With a website, you can have the "real" layout, but when someone is blocking your JS, you can fallback and still provide content.

We won't get every mobile application working on old browsers, but we can offer something to the end user. Even a page that lets them know they are missing out.

But CSS Nesting? We can have that and a fallback.

That program is expensive and apparently made people “feel bad”. The colleges were no longer allowed to require placement tests. Then they were no longer allowed to offer remedial courses (courses that did not count toward a degree) and students went directly into college english and math.

The failure rates are astounding. About 1 in 3 at a large CC.

This issue is trickling up from k-12 being required to “pass” everyone to the colleges with that same pressure.

We need our policy to focus on education achievement rather than number-of-degrees. The incentive is short sighted and the ramifications could result in our local economies declining with ineffective employees, fewer successful businesses, etc.

One of my favorites.

Chuck Norris jumped into a lake. Chuck Norris didn't get wet. The lake got Chucked.

Every gym I see in socal is always busy. Bonus, you start to see "regulars" and have someone to say hello to.

Of course, I still use Windows for various things, but I have too much "ick" for it to be the system where I check my email, manage my business, keep my important files, etc.

Windows is really great for lots of things, but I don't trust it.

Bypassing arbitrary (useless, silly, meaningless, etc) rules has always been a primary motiving factor for some of us :D

I think of it like frozen dinners. Frozen dinners are not the same as home cooked meals. There is a place for frozen dinners, fast foods, home cooked meals, and nice restaurants. Plus, many of us spend extra time and money making specialty food that may be as good as anything. Frozen dinners don't take away from that.

I think it's the same for coding and AI use. It might eventually enhance coding overall and help bring an appreciation to what engineers are doing.

Hobby or incidental coders have vastly expanded capabilities. Think of the security guy that needs one program to parse through files for a single project. Those tasks are reasonably attainable today without buying and studying the sed/awk guide. (Of course, we should all do that)

Professionals might also find value using AI tools like they would use a spell checker or auto-complete that can also lookup code specs or refer to other project files for you.

The most amazing and useful software, the software that wows us and moves us or inspires us, is going to be crafted and not vibed. The important software will be guided by the hands of an engineer with care and competence to the end.

Although, the buttons are very interesting.

My personal workflow is Plain Text files (often markdown) in a Notes folder on Dropbox. nvAlt on my main machine to quickly search, edit, and create notes. A shortcut in terminal that cd's me into the directory, rg for cli search, and Editorial for mobile access. I have thousands of notes and have only had a few sync issues over the years.

seems to work on OS X 10.9.2