Niantic. And always have been

Completely missed that! No wonder that the post made me think of it then!

The tech stack reminds me of this: https://boringtechnology.club/

There exists browser plugins for this

Also, they have a private API. Minim is a really good API wrapper in Python. The dev branch contains V2 which is currently in alpha

If you’re running Linux, check out QBZ, or qobuz-player if you prefer terminal. The official client also works pretty well in Bottles, but I like QBZ better than the official one

Casey Newton wrote about this a lot two years ago: https://www.platformer.news/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack/

Yeah, FOSS doesn’t have the incentive and have different ideological roots

+1 for niri. Installed it on my 11" laptop, and it is as if it’s made for that use case

I am already coding like someone with no experience coding and trained in a whole different field

Never tried Nim, but I saw this on lobste.rs and thought of you: https://miguel-martin.com/blog/nim2-review

+1 for Qobuz! Tidal firing 100 employees did not inspire confidence in their app being less shit

Do people really drink only one cup a day? Here I’m with my 4-8 cups per day

Wait, what is a regular amount of coffee to drink?

Check out enshittification and the rot economy. I feel like those two terms encompass pretty much what we are seeing these days

I’m using Kitty. Kitten ssh is smooth as I ssh into other machines a lot. I also love being able to split the screen and have tabs. I use Kitty session a lot, I have a pre-configured yaml file that just sets up the terminal for me. I like the keyboard shortcuts too.

This reminds me of a Viagra Boys song

Ksnip does the trick for me