Sitting through another presentation on using AI at work… I’m really sad what AI has done to software engineers.
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I worked the HTML mines in the 90’s so I’ve seen some shit. I develop .NET web apps for a living. Blazor, SSR, and HTMX are my current favourites. https://github.com/robodobdob
Sound the @htmx.org klaxon! “… is not a JSON API with a client-side dashboard painted over the top. The Stylo.Bot dashboard is Razor SSR first: meaningful counters, charts, tables, links and navigation before JavaScript runs. HTMX, SignalR and Alpine then enhance that page rather than replace it.”
Signal Shingle: a novel architecture for high-performance ASP .NET multi-widget sites by Scott Galloway www.mostlylucid.net/blog/signal-... #aspnetcore
We scored an original, 1983, NZ edition Trivial Pursuit an Manny’s in Waitangirua.
In my experience, the only thing AI has done for software engineering is to create backlogs of work for other humans. For internal apps where PR and QA can be minimal, it feels faster. But as when you have regulatory or ISO boxes to tick, it’s no better than before. We’re running to stand still.
“Is the point of life merely to stockpile accomplishments? If that is what Silicon Valley believes, no wonder all the billionaires seem so unhappy all the time! They have traded experience for accomplishment, and cheated themselves out of their own lives in the process.”
Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live
An AI future of sleek, streamlined, and totally empty relationships.
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I have zero use for an Orchid, but if Matt Berry and Jemaine Clement are advertising it, I still want one. youtu.be/hbO1z13WP8o?...
"How to Orchid" by Telepathic Instruments
YouTube video by Telepathic Instruments
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WTF? We would rather desecrate a Bronze Age burial site than a movie filming location. I have no words for how dumb we have become…
This makes me so angry - and I'm a person who marks anniversaries of fictional events And look at the tat and rubbish left on the beach - despite it being an ecologically sensitive site. As if we needed yet another reason to loathe the badly written books, the creator and the fuckwit fans.
Quelle. Fucking. Surprise.
Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... "... directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer."
I love this story: nation.cymru/news/man-dre...
Man dressed as ‘Grim Reaper’ stared at patients from roof of Welsh hospital
Nation.Cymru staff Police and fire service were called out after a man who dressed up as the ‘Grim Reaper’ stared at patients from the roof of a Welsh hospital. Leon Gillespie, 26, from Deganwy, donne...
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Apropos the seemingly unstoppable fungus of AI in software engineering. gruhn.me/blog/2026-08...
Don't be a meat proxy
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This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.
I’ve been using the free radio from Apple Music lately. I’ve stumbled on Kink radio out of The Netherlands and the music mix is right up my street. I’ve not listened to Spotify for days. And, who knows, I might learn a bit of Dutch along the way 🙂
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
When I am king, broadcasting a sports item in the news segment AND the sports segment, will be met with extreme prejudice. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
I did not predict a Jesus Jones single in 2026, but there we are and it slaps. youtu.be/S3nlUyXa9Es?...
Jesus Jones "All Falls To Me" (Official Video)
YouTube video by Jesus Jones
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People have become waaaasy too comfortable going out in public in their pyjamas.
Let it be known on the 24th day of the 7th month in the year of our Lord 2026, my wife said I was right about something.
Typical…. My e-drum module has died just a few months out of warranty. Even more annoying, is it spent its final few months in storage.
I have now seen The Odyssey and it was incredible. Fair warning, you might shed a tear over Argos.
Happy new DIY guitar day to me. Took a while to build part time and attempt the finish the body with Scandinavian oil. Not sure I pulled it off. Buying a fret setup toolkit from TradeMe was a good idea, though.
Do not send your bot into my replies uninvited, I WILL waste your token budget. (Random Python scripts are good for this, on their end this would just keep generating past the post character limit.)