Unrelated, but if you have an iPhone, I use Chuck for this. The free tier is plenty if you just want to use it to clean up the inbox.

https://chuck.email

Recent related post where Apple seemingly forgot to disable source maps for the App Store

Apple's App Store Full Front End Source Code

https://hackertimes.com/item?id=45804664

edit: formatting

Saw this related post a bit ago: https://hackertimes.com/item?id=45637049

usa-status.com was enough to make me laugh a bit at least

> Directories containing .jj are now treated as git repositories.

So glad to see this!

If warp had just stuck to being a decent terminal emulator with great UI, I would be using it without question. This AI nonsense is why I don't even consider them an option.

The slick AI integration is exactly why I use it over the other thousand terminal emulators.

Claude Code can replicate some of the behavior, but it’s too slow to switch in and out of command / agent flows.

Merge tool is the big one for me

Can anyone recommend a good intro to understanding string encoding article?

After reading this, I did a search for mentions of this article and found this StackOverflow gem. The top answer basically picks up where the JoelOnSoftware article leaves off and filled in the rest of the blanks for me.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2241348/what-are-unicode...

Still have more reading to do and a lot to learn but this was super informative, so thank you internet stranger.

Haha, this is fantastic.

> So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.

Thank you!

With greatly reduced reliability...

The Talk Python podcast just did an episode adjacent to this

https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/513/stories-from-python-...

Hard agree. To me this article just sounds like a breakdown of team structure, or at least someone who has never had a good manager or PM.