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nf17on Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering

Looks like many are questioning the credibility of the author as a dev/engineer. Peter is the founder of PDFKit and well respected name in iOS circles for his contribution to .framework and ideas about building modular iOS apps. He may be overselling here, but pretty sure he can manage AI generated code

nf17on VanillaJSX.com

Great job, is there something similar but for SwiftUI?

nf17on Ask HN: Daily practices for building AI/ML skills?

There are so many mentions of reading paper. Do papers like these exists for regular enterprise software devs like me who make apis in Dotnet/go, good knol of multiple major cloud tools, k8s etc, has developed couple of iOS apps.

I can do my job but I always wanted to learn and understand more. Family circumstances mean I can't afford to quit my job or go to school.

nf17on Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-resistant infections

I bet, India is on the top3. Pharmacy culture in India is liberal. U can walk into any pharmacy without prescription and buy most meds including Antibiotics. It's a different story online, but even then there are ways to get around.

nf17on Ollama is now available as an official Docker image

why the downvotes?

nf17on Milk Tea Addiction

per day, also very common in the Indian subcontinent. I sure think is addictive but symptoms attached to anxiety, suicidal etc - not so sure.

nf17on Why don’t Americans eat mutton?

$10/Kg? In the US, I used to get the entire leg for ~$12-13(3.5/4kg) at African and Arab stores. The same in India would be around $30

nf17on Why don’t Americans eat mutton?

I can't speak for the entire south, but it is usually goat in most part of Tamil Nadu except a few areas.

nf17on Migrating Netflix to GraphQL safely

Is JS/Express/Apollo still the goto graphQL server implementation or C#(HotChocolate), Java, go etc are widely used too? On the client side(for mobile), AFAIK iOS(Swift) and Android(Kotlin) does not support GraphQL natively? are there 3rd party libraries that can be used?

Edit: Added Apollo

nf17on How to set your domain as your handle

i would really appreciate an invite too. email is nfa379 @ gmail

nf17on Welcome to Comprehensive Rust

Unrelated: but why does Google use Kotlin(for developing Android apps) and Rust when they have a nice little language in Go. Genuinely curious: Is Go not a good fit for developing Android apps(Is targeting JVM the concern?) or system programming(using Rust in Android systems), what does it lack?

nf17on The best Go framework: no framework?

micro.dev is different from an actual go framework go-micro.dev ?? (https://github.com/go-micro/go-micro)