That and mysteriously disappearing thumb drives

It’s Stanford. Protests are to be had against middle America, not those who actually hold power, else you might not get the network effects the school all but promises

Let’s not forget when they shipped a full page ad for a Disney movie into a browser update

And these days, privacy is basically the only appeal of Firefox. It’s slower than chrome or webkit based browsers, hangs out with Safari in terms of standards support, and can’t hold a candle to either other browser when it comes to battery life. Why mozilla seems determined to throw that all away is beyond me

Almost like using a single giant wiper is a bad idea

Bbbbbbbut it looks cool!

Google has been doing on device stuff since at least the pixel 3

Can we just have both entities annihilate each other? Please? They’re both shit

It’s not a now thing. It’s already here. My thermostat, sprinkler controller, and rice cooker all run Android

Federated directories. We’re going back to Yahoo like it’s 1995

And it’s still worse than a picture of a hill in Sonoma

Replace the CEO with an AI. They’re both good at lying and telling people what they want to hear, until they get caught

Recently I had to do an update to the underlying environment a codebase ran on. This was a somewhat involved upgrade and took a longer period of time than most of our work usually does. I did it in a separate worktree, so I didn’t have to constantly rejuggle the installed dependencies in the project, and could work on two features relatively concurrently

It also provides some utility for comparing the two versions. Nothing you couldn’t do other ways, but still useful

And in elixir/erlang we’re spoiled with loads of options, from ETS to mnesia

Apologies are free and valueless

I’ve only ever worked in one codebase that didn’t need feature flags, and even then we could have used them.

Graphite is ok, but honestly it’s a solution in search of a problem

Maybe if you have a massive pr, splitting it up like this works, but that’s really a planning failure. Stories should be smaller, and if you need to keep them separate for a long time, use feature branches

This is actually built into vsc

An ad hoc sorting system for a grid of tiles on an enterprise app

Instead of sorting across row wise, it sorted columnar. So it was

A E I M
B F J N
C G K O
D H L P

Instead of

A B C D
E F G H
I J K L
M N O P

This was a requirement from the CEO. Since we used this project (dogfooding) we stuck a secret search box/command palette in, which you could hit . and then type the name of the thing you wanted and click it

JetBrains users kind of live in their own weird bubble. Of the ones I’ve worked with, a decent number didn’t even know how to use git, they just relied on the built in vcs tools

Check out Elixir’s Ecto. You basically do write SQL for querying, it’s just lightly wrapped in a functional approach.