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is where all the linux fortunes get injected with new electrons, new spins, new universe fairy dust to have a second eternal life?

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Yellow world

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Sharing your work with others is a hard computer science problem in 2026, the Year of our Lord. You either here the sound of chirping crickets or the sound of "AI Slop" yells.

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My past 3 projects went viral. I didn’t write a single line of code in any of them. But I still feel I engineered them. There were a few people that noticed but the majority didn’t see an issue.

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You're fortunate in that you've genuinely captured something that people clearly want with textlog. No one wants another static site generator or coding harness. Ideas that resonate are pretty few and far between now.

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I should have said past 4 projects went viral but the other one I did a lot of coding too, so wasn’t entirely “AI slop”. In all cases though, I made something I wanted to see. It just happened to resonate with others. Still, none of them extremely popular yet. All <500 users.

created a quiz:

programmer emergency: production is down. You change absolutely nothing and restart the server. It works. What did you fix?

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So much present tense in generated prose. Terse, authoritative sentences, without breathing room, without hesitation or qualification. It jumps off the page, and not in a good way.

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What about the lack of density to paragraphs, the length of the sentences, or the confidence and determinism of their direction? Conviction with no limits. So reliably repetitive that you start seeing patterns as if you are looking and reading a record player with some scratches on it. Skips. Squeaks. Repeats. Yet. It gets the job done.

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Yet. It gets the job done. Here's where we disagree. Using these tools as part of the job, certainly. But if I am to read, discern meaning, analyze choices of diction and structure, consider the context both of the author and the audience, and finally derive value from the written word, then generative falls short on many levels. If the "job" is to produce something no one was ever intending to engage with, then we have a more fundamental question about the value of the job.

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Maybe what I messaged read as a disagreement and mentioning that they get the job done was actually not about producing prose (of any quality). I wholeheartedly agreed and still agree with you. Getting the job done was more about producing output - be it some prose, images, videos, software, whatever. They do generate output. It is not to say that the output is meaningful or meaningless. Some souls do enjoy it. Some others - don’t. I did start with a question though.

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NBA is BACK!! Check out this minimalist NBA score site I made few years ago nba.5ntoro.com

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More tweeter than tweeter?

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more like the original version ya

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Aaron Sorkin's The West Wing is among the subtlest of all propaganda—it is propaganda that everyone sincerely wishes could be true, and is dangerous specifically because it is not and cannot be.

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Anyone know how to get the projects view back on codex? It changed from project categorization to date categorization.

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Nvm. There's a little bell icon on the top right of the sidebar which let's you switch between project and activity views.

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Finished, well you never really finish, setting up fedora + i3 on my ThinkPad X280. Such a lovely form-factor, & the full-screen/tiling approach for the 12.3" display works like a dream.

hi

Hello, world

how to eat

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If there's an audience, I can write about the real China beyond the spotlight

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Bring back partial anterior encephalectomies

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Which part of the brain would you remove?

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It seems like removing some of the connections between the anterior and frontal cortices could have positive effects.

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I think you're perfect as you are :)

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I've been doing a new makeup style, and I've been loving it so much!!! jirai!

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a lustaság meg fél egészség

Laziness is half the health.

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I like this, it's simple

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The dream of Twitter circa 2007 is alive in 2026

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Twitter was 140 chars. That makes it double the dream, right?

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is pretty fun. Some very nice improvements in 0.9 today.

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So, I've been using this harness for a week and a half now, and what's interesting to me is that it brings a lot of things that I'd already built for myself in Pi. I built a little email system for agents to communicate, a memory system to do this "continual harness" thing of self-improvement. I know I'll move on to another harness in the future, so I'm trying to treat this like I do laptops now, and think about portability in the things I build or customize.

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