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by perardi 3d ago
Don’t let the reflexive grumps get you down. homebrew is a critical, important piece of software, and I appreciate the effort. I certainly don’t appreciate the non-effort from reflexive LLM-haters. We get it. You don’t like LLMs. Try to hav
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by perardi 7d ago
That blog is obvious AI slop.
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by perardi 19d ago
Ha, that was me and Hugo, back in the day, for static sites. And, yeah, HTMX is truly great for sites with limited interactivity. You really, really do not want or need a full React Leaning Tower of Pisa stack for a simple presentational we
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by perardi 19d ago
I agree. We are moving away from HTMX at work, to React. (After we moved away from Angular. That was…a choice…that I didn’t make.) Here’s the thing: there’s still a place for HTMX. Lots of places. But “building an SPA but not actually and S
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by perardi 4mo ago
I walk by a lovely local toy store every day. https://www.playtoysandbooks.com I live in the Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago, and it’s a small bit of joy to have a thriving boutique toy store to walk by as I go to the gym.
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by perardi 5mo ago
Hey, long-time Flickr user who migrated to Google Photos for a somewhat specific use case. ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/perardi ) I do a lot of event photography as a creative outlet. I want my friends to be able to d
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by perardi 5mo ago
I don’t know if I would go so far as to say “monk-like”. He’s a college football die-hard. But he is a very chill dude. I wish more tech execs were in Cook’s mold. Reserved. Controlled. Calm. No Twitter beefs, no overt politics, no blow-ups
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by perardi 6mo ago
It’s a total cliché rite of passage to buy one of these when you move to Chicago. And I am typing that as I look at the Edgewater poster hanging right there over my desk.
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by perardi 6mo ago
> Edit : Sorry I'm asking specifically about paywalled stuff Ah, you mean, like the NYTimes RSS feed. The NYTimes (and other paywall sites) only render the headline and one-sentence article summary. Like this: > Not All Malls Are
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by perardi 7mo ago
Office has been ARM/Apple Silicon-native for a while. It’s just pig slow, even on my M3 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB of RAM.
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by perardi 7mo ago
You are not the only one. I have an ASUS ProArt Display 27” 5K. And I somewhat regret it. I love the pixel density. But I don’t love the matte finish. Which is apparently a controversial take. But I really don’t. I like the crisp pop of typ
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by perardi 7mo ago
I still do a double-take when I see Pokémon trading card game vending machines at the grocery store. I am an elder Millennial with no kids…I knew it was still a popular game, but seeing a great big Pokéball machine next to the shopping cart
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by perardi 7mo ago
Oh, totally, it’s my head canon as well.
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by perardi 7mo ago
Ha, I’d argue it starts right at Pekin.
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by perardi 7mo ago
According to Reddit…so, grain of salt…that is an urban legend, related to a Neil Gaiman short story that appeared on the Matrix promo website. https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1amree7/theres_a_wi.
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by perardi 7mo ago
Also, that should have been the backstory of the Matrix, and not the whole “living power source” nonsense.
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by perardi 7mo ago
I have a real soft spot for Summer of Night. It obviously owes a lot to Stephen King’s IT. But it stands on its own merits…and I give it extra credit because it was set in my home town. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su
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by perardi 7mo ago
I am 42. I came out when I was 19. I’ve worked in tech for 15 years, though no in the Valley. I have a snarky response, then a real response. Snark: Oh like a bunch of gays are capable of that level of coordination without it breaking into
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by perardi 7mo ago
Nope. It is still Electron, and it is not snappy. And I am on an M3 Max MacBook Pro. I have transitioned off ChatGPT for home use (Google provides me slightly better value in my personal life, as I can pay for a plan that also accommodates
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by perardi 7mo ago
I dare you to find any analytics, anywhere, that show any IE 11 usage. It would be utterly negligent to still be running IE in a corporate environment. It’s a huge security risk.
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by perardi 8mo ago
OK, everyone is (rightly) bringing up that relatively small but really glaringly prominent AI boyfriend subreddit. But I think a lot more people are using LLMs for relationship surrogates than that (pretty bonkers) subreddit would suggest.
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by perardi 8mo ago
Have you tried the relatively recent Personalities feature? I wonder if that makes a difference. (I have no idea. LLMs are infinite code monkeys on infinite typewriters for me, with occasional “how do I evolve this Pokémon’ utility. But wor
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by perardi 8mo ago
And in Musk’s case, “longer” means “abandoned”. Like the cheap model 3. Or the Hyperloop. Or swappable batteries. Or X as an everything app that includes banking.
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by perardi 8mo ago
Oh, well let me get in my sub-$30,000 Model S, with a swappable battery and full-self-driving capabilities, and take a fully automated trip to the Hyperloop downtown so I can catch a quick ride out to O’Hare so I can fly out to watch a succ
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by perardi 8mo ago
Yes, there is a sandbox. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/ That’s the point of this gist, and the related blog post. Also, it’s a bit of a stretch to call Claude Code, which isn’t even
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by perardi 8mo ago
5 anti-AI posts on the home page of Hacker News…yeah, plenty of insecure evangelism amongst the skeptics, too.
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by perardi 8mo ago
Even with search mode, I’ve had some hilarious hallucinations. This was during the Gemini 2.5 era, but I got some just bonkers results looking for Tears of the Kingdom recipes. Hallucinated ingredients, out-of-nowhere recipes, and transposi
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by perardi 8mo ago
Strongly disagree. Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft all have a very confusing product naming strategy where it’s all lumped under Gemini/ChatGPT/Copilot, and the individual product names are not memorable and really quite obscure. (W
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by perardi 8mo ago
That doesn’t reflect my (I would say extensive) experience at this point, nor does it reflect the benchmarks. (I realize benchmarks have issues.) Are you using Claude as an agent in VSCode or via Claude Code, or are you asking questions in
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by perardi 9mo ago
Ugh. Sigh. My rugby team uses Discord for chat and announcements. It feels…gross…inappropriate…it feels weird to use a UI covered in green gamer UI slime. https://imgur.com/a/eoa8arH

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