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Comment · 18 days ago
I had the same situation with the Peace Corps. No dentist ever wanted to take my wisdom teeth out, but the State Department had other opinions.

Even the oral surgeon seemed to only regretfully remove them when I handed over the forms.

Comment · 2 months ago
I’ve been using a WASD Code edition with brown switches for many years now without any complaints.
Comment · 5 months ago
The history and endurance of vi is impressive. I never thought I would be using the same editor today that I started using in the mid 90s because it was more l33t.

The comments about LLM contributed code seems like a specific axe to grind that otherwise detracts from a nice history lesson.

Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
If you're looking to build and install this from source, here's the incantation:

CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -ldflags "-X main.version=dev -X main.commit=$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) -X 'main.buildDate=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)'" -o witr ./cmd/witr

Call me old-fashioned, but if there's an install.sh, I would hope it would prefer the local src over binaries.

Very cool utility! Simple tools like these keep me glued to the terminal. Thank you!

Comment · 10 months ago
The appeal of GraphQL is that it eliminates the need for a BFF and easily solves service meshing. Over fetching is more of a component design problem than a performance issue.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I don’t understand who this is for? I just tried Anthropic’s extension and it feels like writing automated selenium tests.

LLMs interacting with markup is not the best abstraction layer.

Comment · 1 year ago
It’s how a lot of code is being generated by owners of small startups with minimal engineering engagement. PMs are producing full walking skeletons of designs that used to take a week to polish to that fidelity.
Comment · 1 year ago
By installing MDM you’re effectively chaining your security to the security of the MDM. The MDM gives you the ability to install arbitrary code via a blessed backdoor. There’s no reason currently not to suspect that anything said on that phone (signal or not) is compromised.
Comment · 1 year ago
They used an internal fork delivered via MDM. There are no guarantees that Signal can make about the software running on those phones and per the reports it’s a lot of phones.
Comment · 1 year ago
This is currently my bet. This looks like something I would set up— state actors are not in my threat list. But, I’m usually being paid to protect the employer not the employee.

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