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jonny_eh

11,906 karma · joined January 21, 2011

- Software Engineer

- Retro games and pinball fan

- https://twitter.com/JonathanAbrams

- http://github.com/JonAbrams

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jonny_eh··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
But no one will use it, so it can be safely ignored. It's both a good thing and at the same time a shame.
jonny_eh··on macOS Tahoe
To help highlight the new "Liquid Glass" UI?
jonny_eh··on Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
> You can operate your own VPN

On what infra? Can you trust that one? Doesn't that solution just move the problem down one level?

jonny_eh··on Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war
AI is full of new and smaller companies. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are quite new, but growing fast.
jonny_eh··on You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)
So are you suggesting that you would pour salt on it?
jonny_eh··on One universal antiviral to rule them all?
Exactly my thought. There must be a reason that evolution didn't auto-optin us to these proteins. Everything is a trade-off. It's possible with the prevalancy of viruses in the modern world that we would, on balance, benefit from a more vigilant immune system.
jonny_eh··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
I agree. But why is the US stock market not tanking?!
jonny_eh··on The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households
Just charge the rich more in taxes, that covers the fairness. If you only leave the benefit for the poor, then the rich will scrap the system.
jonny_eh··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android
> For me the difference is that Android is an open-source operating system

Google Play is not open source. You're still free to sideload on phone that use vanilla open-source android like the Fairphone.

jonny_eh··on The extraordinary rise in the wealth of older American households
It should be strengthened and available to everyone.
jonny_eh··on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs
Since it led to more games, it led to more bad AND good games.

I don’t think we would’ve seen a Hollow Knight without Unity, built by a team of 2-3 devs.

jonny_eh··on Optimizing our way through Metroid
What’s antithesis? Consider that every blog article you write may be the reader’s first exposure to your company/project.
jonny_eh··on Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero
Everything you interact with on a daily basis is either natural, or designed by a human. Until now.
jonny_eh··on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
I don't think Codex CLI uses the Pro/Plus subscriptions, not yet at least.
jonny_eh··on New executive order puts all grants under political control
All that stuff was bad, especially Japanese internment, but this feels like a whole different category. It's a full-blown ceding control of the country to one man.
jonny_eh··on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
AI isn't causing the suspension of habeas corpus, humans are.
jonny_eh··on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
> We also don't know what the long term side effects of it will be, if any.

What are the long term side effects of NOT taking it? The article implies it could be early death.

jonny_eh··on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial
It’s the same people that hate vaccines, fluoride, and sugar substitutes. They feel like those interventions are too good to be true.
jonny_eh··on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
AFAIK Gayle sold her book and services as a way to train for interviews, not conduct them. The problem is the companies, not her.
jonny_eh··on The Math Is Haunted
Apparently this is possible with macros? I dunno: https://github.com/leanprover/lean3/issues/1355
jonny_eh··on Fast
Luckily newer TVs and console can negotiate a low-latency mode automatically. It's called ALLM (Auto-Low Latency Mode).
jonny_eh··on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
How else to justify spending thousands on a device that can only shoot pictures?
jonny_eh··on Study mode
Character AI was never acquired, it remains independent.
jonny_eh··on Study mode
Claude Code and Gemini-CLI are able to offer much more value compared to startups (like Cursor) that need to pay for model access, largely due to the immense costs involved.
jonny_eh··on Study mode
> you end up siding with one party over the other

Then as you get more and more familiar you "switch" depending on the sub-issue being discussed, aka nuance

jonny_eh··on Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server
Could be useful when launching a Doom shareware release.
jonny_eh··on I saved a PNG image to a bird
We need a new RFC
jonny_eh··on Nullable but not null
I recommend using checklists for schema changes like this.
jonny_eh··on Don't animate height
A lot of armchair suggestions here, but no benchmarks provided. Thanks for actually testing!
jonny_eh··on H-1B program grew 81 percent from 2011 to 2022
Employers already need to prove that they can’t hire an American to do the job.
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