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generalpf··on Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+
With Apple, you can't repair it yourself, but Apple will repair it for much longer than 5 years.

Not even Fairphone can repair your phone if it's out of parts.

generalpf··on Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative
They're the ones out here asking for us to try it.
generalpf··on CursorBench 3.1
The magic of distillation!
generalpf··on After 12 years of being a customer, Uber is dumping PagerDuty
Ex-PagerDuty here. Without weighing in on the criticisms of pricing and innovation with the product, I will say that the value of PagerDuty is its reliability in notifying you when it receives a signal from a system. Rebuilding the product isn't just asking an LLM to spit out a web app to do scheduling, it's in the notification pipeline (SMS, email, push notifications, Slack), maintaining all that and mobile apps too.

Just like Uber itself, this is one of those "I could replace this in a weekend" things that doesn't actually pan out that way.

generalpf··on OS9Map
16 MB RAM required, 32 MB RAM recommended... how refreshing! Great work.
generalpf··on SpaceX Is Buying Cursor
Cursor Remote Agents are important to our AI orchestration layer. It's possible that Claude can do this directly but Cursor Remote Agents made this laughably easy.
generalpf··on Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
You can get any Uber driver to do it for you if you offer to buy them food too and do it off the books.
generalpf··on Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
He is, but he's also describing reality.
generalpf··on Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
I just got a Docusign and it didn't work in Firefox, I had to use Chrome. That's a huge blow right there. (I sent negative feedback about this to Docusign.)
generalpf··on An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
>There'll probably be a startup tomorrow that digests user input and boils out the noise to provide a robust enough signal to guide some monitoring agent, and it'll help some cases, and train us to be even worse at others.

This sounds like Enterpret.

generalpf··on Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
Come on now, you're going to need Xcode at some point during development.
generalpf··on Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
It does.
generalpf··on The Slow Death of the Power User
By default on a Mac, "smart quotes" is enabled that turns "" into “”. I don't think that's a sign of an LLM. I believe Microsoft Word on all platforms does this too.
generalpf··on Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption
Swift doesn't use a garbage collector.
generalpf··on Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford
This is the course I used online to learn Objective-C and UIKit to make iOS applications, and now I am a Staff iOS Engineer. Nice to see him still doing this.
generalpf··on Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'
Mac and Dennis: Manhunters

(It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E01)

generalpf··on Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line
It doesn't matter what Steve Jobs would or wouldn't do, Tim Cook took Apple to a $3T company and that's where we are.
generalpf··on Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan
Another Forbes 30 under 30!
generalpf··on FreeDroidWarn
You don't need this library, it's just an `AlertDialog` wrapper with a check in `SharedPreferences`. It's not particularly well-written.
generalpf··on I'm worried it might get bad
Referencing Marc Benioff making bold claims about AI isn't much evidence, he's pulling these numbers out of thin air. Despite claiming they won't hire software engineers in 2025, there are plenty of positions open at Salesforce for software engineers.
generalpf··on Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved
When did this guy stop writing about engineering and start running a tech gossip rag?
generalpf··on I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)
Nice to see PagerDuty mentioned here. I was on the mobile team at PagerDury that battled to get the entitlement to use Critical Notifications in the app. We were refused multiple times before we got the entitlement.
generalpf··on Windows File Manager (WinFile) repository archived on March 1, 2025
Who would want to work on this thing? It hasn't been a standard part of Windows for at least a decade.
generalpf··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
It's been argued a lot that such a move would cause a good portion of American billionaires to just pack up and move to another country. Rich people are mobile in a way that poor people are not.
generalpf··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
Forbes 30 Under 30!
generalpf··on Apple acquires Pixelmator
BuddyBuild was acquired by Apple and used for their server CI platform, almost immediately cutting off Android support. That was a shame because it was a great platform for Android builds.

https://www.biv.com/news/technology/bye-bye-android-apple-ac...

generalpf··on Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
“Shoot that guy” “Ok”

Super valuable stuff.

generalpf··on I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral
I was reading this on my iPhone 11 Pro and my phone was turning warm in my hand. My music kept stopping and starting again. Eventually I had to kill the browser.

I am sorry this is happening to the authors. Maybe it’s related to the scumminess of their blog, maybe it isn’t.

generalpf··on Passkeys: A shattered dream
Having the passwords in the cloud is useful though. Before, if you wanted to use your vault across multiple machines, you had to store your vault in someone else’s cloud. This simplifies the process.
generalpf··on How did customer service get so bad?
https://archive.ph/uTmRC
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