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Just finished writing a (longer than expected) post about some problematic loading behavior in Next.js, hope it'll be useful to someone: karuna.dev/nextjs-prelo...

Incredible feat of engineering: youtu.be/0mCsluv5FXA

True that

Crazy stuff happening in Instagram Reels right now, feeling sorry for the folks at Meta who’ll have to clean this up

It just dawned on me that the most precious part of Cursor as a company is the behavior telemetry. I always thought of these tools as “gather open source -> LLM -> copilot”. But Cursor collects the behavior(!!!). Crazy things could be done with it once we stop thinking about AI in terms of LLMs

> Claude 3.7 Sonnet shows particularly strong improvements in coding and front-end web development. This makes me think of how invaluable the telemetry from Cursor is for basically any AI company. They have privacy mode, but I’m sure not everyone uses that

Had a random (and likely unoriginal) thought: if a gazillion-parameter AI (LLM or not) were trained on everything humanity had, then each of our personalities — or even identities — could be represented as a relatively small vector of weights. Possibly in the ballpark of a few kilobytes per person.

For people who do web with Next.js: `ReactDOM.preload` and, therefore, Next.js's `<Image priority />` will not always work if it is behind a Suspense boundary. <link rel="preload"> will be streamed to the end of the body and your precious LCP and image loading times will drop. In-depth post coming

Wrote a small post about the fact that #ff0000 is not the reddest red. Inspired by a recent hackernews thread/post, links inside: karuna.dev/colormaxxing/

Nine patch versions in ten days, exciting

Did they really artificially darken The Weeknd’s filming footage to create a fake impression of iPhone’s low light performance? The white balance diff between scenes was quite apparent. I’m no pro, but to get that image quality on an iPhone the set def should’ve been filled with high power lights

Apple: * thoroughly explains how they do most AI stuff on-device * send heavier tasks to their custom cloud which is supposed to be openly auditable * integration with OpenAI is limited and explicit Elon: “Apple has no own AI, sold their users to OpenAI by integrating it deEpLy iNtO the OS”

Also their TikTok-ish music discovery feed is really cool. Spotify’s “Discover Weekly” really sucks, don’t get why people love it

I keep paying for both Spotify and Apple Music and all their recommendations are always the same songs with half of them being already in my library. Enter YouTube Music, random shit every time I refresh the page. MUCH better

I'm having this big trip planned in a few weeks and my brain is refusing to spend two more hours and finish booking the airbnb/hotels. Instead I decided to set up my bsky account and start posting here, yeah

hello Bluesky!