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bsnnkv commented on $50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres planetscale.com/blog/50-d... · Posted by u/ksec

Doesnt "Metal" infer you get the whole box to yourself? Curious if my definitions are different to others here because I don't get what's "Metal" about sharing an instance with others.

You're still sharing nvme IO, cpu, memory bandwidth, etc. Not having a VM isn't really the point. (EDIT: and could have been done with non-metal aws instances with direct-attached nvme anyway)

bsnnkv · 2 days ago

I also think this naming is misleading - there is a very clear association with "bare metal", which is not what is being offered here

bsnnkv commented on Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window tyler.io/2025/11/alan/... · Posted by u/donatj

tylerhall · 21 days ago

Developer of the app here. You’re correct. Accessibility APIs + timer + transparent top-level NSWindow that ignores input and draws a border.

bsnnkv · 21 days ago

Fwiw I think this is the right approach. The trade-off between stability across OS updates vs tracking performance is a no-brainer for me - the absolute last thing that I would want is a deluge of bug reports with no other information than "it stopped working" when Apple pushes out an update

bsnnkv commented on Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window tyler.io/2025/11/alan/... · Posted by u/donatj

bsnnkv · 21 days ago

Took a look at this and it feels like it is implemented using public macOS frameworks so it shouldn't break between macOS updates

My guess is that kAXWindowMovedNotification, kAXWindowResizedNotification, kAXMainWindowChangedNotification etc. are being listened to on the currently focused window using the Accessibility framework, and there is a callback which gets the latest position of the tracked window whenever it is fired, and uses that position as a reference to update the border position

The border window itself is most likely an NSWindow, which is why the tracking of the border with the target window feels quite sluggish

bsnnkv commented on Gnome is better macOS than macOS andreyor.st/posts/2025-11... · Posted by u/gsky

bsnnkv · 24 days ago

It's very sad that none of these Linux DEs expose APIs for customization in anything other than JavaScript - I would love to be able to build on Gnome or KDE with something equivalent to windows-rs or objc2

bsnnkv commented on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/thewebguyd

chadcmulligan · a month ago

A quote I saw today: "Maybe AI seems like a creative solution, if you aren't a creative person.", seems to explain a lot of this maybe.

Edit: Found the source: https://www.eurogamer.net/maybe-ai-is-a-creative-solution-if...

bsnnkv · a month ago

I'd love to read more wherever this came from if you could link the source

bsnnkv commented on Brimstone: ES2025 JavaScript engine written in Rust github.com/Hans-Halverson... · Posted by u/ivankra

tetris11 · a month ago

There's no license I can see

bsnnkv · a month ago

Great to see more projects not opting into licenses which permit megacorp exploitation by default

bsnnkv commented on Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11 windhawk.net/mods/classic... · Posted by u/znpy

bsnnkv · a month ago

Would love to see someone running this theme + a tiling window manager!

bsnnkv commented on A Word on Omarchy xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-... · Posted by u/rozhok

bsnnkv · 2 months ago

On another discussion forum I saw someone posted[1] the results of running shellcheck against the bash scripts that make up Omarchy:

    λ omarchy master Ɇ » shellcheck -f checkstyle bin/* **/*.sh | grep error | wc -l
    451
    λ omarchy master Ɇ » cloc .
         662 text files.
         473 unique files.
         253 files ignored.

    github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.06  T=0.07 s (6645.0 files/s, 133055.1 lines/s)
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Language                      files          blank        comment           code
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Bourne Again Shell              125            704            319           3344
    Bourne Shell                    237            499            229           1952
    CSS                              41            122             22            653
    TOML                             19            113              9            612
    XML                               3              6             12            437
    Lua                              12              0              0            151
    INI                              14             20              0             78
    JSON                             13              0              0             67
    YAML                              4              4              0             50
    Text                              2              0              0             36
    JavaScript                        1              1              0             20
    Markdown                          1              5              0              5
    SVG                               1              0              0              1
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    SUM:                            473           1474            591           7406
    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[1]: https://lobste.rs/s/iuvukw/word_on_omarchy#c_slymk9

bsnnkv commented on Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch github.com/liquibase/liqu... · Posted by u/LaSombra

sarchertech · 2 months ago

Big tech companies (the money behind the Open Source Initiative) have done a few things.

1. They co-opted the free software movement and made it more business friendly.

2. They convinced people that Open Source is pure and software that isn’t Open Source is unclean.

3. They convinced a bunch of developers that their definition of Open Source that was specifically crafted to protect business interests is canon.

4. They convinced a well meaning subset of those developers to police the other devs and pressure them to release their software under big tech approved licenses.

bsnnkv · 2 months ago

"While corporations were once opposed to this model of software licensing, fearing the reduction of the Exchange-Value of their own products as a side effect of its widespread adoption, they ultimately realized that this software licensing model represented another socialized model of production which could be privately appropriated."