- If I were 16, I’d be thinking I just made an obscene amount of money ($4,000!) messing with computers for fun, and got to meet people at a famous company.
That’s a free car. Free computer. Uber eats for months.
And my status with my peers as a hacker would be cemented.
I get that bounty amounts are low vs SE salary, but that’s not at all how my 16yo self would see it.
- He was incredibly kind and supportive. Grandfatherly. Key elements, I’m sure.
- This was how my daughter’s virtuoso violin instructor taught, after a lifetime of teaching.
His method was to play alongside the student at 100x their skill level, pushing against their idea that it was too difficult.
But they’d play it, at tempo, horribly, from beginning to end. And then zoom in to a section and begin improving a few phrases at a time.
It was wild to watch, because after months of this, my 11yo could do something that seemed impossible.
- Yeah, Tauri struck me as much more powerful and lighter than Electron.
My hobby project with Tauri died when I managed to set an OS-wide shortcut, which is amazing.
Except it broke many other apps, and I just never got back to it.
- Looks interesting!
How are you feeling about Tauri as you take this to a larger audience?
I’ve dabbled with it and thought it was compelling, but not supported a release.
- This was my first reaction, too.
The buyer at the university could just be doing their job, signing contracts to ensure (ideally) stable vendors and a good price by signing such a long contract term.
- I've always assumed we'll end up re-processing landfills when it hits an economic tipping point: better tech emerges, raw sources are exhausted, etc.
There's a story in Junkyard Planet of this exact thing making someone wealthy when a product that was treated as waste became valuable to the steel industry, and they knew where to find it in the dump.
- > never let anything even have the remote opportunity to ingest data unless you don't care about the data
This is objectively untrue? Giants swaths of enterprise software is based on establishing trust with approved vendors and systems.
- I was ready to hate this, guessing it was a low-effort collection of text files.
But the approach looks very thoughtful.
I turned memory on for Claude, and quickly discovered that I didn’t want fragments of old conversations haunting new ones.
OP: how’s your day to day been using this? Do you find the memories are sometimes unwanted/off topic?
- If we say “artificial flavoring”, we have a sense that it is an emulation of something real, and often a poor one.
Why, when we use the term for AI, do we skip over this distinction and expect it to be as good as the original—- or better?
That wouldn’t be artificial intelligence, it would just be the original artifact: “intelligence”.
- Consider naming them like YYYY-MM and they’ll be sorted alphabetically and chronologically at the same time.
2025-12.md, 2026-01.md, etc
Source: spent too much of my life creating monthly financial reports.
- I hear you, but there are true moments of progress.
Vue is a huge improvement over jQuery, is the first one that roughly hit your timeframe.
- This is a key part of the AI love/hate flame war.
Very easy to write it off when it spins out on the open-ended problems, without seeing just how effective it can be once you zoom in.
Of course, zooming in that far gives back some of the promised gains.
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- Several decades into this, I assume all documentation I write is for my future self.
Beautifully self-serving while being a benefit to others.
Same thing with picking nails up in the road to prevent my/everyone’s flat tire.
- I stumbled across a fun trick this week. After making some API changes, I had CC “write a note to the FE team with the changes”.
I then pasted this to another CC instance running the FE app, and it made the counter part.
Yes, I could have CC running against both repos and sometimes do, but I often run separate instances when tasks are complex.
- “Execute it much better in some way” is the definition of a startup.
And typically the ones that succeed execute one thing much better than their peers: distribution.
- Yes and no. PC, Web, etc advancements were also about lowering cost. It’s not that no one could do some thing, it’s that it was too expensive for most people, e.g. having a mobile phone in the 80’s.
Or hiring a mathematician to calculate what is now done in a spreadsheet.
- Unpopular opinion, but couldn’t this be explained by something as innocent as seeing what changes are likely to be coming?
By having lawmakers as peers, you’d have a natural feel for what laws have momentum, who would benefit, etc.
I’m not ruling out corruption, just that assuming malicious intent often masks underlying dynamics.
- Nice article-as-ad for their DB product. The product itself reminds me of MeteorJS, which seemed like it could take over in ~2016, and then... didn't.
While I believe there are many benefits of being outside and exercising, there does appear to be specific benefits to sun-like UV exposure.