xcode's new AI using claude is not performing as well as claude code for me. I've tried a couple times and quickly fall back to using vscode with xcode sitting in a window beside. I don't mind the copypaste of warnings and errors since my workflow is less vibe and more directed/iterative.
There was also something subtle that happened, and it seemed to happen quite rapidly, a little over a decade ago. "Maker" started being used to mean more than just 3D printing hackers and started to refer to engineers, and then others "making" things.. but the watering down wasn't the end of it, it became a way to praise a certain class of employee. The resentment that generated (say, sales, marketing, etc) and the bizarre uses of "Maker", I believe contributed to it's demise.
To be fair, not all graffiti on this site is non-consensual. For instance Jeremy Novy's koi fish. After living in Soma for time, everything else was a recurring pain mostly in terms of time I had to spend on it.
Spreadsheets can work but get clumsy really fast. Bottle cost can vary as costs change (case discounts, price changes.. and holding inventory of an item across multiple purchases), audit logging (spelunking into the undo history), multiple staff interacting with the system.. All solved problems, just not at the price point or UX we need at this scale.
I own a small bar and inventory management is either spreadsheets or saas products meant for larger operations. With the exclusion of some very small changes (e.g., deleting dead code) it’s 100% written using Claude Code. Initial design was generated from markdown documentation I wrote, and each change has been careful and incremental. A few blind alleys lead in the wrong direction, but was always easy enough to back up and try a different approach.
Database migrations and anything related to calculations have had a fair bit of hand holding. Beyond tests it writes I do still test by hand for confidence.
It’s coming up to a year of use. Claude Code credits has still not exceeded the cost of a paid product. I don’t count my time here because this doubles as keeping my technical side busy, and it’s been enjoyable.
In my 25 year career in network engineering, I’ve encounter needing it as a user exactly once, and that was earlier this year. Supabase’s free tier allows direct connections the Postgres only over IPv6. It’s too bad the deploment has been a long drawn and expensive process for everyone.
This Icon was a hunk of junk. The only value it provided were to the students with any sort of curiosity about how this frankensystem worked. It was only later that it was clear it took advantage of procurement processes in the most extreme sense. A pure embarrassment of technology, grifters, and government. We learned more from the PETs, Commodores, and after that the PS/2s.
From the article “ Pickups and dropoffs will initially start at SFO’s Kiss & Fly area – a short AirTrain ride from the terminals – with the intention to explore other locations at the airport in the future.”
There was certainly a period of time where folks like AT&T alongside Juniper and Cisco drove BGP into crazytown by way of MPLS and VPN related features. Terrifyingly complex (imo) but lucrative for some.
MercuryOS jumped out at me too, digging around the site I really started to imagine using it. It does not appear to have gone beyond the design (which was where the creators intended to stop it seems). It's a re-imagining of HCI than an OS as a whole. It caught a fair bit of unfair flack previously imo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35777804
I worked with a boutique management consulting company part time during college in 98/99. Notes and Domino came packaged with a few IBM servers they bought. I was tasked with setting it up for email. It was fun exploring the system, absolutely not knowing what I was doing. I ended up having a similar experience of building out an app in realtime to help one of the consultants manually compiling a large amount of data for a customer. Extremely rewarding. But, it was also a painful lesson in NoSQL (before we even had that word...)
Philosophy degrees can be designed in this way. Various “philosophy of X” courses to explore. Logic and theory of computation are typically found here.
In the mid-90s there was a fun and short period of time where IRC clients like mIRC could be set to auto-receive files through DCC.. and would happily write to names like LPT1 (which of course would just write the data directly to the recipient’s printer)
Careful. Excluding open source, sharing code from a former or current employer sends a signal about how you're likely to handle the prospective employer's IP.