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yeah! for this specific UI it’s controlled by the apple-app-site-association file. eg: lapcatsoftware.com/articles/uni... same as what triggers this UI on iOS orionfeedback.org/d/9118-show-...

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yeah I’m curious like… is it one plugin that everyone already used for something else? did admins go out and install it specifically? is it five different plugins that all had the same idea

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I _think_ that if this is Safari then it’s not directly controlled by the website? the website just provides a meta tag that indicates the app but the UI (and lack of dismissability) is all Apple

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 09/09/2025

why does every ecommerce website now offer me “You’ve earned a mystery discount!! Which of the following are you most interested in:” as soon as I click on anything I really don’t think it used to be like this

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h/t @simonwillison.net for writing a lot about AI security

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 09/09/2025

More blogging! I don't want AI agents controlling my laptop. Not because that's not useful, but because it's incredibly hard (impossible?) to do securely: sophiebits.com/2025/09/09/a...

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I don’t want AI agents controlling my laptop

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 25/08/2025

yes! I didn’t realize until this week that it used similar techniques

no need to deviate from the style you use for everyone!

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love it! (btw I use she/her pronouns)

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probably cases where all three make sense! I know some providers eg Materialize also offer subscriptions on top of materialized views so you can have both in the same system

I wonder why you still need memory turned on at the account level to enable it!

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Materialized views are obviously useful

I keep getting into conversations with engineers where I talk about how desperately I want my database to support materialized views with incremental updates and too often I get a blank stare in response. so I wrote a new post about why you should care! sophiebits.com/2025/08/22/m...

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 07/08/2025

"there’s no way to get at those thinking traces via the API; all you get is silence" — this isn't true, you can pass {"reasoning": {"summary": "auto"}} in Responses API to get similar "thinking summaries" streamed

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 23/07/2025

you gotta say which processes!

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 17/07/2025

if you’re seeing it in screen recordings then it’s probably this if you’re seeing it IRL then idk maybe something else

sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 17/07/2025

I have a confession to make. I've gone back and forth on whether to say anything, but I can't keep quiet any longer—not only does this look bad, it makes no sense. Please stop doing the cursor-smoothy effect that Screen Studio does. It's so bad. Not how hovering on things works!! Hello!

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sophie alpert @sophiebits.com · 12/07/2025

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