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> if you’re working on novel code, LLMs are absolutely horrible This is spot on. Current state-of-the-art models are, in my experience, very good at writing boilerplate code or ver…

This is my feeling too. I’m never sure why React is the tool that is reached for in this situations (an entirely unreactive page?)

20, 15, 10 years ago this sort of stuff (Rails, Laravel, Phoenix) was free, and open source. The good ones are still going strong. I wonder if these sorts of schemes will still be …

the economic picture is not getting any better. In part because so many people each month are coming off fixed-term mortgage deals bought in the ZIRP era. The more time they give L…

If you don't already know a language and its ecosystem, then I'd recommend Rails. It is simply the most mature and batteries-included framework. Ignore the claims that it is dead -…

Ruby on Rails has recently started actively marketing itself as the solo developer framework. I've worked with it for a long time now (among a bunch of other languages and framewor…

A srangely loaded question. You’re not going to get a straight and accurate answer to such a broad philosophical topic. Perhaps it’s worth reflecting on whether, in a pandemic, som…

I dug back six or seven of the blog posts and they all looked static enough to me - my point is that react is complete overkill for sites like this.

Why do you need react to render static blog posts?

My dog would not stop scratching his face, so I made a habit tracker for me and my wife to try and measure the impact of various behavioural tweaks. https://joshvince.site/blog/202…

Just want to say, I love your writing -- it's rare to find someone with such a distinctive voice. I've read a bunch of your articles and posts, keep going!

I wrote about this recently, mostly through the lens of the sentimentally important things like videos and photos https://joshvince.site/blog/20230903_little_metal_boxes

You must be fun at parties!

This is spot on. As people, a sense of community is not something we usually associate with commerce, but these online platforms are _only_ instruments to get a return on someone's…

got a source for that company? Presumably it'll be semi-public knowledge. I'd be incredibly surprised if a business was already proficient enough to replace software teams. Call ce…

You're among the first people I've encountered with both experience in writing your own software and prompting an LLM to do it. I have a few questions for you (maybe the answers wi…

All the recent furore about Twitter's monetisation and Reddit's API changes reminded me of this article from 1993. Clearly, only one guy's opinion but I think we've strayed pretty …

I understand what you’re saying and I agree that dismissing it out of hand is obviously the wrong approach - but this does feel like it meets the bar to be a “conspiracy theory”, i…

People are so desperate for the next bubble

This is cool, but I think you lost me when you said “it just works out of the box” about your OS. I mean, sure, but you’ve had to order a new screen, touchpad, battery and RAM. Tha…

To add on to this great and pragmatic reply about your job situation, I'd add this: Even if things remain tough job-wise for the foreseeable future, are you able to derive self-wor…

If I were in your position, I’d evaluate my relationship with “work”. Challenges you describe might be perennial wherever you go, so maybe the question is not “how can I be more fu…

He's only 19 though, right? It's not like time has healed his mentality, it was months ago...

> "Imagine wanting to watch a video on how to help one of your loved ones who is choking and you get 10 unskippable ads before you can watch the video." Someone pop this in a time …