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SOFTWARE
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Hardware Alone Isn’t Enough: Software Stack is Crucial for Adoption
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It’s wild to me that folks still don’t understand this A piece of hardware doesn’t matter if the software stack isn’t there Good luck waiting 5 years for that Intel GPU to be widely supported Even the Blackwell kernels aren’t mature yet and it’s already widely adopted lol
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Spec Sheet Irrelevance Due to Missing Software
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go buy both and you’ll see how all you’re repeating from the spec sheet doesn’t matter because the software doesn’t exist for it lol
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Developer shares experience with Supabase backend platform
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Also love Supabase but haven’t had a need for it recently.
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Claude integrates Figma, Canva, Amplitude for mobile access
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@AnthropicAI casually dropping the best update ever Figma, Canva, Amplitude (and many more) now straight from your phone. We are so back.
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Testing Strategy: Public Interface vs Implementation Details
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Right, but I can have both now: tests plagiarist the public interface which don't need rewriting when I refactor the code, and tests againsts the underlying details that I can throw away and replace when I make changes
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Mocking External Services in Software Testing Best Practices
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Ugh, yeah I really don't like mocking culture – I use mocks exclusively for external services that I have no control over, eg I'll mock an HTTP request against an external API so my test suite works even if that API is rate-limited or flaky
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Integration Tests and Code Maintenance: A Modern Perspective
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I've always been much more interested in integration tests than lower level tests myself, but that's because when maintaining tests is expensive it's important to have the highest value, most refactor-supporting tests possible Maintaining tests is much cheaper now
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Fireworks API Reliability and Model Latency Status Concerns
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Fireworks is super cool – but it was a bit flaky yesterday. Are you guys overloaded atm? Your status shows all-green; does it fully check model latency as part of its status checks?