Brian Bowden

Sometimes I wonder if we all actually died during the pandemic, and we’re now in a Lost-style purgatory situation.

I’ve evolved into a neovim simp myself. I wanted to like Zed, but it’s missing some key capabilities I need (like change highlighting for git worktrees).

Regarding Musk and Trump: Experts have always agreed that the biggest strain on any relationship is the federal judicial system. When court orders ruin your plans, it's easy to start blaming each other.

The juxtaposition between Trump and Zelenskyy also shows that while you might gain wealth and lower, honor can only be earned.

I certainly thought it went horribly. Trump pitched himself as an impartial mediator, while in the same breath asked for mineral rights in exchange for protection. Trump and Co. were by far the most disrespectful in the room. Justice for Ukraine was ignored completely.

Very true! And creating under a deadline can make even more difficult to balance those priorities.

Nothing like leaving yourself a cliffhanger on your own todo list. Still don't know what I was talking about, but I am very concerned.

XCode, you never fail to disappoint me

No, I haven’t noticed that. I think such broad statements do more harm than good because even if there is a real problem, it’s easily countered by people like me who have learned, validated the learnings, and had positive results.

As I get closer to 40, I end up learning the same lesson repeatedly: choosing the spicy wings is always a mistake.

I’ve been having the same problem. Not sure why I’m paying for Netflix anymore.

It’s also quite helpful for me when trying to better understand mathematical concepts. And likely for similar reasons (the rules are clear and well-covered across multiple sources.).

For students who truly desire to learn, this is a huge step forward. Before, if I struggled with a topic, I’d have to bounce from one book or article to the next, hoping something clicked. While in university, I’d have to wait for office hours and stand in line to ask questions.

As a counterpoint, I have been using Claude (Anthropic’s LLM) to teach myself about machine learning. I tell it my background, and Claude tailors an explanation to me, using comparisons and analogies based on what I already know. I can ask endless questions until I actually understand.

If you’re placed on PIP as a Python engineer, does typing “pip install” just serve as an irritating reminder?

(I guess you could just create a command alias.)

After 15 years of software development (and many years of Android and React Native), I’m finally building native iOS apps.

Xcode is missing so many quality-of-life features available to other IDEs in 2024. I didn’t think there was a modern flagship IDE that would make me miss Android Studio.

If only there were a checkmark to help reach the final form

@asavage.bsky.social Get in loser, we’re posting on Bluesky

Every time I make a public mistake at work, I just tell myself that it humanizes me and makes me more relatable.

For real. I use Copilot in Android Studio, and it saves me a considerable amount of time. It still amazes me how it can use context to determine what I’m doing, and for UI work, it intuits the correct styling 90% of the time.

And it’s half the cost of hiring both an iOS engineer and an Android engineer. In addition, you can do over-the-air updates in React Native for non-asset changes, bypassing waits for app submission and review.

I’ve spent over a decade building mobile apps for startups, and 90% of that in native apps. I have to say: the vast majority of app-centric startups are making a mistake by not using React Native or Flutter for cross-platform. For most cases, the result is indistinguishable from native for the user.

okie dokie

LiveView 1.0 was released! Time to upgrade from RC :) I've been enjoying building UIs *again* thanks to LV/Phoenix 🥰

#ElixirLang #ElixirPhoenix #Liveview

You can read the announcement here 👇🏻

https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-1.0-released

In your analogy, we are not having a conversation in the cafe though. We are writing on the wall of the cafe. Everyone can see it, and we don’t own the wall. If the cafe owners then want to say “Hey, come eat here and see the cool stuff written on our wall,” then they have the right to do that too.

Maybe, but you are actively sharing here in a world-accessible platform paid for by others. There is enough mutual benefit that most people are willing to forego fine-grained content distribution rights. The fact that we are here having this conversation is an implicit acceptance of that.

I think you have a misalignment of expectations. Since the late 90s, almost all public content on the internet has been processed en-masse, cached countless times, and used for the benefit of various for-profit organizations. Copyright can sometimes be enforced, but it depends on the usage.

Kinda cool, tbh. It’s a public platform with public posts.

Cool! A Honda Ruckus was my gateway drug.

They are great machines! As someone debugging software all day, I honestly enjoy the simple 1987 analog design and maintainability of the TW. No electronic black boxes.