What surprises me the most about AI stuff is when my instructions are, correctly, *not* interpreted pedantically.
Me:
> I want to remove any ligature characters.
Claude:
> Done. Created 1 commit: a680a5cc80a: Replace fl ligature with fl (13 occurrences in 2 files). The œ and æ characters were […]
it's really sad, github used to work
most website that can't even temporarily redirect you through a login flow without forgetting what page you requested:
The core interface paradigm that's great about claude code is
1. human articulates an end goal
2. machine identifies the steps and obstacles, describes them, and pursues getting there without forgetting the end goal
It's not an LLM thing, it's just a thoughtful design thing, and more things […]
oh sure you put it in "seeing" rather than under "pointing and clicking" because of this excessive emphasis on the disability
All the linux desktop things are putting accessibility settings to the forefront, but it feels like a token gesture because I still have difficulty using the computer when my vision is even slightly impaired. Linuxes used to have settings to make the mouse cursor larger, whatever happened to […]
Not only did these city slickers not know how stupid the Claude output is - which I can forgive - they didn't know that they didn't know it, and this got published anyway.
Do readers who picked the AI text as "better" like it because of writing style, or because its *content* is fake […]
At the end, it gives a bit of text that varies based on which options you picked. In one of the permutations, it gives a little lecture about how people tend to say they liked something more if they know a human wrote it, the implication being that this is irrational.
But the authors' own […]
This piece may have convinced me that a human brain in the Bay Area is indeed not worth much more than a brain in a vat.
increasingly convinced the problem isn't that there *is* AI but that there are so few real humans left
The ground never fights so hard as when you have an animal to bury.
It's wing is not extended. Its eyes are not closed. You're not handling it in a way that you would feel the bones. Why are you digging near a fencepost? The ground is never giving when you're burying an animal. Especially not if you're describing it as cold.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/09/business/ai-writing-quiz.html What's most fascinating is that not a single detail about the owl makes sense if you've ever handled a bird corpse, which nobody at the NYT has
Linux people love to say Linux machines are a way to save money and then they're designed by people who have no need to save money who all have several machines per person
wow System76, bold move prompting me to "upgrade" the shared family computer from PopOS to Cosmic without warning me that it would take away the ability to switch users
There is only one good thing you can do to improve a settings menu: Add a search bar so that people can type instead of looking through your settings menu
yes it's unpleasant, I'm sorry it is ugly, no I cannot afford to halt my life for it
I really dread going out into public when my eye is swollen because everybody asks you about it and wishes you would go home
The only such thing as a "better" user interface choice is one that your user is already used to
I'm so fucking tired of UIs changing. Listen: I am thirty or forty years old, and I have seen that there is no such thing as progress on desktop managers and settings menus. Every "improvement" you make is just going to get undone by somebody else's opinion a few years down the road. Not fucking […]
hospitality isn't only a matter of obligations for the host; the guest also must be appropriately responsive to hospitality. one reason it has become impossible these days to be casually hospitable is no one can be relied upon to eat whatever food is given to them.
@dlakelan When people say they want a perfectly standards-compliant browser: No you don't, because the standards permit website authors to harm you
If you're going to shove together two phrases with a comma, they ought to have something to do with one another
"Built with Next.js, MapLibre GL, FastAPI, and Python, it's designed for analysts, researchers, and enthusiasts who want a single-pane-of-glass view of global activity."
I fee like people don't understand anymore what is the point of a paragraph, or even that a sentence ought to have some […]
It was short sighted of the general public to rely on Google's page ranking. The conditions under which that sort of worked well enough were short-lived
Small weaving projects are surprisingly approachable. This is my second ever thing, done over two evenings
the material quality of things seems to vary inversely with quantitative measurements of wealth
it's fascinating really that people of advanced civilizations eat from plates made of paper or petrochemicals so fragile they cannot survive more than one meal
One thing that really annoys me about how we often talk about financial crimes is the narrative that nothing can be done because it's too complicated, obscure, boring, etc. for the public to get excited about.
I think exposing a sex trafficking ring and being able to bring nobody to justice […]
It got known at the time as "has some toy devices to explain banking corruption in an accessible way" but that undersells it
