I was wondering how much I‘d pay if I used AI Chatbot APIs directly instead of getting a monthly subscription.

So I‘m starting an experiment where I use the APIs for a month using a self-hosted instance of Open WebUI.

I already like having unified access to Claude, ChatGPT, Amazon Nova, etc.

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

I‘m fascinated how smart Go‘s time APIs differentiate between telling time using the system clock and measuring durations of time using monotonic clocks.

Stumbled upon this in @willemdev.bsky.social‘s great article „time.Now() and the monotonic clock“:

www.willem.dev/articles/tim...

Just saw John Ousterhout‘s talk on Software Design. He has some really interesting thoughts.

The most important point is probably that he prefers deep classes with small interfaces because they provide the largest amount of abstraction while minimizing additional complexity.

youtu.be/bmSAYlu0NcY

I have a WhatsApp chat where I always receive the 🙂‍↔️ Emoji as 🙂↔. However, when I use it, it‘s rendered just fine.

I know that this Emoji is encoded as 🙂, zero-width joiner, and ↔.

Additionally, even though it is rendered as it’s separate parts, it’s treated as a single Unicode glyph…

Interesting, that I open WhatsApp more often than my browser or terminal. What does your @raycast.com wrapped look like?

Wow, this is super interesting to hear! While Rust has a reputation of being hard to write, this article suggests that its developer productivity is comparable to Go.

However, the learning curve is likely steeper for Rust and the Rust team in the experiment was probably already proficient with it.

It‘s interesting how so many modern CLI tools are written is Rust. Especially for those, where performance isn’t critical.

Is this because the Rust community loves to rewrite stuff in Rust or is Rust actually nice to use for CLI tools? Maybe snappiness also has a subconscious effect on users.

Am I the only one for whom the iPhone keyboard is lagging while voice memos are playing in WhatsApp?

I find that so annoying, especially for an iPhone 13 Pro, which should be plenty powerful…

#apple #iPhone

For the last month I‘ve been trying out jj (Jujutsu) as a git alternative.

While I didn’t see anything wrong with git before, jj makes complex git operations so simple that I don’t want to go back.

Editing history, rebasing, splitting up large commits are all super easy.

now you can run `npm install bluesky-comments` to use bluesky replies as your blog's comment section!

thanks @coryzue.com 🙌

Just learned that there is a term describing that people will rely on any behavior of your API, no matter if it’s part of the contract or not:

Hyrum‘s Law

This can often make it hard to change implementation details, after the API has users and should be considered while designing the API.

One cool feature for @frontpage.fyi would be custom feeds.

Some use-cases:
- Following other users with similar tastes and ranking their submissions higher
- Following blogs and ranking them higher
- Showing comments of friends at the top

Just watched Dan's talk on the AT Protocol. It gives some great insights into the architecture behind Bluesky.

Some interesting things that stood out to me:

Another refreshing thing about Bluesky is the lack of bots and unrelated, engagement-farming comments below popular posts.

Here’s my #introduction. I‘m looking to connect with like-minded people.

I‘m interested in:
- Software Engineering
- Computer Science
- Design
- Entrepreneurship
- Classical music

I currently read a lot of technical blogs, so apart from my thoughts, I‘m planning to share some of the things I read.