Watching 3D movies and looking at spatial photos in a Vision Pro is making me think platforms like TikTok would benefit a lot from it. It’d make the selfie style content feel more personal.

Every time I consider subscribing to @theverge.com I’m put off by the amount of referral spam (“deals”), which feels incongruent with a paid platform. Is there any way to filter those out as a logged in user yet?

Why can’t Thread devices seemingly ever be configured beyond the Matter spec without a proprietary hub (e.g. Aqara)? Shouldn’t it be viable on phones with Thread radios? Also why don’t Nanoleaf (incl/ WiFi) provide Matter firmware updates via your hub?

@shew.dev Is there a way in Turborepo to make a task ignore all arguments? An example use case is that I have unit tests that dependsOn some expensive codegen. The unit tests may be run with a file filter, but the codegen and its cache key should be unaffected.

Pluribus is the best thing on TV right now, watch it immediately.

Are there any solutions for orchestrating ports in a monorepo? I’d like to avoid hardcoding them since that always leads to conflicts, and I don’t want consumers to have to pick a bunch themselves when they clone. Maybe sockets, pipes, a daemon? Ideally Turborepo could solve for this.

I wrote a blog post about Flirt, a new code review tool I started working on: blog.buenzli.dev/announcing-d...

Noticing that apologetics for ML/AI getting stuff wrong because a human conceivably might in a similar way is common. Next step out of the hype bubble will be to stop comparing the two because only one of these two actually “thinks”, and any overlap is coincidental.

That moment when you’re frustrated and convinced there’s a bug in a library you’re using so you create a reduced test case, and… it’s working perfectly 🤨

Would like a BCC feature on GitHub for subscribing/notifying colleagues of issues I've raised or found that relate to something we've been pairing on. I wonder, if the world used @tangled.org, if there'd be a cute way to piggyback on ATProto for niche extras like this.

Is there any indication when @rspack.dev/Rsbuild might get RSC support? Notably absent from rsc.krasimirtsonev.com, the React Router docs suggest either Vite or Parcel instead, and of course alternatively there's Next's Turbopack.

The broadly false promise of LLM productivity gains in software engineering reminds me of going deep on something like Vim. It feels more productive than it actually is.

Finally reading about React’s Activity API and it’s very promising. The docs do make me long for a stronger intuition for useEffect vs useLayoutEffect though.

My Thread network issues have largely resolved since enabling IGMP Snooping. Some people will tell you to do the opposite. 🤷

AirPods Pro 3 fit my ears much better, I can finally shake my head (or merely grin) without them falling out! YMMV.

Patiently waiting for pnpm support in tsgo… any day now…

iPhone Air with Apple’s networking chip has slightly worse Bluetooth range than my 15 Pro had, more like the M4 iPad Pro. Every morning I get up and go make a coffee on the other side of the house with ANC (espresso machines can be loud) so this is a pretty consistent test.

Did Apple’s operating systems always set beta to off in settings once a RC build goes stable? Don’t remember this convenience last year.

I’ve noticed quite starkly since I stopped using different wildcard emails everywhere that I’m being tracked across the internet. A search on one site on one device routinely leads to an ad somewhere else on another site for the same thing. This didn’t used to happen.

Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party 💖

My favourite least favourite thing to write in commit messages: “for some reason”

With Android requiring verification even for side loading it’s clear that technolibertarianism is finally dead. We can either embrace a leftist solution in which we give power to the state, or that power will be left trillion dollar corps.

Many of us are stuck with GitHub but pine for change-based reviews (jj!) they're not going to implement while they chase the AI unicorn. Here's an idea: A UI layer, like Graphite, for review. This layer has a bot that tracks force pushes in a comment, so it can associate change-id headers. Viable?

PHP gets a pipe operator, meanwhile the JS proposal is stuck in committee hell. 💀

Liquid Glass is like a continuous microstim with its pretty refractions everywhere. Maybe a hot take but form for its own sake, and even to the mild detriment of function, has value too. This can also be applied for example to architecture.

It’d be funny if the thing that finally forces GitHub to improve its code review experience is Microsoft’s attempt to force gen AI into everything, which - ignoring its merits or lack thereof - increases the importance of code review for vibed code.

Impossible challenge: design a chess app with an intuitive castling interface.

Getting close to 1000 stars for the web accessibility principles 🙀 github.com/Heydon/princ...

@vertedin.de 👋 are you the right person to ask why both me and my colleague struggle so much with audio inputs on Slack on macOS? It doesn’t align with the OS and seems to have weird preferences when available inputs change. 😭 (sorry, just randomly came across your profile)

GitHub is ripe for disruption. CI is a mess of YAML and half-baked features (incl/ security), its runners are slow/expensive, review process and UI are poor, it doesn’t make any use of its social network, and it’s possibly the slowest site I routinely interact with.

I’ve nearly finished The Last of Us Part II, I’m now past where the show is. This series thrives on a) exploration and b) intimate dialogue between two characters over many hours. To my surprise in Part II my favourite act so far was with the tag-along Scar. Still missing Part I’s duo.

The most annoying thing about the United States is its acronym that I can't filter out of social feeds without lots of false positives.

Who else is constantly pasting patches from the clipboard and applying them in Git only for it to fail because it's missing a trailing newline that some software probably on the web somewhere stripped out? Only me? 😩

I’m onto The Last of Us Part II now. Part I on the whole was a masterpiece. Part II so far better than the show…

Makes you appreciate how stagnant GitHub is.

Disappointment over season 2 has finally got me playing The Last of Us Part I. This game is so freaking good. And boy does it look nice on the PS5 Pro on a 4K OLED 🤭

I’m pretty critical of generative AI, but I maintain that it’s not useless. It probably saved me a solid day on some maths-related programming today, though I had to know how to sidestep its hallucinations. It’s also a pretty good rubber duck.

I learned some recursion schemes to improve the implementation of a linter a few years ago and looking at the code now, having not written much Haskell for a while, it looks so alien. Also completely forgotten what cofree means. But I remember finding it so elegant. github.com/unsplash/int...

jj log --reversed is giving me the same feeling as vertigo, that's so weird!

Always fun to receive a GitHub notification for something I subscribed to a decade and about five tech stacks ago with no context as to why I thought it was important. Even worse when it's more recent and it's still not obvious what the relevance is.

I'm so done writing Bash (or POSIX) scripts, it's exhausting for anything remotely nontrivial. I've settled on Fish for something today - its argparse is pretty good - but I'm still not totally satisfied. Why aren't there functional options for lists for example? And it's 1-based indexing 😱

Tidied up my Jujutsu aliases in my dotfiles yesterday. In particular the commit trailer aliases now support revsets at -r, and variadic value input, which pairs great with fzf -m. There’s also support in that coauthor alias for fzf args like -f for quick selection.

How is one supposed to approach tooltips on the modern web (at least Baseline newly available) w/o JS? Thinking of things like avoiding viewport overflow dynamically in the fact of wildly varying localised strings.

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: Functional HTML

Hacker News is basically just AI marketing at this point. Lobsters is still pretty good; a little quiet but if Reddit taught me anything it’s that scale in forums is usually a bad thing.

I know when Bluesky has run out of content to show me from my follows in Discover when I start getting lots of pictures of cats and what appear to be horny extraterrestrials.

New blog post on serializing promises in React. Learn how RSC serializes data between the server and client. twofoldframework.com/blog/you-can...

Now that I’m talking about dev stuff on here as well, let me just say that Jujutsu VCS is wonderful. That is all.

After using Mastodon and Bluesky side-by-side for a little while I’ve decided to stick with Bluesky for now. My account is bridged.

Put Game Pass on PS5 and Steam already, cmon.