@LGUG2Z I wish that SSGs would store the data from the remote URL in a file you could keep under version control. e.g., for tweets, I do something like `{{}}` and on first build, it downloads the profile image, name, tweet content, and timestamp and renders that, and it works fore…

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> So you're saying that it is impossible for a large company to somehow use native toolkits to draw text bubbles and emojis??

One weird thing about software development is that there are plenty of things which motivated individual developers can achieve which large companies can't even wr…

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To add to the other replies: This is what AI is for. Not to replace labor, but to enhance the ruling class’ ability to exploit labor.

As a convenient side effect: If you use AI to spam people with bug reports, you’re basically DDoSing them… unless they then decide to use AI to help triage…

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I'd like to say generally, the utility of "language reviews" by anyone who hasn't built and maintained some real artifact in that language is minimal to nothing. The only utility is understanding what people latch onto as first experience takeaways and perhaps addressing those for adoptability conce…

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I keep being told vibe coding works. I keep being told AI agents work. I keep trying them every few weeks because of this and boy do they just not work. They do things that look like they are working, but that is much different than actually working. Ask it to do a simple task and it fails. Ask it t…

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As a matter of science, an attempt to sort good porn from bad is futile. The brain's reward circuitry, which drives sexual arousal, has no definition of 'porn'. It just sends a ‘go get it!’ signal in response to whatever releases sufficient dopamine.

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‘Double-blind’ means that neither the investigator nor the subject knows that a variable has been altered. For example, neither knows who is receiving drug or placebo. ‘Single-blind’ means the investigator knows but the subject doesn't. It should be evident that neither type of study is possible in …

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Whenever something becomes the norm, there's an unexamined assumption that it must be harmless or 'normal', that is, that it cannot produce abnormal physiological results. However, that proved not to be the case with smoking.

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Big Tobacco's campaign to cast doubt on the link between smoking and disease is now a classic case study in a science called agnotology: the study of the cultural production of ignorance.

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Quitting internet porn is the equivalent of removing refined sugar or trans-fats from your diet. It is simply the elimination of a form of entertainment that no one had until recently, and everyone got along without.

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Mildly reminds me how being online on AIM or ICQ was an actual invitation to chat. I had so many interesting conversations with people I barely knew.

There's no source of that signal that someone is open to chitchat these days, and it's in my opinion kind of killed what was once great abo…

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Everyone is blaming AI, and it's undoubtedly a factor.

But also, the culture of Stack Overflow has changed significantly over the years. It used to be a place where anyone could ask a question and get help with a problem ... and it was amazing.

Today, you're far more likely to …

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Effective error messages are one of my platonic ideals about how documentation is supposed to work. The docs shouldn't be shoved off to the side. They should appear just-in-time, when you need them. If you can fix the error within the product (e.g. when Rust tells you exactly how to fix the typo), j…

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On the "Threads" app I got very similar experience, a lot of breastfeeding erotica and other weird adult content that made me feel I'm doing something illegal.

Also, their algorithm must be assessing human features too because at some point Instagram started showing me women with ever lar…

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Brilliant move.

The transition of the major social networks over the last 10-15 years -- from being a space for friends to interact to being a space to consume content produced by "unconnected" entities like influencers -- has created a huge opening for someone to claim the friends and fa…

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This is most likely going to be downvoted to oblivion by my western comrades but the stance communist parties have had in the past and present is this.

Regardless of the industry, workers are workers; they are a part of the proletariat and as such the nature of their work is irrelevant. W…

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> Many in the FFmpeg community argue, with reason, that it is unreasonable for a trillion-dollar corporation like Google, which heavily relies on FFmpeg in its products, to shift the workload of fixing vulnerabilities to unpaid volunteers.

That's capitalism, they need to quit their whinin…

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To add to the other replies: This is what AI is for. Not to replace labor, but to enhance the ruling class’ ability to exploit labor.

As a convenient side effect: If you use AI to spam people with bug reports, you’re basically DDoSing them… unless they then decide to use AI to help triage…

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The defining characteristic of a tech bro is ignorance of just about every discipline—including software engineering—combined with the confidence that their own sheer genius (proven by proximity to capital) makes all such legacy knowledge obsolete.

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Updated "greek task list":

orphean task: when you almost succeed, but lose everything the moment you turn around to check your progress.

daedalean task: when you’re forced to design something brilliant and functional… that you yourself will inevitably become trapped inside.

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I hate ‘self-taught’. You’re not self-taught, you’re community taught. Self-taught is erasing all the work that allowed you to learn from freely available materials and people.

It’s a poor phrase for the idea that you are degreeless. And there’s nothing wrong with skipping formal educati…

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It is ironic that people so often “contrast” the rising popularity of the four-day school week with the relatively slow uptake of the four-day work week.

The four-day school week is driven ENTIRELY by teachers wanting shorter weeks. It’s a (arguably short-sighted) labor demand.

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Please don't act surprised that kids are using AI in college. Most are only there to get a degree in the hopes that they won't be forced to work for minimum wage for their entire life. Capitalism has turned higher education into a means to an end.

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The main issue I see is that papers are actually becoming so focussed on form that they are now unreadable. People prefer reading my blog for my papers than reading the papers themselves. In fact I hear people telling me they understood the blog _better_. The whole academic writing shtick has become…

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> Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.

It's striking to imagine a fully functional fusion reactor that could benefit humanity, yet its creator now focuses on fintech payment systems. This highlights the importance of a strong middle class, which see…

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Burnout syndrome is considered by some to be a type of depression. But while depression begins with stress or fatigue or a large shock like an accident or a loss, burnout syndrome originates with the thought that all of one’s efforts were in vain. It strikes at a time when life is not turning out as…

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This is not talked about nearly enough, there are so many factors for being childless. I think there is a thought that if you “decide” not to have children that there is no grieving involved because of being lucky enough (biologically) to have a choice in the first place.

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Stories of people who find their own pace and direction, of people who believe in others and wait by their side as they go through difficult times, lost in worry. Stories of those who support others, who celebrate small efforts and resolve in a society that puts people – and everything about them – …

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A space we can escape to, a refuge from the intensity of daily life where we can’t even pause to take a breather. A space to shelter us from the harsh criticisms whipping us to do more, to go faster. A space to snuggle comfortably for a day. A day without something siphoning our energy, a day to rep…

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I had thought of work as stairs. Stairs to climb to reach the top. Now, I see work as food. Food that you need every day. Food that makes a difference to my body, my heart, my mental health, and my soul. There is food you just shove down your throat, and food that you eat with care and sincerity. I …

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