I took too much cold medicine and was given access to a coding agent. This is the result.

I was in an interview once and the prospective employer asked me what church I attend. I replied, "Catholic." He said, "Is that even Christian?" So, yeah, plenty of Americans have a skewed view of Catholicism.

Being asked your religion in a job interview is wild (outside of a few select jobs, like Pope)

As discrimination based on religion is illegal in most of the world, it’s also probably exposing the person asking and the company to a lot of potential legal risk. It’s a big no where I live and part of the things you are explicitly trained to never ask about.

Bummed there wasn't one vampire joke or pun or allusion in this entire article.

Or Garth Marenghi quote.

Not even in the subtext.

I had the opposite experience coming from Django/Flask to Elixir/Phoenix. I found it very comfortable and that there were many similar patterns at the framework level. Now, LiveView is a bit of a different story but basic Phoenix routing and views seem quite similar to Django routing and views. Ecto's model schemas have a decent amount of overlap with Django's model objects.

Was it the LiveView stuff that felt foreign? I'd agree there's a learning curve there as someone coming from Django.

I'm interested to see how this goes.

I recently used ChatGPT and Claude to help myself build a simple app for my wife. Just listing things and being able to edit them basically. It was VERY frustrating as both models get pretty basic things wrong around the plumbing stuff like configuring SwiftData or CoreData.

I tried it with a version of the prompt(s) I used in that project and I got an app that's just a white page.

Thanks for giving it a try! I just took a look at your prompt and it looks well defined. I'll investigate the generated code and reply back here.

I made some slight modifications to your prompt and got something working:

Here's the prompt: https://i.imgur.com/lUjLTsd.png Plain text: https://pastebin.com/HTUjcy7M

The two differences from your prompt are I changed "A listing of horses" to "A listing of horses that the user has added" and at the end I added "Use NSUserDefault for data persistence, not coredata". I'm modifying the model prompt as something like that should definitely not be needed in the app specifications.

Some screenshots of the generated app: https://i.imgur.com/IwEKuZW.png https://i.imgur.com/zONc9Fm.png

Would you go into a store, pick up the newspaper, and walk out without paying?

It remains (generally) legal and pretty commonly acceptable to walk into a store and read the paper before returning it and leaving.

"You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow and then steal it again!"

Apple News does this. Tons of magazines across the spectrum and number of larger US newspapers. If you aren't in the US or at least wanting to read in English, I don't know.

In fact in France quite a few major French, local and some international newspapers + tech + science + entertainment + + + magazines are free online with a library registration. The service is called Cafeyn, and you could bookmark, print or save as pdf pages of all publications available.

In general HN doesn't like apple's approach to news aggregating (i.e. a closed app rather than a 'super account' that works on native websites or an RSS-type feed) but +1

I wouldn't rely on their aggregation. But, with a subscription, you can just read the magazines in the same format and layout as they are printed. No aggregation to get in the way.

Qobuz markets itself first as a hi-res streaming service. However, it also offers FLAC purchases without DRM that are yours even if you don't continue to use Qobuz. Their selection is very large and might have more options for more well-known acts.

I spent a lot of time doing newspaper and magazine layout with this back in the day.

Really, any forum that focuses on a specific niche. They could be some of the best places in the Internet. Facebook ate up most of those amazing communities.