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joe@abovethewater.co.uk

CTO at Duel

https://www.duel.tech

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abovethewater

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_puk··on Your app subscription is now my weekend project
someone will cry if you lose money or data.. the rest.. vibe code away!
_puk··on AI coding assistants are getting worse?
Hopefully we'll get some real focus on making LLMs work amazingly well with limited hardware.. the knock on effect of that would be amazing when the hardware eventually drops in price.
_puk··on AI coding assistants are getting worse?
You also have to be so exact..

Literally just searched for something, slight typo.

A Vs B type request. Search request comes back with "sorry, no information relevant to your search".

Search results are just a spammy mess.

Correct the typo and you get a really good insight.

_puk··on Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS
I think that keeping tailwind alive means that Gemini Studio:

* Likely gets preferential access to new features and changes in tailwind, keeping it cutting edge

* Keeps a framework alive that Gemini is already good at

If a new framework becomes popular then the amount of training material / material already trained into the model essentially starts from 0.

The mature Frameworks that had plenty of openly available data to train on before everything became locked away are the ones we'll be running with for the next few years. It makes sense to keep it alive.

_puk··on Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
Meta literally got caught doing this.

Writing to a local server, and then uploading from the browser to bypass consent mechanisms.

https://wire.com/en/blog/metas-stealth-tracking-another-eu-w...

_puk··on Your Supabase is public if you turn off RLS
Both the free and paid tiers of lovable don't charge for security fixes, and before you can publish it requests you run security audits.

I've found doing this, and regularly asking "did you just make my system massively insecure" help keep it on its toes.

That said, I've seen a few "look what I just made.." that caused a double take.

_puk··on Stop crawling my HTML – use the API
Is there a meta tag to point to the API / MCP?
_puk··on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system
Sounds like literate programming in markdown for anki cards.
_puk··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
You mean nationalised?

You realise even the subsidies go to pay Canadian pension funds [0]

0: https://weownit.org.uk/who-owns-our/railways

_puk··on What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?
Brings back memories of a recent 16 year old stood in tears whilst they took her details to prosecute her because she was travelling on a child ticket "but my mum always bought me a ticket".

No mercy. Fuck those guys.

Same guy that stung me for not having a ticket when every other day they'd come round and let me buy a ticket on the train.. I even went to the window at the destination for a ticket, and then got referred for a penalty fare. Fuck that guy.

_puk··on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?
It's where you have processes etc set up to manage your IT infra, but these very processes often make it impossible / too time consuming to use anything.

The team that needs it ends up managing things itself without central IT support (or visibility, or security etc..)

Think being given a locked down laptop and no admin access. Either get IT to give you admin access or buy another laptop that isn't visible to IT and let's you install whatever you need to get your job done.

The latter is often quicker and easier.

_puk··on Warner Bros Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix
You're against Netflix on principle, or?

All I read here is, I bought some gift cards, binge watched a couple of decent series, and then moved on.

_puk··on Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond
I imagine that's a big part of the drive behind discontinuing Chromecast support..

https://www.androidcentral.com/streaming-tv/chromecast/netfl...

_puk··on Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold
"only for thing people would legitimately like to have."

Whilst that may be true for the most part, much of the art dealt nowadays is never displayed, just stored somewhere incredibly tax efficient until it's value has gone up enough to warrant selling.

https://theswisstimes.ch/unlocking-the-secrets-of-the-geneva...

_puk··on Angel Investors, a Field Guide
As it was put to me over the years:

Have you ever regretted hiring someone who you were 100% sure on?

Have you ever regretted hiring someone you weren't 100% sure on?

Definitely or no, it's that binary sometimes.

_puk··on ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
Yeah, that clearly makes sense from OpenAI's perspective.
_puk··on ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
Edit: Parent has edited out the comment ranting about "the normal people using chatGPT as a modern WebMD".

This is not shutting anything down other than businesses using ChatGPT to give medical advice [0].

Users can still ask questions, get answers, but the terms have been made clearer around reuse of that response (you cannot claim that it is medical advice).

I imagine that a startup that specialises in "medical advice" infers an even greater level of trust than simply asking ChatGPT, especially to "the normal people".

0: https://lifehacker.com/tech/chatgpt-can-still-give-legal-and...

_puk··on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking
You think parrots don't think?
_puk··on The profitable startup
Speed of growth.

Being profitable is one of the best times to raise. You don't need the money, but it'll accelerate the next phase of growth.

Retaining profitability after raising is probably harder as you're expected to spend that money to grow.

I'm sure it can be done if you've raised with the right people and you keep focus on ARR per FTE.

_puk··on Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99
Bad analogy.. if they truly care what colour your house is then there's plenty of strings they could pull. I mean, a good number of large U.S. company's tax and corporate structures depend heavily on Liechtenstein's government’s rules..
_puk··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
Almost like a standard library..
_puk··on Bear is now source-available
How about a standard entity "OSI perhaps?!", that commits a file to an early stage of the repository (could this be automated), who then cannot / will not give approval for a relicense?
_puk··on Bear is now source-available
Sounds like we need a "forever open source" license.

A commitment that any significant derivative retain the original (or some later version) of the original license.

"Free to do whatever as long as it retains this license. A commitment that this license will not change, even by the original author".

No special cases, just a blanket license for all derivatives.

If it exists, what are the barriers to adoption? Why don't we all use it?

_puk··on Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode
If my experience is anything to go by - a good proportion of this will be people accidentally double clicking a .md (or other random text suffix), and cursing whilst they wait for XCode to slowly load enough that they can quit it and open the file in a proper lightweight editor..
_puk··on Pixel 10 Phones
There's non flagship, and there's ex-flagship.

I'd much rather have an ex-flagship phone that, at the time, had what was considered one of the best cameras (actually pretty much all I care about).

That said, I'm looking forward to trying this out in about 5 years!

Written from my "new to me" pixel 6.

_puk··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
Majority of the team rushing A, one bunny hopping like mad with an AWP to the tunnel..
_puk··on Vibe coding tips and tricks
Vybrid coding :)
_puk··on Vibe coding tips and tricks
I just call it vybrid coding :)
_puk··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
The way a French friend put it to me when they were learning English through immersion..

I dreamt in English last night! Now I know I can speak the language!

Being monolingual, and then trying to pick up another language later in life, a big struggle is not trying to "map" sentences and structure to what one already knows.

This is why idioms often don't translate well.

_puk··on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness
Wasn't that the standard greeting on ICQ from randoms across the globe?

Uh-Oh! A/S/L?

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