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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@fatcatsoftware/116801398103856598 Not often I get to link to a clip from Spinal Tap in a product release blog post.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/116812211693949781 My favorite part of this graph is that it doesn't even bother including the Vision Pro price change. 😂

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  @schwa @BasicAppleGuy Haha, yup, +$200. Now nobody's going to buy it! 😭

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  Looking for suggestions for a good macOS markdown viewer/editor. Don't need any fancy cloud sync or anything like that, just solid viewing and editing of local markdown files.

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  @schwa @incanus Yeah, Obsidian's editing is good (I use it for other stuff already), but it doesn't seem like you can just open a single .md file alone and edit it. It's got to be part of a vault, which means it makes its little .obsidian folder alongside, and gets very heavyweight. Typora looks like my prime candidate right now.

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  RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116483896730844416 Is the passport still valid if you draw a little Hitler mustache on him? #uspol

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  @isaiah So, I guess I never did the per-issue branch thing before because a) I didn't do that much parallel work in the first place, and b) it was too much of a pain in the ass to do all the bookkeeping. But now that I do more in parallel (i.e. work on task A while Claude chugs on task B), and I've got it all automated, the per-issue workflow works quite well.

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  @ainslaw @kcase Yo dawg, I heard you like outliners…

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  This comic seems relevant today. 😬 #Artemis https://hijinksensue.com/comic/dare-all-the-things/

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  @isaiah@mastodon.social OK, to make sure I understand, is this the idea of what you're looking for? (the custom image is just a very squashed SF symbol)

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  @isaiah@mastodon.social Yeah, the Pro plan should provide enough to do some complex tasks as long as you're not using it all day long. There's a session token limit (5 hour rolling window, I think) and a weekly limit, but I don't think there's a monthly limit. Opus 4.6 is the latest and greatest, though 4.5 is quite solid, and Sonnet 4.5 is usually serviceable if you want to limit token usage. I would expect any of them to know how frickin' NSOutlineView works.

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  @isaiah@mastodon.social I do honestly wonder if LLMs fare better with more statically typed languages than more dynamic ones. On the surface it seems plausible, since there is just a lot more information coded right into the source code, requiring less inference to figure stuff out. No idea if this is actually true, but it might explain some of the seemingly wildly varying experiences people seem to have when trying this stuff out.

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  @agiletortoise@mastodon.social That looks pretty… (•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) …intense.

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  @isaiah@mastodon.social @amyworrall@mastodon.social I also wonder if there might be a difference between working on Swift vs. Objective-C code. So many developers seemed frightened by those square brackets, maybe the little robot whose brain is made out of those developers' brains is also scared by the brackets. 👻

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  @isaiah@mastodon.social I do this indirectly with the workflow I have set up for most of my tasks. I create a Github issue and basically put my prompt as the first comment in the issue, then tell Claude to read the issue and execute. For simple issues, I have it do its thing then commit and close. For more complex ones with a long plan, I'll tell it to save the plan as another comment in the issue to keep a kind of conversation history there, sometimes with multiple stages if it goes on a wh...