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The Microslop Manifesto hitting the front page of Hacker News and Anthropic Claude servers showing "Partial Outage" at exactly the same time - a coincidence? "I think not."

> Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way. As others have already note…

> [Claude Code] "A spiral that generates itself — starting from a tight mathematical center (my computational substrate) and branching outward into increasingly organic, tree-like …

Good to hear that some people out there still have some old-school -style sense of humor.

I have no clue whatsoever as to why any human should pay any attention at all to what a canner has to say in a public forum. Even assuming that the whole ruckus is not just skilled…

If you want more convenience from Rust and do not want to mess with Rust borrow checker, you do not really have to switch to Swift: you can rely on Rust reference counting. Use 1.)…

> In retrospect, it made sense. Agents write units of changes that look good in isolation. They are consistent with themselves and your prompt. But respect for the whole, there is …

Sh*t, still no word about "Rocky XXXVIII".[1] [1] "Airplane!" (1980)

In the mobile app market, a financially-viable or organic (non-paid) long-term marketing plan is the hardest. First testers can be hired. First users can be paid for with Google Ad…

If you have an iPad, perhaps have a look at modern general-purpose database apps[1], for example the object-oriented easyAsPieDB[2]. Object-orientation allows an end-user to define…

I think the only reason vibe coding/prompt engineering seems to be taking over programmers' jobs is the fact that it currently enjoys the status of the latest investment craze/fash…

Vibe coding/prompt engineering automatically accumulate "technical debt" of spaghetti code and thus with time cause every larger project to fail. Sooner or later you will be asked …

The Backblaze cloud and restic.

How does all that space out there make you feel about the 30 years of paying off your mortgage for all that 0.25 acres of land you own? ;) J/K

I don't get all this prevalent "AI will replace everyone!!" hysteria. AI might be indeed pretty good at writing small, self-contained pieces of code such as a simple app or an API …

No. Quite the opposite. AI-generated code is quite often literally a laughingstock to someone with a couple of decades of coding experience and an active interest in architectural …

From my experience, the "common assumption" that your brain works best only when you are in your 20s or 30s is a complete and utter nonsense. You might get a bit more burned out wi…

I imagine it is hard to keep feeling inspired when you keep programming sample code "bundles" that are purely "theoretical", i.e., carry no complexity or LOC-size required for the …

IMHO: Estimate demand (e.g., through search engine keyword volume), estimate monetization (e.g., by working out how much you can charge in your niche) and then decide whether it is…

> I haven’t interviewed in years and get extremely anxious in interviews. If you are a programmer, the hiring process these days is an unbelievable screw-up with no shred of profes…

IMHO, you should definitely reflect on why you feel that "leaving is not an option". Is it because of the money? Pay off your loans, downgrade the location/size of your apartment/h…

phpList[1] is open-source and can be self-hosted (PHP/mySQL/MariaDB). It does include/require small "powered by phpList" watermarks below user-side subscribe forms. [1] https://www…

Vibe coding isn't over-hyped, it is a myth. :)

Try Hugo[1]. In depends on a template[2] you choose whether Hugo will generate a landing page, a website, a blog, etc. [1] https://gohugo.io [2] https://themes.gohugo.io