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stwrt

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Founder Mojave Cloud (mojave.sh) | Ex-Apple, Safari
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stwrt··on VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)
The author didn't go into much explanation behind "I would be a little nervous about letting people VSCode-remote-edit stuff on dev servers".

If you are worried about having VSCode server-side binaries running directly on the bare metal OS you can isolate the workspace using containers or VMs.

stwrt··on Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
That is incredibly frustrating for a coworker to do that. Even if you do use an LLM to generate all the slides it is your job as a presenter to go through and make edits and actually practice the presentation.

If you are just presenting it for the first time after seeing it you are going to just be reading off the slides, which is a waste of everyones time.

stwrt··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Definitely agree. Most developers could build a basic Twitter or Facebook clone. The hard part is getting the users, content, and relationships that make the product worth coming back to.
stwrt··on Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
The main tradeoff I’ve found with running models like Qwen 3.8 locally is speed. On my hardware, they’re significantly slower than models served through OpenRouter, ChatGPT, or Claude.

That’s been fine for smaller tasks like analyzing a document, but for more involved work like refactoring code the latency makes it harder to iterate.

stwrt··on The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive
The web inspector is often overlooked. Other important spots to look at are the Network tab and Lighthouse (in Chrome).
stwrt··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
In May they replaced the Gemini CLI with the Antigravity CLI.

https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...