve been prototyping a new game.

A little over a year ago I was checking my home network logs and realized my smart TVs were sending gigs of data to Roku servers - when the TVs were off.

I killed all internet access for my TVs, bought Apple TVs to attach to them and never looked back.

What was an amazing fight - that Serrano won. I have no idea how Taylor was scored the winner.

I'm so glad I'm not in high school - my default writing style is eerily similar to ChatGPT and I'm sure I would be flagged constantly.

My middle school English classes were dominated by sentence diagramming - I'm not sure that's taught anymore. I hated it at the time but damn if it wasn't effective.

I swapped my high school son’s iPhone for an Apple Watch w/cellular for school days and his grades and social life improved significantly.

When “Out Come The Wolves” by Rancid hit 20 years I was starting to feel my age.

I have a CEO acquaintance who bumped up their LinkedIn posting substantially in the last year - tons of long form “this is what I’ve learned running my company” posts. I asked a friend there how much time that CEO spends crafting these multiple posts a week and they said 0, he hired a ghostwriter to post on his behalf.

Smart I guess but feels totally disingenuous.

I was a newly hired Director of Engineering a company that drank the Kool-Aid of Agile and had an independent team of Scrummasters who just facilitated morning stand-ups. They had no project management responsibilities, so I kept asking what do they do all day after the morning stand-up and no one could answer me. I got severe pushback that they should take on any set of greater responsibilities.

I founded several new teams at that company and was approached by the head of the Scrummasters to integrate with their process. I flatly said no, I don't need your services, I've been running teams for 20 years and I'm good. It became this huge blowup that went all the way up the chain of execs until a compromise was reached - I had to accept Scrummasters for my teams but I could direct them to do nothing except basic JIRA ticket shuffling.

Fast forward a few years, I've left that place, but my teams became the centerpieces of the company and all new teams are now modeled after them. The Scrummaster team was cut in half.

The best part is my team structure is closer to the spirit of Agile with self-organizing teams empowered to operate how best suits them and the Scrummaster team was forcing rigid ceremonies that were at best time consuming and at worst completely useless.

I got hit up over several emails by a startup doing AI recruiting. I never replied back because it was hard to tell if it was actually the CEO reaching out to me because of my experience, or his AI system reaching out to me.

I thought, if I’m having this sort of issue figuring out if the contact is genuine, how will I feel working on this product? Even if it is genuine, is it ethical to have been recruited by a real person to work on a product that fools people into thinking they’ve been contacted by a real person?

That’s my favorite effort they ever did, apparently it was hell to record because it’s an 18 minute continuous take.

Many of the lyrics became more relevant after 2016.

I've seen several Oceans driving around my city and the only thing I think is, "oh boy now there's someone who enjoys living on the edge".

I went to high school in the early 90’s. Every kid I knew with a pager (about 5) used it primarily to buy or sell pot.

Their plan is to make really elegant team-based shared coding features baked right into the editor - think a mashup of VSCode + Slack, and then charge for that, likely as a monthly subscription. It's not a bad idea if it can increase team velocity but the requirement would be enough people on the team live within it to justify the cost.

I drove Zed for about a month, its very performant and a joy to use, but the lack of a remote development feature is massively prohibitive and I went back to VSCode as a result.

I needed something like this today - was going to download Insomnia but I happened to check HN.

I tried it out; it's exactly what I wanted. Postman, as echoed in previous comments, has gotten out of control with the upsell and the confusing UI.

I bought the pre-order, seems like a good deal at $9, that's nearly the cost of a latte around here and if this works out I'll get a lot more use out of it than a latte.

On their start date, I would to tell new grads assigned SRE / DevOps roles that their job was thankless and at best if everything worked fine no one would notice them. However, if anything went wrong, they'd not only be on the hook to fix but would do so under tremendous pressure. "Who wants this responsibility?" I'd ask.

Those who decided they were up for it usually did a great job, about half opted out at the end of the conversation and were put in roles more suited to their ability to handle stress.

I can't comment on the TechStars aspect but your high level review of San Diego startup scene is 100% on point.

You can definitely weed out poor candidates in 10-15 minutes of informal chats.

What you can't do is weed them all out, and you usually can't tell if someone is a good fit yet.

This tripped me up as well, you need to set up the language servers in your settings json. There are examples in the Configuring Zed section of the Docs area on the site.

That's an awesome stat in favor of the iPhone 12, which is now 3+ years old.

This product seems like the kind of thing a company would buy, it would be tried out in a few meetings, then everyone would go back to driving the meeting room's mounted TV with a laptop.

I'm pretty sure that's the town in the series Wednesday as well

My wife will be very happy.

When I explained to her the potential if it truly was the breakthrough being reported, her first reaction was:

"I hope we establish a government agency to regulate everything floating around because I don't want to get bumped into by random stuff".

Also Moltke: “no plan survives contact with the enemy”

It makes a billion a year in rev so I’d say its still going pretty well.

Same here

Serious question - could it? How would that be accomplished?

You may of not used React in the past few years, but setState fell out of favor a while ago with the release of the useState hook and Redux (which I agree is an abomination) isn't necessary for 95% (imo) cases, again thanks to hooks.

For bound variables you can use MobX or signals in Preact.

Another point regarding kids is it can be a lot easier to find an AirBnB and cook their favorite or required dishes (my son had bad stomach problems early in his life and needed a very bland diet) rather than try your luck 3 times a day at a random restaurant.

The recall attempt on Newsom originated in the very conservative East County of San Diego (home to the convicted and Trump-pardoned former Rep Duncan Hunter, and current ultra-MAGA Rep Darrel Issa). Newsom hardly campaigned in the recall - only put some effort in the final month - and won by almost exactly the same margin he took office with originally.