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New comment by crassus_ed in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

crassus_ed — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:51:56 +0000

I used to love the tradition of lighting fireworks but I think the way people have been using them has changed in the last decade. Everything seems to transform into a war zone and some people do incredibly dangerous things.

New comment by crassus_ed in "Rebuilding the Computer Room"

crassus_ed — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:43:19 +0000

I have the feeling many more people feel similar. I loved the intentionality of sitting behind your computer with purpose back then. There was always something you’d want to do and when that was done you’d search for the next thing to do.

New comment by crassus_ed in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

crassus_ed — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:28:10 +0000

I’ve had the same experience getting into MTGA recently. If you don’t play the meta its very unlikely you’ll win the higher ranked you become.

But this must be the case for all competitive games right? At some point the meta has been figured out and there is no real way to deviate from that.

New comment by crassus_ed in "How to Save Tokens When Coding with AI Agents: Subtitle Yadda Yadda"

crassus_ed — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:41:46 +0000

Fun read in these hard times

New comment by crassus_ed in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

crassus_ed — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:27:30 +0000

Same issue here. I want to migrate away, but rarely use email and I have it setup everywhere which would take quite some effort to pull off.

New comment by crassus_ed in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

crassus_ed — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:22:01 +0000

I recognize this too. There must be a correlation between the parents' level of education and the screen time the children have. Would be an interesting study.

New comment by crassus_ed in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

crassus_ed — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:27:34 +0000

Agreed. I don't get how this article has almost 400 points.. There must be bots upvoting this slop..

New comment by crassus_ed in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

crassus_ed — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:07:37 +0000

"Claude Code as a Daily Driver", which was also used to generate this article..

Also, how is "Explore, then plan, then code" considered "beyond the basics"?

Consume fewer tokens and increase efficiency

crassus_ed — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:48:16 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/token-efficiency/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244793

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

My bar on software is too high

crassus_ed — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:17:22 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/my-bar-is-too-high/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157991

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by crassus_ed in "Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance"

crassus_ed — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:31:03 +0000

I have heaps of experience with Stencil and it works great until a certain size indeed. It is a great way to ship web components quickly.

Coding agents will allow us to write plain JS way more quickly but it still takes a bit more time by humans to read compared to reading something that was written with in a framework.

Until the day that I don't have to do reviews of my AI generated code, or some sort of pseudocode abstraction layer becomes available, I think there is still a place for frameworks and libraries to create web components like Stencil.

New comment by crassus_ed in "AI has fixed my productivity"

crassus_ed — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:18:59 +0000

Right, so it's for accountability instead. Have you considered generating stories or tasks from the notes in that case?

Still I think it's better to discuss "action points" in that case and give a clear owner to those points. This always helps me to understand who's accountable and what actions actually need follow up.

New comment by crassus_ed in "AI has fixed my productivity"

crassus_ed — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:05:14 +0000

>Now the transcript happens in the background, a summary lands in my Obsidian vault automatically, and I can actually be present in the conversation. That’s 20 minutes a day I got back, every day, without thinking about it.

Honest question: Do you actually read any of these notes? I think there is a fundamental flaw with not taking notes. I'm convinced taking notes forces you to properly consider what is being said and you store the information in your brain better that way.

Programming is no longer the main skill of SWE

crassus_ed — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:07:56 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/programming-skill/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044883

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by crassus_ed in "Privilege is bad grammar"

crassus_ed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:01:03 +0000

>Informal tone and mistakes actually signal that the message was written by a human and the imperfections increase my trust in the effort spent on the thing.

Isn’t this a bit short sighted? So if someone has a wide vocabulary and uses proper grammar, you mistrust them by default?

New comment by crassus_ed in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

crassus_ed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:55:01 +0000

Nice read! The main benefit for me is the reduced search times for anything I need to look up online. Especially for code you can find relevant information ware more quickly.

One improvement for your writing style: it was clear to me that you don’t hate AI though, you didn’t have to mention that so many times in your story.

New comment by crassus_ed in "The Move Faster Manifesto"

crassus_ed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:39:15 +0000

>The engineer who opens a pull request, taps a colleague on the shoulder immediately, twiddles their thumbs for half an hour, and then revises and merges immediately has done the same amount of work, but much faster.

Completely agree. Unfortunately corporate environments tend to reward people that are "busy" instead of productive. I've been in many environments where I had to wait for a lot of people that were busy to gather requirements, slowing me down immensely. How do you deal with that?

Why do I feel bad following recommendation algorithms?

crassus_ed — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:28:59 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/recommendation-algorithms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032403

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Programming is no longer the main skill of SWE

crassus_ed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:15:52 +0000

Article URL: https://edwardbx.com/articles/programming-skill/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002993

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by crassus_ed in "Social Media Without Socializing"

crassus_ed — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:50:36 +0000

Basically the same as every MMORPG that is still around today which are now just single player games.

For me LinkedIn is the worst offender of all social media. Users on there generate their slop posts and go so far as to share their slop-generation workflow with others to farm interactions.