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New comment by bottd in "The paper computer"

bottd — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:19:50 +0000

I've been thinking along these lines too! My idea here is to use a receipt printer + scanner. In the morning the system prints a receipt with various widgets like weather, calendar, etc. The scanner takes in the marked up receipt at EOD to update the digital data and prepare for tomorrow's receipt.

New comment by bottd in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

bottd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:29:10 +0000

The Kagi AI stuff

New comment by bottd in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

bottd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:06:18 +0000

Not for everything. For code you own, yes this is often the case. For the majority of the layers you still rely on documentation. Take the project you mention going straight to source, did you follow this thread all the way down through each compiler involved in building the project? Of course not.

New comment by bottd in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

bottd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:48 +0000

> If there is a need to comment the code all over the place, to me it means that the code is maybe not as good as it should be :-)

If good code was enough on its own we would read the source instead of documentation. I believe part of good software is good documentation. The prose of literate source is aimed at documentation, not line-level comments about implementation.

New comment by bottd in "Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning"

bottd — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:39:58 +0000

> Therein lies the problem. LLMs are not assistants.

Assisting a person and being an assistant are not synonymous. A cane assists a man while he walks. It is a stick. That's it.

New comment by bottd in "The Boring Part of Bell Labs"

bottd — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:12:17 +0000

This is somewhat self-fulfilling is it not? I fear my valuable employee may leave, so to protect myself in this situation I withhold resources I could have granted them. Said employees later realize they could get better and leave.

New comment by bottd in "Dead Framework Theory"

bottd — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:04:39 +0000

Do they do this notably worse than say a Spring boot API or a Vue frontend? I don't think this is a React thing. Those spaghetti projects would be so with or without React.

New comment by bottd in "Dead Framework Theory"

bottd — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:03:03 +0000

Hot reloading is pretty common now for React or other JavaScript projects

New comment by bottd in "Dead Framework Theory"

bottd — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:01:26 +0000

If you wanna access DOM you can't avoid JavaScript

New comment by bottd in "Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?"

bottd — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 13:38:55 +0000

Do you always feel this is the case? To me the go to single letter variables are very readable. Used so widely my eyes parse them like other symbols: =, &, +, etc.

New comment by bottd in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

bottd — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:25:22 +0000

I have yet to experience a role where workers are allowed to deliver while clocking less than 40 hours. 5 hours per week on salary is only if you do not tell management.

New comment by bottd in "Claude now has access to a server-side container environment"

bottd — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:48:39 +0000

Not official, but I have been using this nix flake to get Claude desktop on Linux: https://github.com/k3d3/claude-desktop-linux-flake

New comment by bottd in "The Mythology of Work (2018)"

bottd — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:46:35 +0000

You’re failing to separate work and labor.

New comment by bottd in "Home Manager: Dotfiles Management"

bottd — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:53:25 +0000

I recently switched from using a basic git repo to home-manager.

You’re correct that the setup you describe gets you a lot of what Nix can provide. The main thing it is missing is Nix will also manage installing your software for you. I find managing both what my software is and how it is configured with a single tool to be very convenient.

New comment by bottd in "Show HN: Dorkly – Open source feature flags"

bottd — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 02:45:59 +0000

This is all decided by business needs, not by engineer preference. If devs aren’t pulling the levers it is good to expose them in an accessible interface, not plaintext.