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signals, state, and sync stuff ¼ http://alt-h4.com 👾 senior staff software eng. VI @somewhere AWS antihero
5 stages of NixOS users: 1: NixOS sucks, I have no use for it, I do not want my system to be immutable 2: Okay, immutability is fine. But I don't need it and want the flexibility 3: NixOS is awesome 4: NixOS sucks 5: NixOS sucks, but it's miles better than everything else
i was wrong about nixos, it’s amazing actually
I replicated this result, that Grok focuses nearly entirely on finding out what Elon thinks in order to align with that, on a fresh Grok 4 chat with no custom instructions. grok.com/share/c2hhcmQt…
Grok 4 decides what it thinks about Israel/Palestine by searching for Elon's thoughts. Not a confidence booster in "maximally truth seeking" behavior. h/t @catehall. Screenshots are mine.
a fun part about starting a company is you can put into practice all your ideals you argue about the funny thing that happens is once you see it can work (usually it doesn't) it's so satisfying and difficult to explain you lose all motivation to keep arguing about it
there is no market for way shittier versions of apps/games/software no matter how fast you and an LLM can "make" it
i thought this was a skit
The YC deleted video for sweatshop startup Optifye
Fear mongering that a thing is so complex it can’t be unseated is a strategy by incumbents and genuinely holds back innovation. No one is safe. Everything can be reinvented. It may not be easy but it’s not impossible.
hot take - When building an API - never start with the systems architecture. Start by designing the ideal syntax, and work your way backwards. DX and consumer ergonomics is the most important thing when it comes to API, library & frameworks design.
stop building things you think will work and build things you think should exist
There's one world champion. It's not a title that you can just "SHARE"
just sold $2 of lemonade since launching my stand 1 minute ago telling my friends i hit $1M ARR
we launched publicly 8 days ago, hit $1M ARR today, and only took down one cloud provider along the way. so what? expand or bookmark for the bigger picture. //1
One of my best procrastination hacks is I will procrastinate on one thing but do something else that'll be also quite useful Like now I should be working on Hotel List but instead I am improving Photo AI's videos so they can speak Then I go in circles from project to project…
🏆 Procrastination of the Year Awards
It's up!!! I'm super proud of this talk from @CodesCarolina, it's the culmination of the things I've learned over the past two years and ideas that have fundamentally changed the way I approach software. It's also a great introduction to @gleamlang 😎 youtube.com/watch?v=vyEWc0…
man i just want a laptop with macbook hardware and battery life that runs linux
The first batch of videos from Local-first Conf are live: youtube.com/playlist?list=… You can subscribe to the channel to get notified when the next batch(es) go up here: youtube.com/@localfirstconf
Just got off stage* at @localfirstconf where I shared Zero: zerosync.dev The web today is facing a complexity crisis. It's way too hard to build a halfway decent web app and near impossible to build a good one. Sync engines solve this in theory, but current sync…
you break your arm you ask the doctor when it’ll heal “don’t be ridiculous that can’t be measured in time” oh sorry “it will take 8 points to heal” uh what does that mean? “doesn’t matter it’s not accurate anyway” —- engineers are so far up their own butt sometimes
Man, i said it. and i will say it again. Overwatch is not the game to go pro in. Like, if you have connections, or you are korean, go for it. But if you are young talent, and you are looking to put your passion into something. fuck overwatch. learn guitar bro