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I feel like I finally get to feel the designer’s pain when people arrive with their vibe-coded pile of garbage and I have to explain why it can’t just slide into the product. It do…

I particularly love when the “CTO” is also the main offender.

No. The means can spoil the end.

Dehomag. What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

I often hear comparisons to Web 1.0 (the bubble aspect, potential for change, etc). As someone who lived and worked during that era, I don’t remember thinking “holy shit, if this e…

This is a big piece of what drove me out of corp jobs. With a sufficient hourly rate people are less likely to have you waste time in meetings. Or maybe I’ve just been lucky. Prob …

My experience is the opposite I guess. I am having a great time using claude to quickly implement little "filler features" that require a good amount of typing and pulling from/edi…

I make a living writing software that's hosted on Windows. I've never felt as comfortable with the command line options on Windows as I do with macos/Linux. Git bash with vim was s…

Been filling notebooks for years while also keeping pretty meticulous digital notes. Physical is mostly personal or ideas (sometimes for work). Digital is mostly work. I like to do…

Technical debt and “feature debt”? I imagine some people would object to things being taken out or significantly altered. An existing & happy (?) user base probably carry weight.

I recommend the book “why we sleep”. It helps (helped me) understand some of the fundamentals of sleep and why it matters

Not sure that day/night matters but an essential element is the cycles you experience during extended sleep. Naps won’t make up for that. Night is probably most realistic because o…

The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum is a fantastic place. I was on a backstage tour a few years ago and seeing early 20th century cartoons at original size was such a trea…

Did your cat tell you its name?

> Lily Jamali: So you call this “Cerebral Valley,” is that right? > ... > Jamali: Got it. What does that mean, that term? > > Tan: Well, I think it’s a play on really the brain,...…

I'm holding on to two x230s as backups (only need one, happen to have two). Great little machine, still enjoy it for basic hacking and writing once in a while.

Some “artists” I know are scraping by on work that could be eaten by generative AI. Even if they don’t self identify as “illustrators”.

Barge hauler 4th from the back appears to be checking his messages.

Did exactly this for about the same amount of time. Couldn’t be happier.

Not sure exactly what you mean but you can have lower average life expectancy and still see lots of people reaching old age (60-80). Longer average contemporary lifespan in the wes…

I don’t know, it works now (ios). First time it just showed some untraditional looking navigation that I couldn’t get past. This time the content actually displayed.

I’d read it if the site would let me do so.

My manager is blissfully absent.

100% agree re: Doom Emacs. Evil mode user and no issues with emacs pinky ;-). It's a perfect match. No concerns about performance either, start my emacs in the morning and close it…

Agree. It seems it would buy you points at another FAANG but if I were interviewing an ex FAANG I would be concerned about mismatching perspectives and experience around scale and …