GPT 5.6 Sol makes Fable's value look sooo bad Even 5.6 Terra immediately obsoletes 5.5, with higher intelligence for less money and they're all available in standard ChatGPT subs... unlike a certain model that's going away from subs tomorrow.
Houssam Elbadissi ❄️
@skaldebane.dev
indie software dev 💜 learning 日本語 (on hold) 🎌 22y/o muslim from morocco 🇲🇦 building thingies at skaldebane.dev 💙 free palestine 🇵🇸🕊
realizing the default Android XR emulator virtual environment is a no-clip hollow half-globe
"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer
There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
Like RSS and Google Reader.
overreacted.io
I just love stuff like this where the Svelte team keeps rethinking stuff where they're already far ahead of everyone else. Leaning more & more into Standard Schema at the framework level has been one of the best things that happened to SveleteKit; it's so insanely ergonomic, without any lock-in!
rich harris@rich-harris.dev · 2mo agoSvelteKit arguably has a more sophisticated and flexible system for handling env vars than any other framework. We think we can do better though. Here's what we're working on: github.com/sveltejs/kit... Give it a read and let us know if you have feedback
Awesome talk (from 2024!!) by @maggieappleton.com: maggieappleton.com/home-cooked... This is even more relevant now that LLMs' agentic capabilities have grown extensively, though I'm not sure how well are we faring when it comes to "local-first" being suggested by default by these tools.
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
maggieappleton.com
If you get an email like this from "SendGrid" DO NOT CLICK OR PUT CREDENTIALS. It's a fishing campaign that's evading detection, using a legit compromised SendGrid account (in this case Stacy Witbeck, a U.S construction company)
Still have some projects (where I can't use RC) relying on a barely maintained / low-quality Play Billing wrapper that I've always wanted to rip out, but never bothered as I didn't wanna deal with the complexity I guess this is my sign to point opencode at this handbook and let it rip
Jaewoong Eum (skydoves)@skydoves.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Google Play Billing Handbook. Just all about Google Play Billing Library. You can learn everything about building in-app purchases and subscriptions on your Android app. www.revenuecat.com/guides/googl...
Will soon be using this at a much larger scale, against the entirety of Fontsource fonts (i.e. Google Fonts + more, every version of every font) periodically on a server for indexing and search, so I'm wondering how much more optimization could be done in that front.
Houssam Elbadissi ❄️@skaldebane.dev · 4mo agoit's not every day that i get to commit stuff like this
started with "this brand feels kiki, i want something more boba" ended up with a very cute rebrand hope to share this very soon!
I have nothing to do with Clojure, yet this is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched 💚 Immediately jumped to watching "Simple Made Easy" and various other talks by Rich; I feel like a new level's been unlocked And now everything I've ever written is immediately due for a deep redesign 😭
Rich Hickey@richhickey.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Clojure documentary premieres live later today! Thanks to the folks who participated, Nu for sponsoring, and all those who helped in the development of Clojure and its community. I'll be in the chat, and I hope to see you there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24v...
Have you tried name-based destructuring in Kotlin 2.3.20? In this clip from the recent TypeAlias Show, you can learn all about the three modes of this new experimental feature, and see how you can start using it (or migrating toward it!) in your own projects. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvpB...
The New Name-Based Destructuring in Kotlin 2.3.20
YouTube video by Dave Leeds
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it's not every day that i get to commit stuff like this
This is one of those features I didn't know I needed but can't live without anymore.
Jaewoong Eum (skydoves)@skydoves.bsky.social · 4mo agoRevenueCat Android SDK 9.29.0 has been released. This release introduces a codegen package, which fetches product configurations from your dashboard and generates type-safe Kotlin code for offerings, entitlements, packages, and customer info, etc github.com/RevenueCat/p...
Honestly just the experience of watching a therapist screensharing their ChatGPT session and echoing the AI's suggestions back to them is SO hilarious it'd cure all of my problems 😂 www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/02/1...
Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.
Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.
technologyreview.com
Compose Multiplatform gang: HTML interop in web is about to get a whole lot smoother boy I hope this gets standardized and adopted soon enough, as it'd solved most headaches when trying to embed native web elements into Compose Web.
Jake Archibald@jakearchibald.com · 4mo agoI've been playing around with Chrome's experimental HTML-in-Canvas API (I use it to create my videos), and I wanted to see if I could make text-selection work on a curved surface by moving the underlying element around on pointermove. It works pretty well!
hiring managers making decisions based on some half-remembered linkedin hustleslop probably aren't the most sophisticated individuals. but it's their funeral, commitment to legacy technology in an era of free rewrites is a competitive disadvantage
Very excited about this... the new direction we are moving svelte custom renderers towards require much less code. That plus the fact that agents are somewhat better now gives me hope I can bring this in a decent place soon 🤞🏻
Mainmatter@mainmatter.com · 5mo agoThanks to @syntax.fm for supporting our Svelte Custom Renderers initiative 🙌 The Svelte Custom Renderers API will allow devs to use Svelte to build anything: Native apps, Terminal apps, WebGL apps – the sky is the limit. If your company wants to sponsor, reach out! svelte-custom-renderers.com
Rebound is just an incredible Compose performance tool! Can't wait to try this on Unimap. It's a tiny "toy" app with a very large grid (with small items), that I've always struggled to manually optimize, so this might finally clue me into the root cause of it all.
Introducing Rebound: context-aware recomposition budgets for Compose
We had stable data in prod for months. One feature change broke it. We shipped it. Nobody caught it because the recomposition count didn't look unusual — it just looked unusual for that composable. No...
aditlal.dev
portless is awesome! got fancy `.test` domains set up on all my web/server projects during local development no more messy browser history! github.com/vercel-labs...
GitHub - vercel-labs/portless: Replace port numbers with stable, named local URLs. For humans and agents.
Replace port numbers with stable, named local URLs. For humans and agents. - vercel-labs/portless
github.com
![Peter: Feb 20, 2026, 4:55 AM
Nolan, I’m a college student, 22, on my 4th year of college, writing my undergrad thesis right now, with somewhere around 4-5 years of programming experience, living in a third-world country, with just around 6 months of industry experience (internship). And while what I’ll express here may hold little to no weight, I still want to put a little bit of my thoughts here, regardless.
I take programming as a craft. Not just as a means to an end. And that extends well to how I approach my training, my learning, my everything. I worry about writing clean codes, I worry about how other developer will react to maintaining projects I’ve put my hands on, I try to learn multiple stuff besides just pure programming and coding, so on and so forth. Basically, I center my whole life, career, and living around this thing.
And to see that, before I can even join the industry, AI has taken over and basically made what I do slowly “obsolete”, in a way, it’s… discouraging, so to say. It’s not that I absolutely despise AI and the capabilities they bring to the table, not really. Hell, I myself have used AI to learn, to debug, to sometimes to create stuff. And I’ve tasted the whole acceleration part, and the part where AI is just creating unnecessary friction. And at this point, I think I got a bit of a good grasp of when to use what. And usually, the first solution isn’t AI.
But, what I despise is that, programming and tech, the act of writing, maintaining, fixing softwares, systems and everything that entails, the very things I center my whole existence around, my whole craft, the only thing I know I am good at, is now being seen as “replaceable” by AI. That we suddenly need to “evolve” into this new world, into this state of just what I take as like watching from the sidelines. I don’t want that to happen. I love being in the field. And I mourn that at this point, I may need to learn how to manage and orchestrate, rather than to write and debug.
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And so Ramadan starts ✨ Gotta make it count, inshallah better and more fruitful than previous ones 🤲🏻
TIL that Google had a payments hold on my Play Console account since January 2024 (!!!) that prevented sales to users in Brazil. 0 communicationt, no alerts to let me know, just a silent hold. The reason I even investigated it is thanks to two Brazilian users reaching out in the last 2 months.
"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...
How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog
“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!) and I like working with ...
anniemueller.com
kotlin yaaaay
Gergely Orosz@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 6mo agoHow was one of the most loved programming languages - Kotlin - created, and what is next after it? This is a rare and special conversation with Kotlin creator Andrey Breslav, with so many fascinating details on how Kotlin became the global success as it is today. youtu.be/ZggUn2mNqMU (cont'd)
Well, well, well... look who suddenly remembered they can ship new features. Right after the community started working on an alternative. What a coincidence! 🙃
