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For some things, good enough is good enough. For many things, it is not (and neither are random posts on the internet). Before Web 2.0, it was similar to whether I'd trust some ran…

No, the sense had nothing to do with the content and everything to do with the context. Perfect grammar and writing style were never enough to get me to trust an anonymous forum po…

I have a distinct line between when I'm willing to believe an LLM's output and when I'm not: whether I would believe the same thing from an anonymous Internet forum post or a blogg…

You can handwrite more than just your first draft. It was common before the proliferation of computers to handwrite early drafts in pencil, and then handwrite the final manuscript …

Most blu-rays are 1080p, not 4K. The latter gets marketed as "UHD" and sold in a black case, to contrast the blue case of traditional FHD blu-rays.

I suspect that vibe coders who hit a wall need the same thing that programmers from 2003 who hit a wall needed. Talk to the business people, get an understanding of their domain an…

That wall was detailed in 2003 in Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans, Chapter Four, "Smart UI Anti-Pattern." The context is the same, …

Analog Mono and Two Slice are really neat. If you like those, you'll probably also like another of my favorite modern pixel fonts: Departure Mono. https://departuremono.com

https://awnist.com/slop-cop (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806845 ) points out Staccato Burst, Dramatic Fragment, Colon Elaboration, and Short-Hook Paragraph. To me, t…

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> What I’ve built here is a structured edition — the parsing, reconstruction, linking, indexing, etc. I haven’t published a formal license for that yet. If you live in the U.S. I r…

Z.ai's Coding Plan with GLM 5.1 (Max) did more than double in price. It was $80 two weeks ago, and now it's $160.

> By default, minimize button not present in titlebars This is explained by the ElementaryOS H.I.G.: > Apps should save their current state when closed so they can be reopened righ…

I didn't want to put a spiked nose ring on the first calf born on my small farm because of the visual shock. Its mother didn't kick the calf off as it grew up. The calf wouldn't st…

I think there's a linguistically-driven temporal misunderstanding happening here. A cow couldn't have a calf if it hadn't become pregnant. But there's so much to the linguistics of…

Why would anybody who rejects them on moral grounds pick them up later? It isn't a discussion of lateness, it's a discussion of opting out.

Software Developers median pay according to BLS: $131,450 per year (Source: https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/... ) Computer Programmers median pay accord…

Ruby has types with RBS and Steep now. It's a lot like using .d.ts sidecar files alongside JavaScript, via jsconfig.json configuring tsc. I like it a lot!

> It gets 50% more pull requests, 50% more documentation, 50% more design proposals Perhaps this will finally force the pendulum to swing back towards continuous integration (the p…

This is the exact analogy that Gene Kim and Steve Yegge used throughout their book Vibe Coding: Building Production-Grade Software With GenAI, Chat, Agents, and Beyond .

Unambiguously, though, it is. There's so much trash imperative code in its training data that LLMs tend to vomit out garbage. But if you anchor it with OOP, the quality tends to be…

But now many suburban homeowners also have a little lawn tractor, and lots of people on small acreage have a utility tractor. None of them are farmers, but they get value out of th…