> Do you like fine Japanese woodworking? All hand tools and sashimono joinery? Me too. Do it on your own time.

Ughh. That "own time." Spoken like a true middle manager who thinks passion is a liability.

The author also wrote

“Steve Jobs was wrong: we do not need to carve the unseen feet in the sculpture. Nobody cares if the logic board traces are pleasingly routed.”

This tells you all you need to know about the kind of work the author values.

Next time you wonder why so much software is buggy, slow, half considered slop, you’ll know exactly who it was made by.

As I recall, fly.io was going down an awful lot last time I peeked in.

This is how I work:

I use Cursor by asking it exactly what I want and how I want it. By default, Cursor has access to the files I open, and it can reference other files using grep or by running specific commands. It can edit files.

It performs well in a fairly large codebase, mainly because I don’t let it write everything. I carefully designed the architecture and chose the patterns I wanted to follow. I also wrote a significant portion of the initial codebase myself and created detailed style guides for my teammates.

As a result, Cursor (or you can say models you selecting because cursor is just a router for commercial models) handles small, focused tasks quite well. I also review every piece of code it generates. It's particularly good at writing tests, which saves me time.

Tell me what happened your freenode?

Discord is IRC's next evolution. Next generation chat. Good voice, excellent interactivity.

It has problems (bugs & weak beta phases) but after nearly 20 years of irc, i stopped my bnc (currently znc) instance last week. ~20 years of irc, countless bots, tons of good memories.

it is time to say goodbye for now.

> Tell me what happened your freenode?

It shat the bed, just like Twitter and Reddit did recently.

The huge difference is that with IRC we were able to painlessly hop over to libera.chat pretty much the same day while a lot of people are still struggling to leave the other two behind. I have learned my lesson, it's open services for anything important.

Look how quick the transition libera.chat was.

If Discord went away no one can just spin up a discord server.

Some parts of my old project at work:

1- WebSocket Server / Service (Poorly designed, barely alive)

It was fine until it was not. It seems managing a lot of connections are harder than our team thinks it is. I still don't get it why we dedicated a couple of people to this for very long time. We should have used one of the existing services like pusher or signalr etc.

2 - Mobile Push Notifications Service only for our usage.

To be honest this was working fine but they designed it like to be one of competitors. Was not worth the effort.

You know this is a very superficial understanding of what has happened right? And it doesn't capture how the design of the algorithms are actually shaping peoples views? The idea that it just gives you what you want is just not an accurate understanding of what is happening.

I suggest you read the work being published by Stanford U and Renee DiResta -- https://twitter.com/noUpside

Pro as in Professional End User.

they can't even prevent fake bank twitter accounts and their pnishing ads.

Or they don't want?

I am annoyed by the clickbait title. it is like calling knife as murder weapon.

Dark web isn't inherently negative though, is it? It's not like they called it pedo-web.

It's very negative.

Yeah. It's a term we've got to live with though: it's too widely used in media.

That's why news and public service actors with global ambitions launching onion services is likely a huge net gain in the long run.

I agree that it's bad optics, but personally I think it sounds shway. If we're gonna live in a dystopian future where we have to evade omnipresent government surveillance using illegal* code, it might as well sound like something out of an '80s sci-fi novel or a '90s anime. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

*Currently illegal in some jurisdictions, more coming soon!

Think about it as dark side of the moon - an invisible place.

They did put "dark web" in scare quotes to soften the blow a little.

China strikes back huh.

This is big issue no matter how you look at it.

Maybe "no trade secrets" is a bit exaggeration.

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