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rk06··on Turbopack: Building faster by building less
That project is working towards "mako next" project and is actually talking to vercel devs. So it may make sense to them.

But that is not representative of broader ecosystem.

rk06··on Turbopack: Building faster by building less
turbopack is tightly coupled with next.js

rest of the JS community can't use turbopack, so they went with vite

rk06··on Selling SaaS in Japan
Indian here. UPI (QR code for payment) is huge. UPI adoption is extremely high.

In no-trust society like India, where fake note, torn notes, fake coins can strike anyone. UPI is blessing to most.

rk06··on If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
icons should prioritize usability first,and design, intersting afterwards.

if your users need billboards, then your job is to make great bill boards

rk06··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
the idea is hackers in state sponsored countries can also root phones and have nefarous intentions.

banking is very risk averse area. and it is good precaution.

rk06··on Microsoft is losing the AI race, Copilot stuck at 1% market share (on web)
what, you mean pushing AI down people throat is not a good idea?
rk06··on Skills for organizations, partners, the ecosystem
pipelines written in LLMs may be simpler. but they are definitely more brittle and even more non-deterministic.

if AI were deterministic, what difference would different AI model make?

rk06··on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features
to pump adoption number. it is well known that adoption rate is much higher when people are forced to opt-in be default.

because no one in right mind, would opt-in AI seriously. and definitely never on corporate machine

rk06··on Flow – A Programmer's Text Editor
multiple cursor is basic editor 101.

programmer' text editor need to have it as bare minimum. otherwise, i would have to go to sublime or vscode for text editing and then I will wonder why should I bother with this editor.

rk06··on Locked out: How a gift card purchase destroyed an Apple account
because you can gift them to others and ensure that they use it.

same for amazon gift cards

rk06··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
the problem with technical software names is that they are either too long, too pointless, do not die when underlying tool goes through re-incarnation(looking at you angular) or worse, too important to be wasted on a lesser quality project (looking at you react-router).

in my company, we have a tool whose technical name was four word long, and has just as much cognitive load as any technical name.

one of my biggest contribution to that project was to Name it.i gave it a simple name, with zero relation to tech or any software

and suddenly our PMs, Managers, Users can pronounce it and can actually type it correctly and of course recall it's name flawlessly.

so, at least from my experience, having a small, easy to pronounce name is more important than having technical name.

Moreover having a name with all of the qualities is definitely desirable, but there are many projects in world and not that great names. and many Great names (looking at you, Vue.js) are either already taken or beyond my naming skills

rk06··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
i would really like a tv with usb c. so, i can directly connect my phone/ tablet and cast directly
rk06··on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
please forgive typos in above comment. i can no longer edit them
rk06··on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components
nuxt, sveltekit etc don't have RSC equivalent. and won't have in future either. Vue has discussed it and explicitly rejected it. also RSC was proposed to sveltekit, they also rejected it citing public endpoint should not be hidden

they may get other vulnemerelities as they are also in JS, but RSC class vulelnebereleties won't be there

rk06··on New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care
humans can be sued. what about AI? or even a commercial software?
rk06··on Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
wtf? it can diverge from git?

wasn't git compatibility it's main pro?

rk06··on Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
there is no difference as jj is only a frontend to git.

author me tions that git cli require multiple steps when there are unstaged changes.

I don't know if git has one liner cli command for it as i myself use gitextn to create worktrees

rk06··on Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project
it means custom roms maintainers like lineageos, can now work on adding android 16.1 builds
rk06··on Heroku Support for .NET 10
the drop of .NET core branding definitely makes it worse. as the other projects(like asp.netcore, efcore) just can't drop "core" from their names on a whim.

in my opinion, they should have kept "core" branding, but shortened it to ".NET" for marketing and only for marketing.

in a better world, Microsoft would ditch the name ".NET" altogether and invent a new one. like LVM (lightweight virtual machine)

rk06··on Heroku Support for .NET 10
No, you are not alone.for non-tech population, it may make sense that .NET 5 is continuation of .NET 4. But the tech crowd knows .net 5 is to .net 4 is what angular 2 is to angular 1.

With .net 4 still in active use, the naming makes it harder

rk06··on Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language
vue allows other languages in .vue files for both css & html similar to js
rk06··on FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown
better, US can move essential services to a separate budget and keep it away from this shutdown nonsense.
rk06··on Apple reports fourth quarter results
you mean very intelligent and very smart people used to do it in their head without computer or calculator

these days only idiots would do so on pen and paper only

rk06··on I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance
but next's dx is no longer good. vite has much better dx, the proof lies in the number of vite based frameworks in the post
rk06··on I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance
When react came out, it was much faster than its competition. but then others learned from react and improved upon it.

however, React didn't copy from others, so it got slower than "competition"

rk06··on I built the same app 10 times: Evaluating frameworks for mobile performance
people underestimate the size of JavaScript community by a lot.

all apps need a js frontend, while there backend can be in Java, rails, python, c#, nodejs etc.

even at number 2, vuejs is likely to have more users than multiple popular backend frameworks combined

rk06··on Tell HN: Azure outage
Hmm, isn't that the same argument we use in defense of windows and ms teams?
rk06··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
Interpreted languages are not the best choicce for a variety of software. for eg: Vast amount of performance issues in typescript cli boil down to being written in typescript, and team is porting to golang now.

Tools specifically CLI tools, are best written in statically typed compiled languages.

rk06··on What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?
the existence of shady and criminal apps on both apple and android app store proves that their policies are definitely not sufficient and should be focused on first.
rk06··on TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation
I will work for 5 Yeats for 500k
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