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by ef2k 25d ago
I found that it's not just text. It's also design and overall user experience. If you have an eye for it, your brain picks up on it immediately with the little pills, busy landing pages, the use of serifs everywhere, bronze accent
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by ef2k 1mo ago
Anythign that needs to be cleaned up or undone goes in ctx.effect. It returns the "inverse" (the cleanup function) when the plugin loads. Cordis then stores it and runs it when the plugin unloads. Take a look at 5.1.1 in the paper
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by ef2k 1mo ago
What's buried under the lede: this harness is using Cordis v4 (the paper that dropped today). Cordis has already been used for four years in a different project called Koishi that uses v3. Cordis itself is a way of hot loading and unlo
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by ef2k 1mo ago
The number is eye-catching but it's measuring how non-conforming the source code is, as opposed to whether it results in the intended DOM. This is why HTML validators largely went out fashion since it's more practical to consider
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by ef2k 2mo ago
I don't know if it's a coincidence but this is the same thing an AI explained to me when prompted something like "what replaces SaaS now that AI can build most things on demand". That was like a year ago. I have no proof
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by ef2k 3mo ago
to be fair, #2 exists because monorepos and submodules are somewhat antithetical concepts. A monorepo is supposed tobe the single source of truth for the codebase, while submodules are pointers to external repos with their own history. That
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by ef2k 3mo ago
> All my finance and payment domain expertise, all the debugging intuition and distributed system knowledge earned through hours of sweat and tears, is now promptable. I think the author downplays how much of that knowledge is used on kn
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by ef2k 4mo ago
perfect time to drop a reminder: vendoring might seem annoying, but it's way safer than trusting a remote registry.
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by ef2k 4mo ago
It's telling how rhetoric and conjecture are now normalized in company and business culture. When we were at the peak of remote work, companies were reporting record high revenues.
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by ef2k 5mo ago
The issue was a compromised build pipeline that shipped a poisoned package. But PSA: If something is critical to the business and you’re using npm, pin your dependencies. I’ve had this debate with other devs throughout the years and they us
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by ef2k 6mo ago
A few years ago, intentionally fingerprinting or tracking your users without disclosure was spyware and unethical. Alas, here we are. Anyway, what they're calling "spectroscopy", is a combination of extension probing and doin
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by ef2k 6mo ago
This would make more sense if email was 100% guaranteed to be delivered. Not sure if this angle was argued, but just like regular mail, just because something was claimed to be delivered is not enough to prove that it was, hence the existen
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by ef2k 7mo ago
I hear you, a lot of engineers have been there. Things are changing though, roles are evolving and the org chart is starting to flatten. A couple of things worth separating: strategic direction in most orgs is already handed down from the V
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by ef2k 7mo ago
That sounds more like a project or engineering manager role. Work environments obviously vary, and sometimes roles are assumed to counter dysfunction. But the PM here is the product manager, which owns the product direction. The argument is
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by ef2k 7mo ago
My hot take: the dedicated PM role is becoming optional. Engineers already understand feasibility and tradeoffs, and they often end up informing the PM anyway, which usually comes at the cost of meetings and slow decisions. With clear quart
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by ef2k 7mo ago
To be fair, they do explain their motivation. It's an in-browser RSS reader, so it's fetching the RSS feed directly without a proxy server. There's not much risk since the content is public and non-credentialed. The bigger ri
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by ef2k 7mo ago
The article frames the premise that "everything will be fine" around people with "regular jobs", which I assume means non knowledge work, but most of public concern is on cognitive tasks being automated. It also argues t
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by ef2k 7mo ago
Nice. These are the kind of boundary pushing projects I like to see. It challenges assumptions of where application logic should live. The implications around cost, latency, and recovery are going to be interesting.
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by ef2k 7mo ago
This brings some interesting situations to light. Who's ultimately responsible for an agent committing libel (written defamation)? What about slander (spoken defamation) via synthetic media? Doesn't seem like a good idea to just l
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by ef2k 7mo ago
I really liked this post. It's concise and gets straight to the point. When it comes to presenting ideas, I think this is the best way to counter AI slop.
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by ef2k 7mo ago
Nothing new here. This is why they eventually rolled back Chrome's initiative to automatically reject third-party cookies. Industry backlash was that the analytics of too many sites would break. Best thing to do is to switch to a priva
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by ef2k 7mo ago
I landed on a similar vision last year. The more I thought about it, the moat felt fragile. GitHub or GitLab could build the same capabilities and become a natural extension of what teams already use. That said, it addresses a real problem,
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by ef2k 8mo ago
I'm not disagreeing with standards but instead of creating adapters, can't we prompt the agent to create its own version of a skill using its preferred guidelines? I don't think machines care about standards in the way that h
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PlowNYC – track progress of snow removal vehicles in NYC(plownyc.cityofnewyork.us)
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by ef2k 10mo ago
I think the premise is a little shaky since a good servant leader is already transparent. But there's some good takeaways. Leaders should inform their team of what's happening behind the scenes and allow them to understand why thi
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by ef2k 10mo ago
> I want the things I do today to have an upside for people in the future. I think most would agree with this, but the way things work today don't support it. As of now, AI gains are privatized while the losses are socialized. Until
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by ef2k 10mo ago
> I’m still trying to figure out what kinds of open source are worth writing in this new era Is there any upside to opensourcing anything anymore? Anything published today becomes training data for the next model, with no attribution to
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by ef2k 10mo ago
At least Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller had a rivalry to see who had better public works.
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by ef2k 10mo ago
This reminded me of the other extreme to health consciousness: the 109 year old that smoked cigars and ate ice cream every night [0]. [0] https://youtu.be/BXyfCGDnuWs?t=332
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by ef2k 11mo ago
Maybe it's just me, but reading through LLM generated prose becomes a drag very quickly. The em dashes sprinkled everywhere, the "it's not this, it's that" style of writing. I even tried listening to it and it'

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