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New comment by gnarbarian in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

gnarbarian — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:57:30 +0000

this makes me so angry. I've literally spent months working on my tui. I hope to god deno keeps going.

https://github.com/ubernaut/exotui

https://ubernaut.github.io/exotui/

New comment by gnarbarian in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

gnarbarian — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 02:53:58 +0000

this is SO SAD. i've spent months on my deno tui

https://github.com/ubernaut/exotui

https://ubernaut.github.io/exotui/

New comment by gnarbarian in "The Future Belongs to the Weird"

gnarbarian — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:57:58 +0000

when the going gets weird the weird turn pro.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

gnarbarian — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:32:48 +0000

rules are there to serve power

New comment by gnarbarian in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

gnarbarian — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:58:47 +0000

people aren't rational actors. given your work passes a basic functional bar, if you are well liked, your work will be valued. if you are not liked, people will pick your work apart. these mechanisms feed back on one another but your narrative leads me to believe you /have/ forged meaningful relationships and are more well liked than you realize.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

gnarbarian — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:33:58 +0000

and this is exactly why you will be seen as disposable and the first to go when layoffs happen.

personal relationships are very important, arguably more important that your raw performance.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Beware Management Consultants"

gnarbarian — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:36:44 +0000

this is the correct answer. nobody internal ends up as the "bad guy".

New comment by gnarbarian in "Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement"

gnarbarian — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:34:58 +0000

in america AI harnesses you.

New comment by gnarbarian in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

gnarbarian — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:13:50 +0000

you don't know me very well lol.

You're right of course when you're talking about people. I believe there is a lot of low-hanging fruit for optimizing the performance of these models. that's actually what my startup is doing.

New comment by gnarbarian in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

gnarbarian — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:51:28 +0000

if you give me a smarter model I will find a more complex problem for it to work on that will require an exponential number of sub-agents.

the smarter the model the more capable it is to marshal resources to accomplish the goal.

this means you don't need a smart person to be able to take advantage of this. a smart model will be able to do the same.

New comment by gnarbarian in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

gnarbarian — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:10:01 +0000

the economics of this are a little counterintuitive.

is there a market saturation point for intelligence? how about for software? it seems like the more you have the more you want because you're trying to do more things.

as the models get smarter I get busier because I'm doing more things...

New comment by gnarbarian in "Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died"

gnarbarian — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:43:14 +0000

this is my all-time favorite priest song.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died"

gnarbarian — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:35:13 +0000

he had great taste in metal. most of the tracks were adapted (now classic) speed/thrash metal.

New comment by gnarbarian in "AI is slowing down"

gnarbarian — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:20:33 +0000

if you think AI is slowing down, you may not be smart enough to tell the difference anymore.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

gnarbarian — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:00:11 +0000

very cool. I was trying to implement a MP4 encoder in webGPU recently by porting sections of ffmpeg (NOT EASY).

it's for this:

https://ubernaut.github.io/recordMyScreen/

which uses a the wasm build of ffmpeg.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

gnarbarian — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:19:54 +0000

one of the reasons I prefer deno is the availability of indexeddb (and all the other great stuff that comes with it out of the box)

New comment by gnarbarian in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

gnarbarian — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:47:30 +0000

thanks trump!

New comment by gnarbarian in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

gnarbarian — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:56:40 +0000

given enough time you may regret every single one of them.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

gnarbarian — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:29:35 +0000

yes, avoiding EU fines and ensuring availability there is most likely the motivating factor behind the change.

New comment by gnarbarian in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

gnarbarian — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:03:40 +0000

you counter this by using an id verified service like login.gov or okta verify.

That's the endgame and what the EU really wants. No poasting unless they can arrest you for inconvenient memes.