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wett··on OpenJev
On iOS 27 Safari design.withfudge.com crashes on about half of my attempts to scroll down the page…
wett··on Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm
https://one-sec.app

Plugging the thing that finally got me off IG. Now if I need to see something I use the browser and it’s so terrible that I get pissed trying to scroll after I saw what I opened the page for.

wett··on Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
My anecdata as a college aged kid on ADHD meds with friends who want a stimulant prescription:

Psychs will put you on an SSRI first, and then atomoxetine (non-stim ADHD med) before prescribing the good stuff.

The kids who want to party and/or study harder don’t take the stuff that doesn’t get you high. The kids that are struggling with basic stuff bear with it, and usually follow up to me with surprise that the non-stimulant is actually helping them.

Of course, we usually do graduate to the good stuff. So I understand the sentiment, and often question my own reliance on the drugs.

wett··on Gloomberb
I just learned these two:

1. If the connection dies mid transfer, bash will still execute it.

So `rm -rf ~/.local/bin/whatever` can become `rm -rf ~`

The author can avoid this by wrapping everything in a function. But you wouldn’t know if they did so if you aren’t outputting it to a file first.

2. Say the link points to an S3 bucket and it gets compromised, there’s no record of the payload to analyze.

I’m sure there’s a plethora of other subtleties, but I’ve always had the same question as you and thought I’d share.

wett··on Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects
Simple example 1:35 -7:40 https://youtu.be/qF2PuYnBahw

More practical example (serverless WebSockets) https://youtu.be/FgWVoryZ8PU

wett··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Figuratively and literally!
wett··on When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?
I like your analogy so I will use it in my counter argument. I even have a personal example!

In my last place, there were no ethernet ports, and there was no shot that my landlord would install any. Coaxial wasn’t correctly wired up either. So my two options were to either move my setup into the kitchen, or to run an Ethernet cord up into my room.

I chose the second option to not monopolize the dining room table. It wasn’t pretty but my roommates were happier with some painters tape on the walls than my computer being in the kitchen.

I think a similar thing can be said for people who live in remote areas, it is about compromise. In this example it’s low internet speeds, traveling to get groceries if you live in a food desert, or paying more for utilities.

People prefer what they prefer. And if their preferences are worth their cost of the compromises, then they are going to go with their preferences.

It’s unreasonable to expect someone to move / abandon their preferences because they may not make sense to others on paper.

wett··on Why Vanilla JavaScript
Asking in good faith: how is your experience working with vanilla JS on a team?

While I’m not the biggest fan of Nextjs for my own solo projects, I really enjoy using it at work. Leaning into the opinionation it provides/encourages keeps my team from bickering too much about how to structure things.

It’s really nice to say “this is the idiomatic way of doing it according to the docs” and for everyone to nod their head. Whereas pages in our legacy PHP codebase look completely different depending on who implemented them.

wett··on Grok 4.5
I swear I have read either this exact or a very similar comment before. Same gist about a bike computer iOS app, and one of the models giving up.

As an aside, big thanks for Caddy! Really helped me get my greenfield project off the ground and it simply “just working” out of the box was one less source of errors I had to worry about when onboarding my team.

wett··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
Ask Claude to check, lol
wett··on Free the Icons
I just graduated college and I’ve never heard of this. Can’t find anything about it online either.

You can get a functional Apple Watch on Facebook for 50-100 bucks. So not much of a signal for status.

We have much sillier, trendier accessories to choose from :)

wett··on Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase
Would you consider allowing people to login with OpenRouter?

https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/overview/auth/oauth

Would be a good way to have others absorb some of your inference limits and fill in missing data that they need. A call to action on a blank search would be a great flow.

wett··on CrankGPT
nit: “Is this real” dialog took a bit to load on mobile, a placeholder would be nice
wett··on The iPhone's Last Stand?
It’s kind of a meme

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/my_brother_in_Christ

wett··on DeepSeek V4: The Open-Source Model Frontier Labs Feared
I liked Zed’s agent as a harness. It’s LLM agnostic. My org just got GitHub Copilot and I use it as the API provider for requests.
wett··on Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
Same here. My only complaint is I wish there was a way to make apps floating by default and then you would specify which ones you want tiled.

IME a lot of apps are easier to use in their default state. I really only use my web browser, text editor, and terminal in tiled mode.

wett··on Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars
FWIW, I think they share resources. I was able to crash the browser via a GPU benchmarking website while using autopilot. Autopilot disengaged and the “instrument cluster” lit up like a Christmas tree for a few seconds.

So I’d imagine an infotainment exploit would be able at least DOS the AP system.