8bitbeep

The author of the article is Claude.

> It's the classic "But I can customise EMACS endlessly, why would I use an actual IDE?" argument all over.

That paragraph sets me off. I’ll take Vim and Emacs over VSCode and Eclipse any day.

There’s nothing unreasonable about HTML being effective at what it was designed for.

Very cool, but I think the user's cursor should be a different shape/color from the others. I frequently tried to move a neighboring cursor by mistake.

Remember when programming was fun?

To me, after the novelty of seeing a computer program execute (more or less) what I ask in plain English wears off, what’s left is the chore of managing a bunch of annoying bots.

I don’t know yet if we’re more productive or not, if the resulting code is as good. But the craft in itself is completely different, much more akin to product managing, psychology, which I never enjoyed as much.

Also, not everything is a competition that needs to be won.

React (and Tailwind for that matter) are great for hiring and getting hired. The chances of someone screwing it up or being lost in their first week/month when parachute into a project are pretty low.

It has very little to do with the right abstraction or the best technical solution to the problem.

The web has no default design pattern. It’s the Wild West for better and worse.

I made my peace with modern web stack once I understood this.

> crypto (via stablecoins) is easier/faster/better than the status quo ante.

It must be ignorance on my part or perhaps I’m just lucky with residency and clients, but I get paid through services like Wise frequently. Taxes are pretty reasonable and I receive the money instantly on my bank account from US, Europe or Latin America. I don’t really know much better it needs to get.

I can never understand what problem stablecoins are trying to solve.

Funny. I don’t need to work hard for that at all. It comes naturally to me. It obviously has its pros and cons, but to me, a shiny new tech has to prove itself first in order to deserve my attention.

There are, occasionally, the “wow, I got to have that” moments and those are great, but rare.

Hopefully there will be careers for people in 20 years.

> 4 BRL (aprox 1 USD)

I wish. That's off by 50%

> Brazil’s fusty banking

That's precious coming from an US publication, a country where checks are still used.

I’m also unease about the open-source-but-not-really VSCode situation. I don’t know how useful an editor you can build from the available source, which is enough for me to not consider it seriously. I’ve been bitten before.

It’s a know phenomenon. A friend of mine had a reasonably important public office position. Always on the phone, constantly demanded, giving interviews, etc. The first few months after a change in administration were a great relief. A year after being let go and he was devastated. No one called, knew or cared who he was. There’s probably a name for this syndrome.

It's very modern CSS.

True, it’s just that the original quote is hard swallow. Try melting sand and polishing your own lenses and compare that to a US$ 5 glass.

> We all know that custom, hand-made, artisan-crafted, boutique tools are always better than something factory made.

Right. We all know the best chips in the world are made by local artisan silicon-etchers. None of that TSMC pasteurized crap. You simply can't beat a 1nm brush and a steady hand. We all know this industrial revolution thing was a mistake.