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55 karma · joined December 28, 2020

meet.hn/city/sg-Singapore

Socials: - github.com/RealDyllon - linkedin.com/in/dyllon-gunawardhana

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dyllon··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Good luck reading that out loud over the phone to technical support if you get locked out of your account.
dyllon··on Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi
Frankly, “whitelisting” clients is against the spirit of MCP.
dyllon··on Waymo in Singapore
> My guess, they will co-exist as the government wont jeopardize the living of the taxi-driver-complaining uncles.

It’s been mentioned: https://www.mot.gov.sg/news-resources/newsroom/-more-options...

dyllon··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
Usually brands collaborate with influencers on tiktok, instagram, facebook, youtube.

I’ve found that younger users tend to instinctively swipe away from flashy interstitial ads on tiktok/reels, but are far more likely to be engaged by a talking head influencer reading the same script.

When you advertise via parasocial word-of-mouth, you don’t even need to link your app in the post, as users are likely to take the time/effort to search for your app on the app store.

Unfortunately, the ad platforms/exchanges don’t really profit from these types of brand/influencer collabs.

dyllon··on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
His silence speaks a thousand words.
dyllon··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
QRs will always be so much more cumbersome than blindly tapping a card or your phone.
dyllon··on It's Easier Than Ever to Fly Private Without Your Own Jet
Gift article link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/its-easier-than-ever-to...
dyllon··on Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
Moving away from codemods and towards LLMs doing migration work is an interesting development.

Even if they’re more deterministic, I wonder if the days of codemods are numbered.

dyllon··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
Of course no one has a more mature implementation of it than Next. The Next.js team designed it themselves!
dyllon··on SimplyStream – Unreal Engine 5 meets WebGPU
Nice work. Any write up on how this was created?
dyllon··on macOS in QEMU in Docker
Couldn’t you use UTM to run a macOS VM?
dyllon··on Web Crap Has Taken Control
> doing professional development using typescript and angular

So you aren’t using vanilla javascript, you’re using angular - yet another framework/library

dyllon··on Tim Berners-Lee: We need social networks where bad things happen less
Yes, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and is the Director of the W3C.