Browser standards made the people a predictable and uniform canvas that the owners could be free to creatively build upon

"Standards compliant" was an extremely effective way to convince nerds that normally value empowering users to throw all that away when it counts the most

Giving the web page some control over whether a link targets a new tab - one of so many ways each web browser is failing to put its user's choices first

time bakes these little mementos into such funny old sentiments

I have a theory that the main real driver for people loving their cars nowadays is the air filtration and noise insulation. Urban and home environments are so unpleasant that a sealed box is preferable, and the fact that it's transportation is just a socially acceptable excuse to get into it.

No, I get it. It's very clever. How's that workin out for ya?

"But my code at work can be art!" "And since when do we love corporate art?"

Twenty years ago, when I was in Atlanta and this autotuned party rap thing felt like a sort of novel sound, it was neat. Now, filtered out to something blasted out of a pickup truck at a gas station in a little farm town, I just can't understand why this doesn't feel tired to you, why is this […]

Claude is down and I am typing with my hands like a fucking cave man

Did I come into work today thinking I was going to be throwing together a bird funeral? You never know what your day here is going to turn into

You are the ultimate example of the kind of system you say you despise. Generated by a constraint solver chasing local optima, built without coherent design, reverse engineered from immense complexity that was never made to be understood.

One also must take care, in one's anti-AI screeds about what tasks fundamentally require a mind, not to make accidentally a case for Intelligent Design as the origin of life

Weird everybody is here to talk about OpenAI and say they only care about human achievements when I didn't see anyone at all talk about Grigori Perelman, a human. I think honestly people don't like achievements, they prefer scandal

It's great when you have some text like "log in with the test credentials 'demo' and 'password'." and claude flips its shit WHOA BUDDY I'M NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE PASSWORDS

Good programming in the large is not simply the accumulation of good programming in the small

Draw the domain and architecture boundaries where you know they should be, set the idiot machine onto the details, and go have a beer. The result will be better than what you would have produced if each line were beautifully hand-crafted and the larger system were full of hideous shitass […]

but there would be a bit of duplication...fuckyouwhocares you're not the one writing it

There is just no goddamn excuse anymore to take the lazy way around what you know is the right architecture when claude can do it and work is paying for the tokens

This company is supposed to be good, why can't they manage to combine the phone and laptop into a single product