ValentineC

> Only professionals and enthusiasts care about bokeh.

I mean, consumers would probably just know it as "nice and pleasing blurred background", versus "this blurred background isn't as nice".

As someone who's been trying to build a single project since February, I never expected things to take this long. "The team" keeps finding things to extend because of some issue somewhere (so many race conditions), and I'm constantly worried that things wouldn't be good enough to launch.

I've started adding a "let's make sure we avoid overengineering" to my plan review prompts. I'm still hoping I can launch in maybe two weeks.

> They're going to have to try a lot harder than $1 for 50 days worth of reading, in a world where any time taken off from work is a risk.

If the "get paid to walk" programmes [1][2] were an inspiration for this, it's mostly retirees and students that will do and try to game this [3].

[1] https://www.healthhub.sg/programmes/healthyliving

[2] (RIP) https://www.hpb.gov.sg/healthy-living/our-lumihealth-journey...

[3] https://sgunfitrunners.blogspot.com/2016/04/5-despicable-way...

> Even their public swimming pools (not allowed to use them if you are a visitor, their digital ticketing system requires the local equivalent of a SSN). The official excuse is that it's tax payer subsidized.

There's a FAQ specifically addressing this [1]:

> If you do not have Singpass, you may still approach our pool or gym staff to buy single-entry passes.

[1] https://ask.gov.sg/activesg/questions/clztixkjr00agracq0ys53...

> https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...

This link stupidly 503s for me here in Singapore (so does Archive.today right now, for some reason), so I had to use Internet Archive to read it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260915060732/https://www.atg.w...

Randomly, I wish we had another platform where people could easily post long form content. I feel disgusted using former Twitter these days, ever since fElon Musk bought and enshittified it.

Yeah, in Singapore, the cards to flex are DBS Insignia, UOB Reserve, Citi Ultima, and that black Amex.

That sounds mildly disingenuous. Surely there are buses nearby that connect to the MRT station?

> Singapore really wants to look like Season 3 of Westworld.

Some scenes in Westworld season 3 were filmed in Singapore:

https://www.timeout.com/singapore/film/11-places-in-singapor...

> Also, I notice a lot new SF based AI companies have started establishing their offices in Singapore too. Sierra, and Fireworks coming to my mind. As government plays a huge part in Singapore, I guess, government noticing these as necessary investments for the future of Singapore.

Mostly sales offices (and of course, "forward deployed engineers").

We don't usually see exciting tech projects being assigned to Singapore teams, especially with our huge timezone difference with the Bay Area.

In the 80s and 90s when the housing market was more immature, I believe condos and landed property were around the same price, and condos were seen as somewhat more prestigious because it came with private facilities.

> Doesn't Tokyo have very low unemployment? According to Wikipedia: Japan 2.5%, Singapore 3.2%, USA 4.1%, EU 5.2%.

Singapore's unemployment statistic only counts people who are looking, not people who are retired or have given up [1]:

> A person is considered unemployed if he or she is:

> • not working;

> • actively seeking work; and

> • available for work

I don't know if the other countries follow the same methodology.

[1] https://stats.mom.gov.sg/iMAS_PdfLibrary/mrsd_qtlmr182_Techn...

From the article:

> I’d expect this to be the tip of the spear for eventually removing all HFS support from macOS, but given the timescale of the AFP transition, I wouldn’t be too worried about it evaporating in the next year or two.

This is madness. From what I understand, APFS isn't great for spinning rust hard disks, and I'm sure some people still use those in some way, maybe as external drives.

I dread new macOS releases, because it signifies one year less support for my current version (I'm on Sequoia now, having jumped from Ventura) being supported.

Every new version wrecks my workflow a little. macOS 28 will partially remove Rosetta 2, which means that I'll need to find replacements for some of the ancient Intel apps that never got updated to Apple Silicon.

The links are usually to Archive.today (aka archive.ph and a bunch of other domains), not Wayback Machine (which is run by Internet Archive).

No, but I'm referring to the AI news that gets posted on HN with a former Twitter link, because those companies don't have a proper news site of their own.

I call it "former Twitter" to honour the good times, and maybe because deep down I hope it'll one day escape from fElon Musk's evil clutches.

Also, for some reason, AI companies like DeepSeek who would rather post news exclusively there than vibecode their own news site.

There are a lot of sycophants posting in the comment threads here and on Reddit.

If you look up their career histories on LinkedIn, some of them are rising pretty quickly within the Automattic ranks.

> If you don't want people like Mullenweg treating your business like a toy, try not having an internet monoculture. There were plenty of competitors to Wordpress that didn't have an insane database schema, but web programmers are herd animals.

There were many other decent competitors when WordPress was first forked like Movable Type and Textpattern. Many people I know also used LiveJournal and their forks heavily, and of course there was the Blogger crowd.

For CMS, there was PHPNuke, PostNuke, Joomla, Mambo, but they were all for "professional" website developers, not for people unfamiliar with web development and just looking to muck around.

I think WordPress took off mainly because the web crowd rallied around it for their then-good design and taste. Plugins and "good enough" themes were another moat — I think it helped that plugins let people install just enough rope to hang themselves with (or: they get to decide the level of complexity they're comfortable with), unlike the ready-built CMSes which bundled everything and the kitchen sink.

Now, I have no idea why most of the early WordPress community chose to rally around and elevate Matt Mullenweg, but I personally think he wrote well and had good taste back in the days.

> Also in respect to Mullenweg, afaik he owns 84% of the company. This never had a chance without his consent.

He has proxy agreements with Automattic's investors for 84% of the vote. I don't know how they're structured, but I saw from other discussions that they may be irrevocable.

When was Automattic ever "for the people"?

> There's a whole ecosystem behind WordPress that, while it's a security nightmare, is also pretty damn useful. You can't vibe code that yet, you have to build it over years, if not decades.

To be fair, I think a lot of people would have far better user experiences if they asked Claude/ChatGPT/preferred AI to rip out nag screens that many of the plugins are riddled with.

That's probably the first step to them vibecoding their own sites, but most people would likely just want to stay on the WordPress sites they already have, because they don't want to spend time and effort getting up to speed with new UX, or worse, being their own website product manager if they have to vibecode something from scratch. (Until something catastrophically breaks and they need to do a new greenfield site, I guess.)

> I was seeing companies with massive, clunky CMS installs just so their non-technical/less-technical staff could update their websites without filing tickets to IT/dev. It seemed to be more about those departments wanting autonomy and not having to wait weeks or months for internal IT/dev to make site updates.

I remember Facebook's corporate news sites [1] were running on WordPress.

I just checked. Some of them still are.

Oh, the irony.

[1] e.g. https://about.fb.com/news/

> Part of what led up to this was a feud he had with a plug-in author, that led to Mullenweg signing his own plug-in as an update to the original author's plug-in, in the official Wordpress plug-in repository.

Not just (forking and) signing, but considering he runs the "official WordPress plug-in repository" as well, he pretty much conducted a supply chain attack.

Would be nice if Tesla, SpaceX, Cursor, former Twitter all rotted with their stock prices plunging to zero, but fElon fanpeople and the AI sheep still only posting on former Twitter will keep them afloat.

I jumped from Ventura to Sequoia when 26 was first released, and I can safely say it's been around the same.

I'd probably make a similar leap to 27 when 28 gets released.

I'm still on Sequoia (which took me ages to jump to from Ventura). :)

For anyone jumping versions: remember that Apple messed with the login keychain not being able to be backed up in the most recent Tahoe release [1], which means that issue will be around in Golden Gate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49651046

I was just in Hanoi, and some of their roasters are incredible value for money.

Lots of co-fermented specialty Vietnam-grown Robusta and Liberica at incredible prices, far cheaper than what people would find from roasters that import their beans from Colombia or any of the other big coffee-growing countries.

One really annoying thing that I just found in practice is that this change breaks copying and pasting links directly from the Google search results.

Now, I need to click on the link and access the page to “unfurl” the URL so that I can paste a nice, human-parseable URL into a chat.

Google may have just made me actively want to switch away from it.

I rotate my watch between wrists so the skin gets some rest.

Left wrist in the day, right wrist while I'm sleeping.