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For what it's worth I genuinely loved your landing page. I casually clicked through and got an immediate unexpected chuckle at the giant animated crab.

It's obviously AI assisted but I interpreted it as a nod to itself on that and really appreciated it.


Thank you ! I am proud of my little blue crab haha. I got it thanks to a lot of iteration between gpt image 2.0 and see dance 2

Feels like lately most of the time is spent arguing about or at least worrying about whether or not AI is going to replace all software developers.


Or dealing with the idiotic fallout of somebody who sucks at coding or even has never coded in their life trying to make that happen.


Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

There's also nothing stopping us from stigmatizing the use of smartphones in public. Even a slight discouragement of it would be progress. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.


I think smartphones are a lost cause. Even at the gym, there are guys in the locker room taking pics of themselves in the mirror. Meanwhile I'm walking ass-naked out of the shower. There is just no sensitivity to appropriate time and place anymore.


> Meanwhile I'm walking ass-naked out of the shower

is this a Western/American thing about no shame regarding one's body in public places in the presence of other people, be it male or female?

I can never imagine this happening in my country.


Which part? The shirtless posing for the camera in the locker room mirror, or the stepping out of the shower naked?

I mean it's a locker room... it's a space meant for changing clothes and showering.


> stepping out of the shower naked?

i'd never step out to a place where a stranger could see me, without a towel or wet shorts covering my private bits.


Man I don't even want to know how many photos I'm in.

And the people who act annoyed because you are disturbing their film set as if they are James Cameron are the funniest.


I know someone[0] who is working on exactly this right now: https://fossilrepo.io/

I don't think he's got public sign ups turned on yet. Maybe hit him up on the Twitter for more info.

[0] - https://x.com/ragelink


There's also "Chisel - Fossil SCM Hosting".

"This service is completely free and run because a service like it should exist."

https://chiselapp.com/

"All public repositories":

https://chiselapp.com/repositories/

I don't know if it has all the GitHub features people may be looking for.

Chisel runs on Flint, "The ISC licensed codebase behind http://chiselapp.com.":

https://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/flint/index

EDIT: Add "...should exist." sentence from the homepage.


This appears to be down.


It worked on ipv6 only for like a year, it seemed to be back this last month but it seems to be back down right now probably because of this whole github ragequit happening.


I'm just seeing these two replies today, but it appears to be back up. Timestamp: ca. 2026-05-03 14:19 UTC


Quietly has not so quietly become an AI slop calling card.


I think it’s bad enough that more people are using it too. Maddening.


Teams is insane. You want a new entry in a bulleted list? Hit the enter key. If you dare.

I had managed to be on Slack exclusively for at least 10 years. Recent acquisition has me using Teams and it's hilarious to see for the first time what people have been complaining about. I thought surely people are exaggerating. No, no they are not.

It only took a couple weeks for me to figure out that I would have to compose longer messages somewhere else and then paste them into Teams.


Teams also respects some standard markdown, like italics, but not others…like bold.

MS is amazing in their ability to fuck shit up for no apparent reason. Like making a media player that doesn’t use space for play pause…


Unfortunately, some markdown renders differently when copied in vs when typed directly in teams.


Nitpicky, but he’s rounding the edges, not the corners.

And yes, why are they so sharp?

I seem to recall my wife having the plastic MacBook that came out circa 2006 and the edges on that thing were legitimately painful.

I always marvel at how sharp the points are on the notch of the lid on my current MacBook. Very very pointy.


> why are they so sharp?

they intentionally ship them sharp so you can file them down to your desired fillet

the design is very human


The past few generations I found I was not pleased with their performance, so now I take them weekly to the macbook sharpener at the saturday market.


It's great how apple makes everything so customizable


It's by design.


I think it’s different.


There are definitely corners by the trackpad, at the gap for opening the lid.

They are quite stabby and I hate them.

https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/aca51a7051edc493b19cfd93da...


The most material is removed at the corners of the lid-lifting notch. Those are IMO the most offensive pointy part on the body.


Yeah, I had thin insulation strips running around these edges because my wrists were legit getting sore from these edges. And then Apple replaced the bottom case so they're back, as sharp as ever.


Thank you! I zoomed in on the photo looking for sanded corners on the MacBook and saw none. Took me a sec to finally see the amorphous edge nr the trackpad...


> Very very pointy.

I have intrusive thoughts of trying to cut my finger over it, but so far the attempts were unsuccesful.


This is incorrect usage of the word "corner" to be overly pedantic. It's still a corner, but English doesn't have a separate word for inside vs. outside corner, so it's common to just say "outside corner".

And yes it is a corner (or vertex), where two planes meet. Edge can also be correct, but corner is not wrong.


They actually reduced sharpness in M MacBooks Pros.

Unibody Intels before that were really really sharp.


I don't think apple computers are meant for people who do use computers. I used to have marks on my wrists (I no longer have an apple computer now).


Tell that to the people responsible for the trackpads of any other computer maker.


I wouldn't know, I use a trackpoint :)


Oh, it's you!


Apple computers are made for those who purchases a computer. They are engineered to look great on a demo shelf.

«During the first Jobsian era at Apple, I used to joke that Steve Jobs cared deeply about Apple customers from the moment they first considered purchasing an Apple computer right up until the time their check cleared the bank.» (Bruce Tognazzini)


It worked. Most people under 30 don't know Apple existed before the iPod / iPhone. ie: Before Jobs.


Of course it worked. Apple turned from a company that sells electronic equipment into a company that sells media consumption devices which double as fashion accessories signaling high social status. Of course the addressable market is 2-3 orders of magnitude larger.

They still sell computers, which count below 10% of the revenue, and are also partly fashion accessories.


s/Before/Between/


I bet the author deliberately called them “corners” instead of “edges” to put more people on edge.


why? Because Apple hates you and wants you to suffer.

Alternatively, because they care about aesthetics more than utility and comfort.


I spend well over that of my employers money on pentesting every year. I’m absolutely certain Claude could perform as good or better a job using what’s available today.

It had crossed my mind that an AI agent pentester would be an interesting product to build. Once again though, the labs are just going to build it because it’s a thin thin wrapper.

Beyond existing software with vulnerabilities, the really important aspect of this for Anthropic et al is that the gigatons of code that are being generated every day needs to be secured.


There are quite a few such startups already out there. Results are mixed so far. Though I believe they get much better over the coming months and years.


AWS has one as a managed service.


Yeah, flying my family of 5 to Hawaii using skymiles accrued on my Amex. Totally a scam.

They’re basically interchangeable with cash. I don’t get the issue. The main frustration I have is that I cant buy myself a ticket with cash and then pay skymiles for my child. If they weren’t of an age that they must be on the same reservation it wouldn’t matter. Feels more like a limitation of Delta’s abacus that sits behind their mobile app.


Quietly adopting the em dash is the move that humans who know, make.


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