withzombies (u/withzombies)

withzombies commented on I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer drobinin.com/posts/how-i-... · Posted by u/valzevul

wrs · 18 days ago

Did I interpret correctly that this sends a push notification every minute telling your phone to download a new code? If so, that seems like a battery problem…

withzombies · 18 days ago

You can send background push notifications which are delivered when the phone is ready for them. They don't deliver when the phone is low battery or in low battery mode. It's specifically made to reduce battery consumption.

Higher priority push notifications require a user visible UI element and ca be delivered regardless of certain low power situations.

withzombies commented on Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI notcheckmark.com/2025/07/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

lucianbr · a month ago

> I think watching the agents use our existing command line utilities get confused and lost is a strong indicator that the information architecture of our command line utilities is inadequate.

Seems pretty clear the article is talking about teaching LLMs how to use 'ls'.

withzombies · a month ago

> The agents may benefit from some training on tools available within their agents. This will certainly help with the majority of general CLI tools, there are bespoke tools that could benefit from adapting to LLMs.

Definitely not just `ls`.

withzombies commented on Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI notcheckmark.com/2025/07/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

jasonriddle · a month ago

This is a great post, thank you for sharing. I like the idea of giving hints to the LLMs.

To clarify, the example that was provided using `command_not_found_handler`, is that possible to implement in bash? Or perhaps you were saying this would be a nice to have if this functionality existed?

withzombies · a month ago

The `command_not_found_handler` can be added to your .zshrc or .bashrc as is.

withzombies commented on Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI notcheckmark.com/2025/07/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

procone · a month ago

Why rethink tools that have existed since the 70s and function predictably for a landscape that drastically shifts every two months? Seems shortsighted to me.

withzombies · a month ago

Many of the changes that would work for LLMs would also be beneficial to users.

withzombies commented on If nothing is curated, how do we find things tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-n... · Posted by u/nivethan

jedberg · 4 months ago

I've been saying this forever!! When I was a teen in the 90s, I got new music from the radio. The music director picked 40ish songs a week and that's what we listened to. I still like to listen to the radio for the curation.

I even wrote a program to scrape the websites of my favorite radio stations (well the stations of my favorite music directors) and add the songs to a Spotify playlist.

Whenever I meet a teenager today, one of the first things I ask them is "what apps do you use most", but the next thing I ask is "how do you find new music".

The answer is usually something like "I don't know, I just sort of find stuff I guess?". Some have said they follow influencer's playlists on YouTube or Spotify, which I guess is the new version of the music director? Or they just get it from Spotify playlists.

But what's missing is a shared cultural experience. In the 90s, everyone at my school knew those 40 songs that the local stations played. They might know other stuff too, but you couldn't avoid those top songs. It's not the same today. And it's the same problem for visual media. We all knew the top movies at the theater, because it was the only place to see new movies. And we all knew the top TV shows because they were only on four major networks.

Kids don't have a shared cultural experience like I did.

withzombies · 4 months ago

When we were kids, just knowing music that wasn't on the radio made you "into music". Things were very different! The internet has really allowed music choices to be much more personal and I think it's a good thing. We have such a wide variety of music available to us now.

I've had some luck finding some TikTok creators who curate specific "vibes" and publish Spotify playlists. I think that's just how it's done now.

withzombies commented on Making my app worse because of macOS privacy protections lapcatsoftware.com/articl... · Posted by u/ingve

withzombies · 4 months ago

This change is a great change as so many Apps spy on your pasteboard. I think a lot of people are going to be shocked at how many apps peek into your pasteboard for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons.

It's sad that your app won't be as useable but I'd much rather have the universal pasteboard protections. It would be worthwhile if we had to specify a pasteboard access reason in the Info.plist, but that likely would require a new API because it would break all legacy uses of the current API.

withzombies commented on Security research on Private Cloud Compute security.apple.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

valleyjo · 10 months ago

What do we know about apples other backend services? I’ve worked in compute infra in big tech for 8 years and I don’t know anything about apple’s backend.

withzombies · 10 months ago

Apple has a lot of Java WebObjects running on old Unix servers

withzombies commented on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA · Posted by u/proberts

fertrevino · a year ago

Me and my cofounder are non-US residents and live in Germany. If we get into YC, what would a typical / recommended way to proceed be?

We haven’t established a company in Germany yet, we want to be strategic and make what’s best to succeed.

From what I know we can do the batch with our current tourist visa, so I’d like to know more about the post batch options. Being US based or Germany based is an option for us.

Thanks in advance

withzombies · a year ago

You should still create a US C-Corp, ideally in Delaware.

withzombies commented on Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links gizmodo.com/google-has-of... · Posted by u/f_allwein

pacifika · a year ago

Broker ads intelligence

withzombies · a year ago

The cache link predates Google's ads business

withzombies commented on Build Simple Fuzzer (2020) carstein.github.io/fuzzin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

merkle · a year ago

It is just for me or it is really funny that he writes about fuzzing in his blog and his name is "Michal Melewski"? It is almost "Michał Zalewski"!

withzombies · a year ago

All the polish hackers are named Michał and have also worked together. I know Melewski and Zalewski have in the past!