Vite plugin for generating Chrome Workspaces, Stop Making Threads, Lovable 'CVE', My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts, Microsoft's edit is good, Lucid Blocks Craftlike, SwiftCrossUI, Shaders for Vulkan samples now also available in slang.

New pesky dev tools frustration from Chrome looking for /.well-known/appspecific/com.chrome.devtools.json…

I get the proposal, but… muh development console logs.

At least there is a plugin that sets this up though, as the proposal itself mentions Vite by name.

tell you what

.well-known/appspecific/com.chrome.devtools.json

is starting to bother me

You tell ‘em Ryan.

A common question about SDL3 is: “How do I use multi-threading with the GPU API?”

…

You should not automatically start using threads in your application. Make sure you’re solving a specific problem and that threads are the right solution. “Threads are cool” is not a good reason to use them.

A great read from Evan! SDL3’s GPU API is quite nice to work with, and thankfully I didn’t fall into the trap of ooh lets do threads with my last project using it.

A cheeky ‘CVE’ from a ‘DevRel & Product’ person, which does… seem to be real? I’m not saying the ‘findings’ in this post aren’t real, and this didn’t go through the usual _disclosure / acknowledgement / resolution steps, but I’d say its in the best interest of Replit to point at a competitor and say ha vibe coded RLS rules!.

Not saying I’m for Lovable here, I just don’t really see how Replit can wave much of a flag of we do things correct, I am very sure you can vibe code something just as bashable on their systems.

Thomas Ptacek’s frustrated tone throughout this piece perfectly captures how it feels sometimes to be an experienced programmer trying to argue that “LLMs are actually really useful” in many corners …

Simon Willison’s dissection of Thomas’ piece.

Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been reluctant to push back on them, because, well, they’re smarter than me. But their arguments are unserious, and worth confronting. Extraordinarily talented people are doing work that LLMs already do better, out of spite. […]

As much as I think AI critique is extremely valid, I do hold a similar opinion that if you think its just a ‘blip’, you truly don’t know what it is.

Are the marketing teams pushing claims that we’re “mere steps away from AGI”, we’re not, but we’ve discovered something extremely interesting that we’re still learning to wield properly.

My terminal-based text editing almost always occurs in short sessions. I’ll usually want to modify something and get out. To me, it makes no sense to have to step on a learning curve for a text editor. A good tool gets out of your way, which is why I don’t tend to favour vim, and only tolerate nano.

Recently, edit was open-sourced, and by chance I spotted that it had a Linux build, so I decided to try it out.

Edit looks really nice and simple.

I’m a Vim enjoyer, but this does look like a much better more powerful nano.

Explore, craft, and survive in a liminal voxel expanse brimming with surreal environments and esoteric creatures.

Beautiful looking abstract funky crazy Minecraft like.

Create cross-platform desktop apps for macOS, Linux, Windows, iOS and tvOS.

SwiftCrossUI takes inspiration from SwiftUI, allowing you to use the basic concepts of SwiftUI to create cross-platform desktop apps. SwiftCrossUI provides your users with a native experience on every platform via a suite of backends built on top of various UI frameworks (see Backends).

I’ve been looking around for a good option for building a truly native feeling cross platform application, not using something like Electron

Slang is dope, having more examples of it alongside popular tutorials seems great for its adoption!