Well, 2025 is coming to an end, so I would like to give programmers a bit of advice for 2026. - The AI bubble is bursting. Quit coding with AI and get your skill back and actually learn and understand what you're doing instead of half-assing your work. (The amount of extremely poorly "written" […]

So what I am learning from Mastodon the last couple weeks is.. I need to go to events like #39c3 because I AM MISSING OUT 😭

Not sure why I decided to do work until 4:30 AM but here we are 🙃

Hot take: the average programmer is bad, and the amount of average programmers is increasing thanks to generative AI. It's so exhausting to deal with other programmers most of the time now... :neocat_sad:

If anyone wants to follow me on Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/codecat I hope to be publishing more to it soon 👀

I will ask chat GPT I will boil the last of our drinking water Salt the soil of the scrub-lands Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire I will ask copilot I will scramble your library maim the faces of your favorite paintings I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams I will ask […]

NOS Stories is sinds vandaag ook via hun eigen website te bekijken! 🥳 https://stories.nos.nl/ Eindelijk kunnen jongeren zonder YouTube, Insta of TikTok account NOS Stories reportages bekijken. Als ze nu ook nog een RSS feed e/o ActivityPub feed gaan aanbieden is het helemaal perfect! Pls 🥺 […]

[PLEASE Stop using Spotify. Use literally anything but Spotify.] Why? • They don't pay musicians https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/confirmed-next-year-tracks-on-spotify-1000-plays/ • They fund right wing extremist podcasters […]

windows: "Windows Update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions." also windows: hehe i instal copilot for u :3

open source project, 50k github stars *looks inside* awful UX Is it just me or is this pattern getting more common?

Sorry but if your repository has an "agents.md" file I am immediately kinda disgusted

It's time to unleash the birbs ​:brdScreamHyper:​ ➡️ volpeon.ink/emojis/brd/

Git be like: ​:neocat_stretch_down:​ ​:neocat_stretch_v:​ ​:neocat_stretch_v:​​:neocat_stretch_ul:​​:neocat_stretch_down:​ ​:neocat_stretch_v:​​:neocat_stretch_v:​​:neocat_stretch_v:​ ​:neocat_stretch_v:​​:neocat_stretch_h:​​:neocat_stretch_dl:​ ​:neocat_stretch_v:​​:neocat_stretch_v:​ ​ […]

I often see people asking how they can get started learning how to write code. And, even though I've been a professional programmer for the past 15 years or so.. I honestly have no idea? Like, in the world of the modern internet, how DO you learn how to code? I learned from Visual Basic books […]

Someone can make an important decision at the local thrift store 🧐

At this point I am wondering if @quad9dns should reconsider whether "ThreatSTOP" is still a reliable vendor for its blocked domain names. Aside from blocking a few legitimate Trackmania-related websites (including mine) just a few weeks ago (and having an […] [Original post on meow.social]

For the amount of things I've done with #godot, I think it's kinda interesting that I've never done anything 2D in it (besides UI). Maybe I should give it an actual try 🤔

I’ve never had burnout before while not being able to afford taking time off.. what do people normally do in this case? #burnout (I might be on the verge of it, not sure if I am yet)

I miss getting excited for IDE releases and updates before LLMs :(

#why2025 being both literally a 10 minute bicycle ride and having a bunch of extremely cool people but also being extraordinarily expensive is very sad :blobcatsadreach: Maybe next time 🙃

#itchio :(

Does anyone know anything about #firefox Bugzilla etiquette? I'm looking at a 2013 feature request that's closed as `WONTFIX`, but I think this feature would be very useful, and the feature is also implemented on Chrome already. I'd also be happy to submit a patch for it should a patch be […]

Fedi, can I buy the #samsung Galaxy Flip 7 and not have any of the AI slop? How feasible is that? I just really like smol portable flip phones :(

a blog post by my friend eevee which is, y’know, preaching to the choir about exactly what you think, but. yeah. https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

Birdie made a nest on our outdoor lamp so we put a camera out there 😁

Found the most cursed thing. An album on Bandcamp where the entire theme is about anti-capitalism. But get this - the entire thing is made with AI.. 🤦‍♀️

VSCode keeps adding more copilot icons to their UI, right after I keep hiding all of them 😡 Ugh I hate AI so much

Just realized my first Mastodon account was made in 2017.. life’s been a journey since then 😮

Introducing swiped. by @missaustraliana and me. Clean up your iOS Photos library. Swipe left to delete, swipe right to keep. It’s as easy as that. It’s free - no tracking, no ads, and open source. Just a handy app we wanted to share with you all 😊 If you give it a try, show us your stats! […]

Does anyone know why Win32 dialog boxes were assigned the class name "#32770"? I can't find anything about it at all. Microsoft documentation doesn't provide any context. Nobody seems to have asked this question before.

I just got this email TODAY. Is this legal?

I have an Apple Watch. Have had it for years, actually. But lately I feel like I don’t get much use from it anymore, and I kinda wanna switch to a dumb watch instead 🧐

I am looking to send transactional emails for a somewhat small project, expecting roughly ~100 or less emails a month. Just got a quote from a European provider giving me a 50,000 emails per month threshold with very steep pricing which is kind of insane. What's the right way to send email for […]

The world needs more skirts with pockets

Birds are so cool

@ocornut Hey just wanted to say that the dynamic fonts branch of dear imgui is Very Good. I've been keeping up on updates, and didn't want to unnecessarily comment on the Github feedback thread with "LGTM" so I'll do it here 😅 We have more in-depth testing to do, but I've noticed 0 issues so […]

All I wanted AI to do is the dishes and my laundry

The Microsoft support forums, in their mission to be the most useless website on the internet, has found a new trick: You don’t need humans to write low quality non-answers. AI pretending to be an employee can do it just as well! (Context: WSUS’s deprecation was announced in September)

Did I just ADHD myself into compiling a large open source project and learning parts of Erlang, a language I've never used before? Yes. Yes I did.

I'm dying over here. This guy says he's created the world's first AI-based call center for actively disrupting and screwing with scammers. Their AI bots are taking live phonecalls at scale and keeping the scammers on the line for hours, and sometimes taunting the scammers. They're tying up […]

Always a delight to read "I hope this message finds you well" in Comic Sans :neocat_thumbsup:

Okay, Nuxtjs is pretty neat. I am only just now realizing that it has some of the magic properties that the Yii PHP framework used to have that I got so used to back in the days. Stuff like the automatic importing of components based on their folder structure in your project […]

I’ve updated my music website! 🥹 https://missterious.net Are you looking for someone to make music for your project? Maybe a videogame, or some other kind of soundtrack? Send me a message! I’m very happy to help 😊 Check out some of my work on my website :) Ps: does anyone have […]

I’ve updated my music website! 🥹 https://missterious.net Are you looking for someone to make music for your project? Maybe a videogame, or some other kind of soundtrack? Send me a message! I’m very happy to help 😊 Check out some of my work on my website :) Ps: does anyone have […]

[Uspol] At this point does the United States still even exist? Maybe it’s not a real place anymore.

Aight, gonna be trying out LibreWolf for a bit.

bro's got 60 hours in a 5 euro game and says "it's not worth it". gamers are a joke.

Everyone’s like “use AI in your terminal to run commands for you!” Bro that’s just a remote code execution exploit and/or accidental rm -rf * waiting to happen..

Someone compared my music to The Talos Principle 2 music :O

I need a security camera on my roof so I can look at the birds that I hear all the time 🥺