1. Vanit Dec 30, 2025 parent

   Ugh a terminal purist. Just as insufferable as the ones in person at work. Yeah have fun with your gigantic unorganized git diffs I guess.
2. Vanit Dec 12, 2025 parent

   Like you said I think it's culture, particularly ones that are food oriented. It's gonna be hard to get buy-in if people think it's too weird.
3. Vanit Nov 18, 2025 parent

   The tact aspect seems like a real possibility. In a world where users are likely to cut&paste responses it can't really be sprinkling in references like this.
4. Vanit Jun 14, 2025 parent

   Is this written by AI?

   Also pretty funny to compare to peanut butter & jelly, goes to show American self-centrism, and also the same bubble that's around AI tooling.

5. Vanit Jun 2, 2025 parent

   My favourite one was debugging a crash in an Electron app deployed to iOS. It turned out throwing an exception from a point event callback (deep in our app's code) was bubbling up into the device's kernel code.
6. Vanit Apr 15, 2025 parent

   I agree with the article, but that's not how the vibe coders see themselves. From their perspective they can't see the gap between programming and product, and in my experience are pretty hostile to feedback from real software engineers.
7. Vanit Apr 6, 2025 parent

   I realise your answer wasn't assertive, but if I heard this from someone actively defending AI it would be a copout. If the selling point is that you can ask these AIs anything then one can't retroactively go "oh but not that" when a particular query doesn't pan out.
8. Vanit Mar 30, 2025 parent

   Ah, somewhere you can find all those terrible interviewees in one place!
9. Vanit Feb 10, 2025 parent

   You may as well just use a singleton pattern if you're going to do this, and at least that's easier to maintain if your use cases change.
10. Vanit Dec 5, 2024 parent

    I read through half the docs and couldn't get a definitive answer on if nested custom components (ala React) we're even possible.
11. Vanit Dec 5, 2024 parent

    I'm throwing some shade here, but this reeks of backend engineers not caring about UX.
12. Vanit Dec 2, 2024 parent

    I'm keen to drop in a few PSX-era Final Fantasy backgrounds to see what it does!
13. Vanit Sep 30, 2024 parent

    I read some of your other replies and I can't quite get a read on your line of reasoning.

    The issue is we would give less attention to these things if it wasn't for the social credit the humans gave the vomit. So we engage in good faith and it turns out it was effectively a prank, and we have no choice but to value requests from those people less now because it was clear they didn't care about our response.

14. Vanit Sep 7, 2024 parent

    Bit of a different answer to the others; play Hypnospace Outlaw. It's a quirky game that captures the geocities aspect of what you're talking about.
15. Vanit Aug 20, 2024 parent

    I don't understand the use case, can someone enlighten me? I've always used them as a caching mechanism for derived / expensive data, and they work perfectly for that as-is. If you want to enumerate them I can't help but think your mental model is wrong and you actually don't want the keys to ever be released from memory.
16. Vanit Jul 25, 2024 parent

    Hearing about this is very reminiscent of current day React web dev as well.
17. Vanit Jul 11, 2024 parent

    It's not apparent if you're not already an expert in the domain you're querying, so users trust its answers, especially because it's delivered with an air of confidence (until you challenge it).

    Unfortunately that's good enough for a lot of people, especially when you don't actually care and just need an output to give to someone else (office jobs etc).

18. Vanit Jun 26, 2024 parent

    Null is the sole case in js that should always be == checked. Null or undefined should never be === unless you're explicitly encoding a semantic difference in your types.
19. Vanit Mar 10, 2024 parent

    The second I saw this was about OIDC support I knew what's up. This is a great way to flood your support bandwidth with "doesn't work with X" complaints.
20. Vanit Jan 8, 2024 parent

    I don't know who this is or why I should care about their opinion, but seems like a pretty evenhanded review. It does reinforce my apprehension due to bad UX because everything has to be on the touchscreen even when it doesn't make sense.
21. Vanit Nov 3, 2023 parent

    Ditto, for me 418 has always meant "check response body for the application error code".
22. Vanit Oct 1, 2023 parent

    Not at l surprised by this. I conducted a similar experiment when I was trying to get it to generate a body for a "Nigerian prince" email. It outright refused at first, but it was perfectly happy when I just told it that I, Prince Abubu, just wanted to send a message to all my friends about the money I needed to reclaim my throne.
23. Vanit Sep 27, 2023 parent

    I used to work for a company that made an app for drafting evacuation signs, and we had a usecase for using a map as an underlay to show the surrounding buildings/terrain for the siteplan. I recall that quite a few map providers had a TOS that prevented that usecase (as the evac signs would be saved to pdf for distribution or printed), so I'm interested what the take is here.
24. Vanit Sep 27, 2023 parent

    What's the policy for attribution and saving copies of annotated maps for distribution?
25. Vanit Sep 22, 2023 parent

    I've been using a Razor Kishi with my phone to achieve this effect; it folds up nicely when not in use so effectively has the same travel footprint and I'll always need my phone anyway.

    I still miss that immediacy of instant pause/resume by closing the clamshell though.

26. Vanit Sep 14, 2023 parent

    Ah, it's the users who are wrong!

    In all seriousness, as engineers we of course can't assume the happy path is common, and to ensure good UX more often than not we need to account for these cases.

27. Vanit Sep 9, 2023 parent

    The one the govt made in Australia isn't half bad, though mygov was rough when it launched.
28. Vanit Aug 31, 2023 parent

    Thanks for the heads up on Claude; I attempted something similar with ChatGPT in the early days but was limited to one paragraph at the time, and it kept injecting a lot of repetitive noise like the character constantly looking forward to the challenge ahead.
29. Vanit Aug 25, 2023 parent

    Sorry for slow reply! I don't know exactly how it works but I believe I'm receiving a feed of articles that reach the front page. I use it so I can consume new stuff without having to manually re-review the actual website myself.
30. Vanit Aug 25, 2023 parent

    Your reaction is how everyone reacts before their own crypto is stolen.

    I don't know how crypto proponents think they can simultaneously wave away this level of fraud but still seek economy-wide adoption.

This user hasn’t submitted anything.