Yep, same happened to me with some baseball game tickets. So incredibly dumb.

Even worse, we split into two groups and I had to ask the other group to download the app... create an account... and finally be able to "transfer" the tickets to them. It took like ten minutes, and thank god we weren't at the park yet trying to do all that. Ugh.

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

At least Apple's Wallet app works offline. There is nothing worse than having to use a dogshit proprietary app, waiting for it to handshake with four thousand data collection services before you can reach your My Tickets page, in a location where cell service is shit because thousands of other people are trying to do the same thing.

On the other hand, death of a livelihood in a social structure that doesn’t care about you.

We’ve always had pump-and-dump trash. The terrible stuff loses and the good stuff wins. I don’t see why that would change.

The companies that ditch the management structures of yore and successfully build better software faster with the new tools will come out on top. I don’t think these companies will replace ALL saas subscriptions with in-house solutions, because one huge benefit of paying someone else to hold that bag is liability and regulatory overhead.

> Companies must support their advertising claims with solid proof. This is especially true for businesses that market food

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing

Isn't this pretty unambiguous?

Sure, yeah, I understand what foot photography is. McDonalds etc. are at least riding the line instead of ignoring it. Using real food to carefully craft a scene, no matter how "done up" it is, is still representative of what's in the product.

Generative AI art is going to fabricate things. Especially when used by smaller shops who won't fact check it. I go to restaurant, look at picture of food, and expect to receive that. Period.

I mostly do very obsessive, tightly scoped, carefully thought out small changes on a fairly boring stack, one interaction at a time, verifying functionality and code. I know what I am doing, but I also know what I don’t like doing (the same exact set of things I’ve already done a dozen times in my career)

but I don’t care. I put 15 years into my tech career. I am good at building software, and I will not let this ridiculous “resume gap” problem stop me from taking a break for my mental health. any tech employer that wouldn’t want me because of it is a place I wouldn’t want to work anyway.

also, to be honest, I’m writing more code now than I ever did in the last year of my tech job… working on a full CMS and custom website combo for my friends bar, such that I can copy that template over for future projects (want to help local businesses escape the bullshit machine). also building a cool web development desktop app. and more! I’m having a great time

I'll re-enter tech later... maybe.

realized this one about myself earlier this year, it really helped to boil it down to something besides “I am just inherently bad at things.” that attitude worked as a dumb single kid, but it was harming my adult life and relationships.

therapy helped me get there. I have been on bupropion for about a year, and recently started on methylphenidate. it might not be the right one for me, or maybe too small of a dosage. I’m taking it slow and being deliberate with the drugs.

working with a personal trainer to get in shape and lose weight, as well as quitting my fully vested tech job to fuck off and be a cook for a while has also done wonders for me here. it’s cliche, but you really can’t replace fitness with anything else, and that took me 35 years to internalize.

Load all of your project's documentation links, local development browser tools (database viewers, etc.) into a set of views that can be source controlled with the project. Don't force people to use their daily driver browsers for this, or hack side-by-side views together with their OS window managers. Zen and friends have split panes, but it's not the robust tab/panel system that I wanted.

There is a simple tab widget system, which so far has:

- Viewport manager: basically 1:1 with what is in Chrome devtools

- Session manager: create and manage browser sessions as a first-class entity, and attach/detach tabs to these sessions. Includes a simple "incognito" toggle as well.

- System light/dark override: stop flipping this on/off for your whole OS to test "system" light/dark mode (tedious)

- Reload trigger: pick a target tab. if that tab reloads, so does this one.

- Log file viewer: if the tab source is a local file, change the tab's view to a structured log file parser with search/filter, play/pause, etc.

- Screenshot/Video capture: not built yet. pretty self explanatory.

Great keyboard controls are a hard requirement for me. It's a little tricky since content in web views can capture this too, so I have a global "nav mode toggle" you enter to move around between panes and the tabs within them. Actively figuring out the correct UX, but I am liking what I have so far.

Toying with the idea of a "tab link" which allows you to store a set of "source" tabs in a view, but create "links" in other views, where the navigation is synced across all instances. Useful if you want to have, say, the Tailwind docs open to a specific page, but have that page shared across different views. For example, if you want to have one view specifically for mobile view work and another for desktop view work, and not have to manually navigate to the same Tailwind docs page in both views.

I'm honestly just using it as I work on another real project, and adding features as I think "hey wouldn't this be nice?" Which is a pretty fun and satisfying process. I don't have it published yet, because I'm not entirely sure if it's worth sharing at the moment, but I feel like I'll discover that along the way here and go from there. Maybe someone here will chime in :P

Any of the ones you mentioned would probably work good with nix too. I don’t really care about the config being scriptable at all, it was just the first terminal that easily let me set all of the keyboard shortcuts I wanted, so I stuck with it.

First of all, if you want innovation, why are you forcing it into a single week? You very likely have smart people with very good ideas, but they’re held back by your number-driven bullshit. These orgs actively kill innovation by reducing talent to quantifiable rows of data.

A product hobbled together from shit prototype code very obviously stands out. It has various pages that don’t quite look/work the same, Cross-functional things that “work everywhere else” don’t in some parts.

It rewards only the people who make good presentations, or pick the “current hype thing” to work on. Occasionally something good that addresses real problems is at least mentioned but the hype thing will always win (if judged by your SLT)

Shame on you if the slop prototype is handed off to some other team than the hackathon presenters. Presenters take all the promotion points, then implementers have to sort out a bunch of bullshit code, very likely being told to just ship the prototype “it works you idiots, I saw it in the demo, just ship it.” Which is so incredibly short sighted.

I think the depressing truth is your executives know it’s all hobbled together bullshit, but that it will sell anyway, so why invest time making it actually good? They all have their golden parachutes, what do they care about the suckers stuck on-call for the house-of-cards they were forced to build, despite possessing the talent to make it stable? All this stupidity happens over and over again, not because it is wise, or even the best way to do this, the truth is just a flaccid “eh, it’ll work though, fuck it, let’s get paid.”

Not OP, but this is the part that I take issue with. I want to forget what tools are there and have the LLM figure out on its own which tool to use. Having to remember to add special words to encourage it to use specific tools (required a lot of the time, especially with esoteric tools) is annoying. I’m not saying this renders the whole thing “useless” because it’s good to have some idea of what you’re doing to guide the LLM anyway, but I wish it could do better here.

Heh I do think that happened once (that I was aware of), but it was on a topic I knew a lot about, and it fell apart after layer one. Still, pretty lame, I’d much prefer a “I don’t know,” which I usually say if they start guessing.

> I'm not worried about whether the string split command takes its parameters in this or that order, I just want to know you know it exists

I’ve run quite a few “can you write code” interviews in the age of practical AI, and I don’t know if I’ve been lucky, am good at breaking through nonsense, or if internet claims are exaggerated, but I can hardly tell the difference between now and the before times. You get someone on a call, you explain a problem, you see how they approach it, you probe along the way. I don’t work for a giant FAANG-like, maybe that’s part of it.