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st3fan commented on OpenClaw is changing my life reorx.com/blog/openclaw-i... · Posted by u/novoreorx

maciejzj · 18 hours ago

Mind you, that regardless of your sentiment towards OpenClaw, not everyone is able to afford a sparse Mac Mini (especially given ram prices) and a ton of Claude tokens/super beefy GPU for local models to run this stuff. That's to the supposed "democratisation of knowledge and technology".

st3fan · 18 hours ago

FWIW Mac Minis have not increased in price because of "RAM Prices". Same models cost exactly the same as a year ago. Maybe it will change in the future, maybe not. Who knows. But right now Apple seems to have secure a good stash of RAM to use and avoid price changes.

st3fan commented on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker

allthetime · 6 days ago

Honest question.

I've been using XCode for 10 years. For me, it's only improved and I don't have any real pain points. They are definitely fixing bugs. I make software for iOS, macOS, car play, and apple watch.

Sure sometimes I've got to reset or clear a cache, but this has never stopped my day.

What is so horrible about XCode?

st3fan · 6 days ago

It has become a meme to complain about Xcode. When I ask devs what they don't like about it it is usually very subjective or a misunderstanding. Take it all with a grain of salt. It is one of the most advanced and amazing IDEs out there IMO.

st3fan commented on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-sw... · Posted by u/behnamoh

kibwen · 8 days ago

Whether or not Apple still has legacy pieces in Objective-C or still allows you to write apps in it is not the issue. The point here is that Apple shadow-dropped Swift and shifted essentially all of its development priority away from Objective-C in a matter of months.

st3fan · 8 days ago

I think that is a pretty inaccurate description of what happened the past 11 years.

st3fan commented on A Firefox Android extension for YouTube background play github.com/Rigmunssel/Fix... · Posted by u/western_man

western_man · 9 days ago

Though you need to have it false if you are using this as long as it stays unapproved by mozilla

st3fan · 8 days ago

Oh that is not awesome. I thought by now they would have extension side loading.

st3fan commented on Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023) nmn.sh/blog/2023-10-02-sw... · Posted by u/behnamoh

kibwen · 8 days ago

Apple was the primary and only major sponsor of Objective-C, used it as the core foundation of their entire platform, and dropped it like a stone with little warning or ceremony. Yes, being tied so closely to Apple is an existential risk for Swift. One need only look at the quality and trajectory of MacOS to see that Apple isn't a software company, let alone a company that cares about developer experience (Xcode, anyone?). As far as modern Apple is concerned, the primary benefit of Swift is that it produces a tiny bit extra lock-in for iOS apps, by making cross-platform development more difficult.

st3fan · 8 days ago

"and dropped it like a stone with little warning or ceremony"

What?! This is complete nonsense. Swift was introduced 11 (!) years ago and it was clear from day one that it was going to be the future. Every single year since the introduction there were clear messages and hints in documentation and WWDC that Swift is in and Objective-C will _eventually_ be out.

Little warning? Maybe if you kept your eyes closed the past 11 years.

And do not forget that today you can still write apps in Objective-C.

st3fan commented on A Firefox Android extension for YouTube background play github.com/Rigmunssel/Fix... · Posted by u/western_man

st3fan · 9 days ago

Missing step at the end: enable xpinstall.signatures.required again

st3fan commented on The Productivity Ceiling of AI Coding Tools pushtoprod.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/sciurus

st3fan · 12 days ago

How is this methodology and tool (GZA) different than say using Github Copilot and hand it a bunch of issues (prompts) to work on?

st3fan commented on The modern, full-stack TypeScript framework that makes T3 Stack look like 2022 github.com/yazcaleb/c4-te... · Posted by u/plawlost

st3fan · 22 days ago

A better stack would be with no dependencies on 6 (!) other saas services that can all pivot or go bankrupt.

st3fan commented on ClickHouse acquires Langfuse langfuse.com/blog/joining... · Posted by u/tin7in

embedding-shape · 23 days ago

The observability stuff can be nice for deployments but really, these libraries/frameworks don't actually do much more than provide some structure, which unless you're expecting a team with high turnover to maintain it, doesn't really matter all that much, especially if you're an experienced developer, you'll find better design/architectures fitting for your use case without them.

st3fan · 23 days ago

Hm I find this very much a "please reinvent the wheel" take.

These frameworks provide structure for established patterns,but they also actually do a lot that you don't have to do anymore. If you are for example building an agentic application then these kind of frameworks make it very simple to create the workflows, do the chat with the model providers, provide structure for agentic skills, decision making and the human in the loop, etc. etc.

All stuff that I would consider "low level". All things you don't have to build.

If you have an aversion to frameworks then sure - by all means. But if you like to move faster and using good building blocks then these frameworks really help.

One thing to keep in mind - many of these AI frameworks are open source and work really well without needing backend services. Or you can self host them where needed. But for many that is also the premium model, please use and pay for our backend services. But that is also a choice of course.

st3fan commented on My Week with OpenCode deadsimpletech.com/blog/w... · Posted by u/kristianp

st3fan · 23 days ago

this is a horrible review because they used mediocre tools / models. you also do not learn how to get great code out of these tools in just a week. it takes a lot of time to build up those skills.