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robertwt7··on Claude Code on the web
This is very similar to Jules by Google! https://jules.google/

Although I wish that the performance of Jules is worse than Gemini CLI. I hope that this is as good as the Claude Code CLI.

robertwt7··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
This is crazy. Healthy debate and disagreement should be free in a democratic country, without any fear of violence, let alone death.
robertwt7··on Australia Wants to See Your Papers Before You Press Play
I am Australian, the state that we have become is just sad. The fact that this is brought under the disguise of "child protection" is ridiculous and I never would have imagine a future in my own country where I have to submit my ID to access anything online. They will never achieve anything with this because everyone will just use VPN. It's costing taxpayer's money without any useful outcome. The level of incompetence displayed by this government is astonishing.
robertwt7··on Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server
This will be similar to Typescript I assume? If so I can’t wait to use it!! I cant count how many times I’ve searched for “TS like in Python” since I’ve started working on Python codebase. TS is so awesome that I use it 100% on new projects. Ruff is also very good, but with this, large code base Python will be a breeze to work with
robertwt7··on Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions
I agree with the process not saving any of our time. however aren't examples supposed to be simple?

Take it from Aider example: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider It asked to add a param and typing to a function. Would that save us more time? I don't think so. but it's a good peek of what it can do

just like any other hello world example i suppose

robertwt7··on Tailwind CSS v4.0
so much love for tailwind! I've used it since version 1 and have been always my default for starting new projects.

Congrats to tailwind team!

robertwt7··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hi Peter! Thanks for doing this! I've been watching this thread and reading for so many times but now I have a question.

If I come from Australia with an E3 visa, what is the pathway for me to get a greencard? On the US Gov website, the E3 visa is a non-immigrant visa. does this mean that I can't convert to H1B or greencard if I came with E3 visa?

Thankyou

robertwt7··on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza
I don't understand how is this different to all wars? back then when the Nazis started the war and we had to declare war against them. Or when we nuked 2 cities of Japan, were we also afraid that we will create multiple generations of anger and hate? how is this different?

I'm not comparing Israel or Palestine to Nazi, it's just a bitter fact that war always create anger and hate. Something had to be done though?

robertwt7··on React 19
airbnb, retool, sentry, datadog, snowflake..

refine: https://github.com/refinedev/refine appsmith: https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith

there are heaps what are you talking about!

robertwt7··on React 19
but i did start with vanilla JS, then Jquery.. also at work I'm not only maintaining react but also Angular V1.

Choosing react is not necessarily drifting away from the web platform. I choose it as my main stack when starting new projects.

robertwt7··on React 19
Oh i agree, but I never said those are the only choices. I was only exposed to React and a bit of Vue and Angular after Jquery so I'm speaking from my own experience. I am planning to stick with my choice that's all. My argument was mostly towards the hatred of react.

as for why I personally choose React was due to the job market, community support, debugging exp, TS support, and JSX just felt much more natural to me. I don't go everywhere hating other frameworks though. I think its good that we're tackling the same problem with different solutions, we have more choices.

robertwt7··on React 19
Why do a lot of people here hate react so much? I started my eng career with Laravel and plain JS. After working with React, I've never seen anything like it. I feel like building scalable apps is achievable and front end is fun with it. Even when moving between different tech companies, working with React again is such a breeze and easy to pick up. On top of that, with the TS support, huge community libraries, I feel like I can build and scale anything quite easily. why are these new features "scaring" people away? we can still build with SPA or the old ways. I don't think anyone complaints when NoSQL DB was released or when spring boot was released in 2014? what about when Kotlin was released? we don't have to use them if you don't want it.

Weren't jetpack compose and swift UI inspired by React? I saw it somewhere in the android docs and now its probably deleted, I can't find it anymore.

But then again, I don't have "decade" of experience in tech, yet. I have no idea if building huge web apps (i.e airbnb) using jquery or plain js with large teams is as enjoyable back then? My thought process is changed, I can't even think on how to solve the state management, dom manipulation, side effects etc with plain js anymore.

Nowadays I just built on what I'm familiar with and focus on what I want to build. who knows, maybe in the future I will also complaint about new frameworks and mention how good React was :)

robertwt7··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
yeah my point was I feel like ipad is more reliable. I can live with not having to read from e-ink.
robertwt7··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
I loved my kindle paperwhite so much. I have a case on it all the time, there is not a single scratch on my kindle. One day, out of the blue, the touch screen stopped working. it is unresponsive to any touch, I've soft reset it, hard reset it, googled everything. Apparently its a common thing in amazon forum, and of course what does amazon support say? just buy a new one. At this point my kindle is only 2.5 years old and I'm pissed.

I've bought an ipad since and just read book from my ipad. at least my old ipad doesn't break even after 8 years

robertwt7··on Intel vs. Samsung vs. TSMC
I didn't understand how crucial chip manufacturing is until reading the book "Chip War".. What an amazing book. This is probably one of the greatest, if not the greatest invention in the human history.
robertwt7··on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website
I hope she's having fun!! reminds me of the old times when I first typed some html code and see results. The feelings of achievement was so good!
robertwt7··on Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices
Seems like they're moving everyone to health connect? it is automatically installed on my Pixel. The UI is very different, doesn't even have a dashboard, I can't see my sleep and any of my data as well only what I shared to other app. Also weirdly when I go to play store, it says installed, but I can't search it on the list of app?

What's with the decision to move to another app anyway? The only thing that they should do is literally nothing.

robertwt7··on Ente: Open-Source, E2E Encrypted, Google Photos Alternative
The best decision for me is still to buy synology and store everything locally on Synology photos. No subscription, expandable storage, and full privacy. It is 100% worth the extra $ if you plan on subscribing for a loong time anyway
robertwt7··on Google CEO Sundar Pichai says its malfunctioning Gemini AI is 'unacceptable'
What about google search? This is also happening for google image searched and need to be fixed!!
robertwt7··on Stable Diffusion 3
It’ll be interesting to see what “safety” means in this case given the censorship in diffuser models nowadays. Look what’s happening with Gemini, it’s quite scary really how different companies have different censorship values

I’ve had some fair share of frustation with DallE as well when trying to generate weapon images for game assets. Had to tweak a lot of my prompt

robertwt7··on Buffett once bet $1M that he could beat a group of hedge funds over 10 years
I'm not a banker, economist, or active investor. All of the advices I have received even from most economist are going on long investment and diversify using index fund. Most even comes up with charts of how it significantly outperform hedge funds, private market investments, and other things.

It makes me wonder, why are rich people still investing in hedge funds? how are they still getting clients given all the data saying that most index fund outperform hedge funds?

robertwt7··on SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, Federal Agency Says
how are they able to prove this in court though? surely the HR wouldn't be that stupid to document the reason of firing is "criticising the CEO".

also, not trying to be on Musk side, of course he has made some embarrassing and stupid tweets. But if you created a letter that your CEO's public comment is "frequent source of embarrassment", won't you get fired in any other company??

in meta, someone even got fired for being a youtuber, criticising the CEO and spreading the letter is worse right??

robertwt7··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone! It's still my favourite time of the year despite all of the things that happened throughout the year.
robertwt7··on Virtual Machine as a core Android Primitive
Although this is very exciting. Surely performance is not the benefit here? It won’t perform better than android app built not on top of the virtualisation tdchnology?
robertwt7··on Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO
Wait what is happening with Ilya? I thought he agreed to kick Sam out but he tweeted that he regretted it? I don’t understand what is going on
robertwt7··on NestJS is Now The Most Starred Node Framework on GitHub
Based on the framework tag

https://github.com/topics/framework

robertwt7··on Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips
I wonder what fps is baldur gate’s 3 playing on m3, m3 pro and m3 max

A lot of users are reporting not consistent 30fps on m1 even after larian studio worked with apple eng to port BG3 to mac

robertwt7··on Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips
This is either to make the performance improvement bigger or to target user with m1 because they know most of their users are still using m1? (Me included with M1 pro and M1 max)

The perf difference though is still impressive compared to m2. It is bigger than the m2 > m1 upgrade

robertwt7··on Deno Queues
How is this different than using RabbitMQ? Can anyone tell me what’s the benefit of choosing this one over some other message queues or even kafka?
robertwt7··on YouTube blocks Russell Brand from making money through its platform
This is true, I have a youtube channel. When it wasn't monetised yet back then, my friends and family saw the ads at the beginning and the end of my videos. Thinking that I already made money from the first couple of videos that I made
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