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Trevor Elkins

@rovert_snikle

softcore programmer @emergetools, formerly @stripe and @kayak

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Claude tip: separate your work/personal accounts via `alias claude-personal="CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR=~/.claude-personal claude"` so you don't have to keep switching accounts

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Somehow the AWS VPN client app is 140MB. And installing the app also adds a 118MB UNINSTALLER app. Isn't uninstalling in macOS just deleting the .app file for the most part? What the hell is going on. 😂

Somehow the AWS VPN client app is 140MB. And installing the app also adds a 118MB UNINSTALLER app. Isn't uninstalling in macOS just deleting the .app file for the most part? What the hell is going on. 😂
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Looking at github.com/apple/swift-co… I can guarantee an incident will happen from someone messing up the `{ "http": { "timeout": 30 } }` to `HTTP_TIMEOUT` to "http.timeout" provider translation.

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It's surprising how complicated it is to build a high quality CLI tool like Claude Code, like dealing with all the weird terminal quirks and ancient APIs. It almost seems easier building a game in Unreal with custom graphics/rendering.

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having a boomer moment, looks like a neat project but I don't really understand what I would use for? the repo doesn't give any practical examples.

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obligatory skills are awesome but beware installing from an unknown/lesser-known source. someone could easily take over or purchase the repo and swap the skill out with malicious prompts before you notice. and yes this has happened before.

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SwiftUI by itself in a vacuum is great. The pain comes with all the hidden behavior of Apple's core components and how they bridge to old UIKit classes under the hood. Simple things like "why does my List have some background I can't remove" turns into hour long scream sessions

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Why does Github redesign everything to be worse 😭 there is no easy way to get back to the Conversation feed in a PR without scrolling all the way to the top.

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It's amusing that skills are finally forcing everyone to document their codebases plus all the occasional tasks/flows they use. Maybe future dev onboarding will just be "check out our existing skills and agent files".