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makeitrain··on Gitea 28.0
I thought I was being lazy, but this has been working for me for years.

I didn't do --bare, the live branch is checked out and I merge in dev to deploy.

makeitrain··on McDonald's is quietly ending the era of self-serve soda fountains nationwide
Are mcdonalds locations losing money on soda, or is this just a way to get franchise owners to cough up more to corporate?
makeitrain··on LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models
Vibe resume?
makeitrain··on Apple's New CEO Has a Background in VR, but Is Reportedly Bearish on Vision Pro
Thanks for the tip. I’m trying to get a handle on the features in top spec models. Also comparing vinture.

I’ll be vibe coding from a park bench soon…

makeitrain··on Apple's New CEO Has a Background in VR, but Is Reportedly Bearish on Vision Pro
I just discovered xr glasses.

I was looking for glasses with screens I could code on.

It seems like the market has been heating up. There are a few available around $500 that can do a lot more than I expected.

I’m more interested in a comfortable pair with good screen quality than the actual xr features.

But it looks like the environment and integrations are quickly expanding and there will be opportunities to create new types of applications on affordable hardware.

makeitrain··on A Year After Usa.i.d.'S Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss
I think this is overflowing to the whole non-profit job market. From what I hear from friends, it's worse than the tech industry.
makeitrain··on Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees
Cage match.
makeitrain··on TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components
SEO is a good reason.
makeitrain··on Why Are Flock Employees Watching Our Children?
Employees
makeitrain··on Razor 1911 (first place at revision 2026 demoparty) [video]
That was extremely cool.
makeitrain··on TreeSheets: Free Form Data Organizer (Hierarchical Spreadsheet)
I use this occasionally, discovered it in the Linux software repository.

I think it’s worth checking out the UI paradigm, it’s very keyboard friendly.

My main gripe is that it has no app icon in my toolbar on Mint, and that causes it to render as an invisible sliver, not even a full size button.

makeitrain··on Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair
What are you doing Corsair?

I have only ever shopped for RAM by comparing specs and price.

I want affordable RAM, not merch collabs for overpriced rgb heatsinks.

makeitrain··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
We never left
makeitrain··on EmDash Feedback
Matt is no longer a credible thought leader
makeitrain··on Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before
Ddev does this too, to set up local domains when you’re offline. Asks for permission at least.
makeitrain··on Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor
I’ve had a 38” ultrawide for about a decade.

I’d say monitor position and ergonomics matter way more than screen size.

Navigating a stack of apps with alt+tab, ctrl+tab is extremely efficient. I only miss the extra space when looking at spreadsheets or comparing things in different windows.

Some laptops have a pitiful screen height, avoid those.

Ultrawide is an extra screen size that many web devs forget about. Good design can take advantage of it. But some fluid designs look terrible without constraints.

I ran a vertical setup, with a monitor above my laptop. Not a bad way to go if you want more space for auxiliary apps.

Focus is essential for productivity. Do whatever it takes to get there.

makeitrain··on JSON Canvas Spec (2024)
Looks cool. I recently hit some limits with mermaid and this seems a little more flexible.
makeitrain··on Allbirds, once valued at $4B, just sold its assets for next to nothing
Wearing Allbirds to the WeWork used to be so cool.
makeitrain··on DDR5 RAM prices fall by as much as 30%, but memory shortage likely far from over
Brave working well on ios.
makeitrain··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Good enough for Wordpress.
makeitrain··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Don’t worry, they used an llm to generate the regex.
makeitrain··on Pentagon asks for $200bn for Iran War
Should probably ask Congress for permission as well?
makeitrain··on Meta is shutting down Metaverse. They spent 85B dollars on it
AI generated content and chat bots.
makeitrain··on Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
Here’s the modern version: https://grugbrain.dev/
makeitrain··on Everything you never wanted to know about visually-hidden
Ahhh this is my life. Trying to make things simple and usable, but ending up at the bottom of a rabbit hole.

I keep wondering if this knowledge is still useful, or if ai generated code will just account for the quirks.

Somebody has to understand it well enough to advance the standards, right?

makeitrain··on The Browser Becomes Your WordPress
This is highly impressive from a technical standpoint. All back end tech you used to need in a server for now lives in your browser.

I see this as an example of being able to build complex apps in a browser, which are much more portable than system apps.

makeitrain··on Tesla is committing automotive suicide
Lane keeping assist helps when trying to use the increasingly complex infotainment systems to do simple things like adjust seat warmers.
makeitrain··on First, make me care
I can’t click on any links on pages (the header works).

Using brave on iPhone.

Firefox and Safari works…

makeitrain··on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
For a company that makes a flat $20 mil per year, how long will it take to make back the $1.4 billion they paid for it?
makeitrain··on How to keep up with AI/ML as a full stack dev?
We’re going to have AI building Drupal sites soon. The platform is well architected for this. Most of the work is generating configuration files that scaffold the site. There are already AI integrations for content. The surface area is relatively small, and the options are well defined in code and documentation. I would not be surprised if we pull this off first. It’s one of the current project initiatives.

The coding part is still a hard problem. AI for front end and module code is still pretty primitive. LLMs are getting more helpful with that over time.

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