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"Any non trivial coding task requires a conversation between human and ai." Does it? Since when? Are we just going to pretend some of the world's best software wasn't written befor…

Weird, I hate Next and I love Vite. We have a big (I mean _really_ big) production app that runs on Next.js at work and it's the slowest thing I've ever worked on. I had to upgrade…

Tried this last night and it works really well so I figured I'd share it here, even though it's a few years old. It can even take advantage of your GPU to run faster. The sample so…

Time to reset the clock. 0 days since a new web bundler was released (in Rust!!). So tired of this ecosystem and its ceaseless tide of churn and rewrites and hypechasing.

> What happens when that fake-100px-but-actually-10em wide element is meant to coexist with something that is actually set in pixels? For instance, a 120px skyscraper ad? The thing…

> The browser might default to 16px font size, but users can pick something else. So if somebody had poor vision and increased their default font size; or if they had a small lapto…

> Indeed, as the November 2023 drama was unfolding, Microsoft’s CEO boasted that it would not matter “[i]f OpenAI disappeared tomorrow.” He explained that “[w]e have all the IP rig…

And then claimed his GitHub was "hacked" to save his ass. And was somehow not banned by GitHub despite clearly violating their TOS.

Web dev here working with React for ~4 years now. I really don't enjoy it as much as I used to. It has made me dislike JavaScript in general, and I often find myself wishing things…

Great article all around. TL;DR: A cross-origin request can still be same site. Also, SameSite cookies do not prevent cookies from being included in malicious requests originating …

This is something I've been mulling over for a while now. Folks who've been writing before the inception of ChatGPT have a historical record of their work, so one can probably trus…

Police: We suspect your neighbor committed a crime... You: Okay Police: ...so we're going to need all the footage from inside your home You: Wait wha— Judge: Sure, I'll sign a warr…

> I don't think anyone expects AI to displace "name brand" art The problem isn't for existing artists (except in terms of ethical issues)—it's for new/budding artists, who will hav…

I love Open Library (and the internet archive project in general)—I've read so many good books through them! I really hope they don't get shut down. They're also truly open source:…

> If you use the components to create a new design then there is no copyright. This is false. You can't copy a site's code and just change the design and poof, no copyright infring…

> The business of dentistry is unfortunately antithetical to conservative treatment, which is almost always in the interest of the patient, because it results in significantly lowe…

#2 is terrible advice. Acidic food weakens your enamel. Brushing after eating will make things worse. It's actually recommended that you wait after eating acidic foods to brush. Ri…

What do you mean? Flappy Bird made a crap ton of money.

> breaking lots of people's builds Why would it break people's builds? I can only see this happening if they upgraded faker.js. Besides, best practice says to check each package's …