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orthodonticjake

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orthodonticjake··on A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDE
easy way to trigger an Epic developer
orthodonticjake··on AI Bubble vs. Dot Com Crash. History Is Repeating
What is this Kurzgesagt knockoff bullshit?
orthodonticjake··on Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it badly ahead of Apple's WWDC
I'm trapped in Apple's ecosystem and I've been incredibly envious of the things Google is doing. So many neat features I'd love to use, but I'm still not quite ready to switch.

The crazy thing to me is that so many of the things Google is doing would seem to be a slam-dunk obvious thing for Apple to lead on. For example, the context aware cursor. What an amazing idea -- a computer that understands your intents intuitively, at such a basic level. That's the core idea that fueled Apple decades ago, but apparently not so much anymore.

orthodonticjake··on OpenAI should build Slack
Does anyone use Mattermost? I remember thinking it wasn't too bad, and I guess it's open source.
orthodonticjake··on OpenAI should build Slack
Slack's software quality has been in absolute freefall over the past couple of months.
orthodonticjake··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
Didn’t you mean “Apple, fix my keyboard before the timer ends or I’m leaving g iPhone”
orthodonticjake··on Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld
Now everybody just needs to amass a corpus of 40+ beloved fantasy novels and we will finally have a dementia early warning system.
orthodonticjake··on What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
Kinda frustratingly written by ai
orthodonticjake··on A brief history of children sent through the mail (2016)
I see no rule that says an adult cannot be mailed