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Another thought on vibe coding: If devs are so committed to the idea of "not reading the code," why have I not seen anyone making LLMs output minified code?

I think people have overlooked how being charged per-token has given us a concrete reason to choose tabs over spaces. If you use an LLM, you're now paying to send that bloated indentation over and over.

New app: do you want to enable notifications? Me: I don't even want to have this phone

A real literacy crisis is not having vocabulary for situations that sit between "they didn't give me enough ketchup packets" and "war crime."

If you need to change BIOS settings in 2026 to run a game your computer is already screwed up and they're doing you a favor.

bro do u want to hang out and share our expertise. acknowledge one anothers mastery of our respective crafts

We'll never know what dogs dream about, and that makes me a little sad.

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TFW you're sent to AIHR for using AI at work

I wonder how long it will be until smart phone companies start serving you ads on your lock screen.

It's kinda insane how if you really love Programming you should probably not go into the current software development industry because you are certainly not gonna be doing enough Programming to be content with your life.

The year of the Linux desktop is near

are you sure there isn’t another way, richest man alive?

you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”

At a certain point we have to stop seeing these articles as being about how advanced AI supposedly is and start asking why a non-negligible percentage of modern adults are psychiatrically vulnerable to autocorrect

Another mindfuck is realizing that decision about some aspect of a massive company. There wasn't some process or jury. There's just Some Person that decided most of it. And when that person is you, you get it. People come and think a choice was some huge deliberation. It wasn't. You just... decided.

This is not a comment on this particularly, but I've said on different platforms there are relatively significant portions of humanity that aren't psychologically equipped to understand something that so closely mirrors human intelligence. Thinking through ~how and why it responds just doesn't work.

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh.

I love the constant A/B testing of everyday experiences which make it so that everything’s constantly confusing and every bit of online help for finding a thing is outdated a week after it’s posted

yeah! what is it about them? 🤔

Watch enough dash cam videos and your sense for danger when driving starts to border on premonition.

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I'll save them some time: It's gonna be break

80's: Imagine words as a person 2000's: Imagine 90 triangles as a person 2020's: They turned down the soft body physics of her breast mesh you can really tell if I set p.gravity to 0.7. The swing limits and constraints are halved, and the damping is basically locking them to her chest.

I love concurrency in Go. Channels are such a fresh way of thinking about shared memory.

I wonder what percentage of the world's compute power is spent on encryption and decryption.

Is it a better New Year's Resolution to post more or to post less?

Always surprising how much quieter it is when people aren't driving.

Extremely stylized drawing of Donkey Kong showing a little boy "wondrous places", from a promotional story book included with Nintendo's 1999 corporate annual report.

Spent the evening tinkering with a little blog project only to crash head first into this comic immediately afterward.

Advent of Code really hits its stride when you start getting the performance problems

Hard times create strong hardware. Strong hardware creates good times. Good times create weak software. Weak software creates hard times.

It's going to be so funny in a few years when media companies do a 180 on AI because copyright laws won't protect anything they generate.

I know this is a bit, but as someone who is tasked with fixing all the tech problems every time I visit my aging parents, the computer problems have all but disappeared since I switched them to Linux.

This connection brings me more joy than I feel sufficiently capable of expressing.

I briefly put principles and values aside to make a saltier, crankier case for leaving X: Elon Musk is uniquely insufferable holapapi.substack.com/p/x-out

I have these blue sky invite codes and absolutely zero friends