Vibe vs buy: you've never been paying for the code; you're paying for "someone else has thought this problem through in much more depth that I'm willing or able to"
01.03.2026 12:53
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Vibe vs buy: you've never been paying for the code; you're paying for "someone else has thought this problem through in much more depth that I'm willing or able to"
Last year I quit my job after years of security engineering. Here's an idea I come back to a lot: How can I say yes? garbagecollected.org/2026/02/19/h...
*while npm install scrolls by on my terminal*
incorporating code into my codebase? without reviewing it? that's irresponsible
Steam Phone when
Fry from Futurama, squinting
"Your password is not included in this email for security reasons."
Did we just become best friends meme with one person labeled subhash
This reminds me of an incident at work some time ago where a JSON message grew over time and got so large the system started rejecting it. As a first dumb idea I thought we should check if it was pretty printing the JSON. And yep, it was. Literally changed a true to a false somewhere.
Found a bug in the prerelease version of the Ghostty terminal in some niche shell integration I'm using. I love those occasions on which you need a whole page to explain a 4 character change: github.com/ghostty-org/...
Goldilocks and the three beers
Scroll of truth meme. I've finally found it... after 15 years. THE PERFECT BROWSER PLUGIN. Scroll reads: "access to all data on all websites". NYEHHH.. *tosses scroll away*.
Somehow I've never seen that XKCD before, spot on as usual.
It's the year of Linux on the desktop for me (NixOS currently). Crazy how many tools I depend on are web apps or glorified web apps (native shells like Electron). I'm now launching some sites with "chromium --app" so they integrate better.
A while back I discovered that you can see the HTML auto-escaping in action: garbagecollected.org/2024/07/26/g...