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55 karma · joined December 28, 2020

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Socials: - github.com/RealDyllon - linkedin.com/in/dyllon-gunawardhana

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dyllon··on Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi
Frankly, “whitelisting” clients is against the spirit of MCP.
dyllon··on Waymo in Singapore
> My guess, they will co-exist as the government wont jeopardize the living of the taxi-driver-complaining uncles.

It’s been mentioned: https://www.mot.gov.sg/news-resources/newsroom/-more-options...

dyllon··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Usually brands collaborate with influencers on tiktok, instagram, facebook, youtube.

I’ve found that younger users tend to instinctively swipe away from flashy interstitial ads on tiktok/reels, but are far more likely to be engaged by a talking head influencer reading the same script.

When you advertise via parasocial word-of-mouth, you don’t even need to link your app in the post, as users are likely to take the time/effort to search for your app on the app store.

Unfortunately, the ad platforms/exchanges don’t really profit from these types of brand/influencer collabs.

dyllon··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
His silence speaks a thousand words.
dyllon··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
QRs will always be so much more cumbersome than blindly tapping a card or your phone.
dyllon··on It's Easier Than Ever to Fly Private Without Your Own Jet
Gift article link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/its-easier-than-ever-to...
dyllon··on Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
Moving away from codemods and towards LLMs doing migration work is an interesting development.

Even if they’re more deterministic, I wonder if the days of codemods are numbered.

dyllon··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
Of course no one has a more mature implementation of it than Next. The Next.js team designed it themselves!
dyllon··on SimplyStream – Unreal Engine 5 meets WebGPU
Nice work. Any write up on how this was created?
dyllon··on macOS in QEMU in Docker
Couldn’t you use UTM to run a macOS VM?
dyllon··on Web Crap Has Taken Control
> doing professional development using typescript and angular

So you aren’t using vanilla javascript, you’re using angular - yet another framework/library

dyllon··on Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less
Yes, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and is the Director of the W3C.