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I think this is correct. When I was coming up in software engineering, it was fairly accepted that the "bus factor" of a project should only increase. Any kind of vibe coding makes…

For what it's worth, AI has been running major market, corporate radio stations for at least 20 years now. When I left the industry they already had AudioVault or Prophet or some o…

Looking at the code ( https://github.com/davmlaw/uBlock/commit/fa2de61ae69927591db... ), there's not much I would do differently writing by hand. It breaks some formatting/style co…

the index.html is loading remote js files: https://github.com/fikrikarim/parlor/blob/main/src/index.htm... I saved them locally and changed the reference, and it worked perfectly.

> a pirated copy of Flash MX 2004 Pro... This is an under-appreciated aspect of Flash's popularity, and probably a reason why Animate didn't have the same appeal. A kid could get a…

> constantly point out what they perceive as problems with... Yeah, screw those people. I count myself as lucky that I've only worked with 1 person who was seriously CRITICAL of th…

https://matula.itch.io/kings-dont-stack Klondike solitaire game using Godot. The goal is to better understand Godot's inner workings, and not using any LLMs... outside of whatever …

Exactly. I had a manager who said "Standup with start exactly on time", and stuck to it. And after a couple of meetings with some people coming in a minute or two late and realizin…

I've seen a few other comments also talk about PHP becoming more complex. However, I have "simple" code built using 5.3 and it works perfectly fine in 8. So I guess it CAN be compl…

Teaching myself Swift, by building a Mac app that mirrors the "Kenney Assets Launcher" (which is Windows only): https://github.com/matula/asset-helper Basically combining some game…

It feels like it's taking a solved problem and formalizing it, with a bit of automation. I've used MCPs that were just fancy document search, and this should replace those.

This is an interesting thought. I also wonder if Houston is "helped" by the fact that they're a blue city in a red state... that kind of ideological conflict of governance requires…

https://petmoving.site/ A (so far) simple AI assistant to provide help if you're moving with your pets to a different country. I've got a vector db with some US travel documents em…

This post (aside from the title) is fairly nuanced, with the reality that "let an LLM do all the things" is going to be fraught with problems... but "let an LLM do some very specif…

Remember FriendFeed? It was unironically a pretty cool thing. Subscribe to RSS feeds, displayed in a Twitter-like timeline, and could comment and share and follow people and see th…

There are (or at least WERE) entire divisions dedicated to reading every letter of the contract and terms of service, and usually creating 20 page documents seeking clarification f…

I've been at this for many years. If I want to implement a new feature that ties together various systems and delivers an expected output, I know the general steps that I need to t…

I think this is generally true, and there are SO MANY blog posts and articles. Using something like Claude Code to build an entire SaaS from nothing can seem like magic, but there …

* slow clap *

The Beatles spent YEARS only playing other people's music. Five/six hours a night performing covers. It seems self-evident that gaining such an intimate understanding of chord stru…

Very nice. I tried with Ollama and it works well. The biggest issue is having the Ollama models hardcoded to Qwen3 and Llama 3.1. I imagine most Ollama users have their favorites, …

> In practice this argument is used to justify bloated apps Speaking of motte-and-bailey. But I actually disagree with the article's "what should you focus on". If you're a public-…

The problem with the AISD bonds was the school district getting cocky and assuming they could ANYTHING through. There were inconsistencies and vagueness throughout the proposals, a…

Exactly. And lately, it seems to Github repos and open source projects you've contributed to (which actually isn't so horrible).