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mooktakim··on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
I've seen React components where div is used with click event for adding a normal link
mooktakim··on Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients
Anthropic should find a way to work with third parties. They still get all the data. There wouldn't be a difference.
mooktakim··on Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language
Just get LLM to write assembly
mooktakim··on Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor
I'm getting tired of websites that force you to use desktop or phone. I'll use whatever device I want. Let me deal with the screen size issue.
mooktakim··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
Selling painkillers in 16 pill packets is a problem? It's readily available and very cheap (paracetamol and ibuprofen) generic brands. Never in my life this has been an issue
mooktakim··on A $20 drug in Europe requires a prescription and $800 in the U.S.
You pay by paying the premium. Your employer pays, but that money comes from your potential salary.
mooktakim··on Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
Can someone write about how terrible the YouTube Android app is, so that some PM can actually fix it? Its an app i use constantly and hate using it all the time. I accidently click to another video and lose the position of where i was. It used to confirm the play of another video, but now it doesn't. The offline feature is terrible; you can't play something and make it go offline. It used to cast really well, with a "casting queue". When i disconnect from my TV, its still logged in. Adding/removing/changing the watch queue is so bad that I have to use my laptop to make changes. When browsing, you can't tell whether a video is already on your watch list; it's not always accurate. Sometimes you click add, and it removes it from the watch list because it's also in the list. Many more things.. can't think of them right now.
mooktakim··on You Don't Need Types in Ruby
Yes absolutely. People forget one of the reasons to use ruby is the beauty of the code. Any typed language is verbose and ugly. I understand other languages are more safe, I'm happy to code unsafe for developer joy.
mooktakim··on You Have No Idea How Screwed OpenAI Is
Calculators make you dumber!
mooktakim··on DHH's "As I Remember London"
This kind of thinking is result of lack of imagination. People always say there's too many people. People always figure out how to better grow food, build homes and live.
mooktakim··on DoorDash to acquire Deliveroo
You fire and forget. Order something for lunch, get back to work. Eventually ring at the door with food.
mooktakim··on What to Do
Yes absolutely, you can do both.

One good thing about new ideas is that it becomes an enabler for everyone else who are not working on new ideas. Similar to how technology democratises peoples abilities.

mooktakim··on What to Do
Not everyone can create new things, or create new things all the time. The rest of the time they can make better use of existing things
mooktakim··on Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
Was big fan of Gentoo. Would spend hours and hours optimizing the compile flags to maximise performance. Fun times.
mooktakim··on Deploying Rails on Docker: Kamal Alternative
The article only talking about single app per server without using hostnames. That you can do as the app will respond to the IP address. Currently you can't run multiple apps on each servers behind load balancer as the health check will not be successful as there is no way to set the default host.
mooktakim··on Deploying Rails on Docker: Kamal Alternative
The missing feature is the ability to run on multiple servers. I want to be able to put it behind a load balancer. Kamal also has a huge issue where you can't set the "default host". This means load balancers can't work as "/up" never succeeds. I created an issue on github but the big honcho closed it without reading lol I understand the idea behind single server, but realistically you need at least two app servers to switch over when needed.
mooktakim··on Why it's time to retire CRUD
CRUD doesn't mean CRUD all the things. If your use case requires it, you can build a create-only environment where you never delete anything.
mooktakim··on Agility is how startups compete with larger organizations
Bureaucracy is usually needed because there are too many people to manage and monitor.
mooktakim··on Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
It reminds me of the old lastminute.com (I think) button that would turn the whole front page into an Excel spreadsheet so when the manager walks by, they only see spreadsheets on your screen lol
mooktakim··on Why Gov.uk's Exit this Page component doesn't use the Escape key
How would anyone know that you can use the shift key? Closing the tab/page is just more natural as its something you do all the time.
mooktakim··on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
Its not anything like that. new ruby version has "better" short hands, like {:test => 123} to {test: 123}.

Anyway, there have been updated versions of the books and content online if people are interested.

mooktakim··on What's New in Ruby on Rails 8
those old books are still good though. There's only new syntax for latest ruby versions.
mooktakim··on Starbase: SQLite on the Edge
You opted for a fancy website rather than actually explaining what it is.
mooktakim··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
Every time there's a new editor, or anything else, people complain why we need another one. Sometimes that new thing is innovative.
mooktakim··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
I did not speak with certainty. Everything I said is guess and opinion.
mooktakim··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
They probably said the same thing when someone created vim, or vi.
mooktakim··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
If I knew answer to that question I wouldn't be falling behind
mooktakim··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
There's still time to find out if what you say is true
mooktakim··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
Stone tablets and chisel technically still available also.
mooktakim··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
So the choices are 100% or 0%?
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