IIRC postman has gRPC support, unlike httpie, but it’s also so awful. If you use the gRPC support, switch to Kreya instead

I love factory games. I have over a thousand hours in Factorio.

I’ve almost entirely avoided trains. I just build conveyer belts everywhere. Huge long world-spanning conveyer belts. I just dont like having to think about trains, when conveyer belts are so simple to use.

I’m trying to save money on the power bill so I’ve reluctantly connected a few things to the wifi in the hopes that I can set them up to easily tun in a delayed way to use off-peak power. Turns out, neither the dishwasher nor the washing machine or dryer even support that! The dishwasher does, but you have to use the app every time - you can’t set it up to run delayed by default when you press the start button on the machine

So, back off the wifi they go. It was the first use I had for ‘smart’ devices and it didn’t even do the thing.

Thanks but things tend to have voltage or compatibility issues when made for a different market

Til. Still not in NZ but might grab one next time I’m across the ditch

Maybe if they could make the steam deck 1 actually available in aus/nz first so we can actually purchase them instead of everyone just having nintendo switches idk just a thought

I’m enjoying it, mostly. It’s definitely great at some tasks and terrible at orhers. You get a feel for what those are after a while:

1. Throwaway projects - proof of concepts, one-off static websites, that kind of thing: absolutely ideal. Weeks of dev becomes hours, and you barely need to bother reviewing it if it works.

2. Research (find a tool for doing XYZ) where you barely know the right search terms: ideal. The research mode on claude.ai is especially amazing at this.

3. Anything where the language is unfamiliar. AI bootstraps past most of the learning curve. Doesn’t help you learn much, but sometimes you don’t care about learning the codebase layout and you just need to fix something.

4. Any medium sized project with a detailed up front description.

What it’s not good for:

1. Debugging in a complex system
2. Tiny projects (one line change), faster to do it yourself
3. Large projects (500+ line change) - the diff becomes unreviewable fairly quickly and can’t be trusted (much worse than the same problem with a human where you can at least trust the intent)