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The Firefox repo gets 100-300 changesets per day, up to 1000 commits per week. Around 100-150 contributors land those in any given week. That's activity comparable to Linux or Chro…

Yeah, this is a real thing: Mozilla doesn't have a team dedicated optimizing Gecko-based Firefox for iOS just in case it can be shipped someday. That Firefox can be built and will …

> I'd say Mozilla should take the money they're spending on their current nonsense and spend it here instead. Mozilla makes roughly $500m per year with maybe $1.5b in the bank. Tha…

Why lol? If you only want to scale to a few dozen or a few hundred or even a few thousand folks, a Mastodon instance is fine. You don't have to scale to the whole world.

Scaling is not useful if that's not your goal

I'm interested in ATProto, but honestly this kind of "cheeky" post just turns me off. These are different approaches to the problem, they don't have to be adversarial. Another way …

And then once you've self-hosted ever component in the stack, you have one (1) Mastodon instance equivalent :)

Meanwhile, Undertale, one of the most celebrated video games, famously has a 1000+ line switch statement and AI had nothing to do with it. Sometimes you have to bang out something …

No, but it's increasingly penalizing folks for focusing on well-crafted code on company time.

My comments are often more off-the-cuff than my blog posts—I spend more time editing the posts, usually

As I'm asking folks what bits they think are LLM imprints, they keep showing me bits that I originally wrote. It's really weird.

I mean, the irony is that those sentences were in my original draft before running it past the LLM

> The web was objectively awful as a technology I, for one, remember when I could crash Netscape Navigator by using CSS too hard (i.e. at all) or trying to make a thing move 10px w…

I guess I have a grating LLM-voice, then, because I don't think it sounds particularly different than how I've written other posts.

Which bits? And don't say the em-dashes because I've been over-using them since high school

Sure, I ran the post past an LLM for some ideas on clarity and tightening it up - but I wrote, edited, and published it myself.

Well, yeah, that's what a lot of folks are sad about - they can't practice the craft concurrently with the livelihood quite as much. But if you don't have a livelihood, you probabl…

Yeah, this is a lot of what I'm doing with LLM code generation these days: I've been there, I've done that, I vaguely know what the right code would look like when I see it. Rather…

What you consider fun isn't universal. Some folks don't want to just tinker for half an hour, some folks enjoy getting a particular result that meets specific goals. Some folks don…

Like, fine, here's a personal example: I wanted to build a system that posts web links I share to a bot account on the fediverse. That seemed like a fun result to me. I wanted to s…

It's different for everyone, so no one answer would likely satisfy you

This is just obtuse. Some folks have fun building their own pizza oven, curing & slicing their own meat, and mixing their own dough. Some folks like to buy mostly pre-made stuff an…

> Firefox OS: 2013 Apple wouldn't let Firefox onto the iPhone. Pretty big writing on the wall, there. Turns out it's really hard for a sub-billion-dollar company to succeed with a …

"Nothing going on here is permanent loss... it isn't a big deal to rebuild to the status quo." There is no status quo to rebuild. Loss of trust, loss of momentum, loss of context, …

That happens on small web sites, sometimes. Maybe try again later, as advised?