GitHub's Command Palette got really janky and buggy. I wonder what could have caused it.
Angel Chiang
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Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that …
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Intelligence shouldn't be reduced to what a computer can do.
Trust is interesting because it’s not quantifiable but it certainly is palpable. Teams with trust move lightning speeds faster than those without.
The way that "Moltbook" is used as the basis for another spin at the "AGI is right around the corner" wheel really shows how hollow tech - specifically AI - discourse really is. Oh wow, a stochastic language model trained on social media posts can generate social media posts.
I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.
Multiple federal agents can later be seen struggling with the man who is shot. One federal agent is seen approaching with empty hands, before reaching around the man’s waist.
It's really sad that Chrome laid off one of the world's best CSS developer-designers, and now they have to fake demos of web features. youtu.be/d8J0vs-bEPE?...
Create Scroll-Triggered Animations with CSS
YouTube video by Chrome for Developers
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anyway, I nominate "slop" to be the @merriam-webster.com word of the year
The first #AdventOfCode 2025 puzzle comes out in about five hours! What's your plan? What language(s?!) are you using? What's your IDE of choice and why is it Vim? Do you have a comfy chair? Did you check out the beta release of Lua 5.5? How much sleep have you gotten? Drinking enough water? 🌟 ❤️ 🎄
Random Tanya Thoughts on Video: securing vibe coded apps built by non-software engineers. How do we handle that????? https://twp.ai/9PYWuo
It's difficult for me to express in words just how frustrating it is when Microsoft, Google, AND Apple try (constantly) to force me to save online (onto THEIR cloud) instead of locally, removing my options. I literally HATE it. Stop taking away my choices. Like if you agree.
Please do 🙏. There are still people who like to consume written content more than videos.
Every once in a while I like to test ChatGPT's knowledge. You know, just to see how well it's keeping up with updates in the field and how correct and trustworthy its information is. (Spoiler: it's not.) Despite sounding VERY confident and like it "knows" what it's saying, it turns out it doesn't.
The world is going to shit and I still have to do my part to increase shareholder value tomorrow
They put all the emphasis on how much time they save and ignore how exhausting it is to be permanently working with code that looks perfect but can't be trusted at all.
i rely on llms daily but using them well requires constantly staying in an extremely unnatural mind state, constantly adversarial. i’m not sure this scales very well and i hope we’ll figure out something more sustainable
like people who build frameworks. will they talk about how that's done anymore? it seems like so much of the audience has settled for quasi-religious sama style presentations. so it's actually easier to market developer products that way, just magic
Yep distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru...
It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich
Feeding slop is an act of war
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New pet peeve is when I ask someone a nuanced question and they respond "Here's what GPT said" I already asked GPT, if it had a good answer I wouldn't have asked you! Gonna need to develop social protocols around this
GitHub is killing the command palette 😑. I guess too few of us use it.
Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
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When you’re done pointing and laughing, you might like to know that this was written by someone who doesn’t speak English as a first language. Awan is from Nepal. I’ve seen this happen in other communities, where people accuse non-English speakers of being ”AI”. adactio.com/journal/21241
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A web by humans, for humans.
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Oh actually it _used_ to be Apache 2.0 (so I wasn't crazy) and they used to accept sponsorships but.. then they amended the license to squash a marketplace copycat and removed the sources a while later? This sucks. web.archive.org/web/20241003...
License Change from standard Apache 2.0 license · jgraph/drawio · Discussion #4623
From today the license applied to the project will be the Apache 2.0 license with an extra line forbidding usage of the codebase as an integration or app to Atlassian's Confluence or Jira products....
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