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We're developers, we can solve our own problems. I have a userscript to make it so every click on a YouTube video from the home page requires a 30 second wait. Dramatically decreas…

Axios has had this style for years and years, before ChatGPT came out.

But how can I make Gemini stop using "It's not this, it's that" every other sentence?

I like this article because it feels so pre-AI. This is what people were arguing about on HackerNews back in the day! How so very nostalgic it makes me feel. But in response to the…

I've found my reading picked dramatically since I started using LLMs for programming. Waiting for a prompt to finish is a great time to read.

If we are moved emotionally by slop, does it matter? If AI can produce something to make you think and feel, does it matter? It made you think and feel.

This is copying, not stealing. Stealing means taking someone else's ideas, not their final output. Copying creates trends, where everything looks and feels the same. Stealing an id…

I have been experimenting with methods of reading books and creating software for these methods. For example, I was inspired by the activeness of typelit.io when reading - typing o…

If it was invariably going to be acquired, Cloudflare is certainly better than Microsoft, Anthropic, or private equity.

If you use the broswer verison of apps you can also inject custom scripts. I have one for Instagram that completely removes the recommendation feed. Works great.

I do judge people for using AI. Especially engineers. Oh, you're not smart enough to know how to write your own code? You need your hand to be held? You need to write your little p…

There is a difference between a run of the mill CRUD React app and solving specific, complex UI problems. I have been a programmer for a long time and CSS is still the hardest lang…

Funny how few companies are rebranding themselves as Blockchain companies anymore. Tech trends crack me up. Greed is shameless.

No. Nondeterministic output is not revolutionary. Technology forced down our throats by a few companies and executives who are licking their lips at the idea of laying off people, …

I do this too. I generally skim PRs just to make sure the person isn't doing anything too crazy. I trust my team to write good code. Pulling a branch and testing the code is usuall…

What the author fails to understand is that merely consuming text is not the be-all-end-all of being an educated citizen. I am wary of trusting an author who is screaming from the …

Any website that isn't some landing page or basic blog is going to need human intervention in the code (craftsmanship, essentially). And any website that's a landing page or basic …

Or read magazines and newspapers from reputable publications. My grammar and writing have improved tremendously from reading quality magazine articles, e.g. stuff from The Atlantic…

Now this is the type of comment to farm upvotes on Hacker News!

Clicking buttons is easier than writing a prompt.

Maybe PC manufacturers will finally get a wake up call to stop making plastic shitboxes. Maybe Microsoft will get a wake up call too. Though, I kind of doubt it as the incompetence…

Even though my Focal Bathys headphones are more expensive and have worse noise cancellation, I'm still sticking with them because the Airpods Max are so damn uncomfortable.

Yup, my Airpods Max don't hold a charge anymore. Right on time for me to buy the shiny new one!