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I remember wanting the Berg printer but it was crazy expensive

I was going to comment on this too. I notice this happens with what feels like more traditional plastics - what exactly is going with these? It feels like over time they are breaking down and liquefying, or releasing their oils?

> Unfortunately, nobody wanted to buy these even for a cost that would cover all the expenses spent on this project. On the bright side, I have learned a lot, plus, I have a cool PS2 to play with

I'm not sure if the OP is here, but the other obvious way to cover costs here is to create Youtube videos of the restoration process. I love these (as do lots of other people).

One of my favourites is a power-tool repair technician in Ireland:

https://www.youtube.com/@deandohertygreaser

Thanks for the summary. I assume this will go up the chain of appeals etc. and on to the EU courts if needed?

I might be naive, but this is absolutely outrageous. What laws allow a private company dictate what IPs can be banned across an entire country? Are the ISPs voluntarily cooperating or are they now all obliged to follow LaLiga requests?

"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History", about our first civilisations.

I was going to write a similar comment. Think of it like music; anyone can copy a song but creating a unique song is another story. To be a good artist you need to have a particular vision of the world and be able to express that. The same is true for good software.

I use stashes like I would use a shelf above a workbench - to put things for a few minutes while I clean up. I think it's a nice feature.

Planned starvation of civilians is not "the unfortunate reality of losing a war".

Blocking aid is not "the unfortunate reality of losing a war".

Bombing hospitals is not "the unfortunate reality of losing a war".

Just like Netlify, it looks like Vercel is now transitioning to a credits-based pricing structure.

Your subscription now only gets you a set amount of credits and you start paying when you go over.

It’s completely unclear what a credit actually is, or how many I’ll need for my projects.

What are some Plex alternatives? I never wanted a Plex account in the first place but remember being forced to set one up to continue using the app.

Personally it's the mentality of a CLI-tool over an IDE-tool.

I found Cursor's approach very distracting. It's always there making autocomplete suggestions and always available in the sidebar. This means you have lower-quality interactions with it.

With Claude on the other hand, I usually have to think before I use it. It doesn't favour quick questions. This means I have higher quality interactions with it, after I've thought through exactly what I want it to do.

Exactly. I don't know if they've gotten better, but I worked on a headless Contentful + Gatsby site (because the previous developers got sucked into JAMstack hype) and it was a comedic catastrophe.

It required constant developer oversight, even when only publishing one or two articles a week. Things broke all the time. Builds broke constantly. Things went wrong left right and center.

Don't do it. Give them a Wordpress site.

I love this one and actually posted the wiki to the The Antikythera Mechanism here (although didn't get traction unfortunately).

Does this include any code base you are running Claude Code with (where parts of code are sent as part of the context)? I'm not hugely clear on how my private codebase is exposed to Claude in the first place when using Claude Code.

I don't personally know much about her, but Decoding the Gurus recently did a short update podcast on her content (they've spoken about her before):

https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/mini-decodin...

Their podcast revolves around discussing people seen as gurus/grifters and the various tendencies they exhibit and I usually trust it as a sensible source.

It sounds like she's started to follow the algorithm and has changed a lot recently in her position on various topics.

I believe Copenhagen has this too now. I visited in the same week they were launching the system (last year?) and it worked perfectly. All you had to do was press a button on your phone as you enter and leave the station and it automatically calculates what you owe. I loved it. It also worked throughout all of the different train systems.

Well done, this is inspiring. I've bookmarked and downloaded the PDF for future renovations myself.

Looking through other comments here, it's absolutely wild how a tech-oriented audience are happy to completely disregard traditional design (interior, graphic, UI, ...), while championing technology design (systems & databases).

This is such a childish and cynical take. Just because you fail to see something, doesn't mean it's not there.

I mentioned this is another comment, but for me one of the big positives is nothing to do with the model, it’s the UI of how it presents itself.

I hated at first that it wasn’t like Cursor, sitting in the IDE. Then I realised I was using Cursor completely differently, using it often for small tasks where it’s only moderately helpful (refactoring, adding small functions, autocompleting)

With Claude I have to stop, think and plan before engaging with it, meaning it delivers much more impactful changes.

Put another way, it demands more from me meaning I treat it with more respect and get more out of it

Yes certainly. I’m sure Cursor would do a good job.

That said, I think that the differing UIs of Cursor (in the IDE) and Claude (in the CLI) fundamentally change how you approach problems with them.

Cursor is “too available”. It’s right there and you can be lazy and just ask it anything.

Claude nudges you to think more deeply and construct longer prompts before engaging with it.

That my experience anyway

I’m not sure I agree that I’ll never look at the code. I think it’s still important to know how the code is working for your own mental model of the app. So in this case I’ll be testing and reviewing everything to see how it’s implemented. With that in mind it’s useful for me as well as serving as context for the AI. That said, you may be right.

Another good point. I noticed this happening while writing my document.

A few times while writing the doc I had to go back and update the previous steps to add missing features.

Also I knew when to stop. It’s not fully finished yet. There are additional stages I need to implement. But as an experienced developer, I knew when I had enough for “core functionalty” that was well defined.

What worries me is how do you become a good developer if AI is writing it all?

One of my strengths as a developer is understanding the problem and breaking it down into steps, creating requirements documents like I’ve discussed.

But that’s a hard-earned skill from years of client work where I wrote the code. I have a huge step up in getting the most from these agents now.

Complete agree. It’s a core skill of a good developer. What’s interesting is that in the past I’d have started this process but then jumped into coding prematurely. Now when you know you are using an agent, the more you write, the better the results.

I’m just today after having my first real success with Claude (and generally with coding agents). I’ve played with Cursor in the past but am now trying Claude and others.

As mentioned in the article, the big trick is having clear specs. In my case I sat down for 2 hours and wrote a 12 step document on how I would implement this (along with background information). Claude went through step by step and wrote the code. I imagine this saved me probably 6-10 hours. I’m now reviewing and am going to test etc. and start adjusting and adding future functionality.

Its success was rooted in the fact I knew exactly how to do what it needed to do. I wrote out all the steps and it just followed my lead.

It makes it clear to me that mid and senior developers aren’t going anywhere.

That said, it was amazing to just see it go through the requirements and implement modules full of organised documented code that I didn’t have to write.

How do you structure Claude context files/Claude.md?

I was recently in Mexico and 3 different places asked us directly for positive reviews in exchange for free food/drinks. This made me reconsider how I use Google Maps for finding places to eat and stay. You basically have to rely on the 2-star and 4-star reviews to filter out a) the lunatics and b) the shills.

This is an issue when using VPNs. I always just go to the audio alternative which is much quicker to “solve” (you hear a word played back and type it out)

I don’t think we disagree. It’s the broader point of phones now doing the editing for you. If you enjoy photography then this is “worse” as you would prefer to do that yourself in Lightroom. If you don’t enjoy photography this is “better” as your result look great without additional effort (for me it’s the former).

I also think there’s something special about looking through a viewfinder.

Even in new cameras (where the viewfinder itself is a tiny screen) something happens when you frame a photo this way, that doesn’t happen when you use the back display (or a phone).

I don’t know if it’s down to physically using one eye, or the psychology of bringing your eye to the camera’s eye, but it feels different (and I like it)