Passkeys are good at the fundamental level, but the practical implementation is lacking, despite their efforts.

IMO best way is /w a pw manager that’s also backed up, available, and synced everywhere you need it, but that’s a hurdle for most users.

I think the “intended way for normal ppl” is to set multiple keys, each on their trusted devices, like backup physical keys, but that’s kind of a pain to have for every service, too.

It’s satire

Depends how much it matters. See if you can get the business to put it in dollar value terms or at least as opportunity costs against other eng work.

Would be sort of a spike project, but would be interested to see how well off-the-shelf VLMs could handle screenshot comparisons, and then a bit extra to see how to deploy them efficiently and effectively.

way less work

Okay so do postgres tsvector then

Still an improvement

You probably still have other things you want to do, too

Also, the more advanced the feature is, reality is that the fewer users can make use of its full capability

But forget all that, if you feel like doing it anyway, then do it, this is FOSS

the GUIs people build aren’t good enough

Big agree

TUIs are inherently better than GUIs

Perhaps not inherently, but TUI users have much less tolerance for “lag”, so TUI apps are built to that expectation. That’s often not the case for GUIs.

Didn’t watch whole demo, but one thing: rotational gyroscopic torque

He showed Box3D correctly modelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfZ_XzisU

And compared it to a game in Unreal when a spinning rifle had an unnatural perpetual motion spinning quality to it

Check out out: https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/

Why is left-to-right for WHOLE PARAGRAPHS possible for Arabic languages, but not for CJK nor the Latin alphabet?

“Hi, agent. Launch two additional agent instances. Prompt them with this message.”

A solar panel that occasionally blocks a window would be completely useless the other part of the time.

A window permanently blocked by a solar panel is better known as a wall with a solar panel on it.

A vertical wall with a solar panel will not be as effective as one angled towards the sun, such as one on a roof might be.

It’s like Twitter, but anybody is free to spin up their own instance, and they’re all inter-compatible, so any one can view content from any other.

That freedom and openness gives users choice. If one instance owner turns out to be a real dick, the community is able to move off of and blacklist it.

Email is an oft used example. Leaving Gmail doesn’t lock you out of email because you can switch to a different provider or (with enough effort) even run your own email.

“$0” just means they don’t charge a flat fee on top. You’d have to check the conversion rate they give you compared to market rate to really know.

It can be the case, even likely, that your card’s rate is better than local currency converters and atms targeting tourists, but point is they’re still not doing for free.

In the short term, a small amount of duplication to prevent bad abstraction spaghetti is worth it

In the medium term, true duplications are better extracted after the fact rather than correctly guessing future reusability.

In the long term, total extraction into separate vertical or external package, as suggested by the author.

Over time, this progression is natural and unforced. If you don’t need an abstraction to be de-deuplicated, then don’t. If you don’t need to promote an abstraction into its own vertical/package, then don’t.

Set it up so those that don’t work also don’t get enough money to do those fun things.

Enough to not die, but not enough to live.

IMO in the same way everyone learns arithmetic but doesn’t necessarily go into mathematics or finance, I think everyone should learn basic logic and coding, enough to basically use spreadsheet formulas, which is a half step away functional programming. (I’m pretty sure Excel even supports named functions and lambdas)

I’d think autonomous killing machines wouldn’t have a humanoid shape, as it would be optimized for efficient lethality and not things like grasping external tools and all-terrain movement that is calorically efficient and biomechanically sustainable.

This concept short film came out in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-2tpwW0kmU

What does it take to emigrate there?

Consider the shell itself to be “the IDE”

Everything is interoperable, extensible, scriptable, and more. CLI tools are designed to run fast/instant, have keyboard shortcuts for everything, and be deeply customizable. The openness and variety cannot be overstated, Google “CLI file explorer” and you’ll easily find at least 10. Nobody has the same exact setup because it gets molded to match how your brain works. Go for popular tools, niche setups, or both.

Graphical IDEs could also run fast/instant and have keyboard shortcuts for everything, but their users don’t demand it. If you wished the file explorer/git integration/debugger/etc worked a bit differently, there might be a plugin, if you’re lucky. Many operations can only be invoked manually via sequence of dialog boxes or mouse clicks or both.

Then you’ve used one without knowing, because somewhere between the ORM you used and the database was SQL, and that SQL was put together by the ORM’s query builder

If by “raw dog SQL” you mean dynamically concatenating strings (conditionally, interpolating runtime values), that’s literally a query builder, albeit a janky SQL-injectable one.

What do you mean? SQL query builders exist in pretty much every lang

when you can’t even tell if they just took the day off with pay or not

But if the output of technical work isn’t apparent in any way besides measuring indirect metrics like “hours of butt in seat”, don’t we have a much bigger problem?