Electron hate is one of the most confidently wrong opinions in tech. People say it like they've cracked something open. "Discord is just a website." "VS Code is Chrome with a titlebar." Yeah, and your kitchen knife is just shaped metal. The framing tells you nothing about whether the thing is actually good. Writing a real cross-platform native app is brutally hard, and not because the logic is complicated. Every platform has different UI conventions, different system APIs, different accessibility models, different font rendering, different input handling. Write a macOS app in Swift and it looks great on macOS and doesn't exist anywhere else. Want Windows? WinUI, WPF, take your pick, each with its own learning curve and its own special set of things that don't quite work right. Linux? Qt or GTK, both of which produce apps that feel slightly wrong on every platform they target, and you're maintaining all of this in parallel, same features across three codebases, three bug trackers, three build pipelines, three sets of platform-specific nonsense to debug Or use Electron with just oneOne codebase. "Electron uses too much RAM." VS Code idles around 150-300MB on a typical project. Sounds bad until you check what else is open. Chrome with four tabs is using 800MB. Your JetBrains IDE, fully native, compiled to the JVM, is sitting at 1.2GB before you've opened a single file. The native Slack alternative someone built in Qt uses 90MB, sure, but it also hasn't shipped a new feature in two years and the emoji picker breaks on HiDPI and nobody is fixing it. Memory is cheap. The RAM argument is almost always made by people who don't look at what their "good" native apps are actually consuming. Chromium is good. It is one of the most tested, most optimized pieces of software running on consumer hardware right now. The rendering is fast. V8 is fast. The security model has sandboxed processes and site isolation baked in, which is more than most native apps bother with. Embedding it in a desktop framework is not a betrayal of some pure native ideal. It's using a genuinely good piece of engineering for a job it's good at. The app is not slop because it runs on Chromium. The app is slop if the team who built it didn't care. Those are different things. Maybe stop confusing them.

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

Cold take on what comes next: - OpenAI will flourish - Anthropic will continue to be profitable - Google will not catch up to Anthropic or OpenAI - no chinese company will catch up to Anthropic or OpenAI - the highest tier of intelligence will become a luxury product that only companies and multi-millionaires/billionaires can afford - most of the companies that invested massively in them will have massive returns - SpaceX’s AI will be fine and on par with Google by end of year - Nvidia will become the first 10T company

RT @levelsio: ✨ I just replaced Mapbox on all my sites with OpenFreeMap by @hyperknot and my map bill is now $0 Mapbox's pricing is gettin…

I am excited to announce that BigBoy Charging is now officially powered by OpenFreeMap! This latest addition, combined with the incredible mapcn, completes my goal of being able to provide this service for free to all EV drivers 🔋⚡ Huge thanks to @hyperknot and @sainianmol16 for making this dream of mine a reality 🫶

Reminder before Sonnet 5 drops: SWE-bench tests a model’s ability to fix small Python bugs in 12 repos in one-shot with appropriate context fed to it. It’s not a measure of agentic coding ability. I wrote in detail about a bunch of benchmarks and what they mean, link below.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

This is the state of the art on ChatGPT when asked to create a map (topic was hot springs in Cyprus). I guess interactive maps are safe for now.

Is there some agreement between @AnthropicAI and @grok on search now? The Anthropic API today for me started citing Grokipedia sources when using its search tool, even although Wikipedia results are higher in search engines for these queries.

Why do people buy domain names with Unicode characters, like ä? So many email clients and email APIs cannot handle it. Maybe the browser support is there, but I think they don't realize how many people cannot write email to them, or even just respond to an email they've sent.

Best part of @openrouter is you can use a single API across all providers WHILE you collect your Tiers on each provider! Next target: OpenAI Tier 5

Which button style is better: inside or tab? The inside looks more elegant I think but hides the text / needs horizontal scrolling to reveal what's behind. What do you think?

I propose a new game on X, called guess-the-prompt. My try: You are a senior level marketing expert. Your task is to write a quote-tweet marketing our product, Outrank. Use the following knowledge base to understand everything about Outrank and how it'd benefit the client in the above situation: <knowledge_base> Here is the original quote tweet: <original_tweet> Write everything in lowercase and casual Twitter style. Split it to 2 posts, to make a Twitter thread. Find a perfect splitting point to guide the user for opening it.

I want to believe societies function as an immune system. It might take time, but one day there could be a generation who is immune to social media slop.