Nice idea.

If you’re taking constructive suggestions; I’m heavily into Hugo, which is excellent for all the usual reasons. But one thing that really irritates is breaking features. Keywords being deprecated from hugo.yaml in particular. I don’t constantly update my sites, so remembering where everything is can take some time.

If you were to actively resist feature bloat (as suggested by your premis) then that also lends itself to not having breaking changes. If scaff were to feature “always backwards compatible” - handling any later changes silently internally - it might wins some friends? Low maintenance, easy to learn, low effort SSG. Leave the singing and dancing to the mature frameworks.

Anyway - good luck, whether you take my thoughts on board or not!

Laws that address a social problem with technology don’t often work.

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Not calling it slop might help get less biased answers.

His line seems to be ‘don’t submit shit code.’

And he’s been 100% consistent with that since the start.

Even if you didn’t play his levels, you will certainly have played levels inspired by his flow.

Pioneers in computing and gaming have left a hell of a legacy.

Windows still dominates the market,

What market?

Desktops? Sure.

Servers? Definitely not.

Supercomputers? Like, none of them.

I’ve used gpslogger for a very long time (Currently for Traccar and a daily gpx to gdrive, but have used it for other things over the years), and it’s possibly the most tweakable app of its type.

Settings, Performance is the place to adjust for battery life.

My settings are below, it’s a fair balance for what I want. Basic rule is - fewer fixes and sends, the less battery is used. using the GPS uses battery, so does sending data somewhere. Reducing that frequency and the battery will last longer.

Log GPS locations - yes. Choose best accuracy in duration - yes Rest of toggles turned off.

Logging interval: 15s Distance 3m Accuracy filter 40m Duration to match 20s Absolute time to fix, 20s

Thanks for the tldr; As a semantic argument I agree with the first commenter in the article, it goes too far.

Managers sometimes refer to their employees as tools, and they don’t fully control them either. Plenty of more cleanly defined tools (explosives, guns, chemicals) can have unintended consequences if used without proper controls, training or care.

I used the term “AI is a tool” at a meeting yesterday, and I will again.

(Minor grumble: Eww, Linkedin. Having visited the site again I know I’ll get a bunch more spam and targetted adverts for a few weeks)

Given what Jai Tan did, surely it would have been better if they’d done nothing /but/ touch grass, and stayed away from computers altogether?

(Whilst nobody knows for sure, it’s possible JT was a state actor rather than an individual)

That confirms it, Omarchy is the official operating system of bigots.

One of the few stories around that paints Anthropic in a good light. Looks like they did what they were required to and potentially saved lives.

How many flaws does this add?

Good shout. I do much the same - in fact /just/ created a step by step markdown list to replace a shower pump in my home.

No good for bigger projects, gantts etc, but for small stuff it’s ideal. Also means you’ve got a permanent and portable archive that’s easily searchable.

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Are you ok, mate?

I had a report for AI slop today. 1m LOC in 3 months.

I don’t understand this, is it human slop?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

AI is here and not going away. Almost every programmer I know, professionally and hobby, uses it to a greater or lesser extent.

We have plenty of crap software in foss that was authored by people, always have, even when it was called public domain. I’ve certainly shared crap code going back over three decades and I don’t need a clanker to make it bad.

Bad software gets rejected or unused because it’s not very good. Why can’t those same standards apply whoever or whatever created it?

The only thing I think is important, is to be honest.

Thanks for adding the model ranges, @IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz

Lenovo has pimped out the Thinkpad name ever since they bought it from IBM. Whilst some thinkpads are still durable (the business class especially) they also slap the name on some very poorly made laptops. Worth spending time researching models rather than just assuming every thinkpad is built like they used to be.

We use framework, and they are very good and I like them a lot. (Noting OP explicitly excludes them though)

But I wouldn’t say they’re particularly durable. The chassis has some flex in it and we’ve had two screens fail out of 30 without being particularly abused.

But of course, parts are available and repairs are very easy, so there’s that.