Dealing with this now at work. Got a dev whose time in the industry should make him a senior dev but he gives off massive junior vibes.

• The need to change everything he touches

• Wanting to write clever code over straightforward code

• Everything “needs” a refactor

• Just deprecates things when he doesn’t want to learn them and writes a new implementation without updating old code

• Thinks he knows best while not understanding huge swaths of the codebase

• Everything he can’t understand in <5 min is stupid and wrong

If he was less competent (when kept in a box and closely monitored) I’d be pushing even harder to get rid of him.

I’m not understanding the CoPilot hate. It’s an amazing tool if you are competent. Even when it gets it wrong it still saves me 90%+ of the typing then I just correct what it did differently than how I want it.

Boilerplate becomes a breeze and I work way better when I have something to iterate on rather than coming up with it from scratch. It lets me play with and test ideas way faster and sometimes even does it differently than I’d do it which leads to learning new things and/or looking at the problem in a different way. I don’t blindly follow its output, sometimes I reject it wholesale, sometimes I edit it, sometimes it’s literally exactly what I would have typed myself.

It’s not a new feature either. I used it at least 4 years ago. Plugged my phone into my monitor, Bluetooth controller, and I could play games on my nice monitor. It’s even easier now with USB-C I’d imagine, I was using the lightning-hdmi dongle.

Oh fuck! I hadn’t heard for DRG:Survivor. I LOVE DRG and now I can’t wait for this game.

Also steam just started a big sale of these types of games that you should check out if you haven’t already. Shmup Fest.

Was this article written with AI or just by someone who has no clue what they are talking about?

During his testimony on Thursday and Friday, Bloomberg reports Giannandrea took the time to mention a feature of Safari for iOS 17 that wasn’t reported on for its introduction. The quietly introduced feature allows users to set a different browser when using Private Browsing than the default.

“Different browser”, what they mean is “different search engine”. Even if this author was competent this article is a nothing-burger. Not sure how setting a different search engine in private mode has anything to do with the Google antitrust trial.

I really hope they expand this button in software later. Long press as the only activator is absurd. How about single? Double? Triple? Short-long?

I hate that the only option is long. Also I wish I could change the behavior based on context (is the phone locked, what app is active, etc). I don’t need camera or flashlight if the phone is locked, they are right there but elsewhere that might be nice.

I’m leaning towards camera in video mode as what I set it to, since getting to video mode takes longer than I’d like in most cases, even from the Lock Screen.

Coming from the computer with near 2000 hours of gameplay in Factorio I just couldn’t make the jump to the deck. I miss the precision of a mouse and the keyboard shortcuts (the deck buttons weren’t enough and I didn’t want to memorize a ton of shift/modifier-* type shortcuts)

If you like HoT some other games to try:

• Vampire Survivors - I actually like this more that HoT and I played HoT first

• Brotato - Simpler version of this type of game, fixed map size but fun variant

• 20 Minutes till Dawn - I just started this (got it in a Steam bundle with Brotato) and it’s ok, I don’t like the aiming very much but it’s a decent game.