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herrkanin··on Asahi Linux on M3
I have an M2 Macbook Air that i sometimes boot into Asahi to play Steam games that doesn't work natively on mac. It works unreasonably well given that there is something like five different translation layers to make it work!
herrkanin··on Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing
Is this 'best word' with us in the room right now?
herrkanin··on Devtools must be open source
Without any evidence to back it up, my hope is that your criticism in a decade will be the equivalent to "Everybody having a mainframe at home? Do we want to waste a whole room in each and every house just for that?".
herrkanin··on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
I was very much in the Tailwind camp, and simultaneously loved it for its local reasoning and disliked it for how its long class names messed up my components. It has always felt like a bolted-on hack to me but I couldn't argue with the benefits.

Turns out, CSS Modules comes with the same benefits while feeling much more like a natural extension to the web platform. The only thing I thoroughly miss is functions and directives, which hopefully will land in browsers through the mixins proposal in not too long of a time.

herrkanin··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
The thing that makes it work really well is to make sure it has all the tooling to verify its hypotheses. If you allow it to run the full lifecycle in loops you will be surprised how well it works.
herrkanin··on Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
ATProto is closer to how RSS works than ActivityPub. In the same way talking about "RSS instances" makes little sense, the same goes for "ATProto instances".
herrkanin··on Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke
> How is that better than the Zig codebase you started with?

In contrast with the Zig codebase, you now have clear well-scoped unsafe boundaries you can iteratively fix one by one. This was not the case before.

herrkanin··on Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work
Running lid closed with external display has been officially supported since forever so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
herrkanin··on Port React Compiler to Rust
The public contract previously discussed in RFCs and conference talks hasn't changed. Coding language is just an implementation detail.
herrkanin··on GitHub Is Down
Because majority of the audience spend large parts of their day on GitHub and it keeps going down.
herrkanin··on Is Python Becoming Pinyin?
Don't underestimate the significance of code being runnable in a browser environment.
herrkanin··on Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
Not good for fans. And happy fans are good for artist. So not good for artist.
herrkanin··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
Your argument is just as applicable on human code reviewers. Obviously having others review the code will catch issues you would never have thought of. This includes agents as well.
herrkanin··on Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance
It really isn't - a ui framework should be able to properly handle backend latency and provide a great experience while waiting for a backend response with no flicker while not locking the entire ui. It's just way harder to set up good benchmarks for this.
herrkanin··on Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance
I'm so sick of these performance benchmarks. I understand it's easy to spin them up to show that one framework is faster than another, but in general all these frameworks are fast enough for 99.9% of use cases.

Where frameworks lack today, in my opinion, are in providing the right tools further optimize the UX of interacting with web sites. It's a constant struggle of loading spinners and flicker and loss of scroll positions.

The only framework I see that actually tries to resolve these very hard problems is React, through their work on new asynchronous primitives like startTransition. Yes, they are currently hard to understand how to properly use, but I so wish the discourse would be around how to best resolve these actual UX issues than who can create 50M divs the fastest.

herrkanin··on Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello
The difficulty to deploy Next.js is greatly exaggerated in my opinion. It's mostly if you care about some of the more advanced features, like image optimization and hosting static assets on a different origin it can become difficult, but these are features no Next.js alternative generally provide anyway.
herrkanin··on Zod 4
I might be blindsided by using npm exclusively for years by this point, but what would be a better way to support iteratively migrating from v3 to v4 without having to do it all in one large batch?
herrkanin··on Getting AI to write good SQL
Same reason as why it's harder to solve a sudoku than it is to verify its correctness.
herrkanin··on Apple Turnover
I think arrogance has always been part of their culture – partners have _always_ hated working with Apple. Personally I believe it's the shifting dynamics of no longer being the underdog that slowly has eaten away at their core values.
herrkanin··on Hyperspace
As a web dev, it’s been fun listening to Accidental Tech Podcast where Siracusa has been talking (or ranting) about the ins and outs of developing modern mac apps in Swift and SwiftUI.
herrkanin··on Hyperspace
It’s not a symbolic link - it copies on modification. No need to worry!
herrkanin··on Stats – macOS system monitor in your menu bar
I've been for many years a happily paying customer of iStat Menus [1], from which this seem to be the heavily inspired of.

[1] https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

herrkanin··on UnitedHealth overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
so by increasing the cost of patient care, they can take out more profits.
herrkanin··on Redis Inc seeks control over future of Rust redis-rs client library
He still is
herrkanin··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
I think I was 8 or 9 when I started building my first website as well, and it looked remarkably similar to this. :) I think the only difference really is that all guides used uppercase for html tags back then. Happy that went out of style.
herrkanin··on Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent
The versions should generally match what's specified in the user's package.json. It doesn't make much sense then to have a separate registry.
herrkanin··on Sorry, iPads
The software support for iPads have been excellent imo, especially compared to competition.

If you bought an iPad in 2012, it should have received software updates until 2019, and all iPads since 2015 are still supported. In general I expect the first 2-3 generations of a new product line to have shorter support cycle before they have matured a bit, so it doesn't surprise me that your particular iPad model only got 7 years, but if you buy an iPad today I would be surprised if it got less than 10+ years of support.

All that said, I think hardware companies should be forced to open up their hardware for booting alternative OSes once they are classified as EOL.

herrkanin··on AltStore PAL, the first alternative app marketplace on iPhone, is available now
- Alternative app marketplaces become allowed.

- Apple sees emulators as a potential market for alternative app stores and proactively chooses to allow them in the Apple App Store.

- This is a clear example of how competition in the app market place being a positive thing.

- Developer creates an alternative app marketplace, with an emulator as one of its main apps on launch, realizing the competition that forced Apple to update their rules to allow emulators in their own store.

I'm sorry you feel forced to download a separate app store, but don't you see how you in the end are benefitting from this change even without using the AltStore? Give it some time and you will probably have another emulator in the app store you can choose to download.

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ubuntu
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> Max Howell (mxcl) created Homebrew fifteen years ago

> Despite that, Max continues to hype himself as the creator of Homebrew

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