1. duggan 1 day ago parent

   "Robot boots 30,000 feet above the ground" doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
2. duggan 3 days ago parent

   Yeah, any outright dismissal of a perfectly reasonable idea like this smells of market opportunity.
3. duggan Jan 5, 2026 parent

   I thought I was going to disagree with this; on the surface I think the icons are something of an improvement, but the rest of the post is persuasive.

   This is a bad sign for design at Apple. It suggests a fundamental lack of attention to detail that would have been harder to imagine a few years ago.

   What's driving it?

4. duggan Jan 5, 2026 parent

   Hardly. Just pointing out that water is wet, from my perspective.

   But there is an interesting looking-glass effect at play, where the truth seems obvious and opposite on either side.

5. duggan Jan 5, 2026 parent

   I spent so much time tuning the WAP site for the forum I worked for back in 2008.

   I had some sort of Nokia running on whatever 2kbps networking was going then, and would shave absolutely anything I could to make the forums load slightly faster.

6. duggan Jan 5, 2026 parent

   LLMs work very well for a variety of software tasks — we have lots of experience around the industry now.

   If you haven’t been convinced by pure argument in 2026 then you probably won’t be. But the great thing is you don’t have to take anyone’s word for it.

   This isn’t crypto, where everyone using it has a stake in its success. You can just try it, or not.

7. duggan Jan 4, 2026 parent

   Yep, that’s not a bad approach, either.

   I did that a lot initially, it’s really only with the advent of Claude Code integrated with VS Code that I’m learning more like I would learn from a code review.

   It also depends on the project. Work code gets a lot more scrutiny than side projects, for example.

8. duggan Jan 4, 2026 parent

   I mean sure, that could happen. Either it's worth $200/month to you, or you get back to writing code by hand.
9. duggan Jan 4, 2026 parent

   Search “centre a div” in Google

   Wade through ads

   Skim a treatise on the history of centering content

   Skim over the “this question is off topic / duplicate” noise if Stack Overflow

   Find some code on the page

   Try to map how that code will work in the context of your other layout

   Realize it’s plain CSS and you’re looking for Tailwind

   Keep searching

   Try some stuff until it works

   Or…

   Ask LLM. Wait 20-30 seconds. Move on to the next thing.

10. duggan Dec 19, 2025 parent

    It was a real facepalm moment when I realised we were busting the cache on every request by including date time near the top of the main prompt.

    Even just moving it to the bottom helped move a lot of our usage into cache.

    Probably went from something like 30-50% cached tokens to 50-70%.

11. 145 points Dec 18, 2025

    AI vending machine was tricked into giving away everything

    13 comments duggan kottke.org
12. duggan Dec 17, 2025 parent

    Interesting, thanks for the references, I'm not very familiar with fs.com, though I'm sure it popped up in one or two Reddit posts I skimmed.

    It turns out I accidentally purchased one each of a fibre-assembly and direct-attach-copper! I was not paying close enough attention.

    From what I understand, the difference between these will be negligible at the range I'm using (1m), but is that accurate?

13. duggan Dec 17, 2025 parent

    Database in a single file, litestream backs it up offsite. Simple!
14. 4 points Dec 16, 2025

    Moving Cloudflare out of the critical path

    2 comments duggan duggan.ie
15. 10 points Dec 15, 2025

    10GbE

    6 comments duggan duggan.ie
16. 2 points Dec 15, 2025

    A Year of Not Really Blogging

    0 comments duggan duggan.ie
17. duggan Nov 18, 2025 parent

    Also, for anyone who only has an old global API key lying around instead of the more recent tokens, you can set:

      -H "X-Auth-Email: $EMAIL_ADDRESS" -H "X-Auth-Key: $API_KEY"
    

    instead of the Bearer token header.

    Edit: and in case you're like me and thought it would be clever to block all non-Cloudflare traffic hitting your origin... remember to disable that.

18. duggan Nov 11, 2025 parent

    I think it was needed for retaining the original aspect ratio, and capturing in ProRes, but maybe there's a workaround there that I didn't find.
19. duggan Nov 11, 2025 parent

    I had a similar set of tapes, and ended up collecting a chain of connectors – firewire cable, firewire to thunderbolt2 adapter, thunderbolt2 to usb-c.

    Instead of cobbling together an impressive array of tools though, I just got a trial of Final Cut Pro and pulled out everything with that. You can get what I think is a three month trial? Anyway, it was plenty for this one time effort of digitizing old Hi8 tapes.

    I think I did end up using Handbrake to take the raws down to a reasonable size to give to family members, but the raw footage and project files I stuck on a couple of 1TB Sandisk drives to keep in physically separate backup locations.

20. duggan Oct 20, 2025 parent

    I suppose hijinks will inevitably ensue!
21. duggan Oct 20, 2025 parent

    I was scrolling through that list and did at a double take at... Thomas Middleditch? The actor from Silicon Valley?
22. duggan Sep 14, 2025 parent

    Prototypes being launched as products is so common it’s an industry cliche.

    Having those prototypes be AI generated is just a new twist.

23. duggan Sep 9, 2025 parent

    Words can change minds, it doesn't seem like a huge leap.

    Your condescension is noted though.

24. duggan Sep 9, 2025 parent

    If it could hold a conversation I might.

    I also believe AI is a tool, but I'm sympathetic to the idea that, due to some facet of human psychology, being "rude" might train me to be less respectful in other interactions.

    Ergo, I might be more likely to treat you like a toilet.

25. 3 points Sep 8, 2025

    Malware in Debug (npm)

    1 comment duggan github.com

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