The Gruber: “When is the last time an investigation regarding the legality of the App Store’s dominant market position went in Apple’s favor, in any country? I can’t recall one.”
🔗 Apple Loses Landmark U.K. Lawsuit Over App Store Commissions
Friendship is difficult
If you were natural you would be a moss. Moss doesn’t have friends. Moss just spreads, cold and damp and indifferent, and sometimes another moss spreads nearby, and together they make a bog, and then the bog swallows a horse."
From An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
high production value ≠ rizz.
Tips on doing corporate videos. It’s almost: be less polished. Plus, The Kids Slang.
🔗 high production value ≠ rizz.
The aesthetics of .sh
I grew up as a programmer in the 2000s, in Java culture. The aesthetics were about elegance, understandable simplicity (the opposite of the Perl obfuscation awards), and lots of DRY.
In contrast, you have command line culture, which I suspect is a more dominate programming aesthetic nowadays.
It will become even more so as one off vibe scripts and apps spread. If it’s faster or just complete rewrite your code with AI, why bother to fix it?
New 🥦 perspective
Broccoli is like two vegetable in one: flourette and stem. Genius!
All the commentary about AI generated content versus this
The way this guy turns picking up litter into one of those “video gaming while yelling at little things” (Minecraft Yelling, I used to call it until my kids started watching Roblox ones) videos is amazing. // One aging gen-X’ers human-generated slop is another 15 year old’s preferred 6:45am wake up viewing…bruh.
A meeting is not work, it's talking about work.
As always, if you want your people to get more work done, interrupt them less and invite them to less meetings. This applies to all people, not just programmers. A meeting is not work, it’s talking about work.
🔗 Meetings and interruptions are still the biggest obstacles for developers, even with AI
What is it about “founder” style, content, and intellectual aesthetics that makes me cringe so much? Is there something there, or is just that the stuff they post on Twitter and LinkedIn is over-dialed in engagement?
Who invited these goofballs into my workshop of hand-crafted excellence
I think the point is: it’s nice the professionals can make excellent content. It’s fun that the rest of us can now putter around the edges of that, ten seconds at a time. // Also, looks like a good example of a “Strasian reading” with Casey, there. While he is condemning AI generated images, he is showing the cool things he can make with it. // At some point we’ll have to confront the elite/commoner conflict between experts and goofballs using new tools to ape the experts.
I was promised a smarter world, and instead I have this
October, 2010, probably at an airport.