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jim33442··on Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
This is where I'm at. React makes sense to me in ways that plain CSS doesn't. I've learned about 15 programming languages by now, each time out of necessity, but CSS isn't one of them.
jim33442··on A History of IDEs at Google
It's not bad, but I also don't see the point. It always felt more cumbersome than using Vim, even laggy sometimes despite having a fast MBP.
jim33442··on A History of IDEs at Google
Ubuntu/gLinux laptops have been getting phased out for a while. It's 1. Mac 2. Chromebook 3. gLinux probably
jim33442··on A History of IDEs at Google
Yeah I just use vim and jetski CLI, way faster than dealing with any of these IDEs
jim33442··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
That's not the problem they're trying to solve
jim33442··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
It's not for sale yet
jim33442··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
Electric seats and windows are always the first thing to go in an old car. And they're so unnecessary.
jim33442··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
Wow that interior in the article looks awful. I haven't driven a Mercedes since my C230 from 2004.
jim33442··on Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different
This is the most angry comment thread I've ever seen about a hypervisor.
jim33442··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Oh so it's not even CI/CD, just showing PRs. That's awful.
jim33442··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Have those outages actually been blocking your work? Somehow I haven't even noticed, just seen complaints on HN. I'm not saying it's not real, just wondering where the gap is.
jim33442··on Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
I don't remember, it's usually a random poorly-made site like the DMV or a budget airline. Reddit used to have issues but not anymore.
jim33442··on Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
What's the alternative if you want full ad-blocking in a Chromium browser? I use Firefox normally and wouldn't trust Brave, but there are some sites FF doesn't work with, so it's understandable why some people wouldn't use it.
jim33442··on Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Look I'm not an expert in web browsers, but I defer to those extension authors who definitely are. There's some reason uBO doesn't work well in MV3 even though they tried. Whatever technical explanation there is for why MV3 is fine, there's some caveat not mentioned.
jim33442··on Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
or Safari
jim33442··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Why do you need agents patching your kernel to enable efficient agentic workflows? Are those agents working on building a kernel? If they're just building some web backend or whatever, I don't see why any of this is needed.
jim33442··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
I don't get #3 because all those CLIs work on Mac too. You're only forced to use Xcode if you're doing certain Apple platform dev, which does suck, but is there a better Linux-only alternative for that?
jim33442··on Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Avoid iOS 26 at all costs. I was forced to update to it because I needed to factory reset my phone, and it's super buggy. I'm not even one of those people harping on the Liquid Glass design decisions, those are w/e, the problem is just that the phone routinely freaks out doing basic tasks like trying to open the camera app or close the keyboard. They should roll it back.
jim33442··on Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
The original comment mentions this but gives the wrong reasoning. The APNs are encrypted either way, but this setting prevents Signal from decrypting them client-side and letting the notification cache store it. Yeah this is more secure because it means not trusting Apple to do their job right with local storage, but it's also kind of a reasonable thing to trust.
jim33442··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
So I got a 13" MacBook Air recently. It didn't require me to log into iCloud, but I did cause I wanted some things synced, which is free cause I'm not uploading photos. I don't buy anything from the Mac App Store cause why. The OS lets me run anything I want on it. The hardware technically doesn't care what OS it runs, though nothing else really works unless you count Asahi. In what way am I locked into generating them more money?
jim33442··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Well if you buy a Linux laptop and slap Windows on it, sleep will most likely work. Unfortunately Microsoft got preferential treatment.
jim33442··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Don't worry, they don't need help selling it
jim33442··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
I thought the idea was the Framework is the company-provisioned one. Or are they letting people do corp work on personal laptops?
jim33442··on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
If he's a suspect but not confirmed, they'd know if he purchased a real gun, and a ballistics test would confirm it matches the bullet. Conveniently "losing" it would raise suspicion too. Or if that's not why, there has to be some reason people make ghost guns in general.
jim33442··on Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'
It might still be. It's not so much about the quality of the content as you or I would judge it, it's the authenticity.
jim33442··on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
Idk what law in particular, but if this is about flying drones at low altitude in places where other people didn't show up to hear drones buzzing, I'd want it banned whoever is doing it.
jim33442··on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
I would think they just print multiple guns and switch if one breaks.
jim33442··on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
Luigi Mangione wasn't trying to get caught. Maybe he was worried buying and using a real gun would link him back to the murder.
jim33442··on The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing
Some expert can make a gun from the hardware store alone, but evidently people find 3D printing way more practical.
jim33442··on Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'
I think so. These sites can be hardened by relying on people following who they know, but the slop ruins discoverability. That's also partially the reason people moved to TikTok from older, more dumped-on platforms.
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