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This is my thinking as well. Although the 'never do full rewrites' rule is canon for most of the software world, I have led rewrites of two large front-end applications to great su…

It sounds like two factors are at work - reducing personal time-tracking AND doing more AI-assisted work, both of which can reduce our ability to focus. In the case of AI, it also …

The benchmark tables in the Google announcement include Opus 4.7, and the numbers are very impressive. Caveat emptor, but it's not unreasonable to compare a new Flash to a current-…

As a project that started with a lot of idealism about how software _should_ be built, I would totally expect Bun to have an llms.txt file even if Claude wasn't using it. It's a pr…

To be fair, history also demonstrates the deadly consequences of groups claiming moral absolutes that drive moral imperatives to destroy others. You can adopt moral absolutes, but …

but as mlinsey suggests, what if it's influenced in small, indirect ways by 1000 different people, kind of like the way every 'original' idea from trained professionals is? There's…

Actual Nielsen Norman Group article here https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass/ Can mods change the linked article away from the thin blog post?

Most browsers will engage the GPU for compositing layers if they think the layers can be separated - https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/12/gpu-animation-doing...

I start all my UI projects with this principle, but it's extremely difficult to maintain as screens evolve. I want typography-driven interfaces with structure communicated through …

There are definitely projects designed with the specific intent of doing that, e.g. https://longnow.org/clock/ But there are other things, including awesome-and-dangerous nuclear w…

The automatic ci/cd suggestion sounds appealing, but at least in the NPM ecosystem, the depth of those dependencies would mean the top-level dependencies would constantly be increm…

I realize it's a nit-pick, but that is not at all the common definition of light pollution as it relates to night skies.

I'm skeptical that we would need determinism in a supervisor in order for it to be useful. I realize it's not exactly analogous, but the current human parallel, with senior/princip…

The linked article from Steve Yegge ( https://sourcegraph.com/blog/revenge-of-the-junior-developer ) provides a 'solution', which he thinks is also imminent - supervisor AI agents,…

You're kind of making his point - the second and third paragraphs are explicitly about the fact that he is not an Ivy League professor. Be the change you want to see in the world b…

To be fair, "30 years of experience" likely opens more doors than any particular skill listed on your CV - that doesn't reflect the way that a majority of junior/mid-level devs nee…

I'm sure I could dig into the details, but the Solid protocol seems to have similar high-level objects to AT Protocol, but a quick search doesn't reveal many sources that refer to …

Was that kind of control well-received by your teams? Out of context, it sounds like it would be pretty rough to be an engineer on a team where your manager had sole control over w…

This not a criticism, but the comment you are replying to is a critique, not a criticism.

But that take is too narrow - many of the 'great' painters had extensive training in the work of previous masters, frequently copying their works repeatedly in order to develop tec…

That is a good sign, for sure. Maybe revise to 'Facebook will eat 20% of your lunch - your business model will need to account for that'. Products like this don't have a big moat o…

I'm probably too cynical, but a strong "personality and fixed opinions" doesn't really give me a lot of confidence in a human being's competency (I also wouldn't use the word "comp…

Meeting up in real life is all about network effects - people make friends through networks, organize events through networks, and discover new opportunities through networks. If y…

I've worked in this product area before, and the big threats that we always had to watch out for were 1. Spam - once the app is large enough, you will be inundated with 'groups' th…

It would be interesting to know the average Roam user profile - I suspect that most don't need multiple simultaneous HD streams or the ability to transfer massive files quickly. I …