Swift for Android might be a game changer... Or it might just turn out to be another React Native/Flutter alternative 🤦
Rodrigo Dias
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web dev & startups.
linux, devops, and self-hosting.
With the new use workflow directive and sleep helpers by Vercel, you can now officially replace HubSpot with TypeScript 😭🤣
Typst is freaking good!
You can basically program your document – write components & macros for reusable bits.
Ditch LaTeX pain for fast, flexible FOSS typesetting.
Try it!
Komoot just redesigned their app. I don't know how to feel about it
MinIO's ditching binaries: now source-only builds for all.
Hardcore FOSS win for security and transparency, but a compile hurdle for some.
Self-hosters, you ready?
OpenAI's new ChatGPT Atlas browser is here,
integrating AI right into your browsing.
It reminds me of Comet's approach to
smarter web navigation.
But seriously, is prompting an AI
really faster than just clicking buttons?
What do you think?
It’s 2025. Stop building Windows Forms apps. There are WAY better options now.
Yesterday, half the internet went down because one data center region failed. Doesn't anyone see the issue? We're all reliant on external companies that ultimately depend on AWS us-east-1 somehow. 🤦
Pro tip from Karpathy's 2013 guide:
Math/CS: Skip heavy reading at first. Jump into exercises. They teach way more and plug the holes.
Hands-on wins.
Your best study trick?
Orange is the best color. Fight me
Sonnet is still the best for coding man. It just behaves more expectedly!
You'll only ever need three different DBMSs: Postgres, SQLite, and Redis. Everything else is fluff.
No, Hetzner is no longer the cheapest VPS host.
It remains the best, though.
Windows 10 support wraps up soon, and Linux is getting a wave of new users. This shift feels right on time. 🐧
Be careful with context bloat.
You should give your LLM just or a bit more than enough context for it to achieve the task.
Just don't give it TOO much. It gets confused.
C++ is actually not that hard.
Have you tried the npm ecosystem?
Now THAT is a pain.
Just don't give up and you'll win. Do more. Do better.
I wouldn't buy a Synology NAS again, but hell, their product just works... It's actually so good.
If you don't have a personal n8n Telegram bot that does stuff for you, you are missing out! Like genuinely missing out!
I seriously wish I'd went with my own hardware + something like Unraid or TrueNAS instead of Synology. Oh well...