Grifting shitlords have been solved. All the other actual problems have become more problematic with the introduction of "let's make the word maker-upper do everything" and it shows.

It's weird to see so many voices I used to respect (not always agree with, but respect) fall to the grift machine. It's enough to make me worried that I'm the asshole in this equation. At the same time I've never been more certain that I'm right as when I reject the slop.

I realized something today. Squirrelly braces look like little bat'leths in emoji form. o{ }o <-- two little warriors defending their house's honor.

Medium, and by extension telling every idiot to write Medium articles as a form of stealth marketing, was a fucking mistake.

Explicit returns (even naked ones) at the end of a function are good. They make the code more legible. I am prepared to fight every linter and code golf enthusiast on this hill.

Feels like it was a slower weekend than normal for streaming. Not sure if I should blame sportsball, changing algos, or just summer time.

I hate it when people talking food say "you have to season it properly" or "perfectly seasoned" Motherfucker just say "put salt and pepper on it" because that's what your ass means. "Seasoned with smoked paprika" and the like get a side-eye, but a pass nonetheless.

Leetcode equivalent for management where you sit there watching them play pretend and trying to figure out if that note you just took on your pad (you drew a dickbutt) is a good or bad sign and then leave feeling defeated and questioning their career choice. Who's building this?

Remember when you could go on YouTube and find some cool music collections to jam out to while working on stuff? That category of video is now drowning in slop. :(

People talking about Fable. =) It's another shitty fucking chatbot. =@ I hope these morons get dick lice from their sloppy-con valley hookers.

Is your company struggling with the cost of all that slop you forced on your employees? I have a solution for you! Fire all of the decision makers that pushed AI on your company. Cancel your slop subscription. Re-hire all those people you laid off, with a pay increase.

I forgot I was on my confrontational ragebaiting arc. That happens a lot. Anyway, whichever way you put the toilet paper on the holder, that is the wrong way.

I once worked with an old lawyer who would sometimes encourage us to remember that the world was made for people with an IQ between 95 and 105. I wonder if he's still alive, and if so, has he revised the lower bound down yet?

I want to like Rust, but so far it seems to be made almost entirely of bad ideas. - macros everywhere - dependency hell to rival python - option/result/whatever else everything can return that should all be handled differently - clippy/convention seems to like code golf too much

You remember those squeakers on the OG XBox Live saying all those things about your mom? They're grown up now. Most of them work in sales or recruiting.

Round two of "oh god, it's a bubble, put more air in" is "ok, shatbots won't replace you. Augmentation is the future!" They didn't replace, they don't augment. They produce slop. Fuck you. I hope your investors ensure you never work again.

I've decided to become a "chieferino" kinda guy.

I've been reading the Rust Book. It should be edited down to like half the length so far. Too much jerkin it to type theory. Too much "finally someone will read my func-bro lecture" horseshit. I am only interested in building things and "does this tool feel good to use?"

The present is stupid as hell. - You go looking for parts for things, you end up on Amazon. - Pretty much all of them are no-name stores. - "OEM Quality"

Sometimes I hear about taking aderall. Meh, not my bag, but not my place to tell you what to do. But it occurs to me that there may be a link between thinking a large volume of tweaked out code is good thinking and large volume of clanker code is good.

The Rust book chapter 10 is why type systems get a bad rap. Countless paragraphs of type system masturbation don't belong in your tutorial. PUT THE <T> IN THE BAG!

I used to be a little disappointed when games/movies did still images in an intro or cut-scene. In an "I would prefer if this was animated" sort of way. With all the slop out there now, I'm more appreciative of those choices. In an "at least it's not fucking ai" way.

I've been doing Rust Book on stream. If I like Rust I will write more rust. Then I will become the first Rust developer to show up to an interview without cat ears and blue hair. I'll basically be guaranteed to get jobs.

AC is kaput. I am now spiritually European.

Some of you never knew the mixture of unease and excitement that came from the intro to the 90's Outer Limits, and it shows.

These are the software hiring process today. Those kids standing around being very entertained? They are your recruiters. They put us into the funnel and watch us spin. If you remember using these, you also remember they were mostly full of pennies. Do you want pennies?

Halp, I have the 3pm sleepies!

The scissors have been located. The t-shirt has been given new life.

OK, chat, where'd y'all put my scissors? How am I supposed to satisfy my masculine urge to turn a beloved t-shirt with an armpit hole into a sleeveless shirt for wearing around the house with no scissors?

It feels like a very 80's rock kind of day

Saw a streamer play Mixtape yesterday evening. - I don't feel like I missed anything at all by not playing it myself, more movie than game - Don't really recognize much of the music - Started feeling motion sick if I focused on the screen because of the missing frame animations

Startup idea: A real bank with technology from this century and no predatory lending or other bullshit designed to fuck the customers over. Who's building this?

Ugh, I hate writing contract tests so much. But they find so many bugs and so much jank so much faster than E2E FAFO.

"Hey gork, as someone just getting in to thinking what are some key thoughts I should have? Make no mistakes." - half the timeline these days

It's wild to me that the whole "reindustrialize" movement is happening at the same time that we're destroying our white collar talent pipeline the same way we did the blue collar. It's like trying to re-plant grass on half of your yard while the other half is on fire.

YOLO pushed a new test in a commit without running it so I could reboot for an update. Didn't get a failure email from the pipeline. Either I've just made a huge mistake, or I should go buy a lottery ticket.

Me: minding my own business, gettin some stuff done 11 billion tiny ants: Sup bro? We see there's a little water in your sink since you haven't done the dishes today. We're just gonna live in and around here now, cool? Cool. Me: Cool, here's some not-poison for ya. Enjoy!

If you're letting a clanker write your tests, you understand neither clankers nor tests.

Drop your non lo-fi hip hop playlists for helping your chungus distraction prone brain sit down and focus.

I need to get big and famous enough to have minions. Partially to do the things I suck at/don't wanna do, but mostly so that I can start referring to myself as Mongoose Actual.

Me: Ugh, pipeline is broken. I'll fix it tomorrow, I'll play a little <game with tanks and other WW2 vehicles that's kinda bad> -- terrible balance, terrible maps, terrible teams -- Me: Whelp, guess I'll go fix that pipeline. Sounds less painful than whatever THIS is.

It's kinda amazing how fast we went from "don't believe everything you see on the internet" to "don't believe anything you see on the internet."

No stream this weekend, I gotta focus on this other project. I really want to have a beta out to some testers ASAP.

Trying to be an influencer? 1. Don't post like this 2. Reads as slop 3. Probably shatjippety 4. I lost any respect/interest at step 1 5. LinkedIn coded (nobody likes that)

I've seen a ton of generative slop advertisement from government accounts on twitter. Deeply funny if making generative slop "government coded" accelerates the bubble pop.

Next grocery run, I'm getting fish sticks. Not the little ones though. I'm getting the nice big fish tendies.

It would be easy to become one of the "anti" accounts. The ones that define themselves by what they are against. It's the obvious choice. It's what social media wants. I've never been too good at doing what other people want when I don't agree. I decline.

Saw a Honda ad on Twitch earlier. Suspiciously fast/lifeless clips. Smells of slop.

Filling activity graph squares by backing up config files I don't really want to reinvent later. Seems like this productivity metric may be easy to game. But I'm sure people who think about and design complex systems for a living haven't thought of that. Right?