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robotsquidward

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Developer of Android, iOS, and macOS native apps.

- https://ajkueterman.com

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robotsquidward··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
- Enhances ANTI-tumor... sounds good - ANTI-tumor immunity... sounds bad? - Read first few paragraphs as a typical medical rube, got nowhere

So, creatine = good?

robotsquidward··on LitraSwitch – Control Logitech Litra with one click
A simple macOS app to control Logitech Litra lights from your menu bar. An alternative to Logitech Options+ or CLI only tools like litra-rs.
robotsquidward··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
This is sick but sad that it has to live in that open office cubicle world :[
robotsquidward··on Your app subscription is now my weekend project
Just sucks that instead of buying a piece of software now we're going to send $100/mo to an AI giant so we can build our own crappier bespoke apps.
robotsquidward··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
Perfect for a big splashy press release. Populist policy with no practical benefit to the average American.
robotsquidward··on Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)
The 2024 D&D starter set literally has 3 adventure books for Wilderness (Outside), Caves of Chaos (Dungeon), and Keep on the Borderlands (Town). Of course that game has infinite possibilities for how to 'implement' those areas but kind of an interesting parallel.
robotsquidward··on OctoNote: GitHub-powered Markdown notes – revived
After almost 5 years of lying dormant, I finally pushed an update to my iOS note-taking app — OctoNote!

OctoNote is a simple markdown-based note taking app that saves your notes as GitHub gists. This makes them easy to share, to edit on the web, and to maintain a rich editing history - since every gist is a little git repo. OctoNote basically enables a specific gist workflow - using gists to create & edit markdown files in the context of note-taking. If you're a developer who's already using GitHub (or has ever written a nice README), OctoNote should feel right at home in your workflow.

Just happy to share that I've been able to get this release out the door amid a crazy holiday schedule. Hope some of you might enjoy it!

robotsquidward··on Sorry to My PR Reviewers
A brief explanation of my PR drafting foibles.
robotsquidward··on Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
I love the sound of employees being more 'load bearing'. Meta seems like a fun place to work for (for however many months you last).
robotsquidward··on Sora 2
It's insanely impressive. At the same time, all these videos all look terrible to me. Still get extreme uncanny valley and literally makes me sick to my stomach.
robotsquidward··on Sora 2
It's insanely impressive. At the same time, all these videos all look terrible to me. Still get extreme uncanny valley and literally makes me sick to my stomach.
robotsquidward··on How I code with AI on a budget/free
Right - free to you maybe.
robotsquidward··on Show HN: A GitHub Action that quizzes you on a pull request
What a fun world we devs now live in.
robotsquidward··on Should managers still code?
My best managers were ex-engineers who didn't touch the codebase. They understood how things worked, and could talk architecture & concepts, but they didn't expect to be able to sit down and write code at our level. Maybe they wished they would have the time/opportunity still, but realistically they were focused on leading.
robotsquidward··on Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
How has nobody said that this should be called 'Stroll Bar'????
robotsquidward··on Nobody knows what's happening online anymore
The article goes into that in depth, and how that hasn't really changed even on newer platforms like TikTok, just gotten harder to follow and understand.
robotsquidward··on More product, fewer product managers
Well articulated thoughts that are mostly detached from the eye-grabbing headline.

Good PM's are important. Building product-focused teams is important. More of anything != more better. Duh.

robotsquidward··on 'Biocomputer' combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware
Thanks, I hate it
robotsquidward··on How the Cheesecake Factory defied the restaurant industry’s rules of success
Any TC heads in here? Just reminds me of Jake getting Covid at a Cheesecake Factory eating nachos before seeing Tar with his brother.
robotsquidward··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://ajkueterman.dev/ Personal blog. Mobile Development, TTRPG and other nerd stuff.
robotsquidward··on Visualizing Data with Swift Charts
Utilize SwiftUI and the Swift Charts library to build a simple (but beautiful) line chart with just a few lines of code. Brief walkthrough with examples.
robotsquidward··on Walmart to close three tech hubs, tells tech staff to return to offices
Exactly. I would rather be laid off with severance rather than be forced into the choice to be be offered a 100% on-site job across the country or quit. Cruel.
robotsquidward··on [dead]
She still didn't share who the author is though. Weird.
robotsquidward··on I don’t believe in sprints
Actually another similar post on the front page at the same time: https://bigthink.com/progress/pessimism-is-a-barrier-to-prog... It has a great opening line:

> PESSIMISM SOUNDS SMART. Optimism sounds dumb. It’s no wonder, then, that pessimistic messages hit the headlines, and optimistic ones hardly get a middle-page snippet.

robotsquidward··on I don’t believe in sprints
https://ajkueterman.dev/posts/make-the-thing-better/
robotsquidward··on HN is up again
HN is my default 'is the internet working' site and that genuinely threw me for a loop across multiple devices today dealing with hotspots while our power was out.
robotsquidward··on Dark Sky Has a New Home (2020)
This headline as it currently stands ("Dark Sky Has a New Home (2020)") is a bit misleading, as the relevant update was posted June 6, 2022 and is announcing the official sunset date for Dark Sky - not just the acquisition.
robotsquidward··on Is the four-day workweek finally within our grasp?
As long as a 4-day work week doesn't mean 10-hour work days.
robotsquidward··on Show HN: Unclack – a macOS app that mutes your microphone while you type
For anyone stumbling upon this thread now, Unclack now supports macOS Catalina! I pushed an update today that is available from the landing page. Check it out! Thanks again for your support of Unclack!
robotsquidward··on Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard
Love it! I'm glad that you could bring mic-muting to the wider world outside the macOS Big Sur bubble. Appreciate the shoutout for Unclack!
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