lmorchard

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by lmorchard 2mo ago
The Firefox repo gets 100-300 changesets per day, up to 1000 commits per week. Around 100-150 contributors land those in any given week. That's activity comparable to Linux or Chromium. And, the release schedule is accelerating from a
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by lmorchard 2mo ago
Yeah, this is a real thing: Mozilla doesn't have a team dedicated optimizing Gecko-based Firefox for iOS just in case it can be shipped someday. That Firefox can be built and will run on iOS doesn't mean it will immediately be a g
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by lmorchard 2mo ago
> I'd say Mozilla should take the money they're spending on their current nonsense and spend it here instead. Mozilla makes roughly $500m per year with maybe $1.5b in the bank. That's about 1-2 orders of magnitude short of
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by lmorchard 3mo ago
Why lol? If you only want to scale to a few dozen or a few hundred or even a few thousand folks, a Mastodon instance is fine. You don't have to scale to the whole world.
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by lmorchard 3mo ago
Scaling is not useful if that's not your goal
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by lmorchard 3mo ago
I'm interested in ATProto, but honestly this kind of "cheeky" post just turns me off. These are different approaches to the problem, they don't have to be adversarial. Another way to look at it: the Twitter-brained persp
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by lmorchard 3mo ago
And then once you've self-hosted ever component in the stack, you have one (1) Mastodon instance equivalent :)
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
Meanwhile, Undertale, one of the most celebrated video games, famously has a 1000+ line switch statement and AI had nothing to do with it. Sometimes you have to bang out something that works, just to even get the chance to be annoyed at how
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
No, but it's increasingly penalizing folks for focusing on well-crafted code on company time.
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
My comments are often more off-the-cuff than my blog posts—I spend more time editing the posts, usually
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
As I'm asking folks what bits they think are LLM imprints, they keep showing me bits that I originally wrote. It's really weird.
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
I mean, the irony is that those sentences were in my original draft before running it past the LLM
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
> The web was objectively awful as a technology I, for one, remember when I could crash Netscape Navigator by using CSS too hard (i.e. at all) or trying to make a thing move 10px with DHTML. But I kept trying to make browser to thing.
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
I guess I have a grating LLM-voice, then, because I don't think it sounds particularly different than how I've written other posts.
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
Which bits? And don't say the em-dashes because I've been over-using them since high school
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
Sure, I ran the post past an LLM for some ideas on clarity and tightening it up - but I wrote, edited, and published it myself.
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by lmorchard 6mo ago
Well, yeah, that's what a lot of folks are sad about - they can't practice the craft concurrently with the livelihood quite as much. But if you don't have a livelihood, you probably don't have as much space for craft at
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by lmorchard 8mo ago
Yeah, this is a lot of what I'm doing with LLM code generation these days: I've been there, I've done that, I vaguely know what the right code would look like when I see it. Rather than spend 30-60 minutes refreshing myself t
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by lmorchard 9mo ago
What you consider fun isn't universal. Some folks don't want to just tinker for half an hour, some folks enjoy getting a particular result that meets specific goals. Some folks don't find the mechanics of putting lines of cod
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by lmorchard 9mo ago
Like, fine, here's a personal example: I wanted to build a system that posts web links I share to a bot account on the fediverse. That seemed like a fun result to me. I wanted to self-host the links, so I installed Linkding. (I didn&#x
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by lmorchard 9mo ago
It's different for everyone, so no one answer would likely satisfy you
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by lmorchard 9mo ago
This is just obtuse. Some folks have fun building their own pizza oven, curing & slicing their own meat, and mixing their own dough. Some folks like to buy mostly pre-made stuff and just play with a few special ingredients. Some folks w
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by lmorchard 10mo ago
> Firefox OS: 2013 Apple wouldn't let Firefox onto the iPhone. Pretty big writing on the wall, there. Turns out it's really hard for a sub-billion-dollar company to succeed with a mobile OS, though, which is why we only really
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by lmorchard 2y ago
"Nothing going on here is permanent loss... it isn't a big deal to rebuild to the status quo." There is no status quo to rebuild. Loss of trust, loss of momentum, loss of context, loss of relationships - insofar as any of the
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by lmorchard 2y ago
That happens on small web sites, sometimes. Maybe try again later, as advised?
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by lmorchard 2y ago
At the same time, it's rather myopic to disrupt what reciprocal incentives there might be in an information sharing environment and somehow expect that the sharing will continue indefinitely.
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by lmorchard 3y ago
I mean, not compared to having to stand up an entire server cluster of Docker containers and friends
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by lmorchard 3y ago
Yeah, that sounds like fundamental team dysfunction that no amount of engineering tooling or gatekeeping will address in any positive way.
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by lmorchard 3y ago
Even if correct (doubtful), you also get to experience actual disease caused by the virus. Which, sure, for many folks, was mild. But, for many other folks, it was decidedly not mild at all. The funny thing is you don't hear as much fr
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by lmorchard 6y ago
Different countries have different laws regarding encryption and money

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