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brandonhorst, 7 days ago

@mattiem I get the technical differences. I’m just wondering if people freaked out in the same way. “You mean the system is going to keep a searchable log of the stuff I wanted to git rid of? What if it stores my passwords?” That sort of thing.

I don’t remember any negativity back then, wondering if that was because the tech really was meaningfully different, or we are just (rightfully) pessimistic these days.

brandonhorst, 7 days ago

@mattiem I feel like if it were solely OCR + text search, the response would have been different. Seems like a feature that would be super useful to me. Adding “AI” to the marketing does make it sound like a security nightmare, I’ll admit.

I guess this is hitting me less hard because I will probably never own one of these PCs. If they announce something like this at dubdub, I’m sure I’ll have stronger opinions.

brandonhorst, 8 days ago

I’m calling this feature-complete for launch, barring any WWDC surprises. If they release some AI something that would fit really well, I’ll consider shifting to an iOS 18 launch and push for an app store promo. But I’m not expecting anything like that.

brandonhorst, 9 days ago

Wow, GPT really likes making software engineers. Best solution I can come up looks like this.

These npc_brief values have already been used, please avoid generating anything too close to them:

(recentBriefs.map { "- ($0)" }.joined(separator: "\n"))

brandonhorst, 13 days ago

I’ve never seen such a positive “Show HN” before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40522844

Probably in part because it’s 100% free with no sign-in at the moment. Going to be an expensive day for the creator.

brandonhorst, 13 days ago

Amazing to me that in a world where everybody is just building ChatGPT wrappers with slightly different UIs for over a year now, that I can still be surprised and impressed once in a while.

brandonhorst, 15 days ago

@unitof People say it changed for a bit, and then changed back. Could be a placebo though.

brandonhorst, 20 days ago

@y2mango Was your friend preparing to host a Nickelodeon gameshow?

brandonhorst, 21 days ago

@thatvirtualboy For point 1, you’re probably underselling yourself. If you can release an app, you’re ahead of 95% of candidates in the stuff that actually matters. Leetcode-style interviews can be studied for

For point 2, you’re probably right though

brandonhorst, 21 days ago

@thatvirtualboy In general, you’re right, especially for the actual engineers/hiring managers doing the interviews. Your resume still needs to make it past HR, but branding yourself the founder of a software startup, rather than a guy hacking on apps usually helps!

brandonhorst, 21 days ago

@podomunro The easiest way is almost definitely to put the Text in with .overlay, if there is no risk of them overlapping.

brandonhorst, 21 days ago

@podomunro Which is just a way of saying “do some funky stuff with ZStack, but without ZStack”.

brandonhorst, 21 days ago

@podomunro You want the Text to be centered vertically, and some stuff above and below it to be positioned relatively to that centered Text, regardless of their own heights?

brandonhorst, 21 days ago

@podomunro If the “above” and “below” are somewhat size-constrained, you could do something like this:

VStack {  
TopView.frame(height: 100, alignment: .bottom)  
Text()  
BottomView.frame(height: 100, alignment: .top)  
}  

If not, I’d personally reach for geometryreader, but there is likely much I don’t know.

brandonhorst, 19 days ago

@nighthawk Yeah I’ve been thinking through that too. It wouldn’t be hard at this point, as they’re all still so similar. That’s part of what I’m waiting for at WWDC. On the off-chance they do give us some interesting local LLM apis, I want to jump on that.

TBH, the hardest part of this project has turned out to be making it both Mac-assed and iOS-assed. Much of the time it feels closer to building 2 separate apps than it does to building one that runs in both places.

brandonhorst, 17 days ago

@nighthawk Absolutely. I’m not setting many clear goals for the rest of the summer because I figure it’ll change all of them anyway