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tobyhinloopen··on Getting good results from Claude Code
Yes
tobyhinloopen··on Getting good results from Claude Code
That's a great, short prompt. I'm going to steal it.
tobyhinloopen··on A fast, growable array with stable pointers in C
This is amazing, why did I never come up with this
tobyhinloopen··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
Thank you!
tobyhinloopen··on AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive
I agree. With plenty of prompts (leave them in documents) you can get pretty good results.
tobyhinloopen··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
Why is it region-locked? So weird
tobyhinloopen··on FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime
As long as it doesn’t happen to you, am I right? Surely theft by government without trial only happens to those that deserve it
tobyhinloopen··on I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
What about function names, class names and variable names?
tobyhinloopen··on FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime
USA, the land of the free!
tobyhinloopen··on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
But my wired network is already 2.5G and some devices are 10G compatible.
tobyhinloopen··on Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting
The OS being proprietary was the ONLY reason I doubted to commit to the platform, but this is amazing. If this actually works, I'm comfortable to 100% commit into their stuff.
tobyhinloopen··on Attention is your scarcest resource (2020)
I found that AI coding allows me to work on more stuff because it's doing its thing faster, but it also greatly diminishes my attention per project, reducing to less optimal solutions.

Nobody is complaining though, stuff gets done.

tobyhinloopen··on Fast
That's neat, thanks for the link!
tobyhinloopen··on Fast
"Look, it can render the whole app really quickly every time the user presses a key!"
tobyhinloopen··on Fast
How about you enable game mode on the TV you're using
tobyhinloopen··on JavaScript decided my day starts at 9am
Your first mistake is using Javascript's Date.

Js Joda is the only datetime library that doesn't make me wanna cry -> https://js-joda.github.io/js-joda/

It is kinda similar to the new Temporal api: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Or if you want to live on the edge: https://www.npmjs.com/package/temporal-polyfill

For experiments, I would strongly suggest to look into Temporal API.

tobyhinloopen··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
The criminals that are caught, maybe (:

How about the criminals that are not yet caught

tobyhinloopen··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
> a Dutch organized crime gang was involved and financed the developers.

I mean, maybe that has something to do with it?

tobyhinloopen··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
I just don't get it - criminals will just continue to use "real" encryption. Why are some of these people so obsessed with reading everyone's chats?
tobyhinloopen··on Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)
The Nexus 5 is 12 years old, don't know about a 5a. Your ASUS IPS monitor is 14 years old.

I'd suggest comparing technologies applied in monitors that aren't teenagers.

Still, I get your point - there's compromises in all technologies and there is not a single tech that excels in everything.

tobyhinloopen··on Never write your own date parsing library
I agree, "200" is just "NotADate". I like JS-Joda's date formatting.
tobyhinloopen··on Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)
VA screens have terrible black smearing though. I also bought an OLED display and returned it because it was just very dim. I own a miniled display that peaks at 1000cd full screen (it has a fan to handle the heat) and I'm still looking for an OLED replacement.
tobyhinloopen··on Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)
Unless it's a MINI LED or OLED display, it simply doesn't have the contrast to properly render a lot of what makes HDR... HDR.

Calibrate the display with HDR enabled for a better SDR response.

tobyhinloopen··on Don't bother parsing: Just use images for RAG
This is something I've done as well - I wanted to scan all invoices that came into my mail so I just exported ALL ATTACHMENTS from my mailbox and used a script to upload them one by one, forcing a tool call to extract "is invoice: yes / no" and a bunch of invoice line, company name, date, invoice number, etc fields.

It had a surprisingly high hit rate. It took over 3 hours of LLM calls but who cares - It was completely hands-off. I then compared the invoices to my bank statements (aka I asked an LLM to do it) and it just missed a few invoices that weren't included as attachments (like those "click to download" mails). It did a pretty poor job matching invoices to bank statements (like "oh this invoice is a few dollars off but i'm sure its this statement") so I'm afraid I still need an accountant for a while.

"What did it cost"? I don't know. I used a cheap-ish model, Claude 3.7 I think.

tobyhinloopen··on Death by AI
Don't use Google
tobyhinloopen··on AI is killing the web – can anything save it?
The web was already dead.

> We care about your privacy. Can we please put a camera in your toilet seat for a personalized experience? > > [ ACCEPT ]

Browsing the web is a nightmare these days, I rarely visit "new" websites

> Subscribe to our spam for a 10% off coupon > > [ ] [SEND]

It is just a pain to visit any website these days... anyone involved creating these modern monstrosities should just fire themselves and go on a hike or something.

> We rely on invasive, tracking ads! Please enable your adblocker so we can get 0.00001 USD, please. > > [IVE DISABLED MY FIREWALL AND ANTI-VIRUS] [PAY 999 USD A MONTH FOR AN AD-FREE EXPERIENCE]

tobyhinloopen··on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
Instead of walking away, I have worked on multiple projects at the same time. Prompt one project, let it run, prompt another project, let it run and go back to the first.

Maybe walking away is a better choice hah.

tobyhinloopen··on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
Just enjoy the hike and bike ride and keep the coding at home (:
tobyhinloopen··on New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
10 / 28 lol, that's sad
tobyhinloopen··on Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate
Every time I touched Zig, examples I found on the internet were no longer working. I worked on a project for a while and then the stuff I used was deprecated / broken on the newer version.

I like Zig, but I'm waiting for it to become somewhat stable, because the amount of breaking changes feels pretty significant. I suppose that's the price of progress.

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