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cwilby··on Left to Right Programming
This is it right here. I love the Python ecosystem but if I can find a JS alternative I'm using that for ergonomics.
cwilby··on QuakeNotch: Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
Thanks! Just learned about hot key windows.

https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-...

cwilby··on AirPods succeed by not selling you a new pair
When my pair of Airpods started hissing, I bought "cheap" headphones from Amazon for $40. No Siri integration or what have you, but mic & speakers work great and if I lose them I'm not out hundreds of dollars.

Also the bluetooth pairing / switching between devices is much saner for me.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FLNSYDZ

cwilby··on A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network
Is it just me or am I not seeing any example that isn't pure theory?

And if it is just me, fine I'll jump in - they should also make it so that users have to approve local network access three times. I worry about the theoretical security implications that come after they only approve local network access once.

cwilby··on Google to embrace MCP
It's 2025's ROT13 cipher for API. /s

It's also "Model Context Protocol", a protocol for LLMs to interact with third-party services.

cwilby··on A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
Thus cross origin resource sharing. Thanks!

At least it's consistently inconsistent.

cwilby··on A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
> Internally, we call the request’s destination server its “origin”

Origin: The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.

How can the request's destination server be the origin, if it is the destination server?

cwilby··on Canadian mega landlord using AI 'pricing scheme' as it hikes rents
gross
cwilby··on The journey of an internet packet: Exploring networks with traceroute
Seeing the title reminded me of "Warriors of the Net".

We were genuinely told, as a class, to watch this video to learn how the internet worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhvKm0RdUY0&themeRefresh=1

Good times!

cwilby··on GitHub was down
It looks to be contained to just GitHub, azure service page shows no outages at this time.
cwilby··on One Million Checkboxes
The timeout can be about 200 before you need to chill out..
cwilby··on The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards
Thank you
cwilby··on The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards
This tracks - it's difficult to speak at the same pace in Chinese as I can English. That said - are those 39.15 bits plaintext? Compressed? Encrypted?

The size of a word does not correlate with it's concept - I still posit that some languages can transfer concepts faster than others, minus our baud rate.

Edit: Or, perhaps I am not as gifted an English speaker as my bias has presumed :| For example, I had to lookup "syntagmatic".

cwilby··on The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards
I just started learning Chinese about 2 months ago, to me it seems they stuff whole concepts into characters.

For example,

"去" (pronounced "Qú") is "going to the". "超市" (prounced "Chao Shi") is "supermarket" "去超市" (pronounced "Qú Chao Shi") is "going to the supermarket".

3 syllables vs 7 syllables.

To me, it seems that instead of composing letters into words to convey meaning, they have more letters that are mini-words unto themselves.

cwilby··on Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login”
Saw the headline, found your comment within two seconds, exhaled with relief.

Every time a cohesive pair of words is redefined, a new JS framework is born.

cwilby··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
I don't know what to say more than - I wish they'd calculated in KWh instead of $.

I really want to know that figure, but I'm left extrapolating.

I could _guess_ it's huge, but that's not the point.

> "Can we make a separate intelligence beside ourselves, damn the energy expenditure?"

cwilby··on Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting
"Clearfix" - when this article was in the bookmarks bar: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/
cwilby··on RoR Debugbar
We recently installed something similar (https://miniprofiler.com) into a legacy ASP.NET MVC app. It is setup to only be visible in local development environments.

In areas of the code where ORMs obscure the actual SQL that runs, it's shortened the amount of time and effort it takes to discover a slow route and optimize it.

"Handy to have that extra info in your dev environment" is pretty spot on.

cwilby··on Autopay is making us worse at managing credit-card bills
Well said.
cwilby··on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed
I recently (in the last 2 weeks) used Wayback Machine to miraculously restore an old static site where the backups had also been lost.

https://github.com/alessandropellegrini/WebsiteRecovery

cwilby··on Is Google’s 20-year search dominance about to end?
Good odds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
cwilby··on Over the past 21 months I’ve written a code editor from the ground up
> Randomly deleting unit tests may seem like insanity to some of you

I too, like to live dangerously.

cwilby··on An unexpected benefit of unit tests
Yes, test frequently and automatically.
cwilby··on An unexpected benefit of unit tests
Our team too, time saved is fairly quantifiable.
cwilby··on Techniques to improve reliability
It is interesting to me that the approach required to work with this tool, is almost identical to using every other tool.

It boils down to - "try breaking this problem into smaller problems to increase the solution space".

cwilby··on Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas
~Can't wait to try this out~ just installed, thank you!
cwilby··on ‘Every single house on our street’ is becoming an Airbnb, says host
The Marriott have had some of their best earnings from the last 6 quarters.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MAR/marriott/reven...

cwilby··on Amazon Alexa Deemed ‘Colossal Failure’ Following $10B Loss
I kind of agree and disagree (enough to type some stuff)

I can see how interaction with a human-like device is more engaging than Alexa (I have a Google Home speaker and feel the same)

However, then we're entering "uncanny valley", where we're always acutely aware that we're not talking to the caliber of consciousness we're used to.

Other companies have tried this: https://www.engadget.com/2018-07-25-adorable-home-robot-kuri...

Whatever voice assistant "dominates" next should be fun and not get in the way. Two very complex requirements in that particular domain.

cwilby··on US annual inflation declines to 7.7% in October vs. 7.9% expected
That literally leads to the conclusion that prices rose, in your example.
cwilby··on Blip: A tool for seeing your internet latency
Couple of clues

The author mentioned the tool sends out requests, and just measures response time regardless of response status. (If they fail, they fail!)

And they measure response times from gstatic.com, which should have edge nodes near most locations.

Shot in the dark guess - perhaps you're hitting some kind of rate limit somewhere in that chain?

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