"The cocktail is actually a classic: the Frisco,” he responded, adding that it should be made with an ounce and half of rye, a half-ounce of Bénédictine and a half-ounce of freshly squeezed lemon juice, all shaken with ice and then strained into a coupe glass. “We’ve played with quite a few ratios and ingredients, and this one just works. Sometimes the classics just don’t need improvement.”
As long as we're going to have to live with this genie, I'm still convinced for all sorts of reasons that this is the way things should go. Unfortunately we're not quite there yet outside of "simple" use cases like summarizing content.
It is true that most code simply is not very good, especially at large companies. And we can continue to do not very good software much more quickly and effectively with AI. But AI cannot solve the main systemic problem in the software industry, which is that, in my view, we still haven't quite figured out how to build software well at scale. But to do this requires a sense of craft and real human critical thought.
Velox
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A port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza:
most of the heavy lifting we get directly from the dependencies I brought unmodified from Tauri
It's to Swift what Tauri is to Rust. Wails is to Go. etc.
Only targets macOS and iOS but is open to targeting other platforms.
The Heart Sings Unbidden
I believe that many who find that "nothing happens" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand.
— C. S. Lewis, “On the Reading of Old Books”
Interesting (but experimental) sandboxing tool from Anthropic for enforcing filesystem and network restrictions on arbitrary processes at the OS level, without requiring a container.
Mole
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An almost-too-good-to-be-true kind of tool:
- Deep cleaning: Scans+removes caches, logs, and browser leftovers
- Smart uninstaller: removes apps along with launch agents, preferences, and hidden remnants
- Disk insights: DaisyDisk but for the terminal
- Live monitoring: iStat Menus but for the terminal
The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it. But in fact there are actors.
— Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason (Quoted by L. M. Sacasas)