When branches don’t check out… that’s a problem.

Nah, just sort by date instead of topology, or vice versa.

git gud, son

I’ve come to the hard truth that a good keyboard costs a minimum of $350 (or equivalent in invested time/work), and worse still… they are “consumables”, in that they don’t really last that long.

Well, I do have MBSE on the brain, but the idea here is more like a low-code/no-code environment with an ABSOLUTELY ENORMOUS “pit of success”… so large that even GenAI can reliably fall into it. Numbered tabs, you go left to right answering questions and fiddling with with prompts, paint-by-numbers for working software.

I imagine that it is theoretically possible to successfully vibe-code, but probably not with a conventional project layout nor would it look much like traditional programming. Something like your interaction primarily being a “requirements list”, which gets translated into interfaces and heavy requirements tests against those interfaces, and each implementation file being disposable (regenerated) & super-self-contained, and only being able to “save” (or commit) implementations that pass the tests.

…and if you are building a webapp, it would not be able to touch the API layer except through operational transforms (which trigger new [major] version numbers]. Sorta like MCP.

Said another way, if we could make it more like a “ratchet” incrementing, and less like an out-of-control aircraft… then maybe?!?

I’ve considered problems similar to this.

IIRC, what I landed on was (1) if I could only use a d-pad, I’d try pushing the characters deeper into a maze-like tree structure (three d-pad presses [even reserving the direction you came from] easily gives you 36 possibilities: a-z + 0-9… more if you have push best-guess into the closer intersections), and (2) if I had an analog device (like the joystick in your example) I’d go with something like dasher… but I’m sure you could get dasher to work with a d-pad too, but it would be sub-optimal, methinks.

I thought they already gutted much of AOSP. Like removing the dialer or contacts and stuff.

https://consulo.io/ (Basically a liberated jetbrains intellij/rider thing)

Very few remain, and we lost another one.

“cracked”…

That thumbnail image reminds me of hovercat: https://youtu.be/p1u-R4RVL70

IIRC, it opens a gui modal asking if you want to give the terminal permission to read the folder. Not quite the same, but still weird and jarring.

Imagine holding a null in your hand… hopefully they sent you only one, and not zero nulls, or worse… -1… and don’t even get be started on imaginary nulls.

Unit tests pass.

So… microsoft has positioned itself between common users and Linux… and as an authority of sorts.

Is that suse-on-a-phone just a tease, or something awesome I have yet to discover?

x86 tablets are a thing

lol… if they had a job that was ONLY writing unit tests, I would take it!

Kind of the reverse… more lamenting the loss of QA and SRE roles in favor of mechanical (AI) code reviewers and non-technical persons rubber-stamping an increasingly deep pipeline that change requests must traverse.