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I recently found out there is a limit to the number of masked emails you can have on Fastmail (1000, iirc -- definitely not infinite for practical purposes). Also, I miss the option of being able to create masked emails on all the domains I connected to Fastmail -- you can only use the "main" one.

Excellent! I enjoy your blog, and just bought a copy, looking forward to reading it.

After vibing myself into a corner multiple times on important projects, I now have only two modes: clankermaxx for code I don't really care about (mostly frontend react), and write by hand everything else. Using Django for backend already removes the most of the cruft, and writing by hand also means I actually understand what's going on. Works fine for now.

I'm still on the fence for tests: I don't really like to write them, but the LLM-generated tests are pretty bad, even the frontier models on xhigh thinking. I usually generate them, but I don't really have the confidence they test anything except 1==1. Unfortunately it's hard to justify the time spent on writing them manually.

You built nothing.

You pointed your clanker of choice to a dataset (or more realistically, asked it to find an appropriate dataset), and told it to build a interactive 3d model. You learned nothing from this project because no mental effort was spent beyond listing out features for your clanker, and some manual testing.

I mean, was typing out code by hand really that bad?

If you were a professional software developer, you a) learned to touch type, b) started using vim/emacs keybindings to navigate around the project, and c) used a framework which already abstracted away a large part of the menial work.

And going all-in on the loop and no-code-review nonsense in a project someone is actually paying you for, I can only assume means you're hoping not to be around when the slop tower collapses.

Large majority of ACs sold in the EU are air-to-air heat pumps.

I had a similar stance on this until I went through macOS -> linux with i3 -> back to macOS transition. i3 window and workspace operations on a maxed-out Dell XPS were truly instantaneous, and after moving back to macOS, there is no way to unsee the slugishness of the native window operations.

I'm using Aerospace at the moment, and it gets pretty close, but still isn't as nice as i3.

I’ve been using devenv.sh for the last year for this, and never been happier.

I don't really understand the captcha hate, it's table stakes for any public-facing form. You need to pick a point on the "Ease of signup" vs. "Security" curve, and email signup + captcha seems to be the sweet spot.

I haven't seen any proof that the big ones (Google, CF) can be easily and automatically bypassed, and would love to learn more if someone has evidence to the contrary.

A couple of years ago I had to evaluate A/B test and feature flag providers, and even then when they were a young company fresh out of YC, GrowthBook stood out. Bayesian methods, bring your own storage, and self-hosting instead of "Contact us for pricing" made them the go-to choice. I'm glad they're doing well.

Yeah, that Cursor blog post is a bit iffy since they just brush over the "ripgrep is slow on large monorepos", move on to techniques they used, and then completely ignore the fact that you have to build and maintain the index.

On a mid-size codebase, I fzf- and rg-ed through the code almost instantly, while watching my coworker's computer slow down to a crawl when Pycharm started reindexing the project.