Kotlin is generally considered a bit of a dud in the modern programming language space.

I reckon this comment from 6 years ago predicts Kotlin's fate https://hackernews.hn/item?id=24197817 I consider it prophetic.

My gut says Kotlin is great for individual developer experience. But I never heard or saw credible reports on the Total Cost of Ownership, e.g., Kotlin engineers hiring, swapping out on a team.

It's a blessing when you're in the native Android / React Native / Flutter space.

There should be a setting to include specific files in every prompt/context. I’m using zed and when you fire up an agent / chat it explicitly states that the file(s) are included.

postico is really nice on macos

I thought there had been a major breakthrough in tapioca-tech

What does "try to beat this" mean?

I just opened it in another browser and got another ID. Did I win?

For some reason using Microsoft Edge is deemed suspicious.

Fingerprinting generally tries to identify a unique browser, so a new browser will get a new identifier.

But depending on the data tied to the fingerprints, identifiers can be linked together.

Don't use apps with ads. I can't think of a single necessary one.

As always the answer is… both. We make things that people didn’t know they wanted, and then they have good ideas about them that we didn’t think of. A truly great product finds the balance between developer creativity and user satisfaction

UBC campus in Vancouver as well.

The billions of capital are exactly why they don't care about you. Also, Google didn't break anything. The only person who can claw out a place in this giant machine for yourself is you - all while billions of others attempt to do the same.

Or, they have to hire people who still know what they're doing at a premium.

Be those people.