I was robbed of that safe environment. Gosh... it hurts me to think about what could have been.

Thank you thank you thank you for writing this. This made me smile and feel like shedding a tear. This is exactly how I felt when I watched the Dave2D video of the MacBook Neo, and other "reviews" that miss the entire point. This captures the point. The other reviews capture specs. This captures the emotion. This captures the reality.

Wdym 'oral history'? Who has been talking about this history orally?

Here's my question: What do you mean a zip file can be opened without an application? I looked it up and couldn't find a way.

I'm considering terminal utilities as apps too, btw.

This is a good and important counter-point to the given article. If we as 'tech people' expect the layman to have a higher standard of tech knowledge, then what is to stop people from other fields from telling us to do the same? Truthfully, an average person won't develop expert knowledge of every field.

I wonder if that pretentiousness is present in other fields.

Call them out, call them out. Why isn't Claude a native Windows x64 app if code is free?

And if software engineering has been solved by AI, why is Anthropic still hiring and employing SWE's?

https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-claude-code-founde...

If the AI is writing 100% of the code it literally is free (as in time) for them to move them over to native apps. They should have used the tokens for that C compiler on the native apps, would have made for a much more convincing marketing story as well.

To be fair in that respect, Claude code does have a native rust implementation you can use.

A fantastic new addition to Dolphin

But what is XSLT? Why is it important?

These points should be addressed first on the website.

A web-based tool for creating customizable geometric patterns with line textures and colors. Each pattern is reproducible using a seed system.

Ignore the people criticizing you my friend, backlash is expected in a community of power users that use Hacker News- because they favor power tools. But you've made something really nice and quite useful, and you've solved a real-world problem.