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www.gingerbill.org/article/2026... While reading this, I couldn’t help but think of how devs use AI today. It’s very common to see AI be the identity of a PR: - “Committed by Claude” - “Generated by Claude” - and sloppy PR description When the identity of a PR should instead be the work itself.

Good Tools Are Invisible

TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling th...

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man i just can’t with the claude-written announcements. you made an interesting thing, why not describe it in your own words? “but here’s the biggest unlock, and it’s the part that’s hardest to see” i already read this all day

Cloudflare@cloudflare.social · last mo.

We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers. https://cfl.re/4bo49YW

User story As a consumer, I’m happy to live in RAM shortage and to pay more for my hardware for the benefit of giving AI companies 200$ a month to use their products.

just got passed by a 20-30 y.o. looking dude in an electric chair loaded with two crates of beer going mad fast while hitting a vape

the bro science comedy in Project Hail Mary is super funny. Also this is the only sci-fi/space movie where I felt satisfied with the ending.

Ever noticed how your entire page shifts when you open a modal? That's not a bug, that's a missing CSS property.

Three browser window illustrations show changes before and after a modal opens, highlighting scrollbar behavior and layout shifts.

If I ever start regularly posting to LinkedIn, please understand that I am in distress and that is my signal to you that you need to save me.

I usually hate my own writing and like how others write. Now, I'm seeing more people delegate their writing to AI (not coding). It's obvious, and not very good. It's made me like my own writing more.