Been working on offline apps (Android) for the past couple of years. Syncing is hard. Some takes:
- There was never a budget for CRDT's
- Conflicts were never our primary focus, instead our focus were business problems
- Event-sourced arch + offline first app was quite a fun. Basically I've recorded all the events in sequence in SQLite, queued them up when there was a connection and had network retry policy in place + reverting an event locally if retry failed n-th amount of times.
I've mocked a lot in my past. Last 2 years I've been using fakes explicitly, although it has an overhead, I like it as there is less maintenance and refactoring with tests.
Event-driven architecture should be implemented across complete system (client-be) or be used in a single feature, i.e. it needs to be all or bare minimum, else it's just an absolute mess.
As an indie AND dev, with close to 100k downloads on the app, I dread of making any changes to my app. It's like looking for trouble really. Last couple of times I made smallest change, there was always something else I needed to address.
As a professional AND dev, this sounds like there might be less devs, which means more work for me.
It is hit or miss for me when I ask it to just show the changes. But I do wonder if it is more beneficial (albeit harder for us to parse) for it to keep posting the whole source code so it is always in context. If it just works on the little update sections, it could lose context of things that are already written in the code.
However as the context windows increase, I suppose this will be less of an issue.
This is absolutely correct. I'm considering removing that part of my pre-prompt because it's flaky and loses context when the conversation falls out of the window.
I find myself restarting conversations a lot as they get too long.
It would be very useful to me if I could have something like a conversation context tree where I could branch off various threads in order to maintain the "main context trunk" of a conversation but on a new branch. This would allow you to have "sidebar" conversations that veer off topic.
When this happens in the ChatGPT UI I tend to scroll all the way back up to the input which steered the conversation (in a different but useful direction), I then edit that input which lobs off the off-topic branch and continues from the main context trunk.
I've noticed my TikTok feed is full of "Bosnian Serbs want emancipation, war is looming on Western Balkan" type of videos lately. My guess is Russia and China want another war far from Ukraine so western nations focus less on Ukraine.
There is absolutely no way to draw general conclusions like this from one single person's experience on the FYP algorithm - it's very different depending on who is viewing it.
If you think about it, social media is a great propaganda tool if you are a bad state actor. Content for young people and indoctrination delivered right to their eyeballs.
Yeah my CV1 doesn’t work anymore, I think Meta added some account requirement. I feel like Facebook stole some money from me, in the sense that it wasn’t obvious when I bought the thing that I’d need to buy into their ecosystem. But it is basically first gen hardware, so I guess it isn’t worth anything.
I was pretty excited about VR (enough to drop a couple hundred on what was then a top of the line headset) but overall this experience killed all interest for me.
Maybe good open source options will come out in a couple years.
A friend of mine has been working this year on getting the CV1/Rift S running without the Oculus app/Meta account, which also means continued support for these two discontinued headsets. I don't think she has publicly released it yet, but good progress is being made.
