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• Post #4357660

  The cookie banner is what happens when lawyers, advertisers, browser vendors, and regulators all solve the same problem independently. And somehow I'm the one doing all the work now, clicking ❌ for the 47th time today.

• Post #4301874

  Codeberg: "No AI-generated code." Finally, a place for all the bugs I made the old-fashioned way: by hand, with love, and no idea what I'm doing!

• Post #4268714

  A random link in an email? Absolutely not! An AI agent with shell access, auto-updating extensions, dozens of community packages, and write access to production? "Yeah, that's just my dev setup, bro."

• Post #4240915

  Every technological breakthrough of the last 30 years eventually reached its final form: More targeted ads.

• Post #4236455

  Holding onto anger is like swallowing poison and expecting someone else to die.

• Post #4236454

  @Karma_J I know it's just a joke, but since I checked before I wrote my post and tried to find the author of the quote: it was not Buddha :-)

• Post #4236453

  We keep saying we're "adding AI to our app". I fear that'll age about as well as "adding internet support". We still think in terms of applications because that's the paradigm we grew up with. But perhaps an app was always just a temporary interface between human intent and, uhm, computation? In suspect in the future, apps become capabilities. The AI becomes the interface layer: dynamically rendering a UI, starting a voice chat, or s...

• Post #4236452

  Coding agents could be incredible if they respected the workflow of people who actually write software. "Look! I changed 83 files in 7 minutes!" Yes. That's the problem.

• Post #4236451

  Unicode would be considered a terrible standard if it wasn't almost entirely dedicated to cleaning up everyone else's mess.

• Post #4150757

  The silver lining of the Frankenware era is that Linux process sandboxing is finally getting the attention it deserves. Turns out the fastest way to convince people they need proper isolation is to let an LLM enthusiastically explore every possible way to rm -rf your home directory.

• Post #4134608

  It's only called "Agile" if it comes from the Agile region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling chaos with a standup meeting.

• Post #4130129

  The natural evolution of vibe-coding? Frankenware. You stitch together random pieces of code, skip the architecture, ignore the warnings and forgotten dependencies, apply a little electricity... and then act surprised when it starts screaming.

• Post #4048493

  JavaScript has this weird psychological effect on me, where I stop trying to write beautiful code. Rust: "Let's make this elegant." Go: "Let's keep this simple." JavaScript: "Let's just survive somehow."

• Post #4001027

  "This software has such a retro vibe." "Pixel art?" "No, it isn't laggy and just works."

• Post #3908928

  Programming languages are all like different buildings: - C++ is an abandoned factory that's somehow still in production. - Go is an operating room. - Rust is a nuclear power plant control room. - Python is a university campus. - Java is corporate headquarters. - JavaScript is a bouncy castle. On fire.

• Post #3840350

  It's getting really hard to get excited about new open source projects. First there's the endless flood of announcements. Then comes the real disappointment when you open the repo. The announcement is polished. The demo is slick. The codebase looks like three LLMs got into a knife fight.

• Post #3823104

  I agree, zoo enclosures can be cruel, but have you seen the rental market lately?

• Post #3801817

  "Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." -- Doug McIlroy, 1964

• Post #3755926

  Tech debt is like a gym membership: You ignore it for years, then one day you try to fix it and realize you're too out of shape to even start.

• Post #3736521

  We took a probabilistic autocomplete engine, slapped a REST API on it, invented 14 incompatible ways to call tools, and built a memory layer held together by duct tape, prayers, and malformed JSON. The result? A modern cathedral of human ingenuity. Also, a $300B valuation. Please don't look too closely at the load-bearing JSON.

• Post #3719694

  Paying 19 cents per text message was actually peak society. Every message was a meticulously edited, 160-character masterpiece where you weighed the financial cost of a vowel. cul8r!

• Post #3682819

  Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB. Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.

• Post #3632414

  Word-wrap is a myth invented by Big Typography.

• Post #3573822

  Physical media survived scratched CDs, red rings, and Blu-ray lasers, but It might not survive Sony's corporate strategy. Looks like the PS5 will be my last ever PlayStation. Call me old-fashioned, but I like owning the games I buy.

• Post #3515430

  How to stop time: kiss. How to travel in time: read. How to escape time: music. How to feel time: write. How to release time: breathe. -- Matt Haig

• Post #3509953

  It's amazing AI companies can legally bill by usage. "How much will this cost?" "No idea." "What will I get?" "No idea." "Can you estimate either?" "Absolutely not!" We're one jackpot animation away from calling it a slot machine.

• Post #3465218

  I swear I've seen developers with 30 years of experience go from "I can debug a kernel panic blindfolded" to "oh wait, let me ask the AI how to write a for loop" in about 12 months.

• Post #3433625

  Relax. This is one of the coldest summers you'll experience for the rest of your life.

• Post #3415702

  Everything is open source if you know reverse engineering.

• Post #3414364

  The new tech industry lifecycle: Embrace - We love open standards! Extend - We added a few tiny improvements nobody asked for. Extinguish - Oops, your thing is incompatible now. Enshitify - Aaaanyway, here's a subscription tier for the features you used to have!