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I think, fairly soon, probably, this will not be limited to vibe coding tech nerds. Laypeople are gonna start getting their hands on this quickly. There's gonna be YouTube tutorials explaining how to use Claude Code for non-coders. The harnesses are gonna get better and people are gonna be […]
I think we are rapidly approaching a future, where people can have more or less whatever software they want, as long as they can clearly imagine what it should be. I don't really know what the implications of such a world are.
https://craigmod.com/essays/software_bonkers/
Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses. 👨🍳💋
https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/116211032504634390
I would like to see it again, but I feel like a second viewing requires a significant amount of bracing myself that the first viewing did not, since I had no idea what I was in for.
I think The Menu might be a truly underrated film based on how frequently I actively end up thinking about it, considering that I only saw it once, several years ago.
“For sale: toddler shoes, never worn!” has different energy
@aburka I don’t know, even if the AI industry may be overvalued now, I don’t think a bubble bursting here is going to look like “going back to coding the old fashioned way” any more than the dot com bubble bursting resulted in abandoning the internet.
The project above probably would have taken […]
@aburka 😅
Maybe I should add, I don't think this is an argument *against* AI, so much as it is an argument *for* UBI and a shorter work week.
(I don't think the world is worse off for having cheaper textiles. I genuinely don't know how to predict whether the world will be worse off for having cheaper […]
I want to ask, what happened to the weavers who were like, "Oh my god, this automatic loom is going to make my job so much easier?" but I assume the answer is, "The same thing that happened to the other weavers."
I find myself in the uncomfortable position of being entranced by the things LLMs enable me to accomplish that I couldn't before and also deeply worried about how they are going to reshape at least my industry and possibly society at large.
Just one example: I […]
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Has anyone used Anki or any other spaced repetition apps who can provide me with a decent review?
I have some things I want to memorize in various categories (key signatures/circle of fifths, dance choreography) and just hoping I passively absorb them isn't working.
Anki is $25 on iOS (and […]
Take that Hemingway
Web applications are only as trustworthy as the servers that serve them, and servers can get hacked. That’s why we are introducing WEBCAT, a tool allowing web browsers to verify the origin of code before they run it.
🌞 Today WEBCAT enters alpha testing! If you like to experiment with […]
“A bayonet, that’s a weapon with a working man at either end. Betray your country, serve your class, don’t sign up for war, my friend, don’t sign up for war.”
https://youtu.be/07KX91eKFdQ
More and more relevant
I've had a few people ask me about (or, more accurately, complain about) passkeys recently, so I wrote my own explainer.
https://chromamine.com/2026/02/should-you-care-about-and-use-passkeys/
😓 "email is dead"
I've had a few people ask me about (or, more accurately, complain about) passkeys recently, so I wrote my own explainer.
https://chromamine.com/2026/02/should-you-care-about-and-use-passkeys/
Unless we find the political will to enforce something else, capital will reap the gains of automation while the rest of us become poorer.
Robert Reich:
“Unless workers have the power to demand a share in the productivity gains, profits will go to an ever-smaller circle of owners – leaving the […]
“AI means we can work less for more money!”
The working less and more money:
Wait this is actually the plot of Memento tho
I gotta start keeping a `HARRIS.md` so I don’t have to rebuild my context from scratch every time I wake up.
Is any DOM method more fantasy-coded than `.createTreeWalker`? I think not
“The former, elder worker may find some interest or curiosity in applying her knowledge to this new technology, especially as the modes and methods for doing so are still being developed. But what of the worker who begins their work a decade from now, who has been specialized to do nothing more […]
Call me Farfetch’d because leeks are my favorite thing
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Absolute gibberish from Instagram
Error: entity released
...horrifying message without context, thank you
wow I don't know how I missed this feud between musk and JCO, but it tickled me to catch up now https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2025/11/11/elon-musk-vs-joyce-carol-oates-the-online-feud-explained/