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github-actions: "If you need a paragraph-long comment to justify why the workaround is OK, the code is wrong — fix the code"

robobun: "The ordering is load-bearing: reclaiming before this block made is_dead_request true and hung a parked textStream read (caught by body.test.ts in CI). The comment pins that constraint."

Ah, well, if something is load-bearing, then I guess that settles it. Need a comment to pin that constraint, in case a read is parked. These are words that normal humans commonly use in these ways.

(Always striking how much Claude obsesses over the minutiae of method contracts and side effects, exhaustively documenting them in comments. It’s much happier figuring out how to reorder some method calls with nonobvious side effects so the code works than it is refactoring them not to do unexpected things!)

> there is a by default unset shortcut to switch between windows of the same application. I set it to command tilde.

It's set to that by default.

The funniest part is that that project's own readme includes lots of good Claudish.

> If CLAUDISH_MODEL names a model you have not pulled, every rewrite is skipped — with the one-time notice above.

I imagine you're trying to use it in ways that it's just not designed for. Cmd-`, Cmd-Tab, and Mission Control (Ctrl/Cmd-F3 or three-finger swipe up/down) are powerful enough to do most tasks, especially combined with automatic window tiling.

Downsizing (but still owning), rentals, the suburbs, Texas, Atlanta, or nowhere, if the parents pass away and the kids don't want the house.

Many US cities have high rates of homeownership by non-white families who bought during/after White Flight. This means that there are a lot of minority homeowners who have significant real estate equity (often inherited) but lack other assets. Now the trend is reversing and white people are moving back into city centers, often renting/buying in working-class neighborhoods that had mainly been populated by minority groups since the ‘60s (aka gentrification). Sellers want to convert real estate into cash, and buyers want relatively cheap urban real estate and have cash. So the highest turnover is going to be in majority-minority areas.

(Another factor is rezoning/redevelopment, which is also putting pressure on people in some more heavily minority neighborhoods to sell.)

All of this also explains why property tax reform is such a thorny issue in cities like New York.

Another day, another (admittedly very cool) NYT map that uses OSM data in its basemap without credit :'(

Most of these are not good choices for most people.

And "I use a real operating system" alongside a list of seven different non-obvious and seemingly arbitrary config locations is pretty funny.

Not any engineer, but Boris Cherny, the head of the Claude Code project! With a nice "[robot emoji] Generated with Claude Code" signature. Normally it would be nice to get a response from the head of the project, but somehow Anthropic manages to make it insulting.

I wonder if he manually directed CC to write a response, or if even that part is autonomous.

The Apple Watch is quite accurate (according to Apple's own research, at least), and it doesn't guess or map to typical patterns: https://www.apple.com/health/pdf/Estimating_Sleep_Stages_fro...

You lived in SF and never once went to LA?!

I mean they all look like generic, annoying SaaS landing pages/overwrought dashboards, not that they’re simple and functional.

Wow.

This is the PR: https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net/pull/...

> What says no is the account: nothing pairs that is not signed in as you.

I am begging Claude to stop treating the English language this way.

No. A Snowflake maintainer opened a PR, Copilot suggested a change (introducing a vulnerability), the maintainer accepted and committed it to their PR, and another Snowflake maintainer approved and merged the PR.

Of course. It’s OK, but it tends to generate very cliched “AI” UIs with little originality. Despite the skill spending a lot of time coaching the model into avoiding that!

> the majority owner of OpenAI

Largest shareholder (27%), not majority.

Have you actually read the frontend design skill? It’s placebo at best. Very short and barely focused on design: https://github.com/anthropics/skills/blob/main/skills/fronte...

I have to be honest, to someone who knows nothing about you, this is all a little concerning.

It may just be that I’m comparing to the Bay Area, but I’ve never been that concerned about bike theft in NYC. If you lock your bike with a good lock and leave it somewhere with plenty of foot traffic, it’s quite unlikely to be stolen. Most people don’t even bother locking the wheels! Just a U-lock through the frame.

I’m having a hard time figuring out if this State of Utopia thing is tongue-in-cheek or serious.

> Claude avoids saying "genuinely", "honestly", or "straightforward". Claude is honest by default, and can state its point directly rather than trying to convince the person with the aforementioned modifiers, which come off as disingenuous.

Hah! No it doesn’t.

The brand only needs to last until the Google acquihire.

Many reports document many problems. The case has already been made!

It's just the "buy your mom an iPhone" [1] mentality. Apple machines are good, widely available, and start at a reasonable price point - developers should quit moaning and buy a Mac if they want to develop for iOS that badly.

Not saying this is a correct point of view, but I do think it's widely held at Apple, and there's little impetus for them to build developer tools for other platforms because of it.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342243/tim-cook-apple-rc...

Transit (transitapp.com) supports setting your walking speed, which is essentially this by proxy, and it's a great app.

This is overstated. At least as of 2017, Americans walked about 93% as much as people in France, for example, and a little more than people in Portugal or Greece.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/747380/daily-step-averag...

This isn't really a path, and certainly not an official trail. It's a use trail [1] that should probably get (edit: now has) an informal=yes tag [2]. I think it still counts!

[1]: https://ironhiker.blogspot.com/2025/08/baden-powell-x3-and-r...

[2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:informal%3Dyes

The NYC video was about Floyd Bennett Field, a former airfield that's now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, to be exact.