The underlying intent here (figure out if it's an existing customer of our locally installed apps when they visit our website) doesn't seem bad, but I certainly dislike both the hosts file and localhost detection options.

I'm curious if there's a "good" way to do this.

I dislike the intent too. A website should simply not be able to see which apps I've got installed. Imagine Facebook doing stuff like this in order to know what ads they should serve.

Fairly certain they already do, atleast on mobile.

Next they'll be installing a font like TeamViewer did... https://community.teamviewer.com/English/discussion/124507/s...

Just do it by asking users to log in. Am I missing something here ?

No that seems like the reasonable expectation to me too.

I build my own products and services and the effective ROI for paying for a more or less unlimited max Claude Code plan is fairly ridiculously positive.

Like you make money with them?

Genuinely asking: has there been a case of the prediction markets being "right" or valuable about something outside of the norm?

Worth reading for the discussion of the LLM watermark technique alone.

Perhaps not so strange in that from a practical standpoint many "AI problems" are actually "Data Problems" when you start peeling things back.

That's a good trick (the "get ready" ping). It reminds me of how early Instagram was considered fast because they did the photo upload in the background while you were typing your caption so that by the time you hit "upload" it was already there and appeared instantly.

Goofy sideprojects:

https://dnsisbeautiful.com - clean, ad free dns lookup tool.

https://evvl.ai - combination of Github Gists and AI output comparisons (evals)

https://finalfinalreallyfinaluntitleddocumentv3.com/ - free mac app to intelligently rename any kind of file (photos, videos, audio, text) based upon their contents.

I like finalfinalreallyfinaluntitleddocumentv3.com Now you don't have to worry about getting domain names, you can version them all the way with the vX. The final boss can be finalfinalreallyfinaluntitleddocumentv3_final.com

It was genuinely quite frustrating that all of the "normal" domain names were taken for this, but not actually used (basically everything "moniker.TLD").

What was surprising was that all the prefix+suffix variants of app/now, etc. were also taken so this was really just me trying to push it hard the other way.

Read to the end of the article to learn about NASA's Space Poop challenge and the award winning astronaut diaper the author created.

I'd add AWS + Gravitron to that list as well.

Lately I've made making some AWS Lambda functions to do some simple things in Python and chose to use the ARM-based instances because there wasn't any reason not to.

Yeah, we migrated a bunch of compute to Graviton a few years ago at a previous employer and the result was better performance at a lower price point.

Tahoe introduced some changes to the windowing code that badly disrupted my DisplayPort device that was rock solid on Sequoia. I ended up switching to a new device as a workaround. Window memory use (I have a lot of virtual desktops and extra screens) is much higher and there's a peristent bug where taking a screenshot with CleanShot somehow resets the DisplayPort driver and everything flips out for a minute and it has to rediscover the external monitors. Infuriating.