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@GergelyOrosz I wish banking apps didn’t do the same thing. IMO it shouldn’t be legal for some services.

And killed notifications from Spotify as well. Cannot believe how there is practically no company by now that has not abused push notifications for product marketing. I’ve now been trained to disallow notifications from any and all apps - save for my main banking+messaging one

@umutaydin @fatih @WHOOP I’ve been using Polar Loop for more than two months. The app still needs some love but overall it’s good and coming from a solid brand.

@fatih @WHOOP Any other recommendation?

I canceled my @WHOOP subscription, and the only reason was that they made it extremely hard to cancel. It’s not possible via their app, and even if you find their obscure link, they don’t allow you to cancel unless you answer 9/10 questions. Feels extremely deceiving. Better to avoid paying companies that have zero respect to their users.

@figma Long overdue but welcome change

Imagine turning any image into a vector (now you actually can) → Convert raster images into editable vectors → Simplify and control color output

@GergelyOrosz Programmable mini desk computers/terminals, bought this one for a friend: ulanzi.com/products/ulanz…

What are some great gift ideas for someone working in tech? Something that you either got someone and it was a success, you got and loved it, or want to get it this year?

Desperately trying to achieve inbox zero, I vibe-coded a python lib which converts a given URL/HTML to markdown while attaching front matter for Obsidian. Yes, my inbox is full of unread newsletters. github.com/kublaios/obsid…

ngl all the new iphones look sick 🔥

sorry future reader, light mode hurts my eyes no less then you.

i'm in the middle of migrating my website from wordpress to jekyll. with every technology, there is always one "supposed to be easy" thing that turns out to be hard as heck. for jekyll it seems to be dark mode while respecting system settings.

@krzyzanowskim @grok is this true

these Chinese AI are undervalued. I switched from Claude to z.ai (using Claude Code CLI), and guess what, I noticed no difference in daily use. Except it's $3 instead $200 there is world outside OpenAI and Anthropic, that is better than you may think.

@supabase Cheap humor

brutal (but true?)

"The author made this story available to Medium members only." Bro it was a complement that I even bothered to sign in. What makes you all post there anyway, a few bucks?

@ThePrimeagen It’s true when that’s what you signed up for.

"writing code is the easiest part of software engineering" - from someone who doesn't code

@JoannisOrlandos More specific tutorials, e.g. how to deploy on a particular service, or how to do a common backend task.

Swift on the Server is amazing, but we can definitely improve it even more! What are your takes on improving the ecosystem?

We've just hit 1,000 subscribers on YouTube! Are you subscribed? There are some interesting talks getting published soon! buff.ly/4dqAwol

@jsngr Don’t.

glass ui

And that's a wrap! ServerSide.swift 2024 - it's been an incredible conference #serverSideSwift2024

@ #ServerSideSwift2024 🚀

Day two report: Going much better than I hoped. The performance difference between the two is incomparable - Safari is way more snappier than Arc. I also don’t get video stutters during Meet calls anymore (main trigger to consider this switch).

After one year, I decided to switch from Arc Browser to Safari. I just can’t take the random freezing and memory exhaustion of Chromium browsers anymore, no matter how “productive” or private they claim to be.

iPad without a Magic Keyboard is doomed to become an expensive Netflix player. I’ve used several other brands and they were nothing but frustration (expensive ones, too).