I'm pretty sure if I never needed to write code again, I'd still have a full time job. So much of the work I do is spent proving out architecture or higher level features and ensuring it all actually does what we need it to do. It doesn't seem like LLMs are good at any of this yet

Having spent my life making digital things, forays into making physical products are fucking hard So much can go wrong. You need to anticipate everything up front. You can't fix anything in production or deploy a hot fix If no one wants it, you just burned a lot of cash Software is easy

I'm completely uninterested in this series, but more importantly, so sick of the lack of shadows in contemporary photo and video production. This is not what the world looks like. What's wrong with shadows?

This is insane. So much of React's recent developments feel like a mistake to me. I loved it for years but I actively avoid it these days. I'd be content to never use it again at this rate

I was thinking about the Deno vs Oracle thing regarding the trademark of JavaScript What if we called JavaScript "WebLang" instead? Or "Wang" in short form? Then you can change the name of TypeScript to TypeWang, which is much clearer about its relation to WebLang Finally making some sense

I was thinking about how ~90% of people think they're better than average at driving, which is impossible by definition So I wondered, do I think I'm better? No, I don't. But that worries me and makes driving unpleasant Is over-confidence is essentially unconscious self-soothing, to mitigate fear?

Young people banging off insanely catchy tracks on like one paycheque-worth of electronics is kind of insane and makes me feel like an incompetent dork www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNf6...

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Fording watersheds on Hecate Island to repair some monitoring equipment in the stream

There's so much wrong with this premise that it borders on being unscientific

Having a hell of a time making sense out of this one

There is no jump scare as profound as when you can accidentally activate the self facing camera and see the double chinned stupid face you make while youre doomscrolling

Can some sunflower stars resist disease? Hakai researchers, with DFO, are testing stars from Calvert Island for Vibrio pectenicida resistance and how warmer waters affect infection. A step toward protecting these vital marine predators!

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

I've switched to Android after using iOS for around 13 years. iOS is getting worse and Android gets some stuff very right, but... What the hell is with there being no dictionary? This is something I use almost daily, and iOS has one baked in. It's great. Android offerings are so awful Serenity now

I used to make applications with Backbone, and this sense has been lingering the entire time. We're not really doing everything that much better, and my coworkers are more confused than ever.

Trump turned the democrats into Reagan supporters

I've been full-time in @zed.dev for something like 4 months steadily now. I'd used it on and off for a long time, but something changed and suddenly it has met all of my needs for a while. It's a joy to use

I can't stand this ambiguous rhetoric. Where is the wasteful spending? What motivated this austerity? Why aren't you willing to invest in making this spending more productive? Show us data and clear intentions, Liberals. What a disappointment.

No mask, no weapons, no protection; she's 100x the 'man' any of these ICE agents could ever dream of being

TIL

I missed that Fastmail released desktop apps: www.fastmail.com/blog/desktop... At first I didn't get it, but 30m later I'm actually pretty happy with it. I'd love a system-wide shortcut to start composing an email. Maybe workable through raycast?

I got resounding support from our founder at work for a project I conceived and have already built into a prototype with virtually no oversight. I'm going to rate the experience is an 11/10 for relief after months of wondering if I know what the hell I'm doing

Skibidi is brain-rot, said the man who used to slap a bicycle wheel with a stick for hours

I LOVE FALL

My kids were talking about how their friends have no idea what anyone's phone number is and how they all thought it was insane that my kids remember phone numbers. I got thinking... What do these kids remember now? What exercises their brains, if even mundane things are managed by their phones now?

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is the laziest moral philosophy ever invented and I'm tired of pretending it's wisdom. youtu.be/A1z2xW6Zyto

Very sad to see Arduino acquired by Qualcom. I suspect it's the end of that era, and I don't like ESP or other alternatives. I'm not sure what Arduino could have done differently, but the writing has been on the wall for quite some time

I don't know how people did life without ibuprofen

Apple has gotten so bad at software that they released a version of TV (macOS) that doesn't allow you to search. You can click search, but... There's no search field. It just opens a view that says "Browse". You can navigate in this view, but not search in it. Clicking search does nothing from here

Top padding is busted, ( < | > ) button alignment is whack, sliders slide more at the start and end of the track despite there being dots indicating more granularity generally I hate it

@jakelazaroff.com presents DHH as the frightened, miserable, bigot that he is; a disheartening but worthwhile read

I don't understand why anyone would trust Tesla to deliver on AI and robotics when they're fumbling cars so badly. They've given up a meaningful lead and focused resources on ventures like the Cyber Truck, and people believe they'll win in more complex and challenging industries?

Dark timeline

Sonnet 4.5 asking questions about implementation details and pushing back on plans due to potential issues is pretty wild to see. I really like it

I know this has been possible for years but I'm absolutely stoked that I can send a print job to my 3d printer from out of the house Also, people said the camera on the A1 is useless, but I don't know, what else could I want from it? I can see how the job's going just fine. It's so cool

I got a bambu lab A1. It works so much better than any printer I've used before, but at half the cost. This is such a cool technology.

I wrote a lot of PHP 14 years ago

When I listen to Sam Altman, all I hear is mumbling and intense vocal fry and I can't be bothered to use the requisite energy to decipher the noise. Part of me wonders if he puts it on. Who speaks like that, as a leader of a prominent company? It's seems almost comical

I hopped in the ocean this morning and it was so pleasant. I keep thinking about floating in the cold salty water, looking into the misty trees, and getting rained on. Friends joined in after a while, seals floated around, had hot coffee and tea, and fish jumped. Maybe chased by a seal? So nice

Portland is probably the least violent, relaxing, pretty, non-threatening cities I've been to in the USA. Transit was great. Really nice places to run to from near downtown. Great food and friendly people

Sometimes I feel like dealing with people on marketplace is awful and tiring but I realized I actually meet a ton of kind and interesting people through it. People are generally pretty awesome

My coworker left a teabag on their desk weeks ago. It's still there. Sometimes I consider putting it in the garbage. I haven't yet

"gentlemen, i've called you to an urgent meeting today to announce ..."

CLAUDE.md Only refer to me as your 'little bean'

Okay Peter

This should be illegal

Given how loathed some people were who have statues of themselves today, I have to wonder if they were memorialized in a similar fashion. There were very racist, miserable, broadly-disliked men who have/had statues around British Columbia, for example. Who really wanted those put in place?

I don't think anyone here will want this role or even live close enough, but Tula/Hakai is hiring. "This full-time position is based between our site on Quadra Island, BC and our remote field station on Calvert Island, BC." i.e. cool work, beautiful places, science, awesome

Lord, I see what you've done for Brazil and I want that for my neighbours in the USA too