Readit Newsfirloop commented on Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption dockerstatus.com/pages/in... · Posted by u/l2dy
This broke our builds since we rely on several public Docker images, and by default, Docker uses docker.io.
Thankfully, AWS provides a docker.io mirror for those who can't wait:
FROM public.ecr.aws/docker/library/{image_name}
▪ https://auth.docker.io → "No server is available to handle this request"
After switching to the AWS mirror, everything built successfully without any issues.
I wasn't able to get this working, but I was able to use Google's mirror[0] just fine.
Just had to change
FROM {image_name}
FROM mirror.gcr.io/{image_name}
[0]: https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/pull-cached-...
firloop commented on How we built an interpreter for Swift bitrig.app/blog/swift-int... · Posted by u/jacobx
Swift can already be used in REPL mode, not sure if it's accurate to say Swift is a strictly compiled language that a interpreter was developed for (see 'swift' command line executable). Seems misleading that this is not mentioned anywhere in the article.
++ had the same reaction as you. When I was picking up Swift, the interpreter was invaluable to check my understanding (although I nearly always needed to begin with `import Foundation` to have my code actually work).
This. It's 2025 and the node ecosystem is finally usable by default!
ESM modules just work with both Node and Typescript, Node can run .ts files, and there's the a good enough test runner built in. --watch. The better built in packages - `node:fs/promises` - are nice with top-level await for easier async loops.
It took a while to convince everyone involved to just be pragmatic, but it's nice now.
It's still probably better to use Bun.
firloop commented on Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome wsj.com/tech/perplexity-m... · Posted by u/eduction
Are they truly marketing stunts? I mean I guess they could just fork Chromium instead.
They've already forked Chromium. https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
firloop commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo
Cursor has been a terrible experience lately, regardless of the model. Sometimes for the same task, I need to try with Sonnet 4.5, ChatGPT 5.1 Codex, Gemini Pro 3... and most times, none managed to do the work, and I end up doing it myself.
At least I’m coding more again, lol