james2doyle (u/james2doyle)

james2doyle commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

tgsovlerkhgsel · 9 days ago

Apple throttled devices that had a weak battery, because the alternative is the CPU trying to draw more power than the battery can deliver, the voltage sagging, and the phone rebooting.

By itself, this throttling is a good thing and keeps phones usable for longer, because a phone that is slow is better than a phone that randomly reboots.

The problematic part was that they a) didn't disclose it, and b) did this for phones within the warranty period, so instead of the phone visibly crashing and you returning the obviously broken phone, it just lost performance which you might not have noticed in time to get a free replacement.

james2doyle · 9 days ago

Understood. Poor wording on my part!

james2doyle commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

gpm · 9 days ago

Google is doing everything in their power to make me move to an iphone... between shit like this, effectively bricking some old models of pixels with un-rollbackable patches that destroy batteries, closing down the android development process, making absurd testing requirements to publish apps, etc.

Google doesn't make better phones, they were just less hostile to the consumer. That seems to be going away :(

james2doyle · 9 days ago

Wasn’t Apple the one actually caught throttling devices with an update to slow phones down under the guise of "saving battery"?

Leaving Google for Apple, and expecting a more open app store, is going to be disappointing. I’m not a Google fanboy by any means, just pointing out the landscape out there

james2doyle commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes

ogyousef · 19 days ago

3 Years in and we still dont have a useable chat fork in any of the major LLM chatbots providers.

Seems like the only way to explore differnt outcomes is by editing messages and losing whatever was there before the edit.

Very annoying and I dont understand why they all refuse to implement such a simple feature.

james2doyle · 19 days ago

I use https://chatwise.app/ and it has this in the form of "start new chat from here" on messages

james2doyle commented on Gemini CLI GitHub Actions blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/michael-sumner

grogenaut · a month ago

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is:

- Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working with docs or sheets - Gemini is worse than a Google search at helping me with sheet formulas

There's all these unique places in googles ecosystem I feel they could/should be excelling at AI at. They're not.

Hell I noticed yesterday searching for my remarkable preorder from years ago that you can't exact string search Gmail anymore. Searching for remarkable was pulling up "amazing". They're just degrading all of their products to stupidity at a time when I and AI can use more powertools

james2doyle · a month ago

I’ve actually been using Gemini on my phone to create appointments from details on my screen. For example, I have a delivery coming so there is an email with the date and time range. I can press and hold my power button and Gemini pops up. I press a button to use screen context. Then say, "put this in my calendar". Then it does. It isn’t perfect. Events that cross multiple days or odd location details in the description sometimes don’t get included. But that is more and more rare. I’m using an Android phone. So maybe that is why it seems to work. I do see that "mostly works" is not the same as "always works".

Also, if you are a Google Workspace customer, you can connect your workspace to the Gemini web app. It can then search and manipulate your calendar and your drive. It will also summarize documents and a few other tasks. I have less use for this but it is far from "it _can’t_ make appointments".

james2doyle commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman

james2doyle · a month ago

Nice. I think I prefer https://models.dev/ as it seems more complete

james2doyle commented on DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components daisyui.com/... · Posted by u/a_bored_husky

nnurmanov · a month ago

Are there any cool UI libraries for Svelte or Vue? Similar to Baseweb or Grommet?I am planning to move away from ReactJS some day

james2doyle · a month ago

There are a boatload for Vue:

https://www.radix-vue.com/https://vuetifyjs.com/en/https://www.unaui.com/https://vuesax.com/https://primevue.org/https://inspira-ui.com/https://www.naiveui.com/

And for Nuxt there is https://ui.nuxt.com/

james2doyle commented on Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust desktopdocs.com/?v=2025... · Posted by u/katrinarodri

_bent · 3 months ago

you still can't have multiple windows with flutter, which disqualifies it for building desktop apps.

james2doyle · 3 months ago

True. But this is actively being worked on by Canonical: https://ubuntu.com/blog/multiple-window-flutter-desktop

james2doyle commented on Migrating a JavaScript Project from Prettier and ESLint to BiomeJS blog.appsignal.com/2025/0... · Posted by u/unripe_syntax

mrbluecoat · 4 months ago

Every time I have to click twice instead of once during my once every ~3 years VSCode setup process, I think to myself "If only I could replace Prettier and ESLint with one tool, I could save about 5 minutes during my lifetime."

james2doyle · 4 months ago

Running the tool is easy. Installing, configuring, and keeping it updated? Well, those tasks have taken up many lifetimes.

Replacing prettier and eslint in my projects will typically remove about 5 dependencies. Sometimes up to 10 if you have a lot of specific plugins.

Another amazing benefit is that because Biome is a compiled binary, it can run _without npm install_ which means you can use it in your CI for linting before running any expensive build steps.

Those things save me time.

james2doyle commented on Lune (Rust-based Luau runtime) 0.9.0 released github.com/lune-org/lune/... · Posted by u/james2doyle

90s_dev · 4 months ago

Luau is gradually typed and has intellisense support? That was my biggest gripe with Love2d, and a huge motivation for why I created the project I haven't yet released! Oh man, I have to check this out.

james2doyle · 4 months ago

Yep. Luau has an LSP so you should be able to get all that.

There is no support for Luau in Love2D though. You would have to author your code in Teal (typed lua to lua compiler) and then compile that to Lua to be run in Love: https://github.com/teal-language/tl

You can get the Lua LSP working in Love2D with full completion support by the way. The Lua LSP has 3rd party libraries included in it. You can see all the preinstalled ones here: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/tree/master/3rd

Support for them as built-ins will be removed at some point though. But you can always add them yourself: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/wiki/Settings#w... using the files from here: https://github.com/LuaCATS/love2d/

It looks like the easiest way to support them is using a `.luarc.json` file though: https://github.com/LuaLS/lua-language-server/wiki/Configurat...

Here is a project that is already set up with a config file that you should be able to just copy: https://github.com/jonasgeiler/love2d-joystick-tester/blob/m...

james2doyle commented on Lune (Rust-based Luau runtime) 0.9.0 released github.com/lune-org/lune/... · Posted by u/james2doyle

james2doyle · 4 months ago

Lune is a standalone Luau runtime. You can write and run programs, similar to runtimes for other languages such as Node, Deno, Bun, or Luvit for vanilla Lua.

Lune provides fully asynchronous APIs wherever possible, and is built in Rust for speed, safety, and correctness.

Lune version 0.9.0 introduces changes to the require behavior, process spawning functions, and WebSocket methods, while also adding new features to the roblox and datetime standard libraries, improving documentation, and fixing several bugs. Serde support is also expanded