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chris_pie··on Wrapping my head around AI wrappers
The potential customer rarely cares whether a service provider is running their business well. What matters is the product's value added and risks added, as compared to just using the underlying tech directly.
chris_pie··on Google Antigravity
That's a big name for a slop fork. So many possibilities (with LLMs and without) but Google just can't bring themselves to do anything creative, let alone transformative.
chris_pie··on Open-source Zig book
note that the front page also says: "61 chapters • Project-based • Zero AI"
chris_pie··on Open-source Zig book
I don't think so, I think it's just a pompous style of writing.
chris_pie··on Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)
I wish the author explained the difference between pipelines and multi-statement queries
chris_pie··on EU age verification app not planning desktop support
You're right, for example age is useful when picking targets for scams. It would also be great for groomers.
chris_pie··on Boring is good
Hot take in regards to the good old statement taken literally: the boring<->exciting dimension is irrelevant in terms of something being good or bad.

Yes I know, stable things are stable

chris_pie··on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters'
The meaning has changed very quickly for some reason, but I think the original meaning was that you evaluate the result in a superficial manner by checking if the program seems to work fine. So "vibe" here is as opposed to any methodical or formal approach. No code review etc.
chris_pie··on C# Language Design Meeting for June 30th, 2025
The second one seems very similar to the "using static" feature, but less verbose.
chris_pie··on Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect URLs based on regex
For this specific case there's a "Nitter Redirect" extension
chris_pie··on Understanding How Violet Light Can Stop Myopia Progression
Hasn't the blue light affecting circadian rhythms been debunked at this point?
chris_pie··on “ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET
To your point, ValueTask is less safe than Task. For example, it's important not to await it more than once.
chris_pie··on Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM
I can't find the actual decision, but there was some discussion here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77 Microsoft later in 2023 said that that discussion "is the current state we are in. We will keep eye on wasm GC in the future."

edit: found a more concrete statement https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94420

chris_pie··on Binary Formats Are Better Than JSON in Browsers
Here's a benchmark of int keys in .NET https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/MessagePack-CSharp#des...
chris_pie··on Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM
.NET doesn't use WasmGC because Microsoft found it too different from how .NET's GC works. Which is quite unfortunate
chris_pie··on Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign
I've been using Pixel 8 for nearly a year now and I agree that it's surprisingly buggy. Also, the chip is excessively power-hungry, especially for the performance it offers. In addition: the modem is bad and very power-hungry as well. And the cherry on top for me was the subpar fingerprint scanner. Can't recommend.
chris_pie··on Pope Leo XIV says advancement of AI played a factor in his papal name selection
Best he could do was DEUS I
chris_pie··on Show HN: Hyper – Standards-first React alternative
attribute names depend on the implementation, Solid uses JSX and `class`
chris_pie··on Show HN: Hyper – Standards-first React alternative
what's funny is that there are 2 libraries called hyperscript
chris_pie··on WebGL Water (2010)
Some features of Kiwi were merged to Edge, which means it now supports extensions (any extension if using developer options in Canary)
chris_pie··on WebGL Water (2010)
Same on a not-old Pixel 8
chris_pie··on Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball
Great job! Does anyone know which one was first: Slime Volleyball or Blobby Volley? I fondly remember playing Blobby Volley at school
chris_pie··on Gumroad's Interestingly Timed "Open-Source" Play
There's also Paddle (who's a Merchant of Record)
chris_pie··on Koto Programming Language
Also the Units of Measure are a great feature. I think they're a zero-cost abstraction that Rust users love to mention.
chris_pie··on Koto Programming Language
To be fair, my knowledge of F# is a bit basic, but I meant stuff like classes (including abstract ones), interfaces, and the ingrained interop with C#.
chris_pie··on Why Apple's Severance gets edited over remote desktop software
I have to say, I laughed when I noticed the framerate, in what's (in a way) a hardware ad
chris_pie··on Koto Programming Language
I'd say F# is closer to filling that gap than OCaml. It's a bit less insistent on being functional and has a more familiar syntax. I find it more practical in general.
chris_pie··on IO Devices and Latency
I'm on Chrome on Android and AdGuard blocks all your visualizations, just FYI
chris_pie··on Deploy from local to production (self-hosted)
There's also a long standing issue of random peaks to 100% CPU, that they don't seem to be able to fix.
chris_pie··on FlakeUI
This is very similar to the idea of Zooming User Interfaces (ZUI) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
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