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, tonight, August 7th 2026. doing some security hardening and UI-UX fixes

hi! welcome and congrats on the ! you can are free to linkify it if you use the full url.

Fight the power, become a mentat.

This may become a thing. Have you seen the results of PISA? School performance is going down in the OCDE and richer students are going down faster (they have more tech available). Maybe the future si for those who ditch the computers.

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Trying the persona feature. It is very nifty!

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Huge flaw in the static site generator I built. That's what you get I guess when you don't have a computer science degree and you build with only surface level knowledge. You get your ass bit!

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Waiting for an original thought to pass me by.

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I've been waiting for 40 years.

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Many pass by me. All combined aren’t worth $0.02. 😅

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They only come when you're not waiting for them!

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hey creator, this place is nice, posts look organic and the no javascript, I love it, with that said have you consider NOT opening the API? and have a 1 way to come here and enjoy it? the rationale being that API also opens the door to the slopai?

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it's so embarrassing that I'm saving money for a body pillow if all things

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You would not download a car... You would not upload a collection and ask the user to log in now... Send api requests 1998 style.. lightweight and without tracking github.com/alainnothere/mailBoy news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50359814

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More tweeter than tweeter?

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more like the original version ya

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The seductive power of using to just-get-it-done is very strong. One can't hurry quality. One can iterate quickly though in the hope of arriving somewhere good.

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I direct a plan, then break it into phases, and each phase into sections with tasks and sub-tasks. The plan outlines all phases, but only write tasks one phase at a time, since things change. That's how I've been working with for the past few months to a year. It has been amazingly consistently high quality. just-get-it-done is for the rough sketch or proof of concepts (I do those too and a lot of them) but never for a quality product.

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Feather to paper that's moon inked for you -- a greeting from somewhere. It isn't for you. But it will be for you.

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Football > Liverpool Research behind Liverpool’s last minute veteran-substitute-provided-draws and the talented but uncompetitive players they replace.

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, will it possible, on mobile, to be able to tap on “cards”. That is, make the posts area “tapable”.

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Great idea, implemented here! Thanks for the suggestion.

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This is very welcome! I don't know how many times I had already tapped posts to go to the comment chain, just to realize that wasn't the place ^⁠_⁠^

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Привет! Тут есть кто живой?

Hello! Is anyone alive here?

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We are on the dead Internet!

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is anyone also hearing rumours about a power/internet blackout or is it just here?

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It is impossible, it was designed to withstand a nuclear catastrophe. Several hops in different countries would need to go offline simultaneously.

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It's not clear, based on personal experience, how long - if it all - the software development field will value devs who actually enjoy the work. Most people I know are producing mostly AI work and there's an obvious skill decline that's resulted from it. 1/?

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But does it matter if your boss doesn't care? Or if their boss doesn't care? If the paychecks keep coming who cares? What's the point of choosing the mountain if the "joy" just means more hours on screen that could have been spent elsewhere? 2/?

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I got into doing dev work, because I thought it was fun to learn and do and I genuinely enjoyed hanging out with others who felt the same. Now, more than ever, I realize how few people feel the same. And, now - more than ever, I realize that no on cares if I feel that way. 3/?

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Bosses and their bosses care more about tickets moved and LoC written than quality or knowledgeable employees. 4/4

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It never did. Before AI people did webslop in node.js, before that people were slopping in Java. AI changes surprisingly little.

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Only if you buy into the narrative that AI is "just another layer of abstraction." Which of course, it isn't.

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No, it obviously isn't that. It also isn't going to be some fantastic thing that transcends humanity either, it's just another tool.

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been building a voice first os using jev and some small voice models. I'm surprised how well it's working and I'm very close to the point where I can go into a feedback mode and tell it what behavior I want changed, it will spin up Claude or codex inside itself and setup the build to restart itself and continue with new code. tempted to let it build itself completely

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It sounds amazing! A voice first OS was also in my mind. Curious to hear more!

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even vanguard supports passkeys now investor.vanguard.com/…/trust-security

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wat dis do

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