Simran-B's comments

On: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

[Simran-B]

No image in the readme, bummer.

[halapro → Simran-B]

Why are programmers so bad at this? It's never been easier to take and share screenshots, but a lot of technical people would rather write and have you read 500 words than post a single screenshot. Boggles my mind.

[cpt_sobel → halapro]

Maybe it blurs on a level lower than what the screenshot can capture

On: Anthropic acquires Bun

[Simran-B]

Classic - brand new blog post:

> We’re hiring engineers.

Careers page:

> Sorry, no job openings at the moment.

[adpirz → Simran-B]

It's the Anthropic careers page that you're likely looking for now:

https://www.anthropic.com/jobs?team=4050633008

[prathamtharwani → adpirz]

Is it just me or does this page keep jumping back to the top when I try to scroll?

[serial_dev → prathamtharwani]

Same on iOS. It was probably vibe coded.

[noboostforyou → prathamtharwani]

It's doing that for me as well (desktop Safari).

[stack_framer → prathamtharwani]

It's doing it to me as well in Brave on macOS.

[antihero → Simran-B]

Maybe the engineers are Claude agents.

On: Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple

[Simran-B]

Zig has the concept of illegal behavior, of which a subset is unchecked illegal behavior - basically undefined behavior, but if evaluated at comptime, it results in a compile error. The documentation also states that most illegal behavior is safety-checked unless you use the ReleaseFast or ReleaseSmall optimization modes (and don't enable safety checks for individual blocks).

On: Why Zig Is Quietly Doing What Rust Couldn't: Staying Simple

[Simran-B]

Generics though

On: C++26: range support for std:optional

[Simran-B]

I'm sensing a pinch of sarcasm

On: Zig builds are getting faster

[Simran-B]

How does Zig's compilation and codegen compare to TPDE? The claim is that it's 10-20x faster than LLVM with -O0 but with limitations.

[ozgrakkurt → Simran-B]

Speed feels even faster than 20x and debug mode code runs ok. Don’t know about assembly quality difference

On: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

[Simran-B]

Maybe a good use case for AI to help with a quick transition?

On: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

[Simran-B]

I liked Zulip a lot until that Flutter rewrite. Maybe it's more accessible now but the new look is not for me. I believe the app navigation is largely unchanged, and still doesn't quite feel right. I love the topic-based model nonetheless.

On: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

[Simran-B]

I'm pretty sure they want to lose all of the non-lucrative customers.

On: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

[Simran-B]

Funny you would mention GitLab - I find it extremely clunky, especially compared to GitHub. Maybe GitHub is primitive in comparison, but it never makes me hunt for basic functionality and the search just works for about everything.