The entire idea of AI code generation is based on the assumption that a "prompt" can express your technical intention. But as soon as you start to get good at programming you stop thinking about it in english and instead switch to some abstract mental representation.

Neat git trick: you can exclude generated files from `git diff` by default via .gitattributes: github.com/nikitabobko/AeroS… If you want to see the generated files anyway, you can still use `git diff --text`

the worst part of this new ios glass slider is that it completely butchers any intentionally crafted design by introducing hundreds of thousands of different tints you need to account for. this is exactly why i don’t like designing for web with a quadrillion different monitors, browsers, and resolutions that render the interface differently. on a bright side, they likely made this because a bunch of viral concepts. tho it highlights their indecisiveness and fundamentally poor design choices, the bar getting lower and lower, i love apple and it’s just sad to me.

Turns out that one can turn off macOS spaces switching animations by synthesizing artificially high velocity trackpad gesture. Cool! github.com/jurplel/InstantSp…

UIs are built on the idea of hierarchical hiding of information, but users' brains don't work that way. You think of the thing you want by name, then have to reverse engineer the sequence of buttons / dropdowns to get there.

OSS contributing protip: read the room. Does your pull request look like a typical pull request that gets merged here? Do your commits look like typical commits? Do your code changes…

Thanks to the Podlodka podcast for having me as a guest! I had a fun time talking about tiling window managers. pca.st/episode/e2d079f2-8100… podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcas… youtu.be/2zi3E3-ibCI?si=o1tj…

If you're extremely mad about something, it's smart to stay quiet until it's not obvious how mad you are.

AIs writing PR/issue descriptions that are overly long and contain tons of unnecessary detail are like dumb people who keep talking and using big words about bullshit that doesn't matter in an attempt to sound smart. Also, this is going to drive me to crash out.

>be TOML >Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language >not obvious >not minimal

> It is not possible to permanently install a private extension in the stable version of Firefox without resorting to runtime hacks, or compiling the browser yourself. I am so sick of this signing bullshit everywhere. Just developed my first extension and cannot install it :(

I actually don’t entirely disagree with this conclusion. The main problem isn’t that I didn’t understand it, the problem is that the tooling for rebasing was and remains horrendous. Almost worst possible UX. Changes should be patches and GitHub discouraged this in favor of the simpler branch-based changesets, but this is fundamentally Git’s fault more than the service that tried to make the tooling more useable.

The memes are on point today