Google's Gemini API is a bit odd with structured outputs. If you specify an Application/JSON response mimetype, it will reliably respond with a consistent JSON output without any prompt engineering shenanigans. For my workflows, this setting plus providing a JSON Schema in the system prompt works even with complex schema.

The Gemini API has a canonical implementation of structured outputs where you can instead pass the JSON schema as a separate parameter to control the grammar more closely. However, this setting will reorder the JSON schema fields to be alphabetical beforehand, which is especially not desired behavior as the order of JSON fields in a schema is often very deliberate to control generation.

Anker's multiport chargers split differently depending on attached device configuration, but there is always a higher-charging port.

A year ago, dang said the team would prefer a more robust theming solution: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41105536

The point of the GPT-5 model is that it is supposed to route between thinking/nonthinking smartly. Leveraging prompt hacks such as instructing it to "think carefully" to force routing to the thinking model go against OpenAI's claims.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my 2020 iMac in a year. I really want to be able to repurpose that 5k screen but Apple does not make it easy.

I might just leave it in perma-Windows Boot Camp.