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My theory is that vibecoded replacements haven't succeeded for the same reason why GitHub's quality has declined: because vibecoding/AI software development isn't as efficient as b…

Great article. I had long thought that the official name for the symbol was "asperand", but it seems like this is a recent invention!

Searching "Fool" gives a lot of OCR errors, some of which are due to occlusions: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=fool&p=3 "Surgery of the Fool" is my personal favorite.

I use a Moonlander keyboard: https://www.zsa.io/moonlander It's very easy to change the layout on these boards since you can do it directly from their website. One of the left thum…

That's basically what an LSP is. It's true that it's built on top of the file system, and most IDE users will navigate using the folder hierarchy, but it still stores information a…

> proximity of this federal U.S. District Court to the defendant’s country of citizenship, Australia This is a little disingenuous, and made me chuckle. It's faster and cheaper to …

This is an amazing project and I'm glad it exists. My college capstone project was building a 3d scanner, and we were able to use POV-Ray to create a repeatable test environment fo…

For anyone interested: the article mentions “How to Hide an Empire” by Daniel Immerwahr. It's a very well-written and well-researched book -- Immerwahr does a great job creating a …

Flight costs are a pain, and the flight durations are nothing to sneeze at either. I live out in Guam (my wife is stationed here with the Navy) and the two most common ways to get …

This article brought to mind a different but related scenario. I live on an island that was recently affected by a typhoon. Internet speeds are usually pretty good, but in the afte…

It’s ironic that VS Code has become the premier Electron-based IDE, since Electron (originally called Atom Shell) came from the original Atom project. I loved using Atom, and I lik…

I work from home, in a home office with no sane way to route an Ethernet cable to, and I've been feeling the crunch during video calls. We have a wifi-enabled baby video monitor in…

I remember this fondly from SimCity 2000, where you could build a "microwave power plant" that would collect beamed energy from space-based solar panels. (If I remember correctly, …

One thing that I believe is under-documented in code is _business decisions_. The team arrives at a decision in a meeting or informal discussion, and it leads to some code that mig…

I love JavaScript but agree with your point about hype fatigue. At some point, you have to ask yourself if you're using JS to solve your problems anymore, or if you're just allowin…

Wonderful; now we can proactively modify Curiosity's code to act as an interplanetary telegraph so Matt Damon doesn't have to do it once he gets stranded there.

Viewing it on OS X, it looks like they're using the San Francisco font. A little jarring if you're used to seeing the old typeface 20+ times/day, but it looks good. Fortunately, th…

Generally I'll copy it to the clipboard (usually `pbcopy < file.json`), fire up Chrome, Cmd+Alt+J, then paste into the console. Instant, attractive, collapsible rendering of the co…

My personal style is a lot like Haskell: I barely understand it, but give me a few minutes and I'll probably come up with something passable.

Yeah. The two differences seem to be that end-users are guaranteed to be able to use their own version of Qt (because Qt is LGPL and the user should be able to modify it) and that …

This article, I do declare, Makes a point that's as plain as it's fair. Let's all call a truce And end haiku use Or else I might strangle a bear. --------------- Now that that's ou…