I don't think about anyone at the cafe, unless I start chatting with someone. I just take a physical book with me, crack it open, and read as I sip my coffee. I keep a notepad nearby in case I have good ideas while reading. I may get a refill. When I've read enough, I leave. It's 100% relaxing for me.

Fantastic job!

I don't think anyone is surprised by this.

Yes, but many of them care about different twenty-percentses, so you probably still need the whole thing to keep the number of users you currently have.

BUT if you can find a feature that few people use, but which requires a lot of maintenance and/or ongoing development time, get rid of that bit and enjoy a higher ROI.

>> it allows us to write an HTML-first back-end in such a way that it feels like writing an SPA.

I think you’ll find that most people who love HTMX don’t ever want something that feels like writing an SPA.

Yes. With HTMX, one can put a page definition and its endpoints in one file. It has high cohesion.

There's no integration with routers, state stores, or rpc handlers. There are no DTOs shared between the frontend and backend. It has low coupling.

High cohesion and low coupling bring benefits in engineering productivity.

Have you tried importing them using the Image Capture app on iOS, instead of the Photos app? It just gets them off the camera/SDCard and onto your Mac in a folder, which you can then drag onto Photos.app -- worth a shot.

Feels like Google is either following Apple's playbook from iPhone OS 1, or they're working together so they can argue this is standard practice in the industry... or something. Either way, no more Android gloating that they can install any app from anywhere any time without centralized approval. Not great. I'm an Apple fan, BUT I like having a fully open backup plan.

Give this man a job, Anthropic!

I believe some conspiracy theories because I've verified that 2 of them are true (no, I'm not going to get into any details). That made me wonder how many others are true?

Could chatting with an LLM-based AI convince me otherwise? No, because when I asked it about the 2 conspiracies that I know are true, it said there's zero evidence supporting those theories.

Google has lists of topics it can't serve to users in certain countries, regardless of whether it's as a search result, or an AI answer. Other LLM-based AIs must have to follow the same rules. Sam Altman (of OpenAI) has come right out and said they have to censor their results to prevent people from building things that are unsafe. Well, knowledge of certain things can be dangerous, too.

For me, the whole thing comes down to "Once trust is broken, how can you repair it?" -- For many of us, it can't be rebuilt. Once a liar, always a liar.

LLMs are specifically trained to reject all fringe beliefs and use authorative sources. Post-training usually covers this and a system prompt the rest of issues. If hypotheticallt a LLM discovered that there is contradiction and an alternative viewpoint is more likely, it will still use the guidelines from post-training and system prompt, to deliver the "official party line": it can be anything from "current year cultural values are inviolable axioms" to "CCP doctrine is the ultimate truth", with LLM hallucinating any filler to get into logical gaps.

I’m sure those 2 things are topics that spiral into unproductive threads on a message board like HN, so without mentioning details of what they are, could you explain how you “verified” them, or how you ended up being the only person to find the evidence to support them? Have you ever, even briefly, considered that you might be wrong about them instead of the rest of the world/Google being wrong?

Working on launching a podcast and associated website which I hope to use as the launchpad for all my ventures going forward. 2025 is the year I ditch my corporate job and finally start working for myself. At least, that's the goal. I'll be the master of my fate; the captain of my soul.