I taught myself programming as a 13-year-old to make Minecraft mods. My dad works in construction, my mother in childcare. "Computer class" at school included "how to use Word 2008" I did this myself. I can't help but wonder if a more restricted internet would ever allow for such self-development.
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In this Era of Artificial Intelligence, our only saving grace is Cunningham's Law
Random idea: a specification for password requirements so that password managers can just autogenerate the most secure acceptable password.
Ah finally someone with a concise summary of the Principal Engineer’s job description!
My job as a guy who has officially Seen Some Shit in my professional career is now to show up and say "yes yes nice workaround but have we tried not having this problem" and then showing what not having the problem looks like. I can't imagine this is popular but by god is it needed
I've had "Obsidian Sync & Publish on Atproto" on my todo list for so long, can't wait for permissioned data!
Just thinking: - Obsidian Sync on your own PDS - Notion alts - Discord alts - Family/Team planning apps - Figma / Figjam alts - Social media planning apps - AI tools for keeping memories, plans, configurations at one place - CRMs - Photo Libraries - Client / Freelancer tools (with sifa integration)
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Hello. If you struggle with maladaptive overachievement, and anxiety about productivity, and you experience relief at the sensation of productivity and difficulty regulating your behavior around demands for you to be productive, that doesn't make you a bad person, and that is not addiction.
Just filled a form asking for my "LinkedIn link" and answered with my @sifa.id link. It passed 😁
how did no one notice this typo in the new tanstack website
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
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sure your “ai” can write code at the 99th percentile and solve open problems in mathematics, but can it get stoned playing factorio and forget why you were refactoring blue circuits in the first place
i regretfully report that i have been owned me: "but the chef's knife is the workhorse of the kitchen!" my girlfriend: "no, your girlfriend is the workhorse of the kitchen!"
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So this is my little very much subjective rant about #wsocial and the stupid shenanigans they've pulled that have ticked me off.
W Social and why I hate it - The Angry Dutchman
So. That's a definite statement in the post title and I'm going to stand by it. I hate W Social, for various reasons. Doesn't mean you have to agree with any of it, but hopefully it'll give you some food for thought. By-EU for-EU verified account social media, more or less. The i…
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You can only write so many basic CRUD API endpoints or basic React components before it just becomes an exercise in dissociation through menial work
I got into coding at age 8. Coding by hand does bring me a certain measure of joy. But there is so much to do, and there is little joy to be had in just writing the same boilerplate over and over again.
LLMs have allowed me to expand my toolbox well beyond what it used to be, especially since I struggle to internalize them unless I encounter them in situ. I am a stronger, more opinionated, and more analytical developer thanks to my time spent wrangling agents to do my bidding.
I think LLMs have made me grow and learn as a dev A lot about building things is knowing what exists, what methods work well, and when to apply it all. With an LLM i'm constantly learning about things I didnt know and building things in ways I would never of had time to before
I got into coding at age 8. Coding by hand does bring me a certain measure of joy. But there is so much to do, and there is little joy to be had in just writing the same boilerplate over and over again.
it feels so freaking good to code, dude. like human to IDE. how do ai-pilled people not find joy in doing this by hand. i genuinely dont understand.
I find that most of the edits I need to make to Claude-generated code to get it to a reasonable level of quality are deleting and rewriting comments. It is interesting that it is so much worse at documentation than logic.
javascript pro tip: if you find yourself typing the "class" keyword something has gone horribly wrong and you should seek shelter immediately