> Siri is definitely worth using now, even if it remains still a work-in-progress/needs continued refinement. It can surprise you in good ways, but it isn't consistently good yet.

I really wish we could add our own custom prompts for the new Siri. My most common usage of Siri is "Remind me at XX:00 to do XYZ." The most common response from Siri now is, "Sorry, did you say XYZ or XZY?", where XYZ and XZY are two very similar things between which the difference is inconsequential.

Dealing with this "Sorry" response has made reminders take annoying extra steps. Wish I could throw in a "If I'm setting a reminder and you don't quite hear me, just put both things in one reminder and I'll figure it out myself" to the prompt.

What were the tradeoffs with Proton?

For me it was search. The proton apps are the only way to access email on mobile, and on them and on their webapp the search barely functioned, even with full text search downloaded. The only way to reliably search my email was with Proton Mail Bridge on desktop, but for some reason it continuously was using CPU on my laptop and of course didn’t work on mobile. If they made a server version that I could put in a docker container on my server it would probably solve most of my problems with Proton, because then I could access it from the Mail app on my phone over IMAP.

As a Proton user - the main trade-off for me is that you are forced to use their apps on mobile, and those apps are pretty barebones and (on iOS at least) have none of the bells and whistles of a modern iOS app, such as Home Screen widgets.

Since I use my own domain for email, I am considering moving over to another provider once my subscription term is up. I really miss widgets.

for me there were two:

no caldav support so I couldn't get my next appointment as a widget on my phone. Similarly, your contacts in proton are trapped there and cannot sync with any other system (such as your phone...)

limited quantity of aliases compared to fastmail. this is actually a really sticky feature with fm from what I've been seeing. I would have to rename a bunch of accounts or switch to using a catchall to transfer out.

When I cancelled Proton the subscription ended immediately instead of running out the clock on the time I had paid for. Left a really bad taste in my mouth.

I was excited about it when it first came out, but haven't heard anything about it since.

This kind of makes the Digg team look like a joke. Rebuilding was always going to be hard, but I think this kills any chance of building it up a third time since no one can take it seriously.

Digg v3 was in 2006, this is at least v5 :)

I think there was a v4 that attempted to bridge the gap between v3 and v4.

Then v5 was when it wasn't curated at all and just a generic news aggregator.

So this is v6 I guess.

With time, I've been revoking the ability of more and more apps to deliver notifications. The vast majority of the notifications these days are just pointless ads anyway.

We use self-hosted GitLab at work. It’s really a pleasure to use, everything works the way it feels like it should. The main downside is the system resource requirements are absurd considering at any given time there’s only 1-2 people using the GitLab interface.

The prose style and the fact that it was super repetitive. Every bullet re-described the copy-pasting. Definitely LLM slop.

> Side note: anyone else have moments where you can’t press delete once predictive text has shown up?

Chiming in just to say: yes

> the engineers aren't complaining, in fact it is the opposite, they are actually more productive.

More productive isn't the opposite of complaining.

I don't hear any either way.

If an engineer complains in the woods and nobody is around to hear them, did they even complain at all?

How is no syntax highlighting better, specifically?

(To address sibling comment: If I were colorblind, I would lead with that in any conversation about syntax highlighting; I am not colorblind.)

To answer the question: it's a feeling, like lots of things in software development. I tried "no syntax highlighting", found that I liked it, and I no longer use syntax highlighting. To say "specifically" how it's "better"... I'm not even saying it's better. "I like no-syntax-highlighting" is the statement I'm making (which, when it comes to syntax highlighting, is a statement a lot of people have issues with). So, from my personal experience, I take issue with the statement that no-syntax-highlighting is making things "difficult for the sake of it".

Try this out for analogy: I ate Red Baron pizzas every Friday night for 15 years, then I heard about homemade pizza 10 years ago. I tried making homemade pizza. It was good! ("I tried it and liked it") Now I only eat homemade pizza on Fridays. How is homemade pizza specifically better? It's better because I like it more. That's all there is to it. It's a preference.

(For the analogy to work, you have to like or at some point have liked Red Baron frozen pizzas. I happen to like them... the analogy is flawed though, I admit!)

(Let me preempt criticism that I'm comparing Red Baron frozen pizzas to syntax highlighting. I am not. It's only about the preference, not the object of the preference.)

Not op, but in my case a lifetime of colourblindness has desensitised me to colour as an indicator.

I have my editor configured with zero highlighting for keywords and syntactic elements. Admittedly, I have compilation/lint/syntax/type check errors set to invert the erroneous block, black background white text.

Syntax and keyword highlighting is just noise given I’ve been trained by decades of colourblind unfriendly interfaces

Syntax highlighting doesn't necessarily mean color, though. Using boldface to highlight keywords is another option that is traditional in some circles (e.g. Delphi has been doing that for 30 years now).

that's a very good reason to not use syntax highlighting. If that is what the other guys are dealing with, I withdraw my critique but I don't get the impression that is the case