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> Just doing something human in a dehumanizing world is enough. Yes! it's been years since I read the fun, cool, nerdy post I used to read here... so whatever, I'll write them myse…

Thanks! writing the next post ATM :-) For the longest time I was completely at a lost for how I was able to complete stuff for my employers but when I decided to do something I cou…

Fair enough... I think it really depends about what dependencies we talking about. NPM decencies is a bit of dumpster fire, supply chain attacks galore! A well known python (think …

This resonates with me. The concept of cig it I've debt was something I've been experiencing but didn't have a name for it. I think it is worth noting that not all code is equal...…

OpenAI: "Oops, AI hacked somebody accidentally..." US Military: "Great, let's give it missiles!"

Idk for UX but I’ve found Claude helpful at creating ideas and mockups for gui apps I need. Don’t ask it to generate any images or vectors, it’s horrible at that, but you ask it to…

Totally unrelated but “chat jippity” made my day!

Thanks for the explanation!

Would there be a difference in contributing to OpenJDK vs to, say, Temurin or Zulu Java? How separated are those Java JDKs really from OpenJDK?

Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s

A few years ago I switched to KDE and the experience has been so absolutedly seamless and good, and the upgrade to Plasma 6 took some time to propagate down to distros it was well …

It seems that it was only about time… it just feels like the pace of enshittification with big tech being able to get away with anything is crazy! I’m hoping that projects like Pre…

I particularly agree with you. Sublime is not open source and it has a very devout paying client base. To me the dirty thing is to make something “open source” because developers a…

I’m curious how this will turn out. Reminds me of the node.js fork IO.js and how that shifted the way node was being developed. If there’s a group of people painfully aware of tele…

Maybe hot take… I can see the point of sameness in homeschooling, but compared to traditional education? I’m not sure how much flexibility one would have to teach oneself calculus …

> …the company's AI coding agent deleted a code base and lied about its data. Well, lying about it certainly human-like behavior, human-like AGI must be just around the corner! /s …

> If your life has been as unfair to you as it has been to some of us, and forced you to work on SPAs as the result… Hehe

I think there’s an element of fear in the self-taught engineer? I am self taught and even after over a decade of experience impostor syndrome is still going strong! At the same tim…

How is this different than other ip or dns ad blockers? I see that it all comes down to a blacklist of urls. Wouldn’t eBPF just make things more complicated?

I’ve been finding this tool so useful to transfer files between devices in my local network. Linux to iOS, macOS to Windows, all with no friction. Love it!

This is such an interesting experiment! Somebody else already mentioned Borges, but yeah! Not exactly the same but reminds me of one time I did an experiment with rational number a…

Nice! Thanks for sharing :-) Another book added to my To-Read list