Firehose

Genuine exchange I just had:

Person: It’s broken on mobile.

Me: Do you have a Samsung by chance?

Person: Yes, I have

Me: Do you use Samsung Internet?

Person: I’m not sure what that is. I use the default browser.

Me: I shall refrain from using the selection of words I’d like to.

Seriously, how is Samsung Internet still this much of a clusterfuck?

I pretty much exclusively browse CodePen on Chrome, despite Firefox being my primary browser.

Mozilla, you need to catch up.

Honestly pretty disappointed we haven’t gotten an Ask Jeeves AI.

A mark was missed.

Everyone else listens for their fan to spin down so they know their code has finished compiling from halfway across the room, yeah?

Great moments in Revolt development:

RUN yarn install --frozen-lockfile
RUN yarn build:deps
# RUN yarn typecheck # lol no
RUN yarn build:highmem
RUN yarn workspaces focus --production --all

https://github.com/stoatchat/for-legacy-web/blob/master/Dockerfile#L9

One great use of LLMs I’ve found is as dynamic WordPress documentation generators.

WordPress is really poorly documented. Especially block themes, which are a mess in more ways than just documentation.

People who have a minimap in their editor, why?

I had one briefly back in the Atom days, but it was never all that useful. I’ve found having breadcrumbs at the top of my editor fills every minimap use case I can imagine.

Interested to hear how people use them and if I’m perhaps missing something.

This is a quote from Gian-Carlo Rota’s Indiscrete Thoughts that I think applies particularly well in the context of development:

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”

The JavaScript Registry looks really interesting, but every time my brain sees JSR, it thinks JET SET RADIOOOOOO!

Everyone else spams the up arrow key to find a previous command when it would have been faster to just type it out? Right?

Server upgraded and everything running again.

Bumped up to 8GB of RAM from 4GB, cleaned out the case, installed a new 4TB HDD, and migrated from Debian to NixOS.

Time for a server upgrade…

Migrating drives tomorrow. If I disappear off Fedi, then I’ve probably killed my database.

Goodbye Xbox 360 Marketplace.

I’ve made so many formative memories on the 360. It’s sad to see its infrastructure slowly shut down, bit by bit.

Spent a bit of time putting together a little tool that lets you search across search engines. You can pick a default and use bangs to search a specific site, like on DuckDuckGo.

Made it mainly for myself, but I’m sure it’s of interest to other people.

https://search.vale.rocks

Penpot kicks arse! It’s got all the sick layout features of something like Figma but represents them exactly as I’d need to implement them in CSS.

This is sick!

Just successfully implemented a feature I’ve been struggling to get working for yonks, and, as I did, (Get A) Grip (on Yourself) by The Stranglers started blasting.

Feels good.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=uakqdR2B2w8

The phrase ‘WebKit magic’ is something I could live without.

Decided to try music streaming again. The Vengabus started playing. I now remember why I maintain a local library.

Finally gave Zed a quick go on NixOS. It’s slick. The collaboration features are unrivalled.

If someone asks for a code editor in future, Zed is gonna be my suggestion. As much as I love Neovim, I understand it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. I can only see Zed getting better and filling the shoes of VSCode.

Please let this happen. I’ve waited so long.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/UxztgOj6A_M/m/wrRocFZoBAAJ

Does this Neuralink stuff remind anyone else of Flowers for Algernon? The patient experiences temporary enhancement and then has it slowly taken away. I fear the potential psychological impact.

So, uh, is the punchline of The Big Bang Theory just misogyny?

I don’t watch the show, but every time I’m exposed to it, that’s the impression I get.