Mozilla took big money and lost users due to focusing on money and keeping the status quo. Money is necessary, that is undeniable, but too much money is bad and I think the evidence is quite clear that this is one of those cases.

SQLalchemy is horrible, IMO. You have to read so much of its documentation to get a grip on things. And the backwards compatible changes they made while moving to (I think) SQLAlchemy2 make it terribly difficult to tell apart the API. And type hints were an abomination to deal with when they tried adding them (it’s better now).

And don’t get me started on migrations with alembic.

I wish the Django ORM could be extracted from Django and used in other projects, but then I also just want to go back to Django.

That’s a pity.

One of the biggest things I miss about django is its ORM. There is simply nothing better in my opinion. It allows me to think about the application I want to write, not about all the database nonsense and how to join tables, make unions, or aggregate stuff, etc. I have to reevaluate if async is that important to me or not. Every other solution without a similar ORM feels inferior.

There are hundreds of millions of Firefox users? That can’t be right.

And Big Goo pays well, but at what cost? Has it really made Firefox better?

Does Django support async now? I remember that it was supposed to come with Django 4.

How does one even find it and what is the appeal?

Good to know that the people in Mozilla are actually capable of leaving. What I don’t understand is why they don’t all leave together and get themselves leaders who actually care about Firefox instead of the dollars. I bet that if there was a big push by Mozilla employees to a new browser on top of Servo (as was originally the plan?), they joined whatever foundation Servo has, and they made a lot of noise about it, many people would be itching to move their donations over from Mozilla to OpenCollective.

Firefox lost users not only because Big Goo threw thousands of engineers at their own browser, but because they actively fucked up nearly everywhere they could. Sure, FF got faster and more stable and and and, but it also introduced a ton of crap nobody asked for. They also had random projects that had absolutely nothing to do with Firefox which just wasted their time and money.

I worked on desloppifying a codebase, but had to do with AI. This was a job. Spec driven development didn’t work on that project but targeted refactors did.

Setting up a project to work with AI is not easy, IMO. You need rules, and skills, and commands, and whatever else they call it in order to be productive, otherwise you spend your time fighting with the the AI.

You’re right to question 10x and 100x productivity gains. Those only exist if you’re not willing to look at the code. I’ve had people tell me “code isn’t important”, then run into issues, and ask me to help out. The code was indeed important. Therefore, how you use AI is the important part here.

Using AI to write the entire codebase is cute. It might get your project to MVP very quickly and then you have to hire somebody who knows what they’re doing to fix all the stuff in it. I would recommend using it in a targeted manner:

• ideation
• code analysis
• targeted refactors
• boilerplate
• mini features
• bug detection

As an example, connecting an AI to an MCP like Ghidra for working with decompiled binaries is impressive. You do have to stay on your toes all the time and verify what it says, but it changes the while experience.

Once you let it loose to make bigger changes, it will inevitably fuck up while spitting out reams of code at you. Reviewing all of that is the bottleneck because it requires Actual Intelligence. Using another Artificial I to review what the previous AI did is only useful for bug detection or exploit detection (in my experience). For architectural mistakes or clean code (whatever your perception of that is) has only lead to pain for me.

So yeah, not 100x, not 10x, but maybe 1.1-1.5x. More if you’re careless or don’t know what you’re doing and Just Want It To Work ™️.

That misdiagnosis could’ve cost him his life. Crazy…

Glad he’s alright.

What is that website? Is it a part of the threadiverse?

A very convenient bug indeed.

This seems like the most likely.

I don’t know what kind of a GUI you’re building, but there are simpler options than Tauri out there. Slint comes to mind.

Explanation since I didn’t know what it was.

Welcome 🙂 We hope you continue enjoying it!

Get yourself nixos, get omarchy-nix and configure on top of that. It seems like it’d be more stable anyway.

Pro: it’s GLOSS - Gratis Libre OSS.

Con: it’s run terribly. The Linux foundation could be doing a much better job. 1-2% of its funding go into the linux kernel.

Woops, the Steam Deck sold out. I bet the Steam Machine will to.

It is primarily sponsored by the government of Switzerland 🇨🇭 where it is currently deployed for citizens.

Now this, I like!

Github, not so much

What do you mean you don’t have the game files? As in, you don’t have the installer?

Normally you should click on “New Game”, give it a name, then “run installer” and it’ll allow selecting the installer wherever it is on your disk, run through the installation procedure, and finally you have to select “path to executable” and navigate to game’s executable in the wine prefix.

If you already have the installed game files, create a “New Game”, give it a name, save it, open the win prefix, copy the game files into the prefix (e.g C:/Game) and in heroic again, select the path to the executable.

If that isn’t helping, you need to provide more information about your situation.