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I worked at a payroll backed loan company and can say there is not many people in the space, for many good reasons.

These banks do not exist.

And make sure you steal from the right people.

I really disagree with this too, especially given the article's next line:

> ...You’ll be forever tweaking individual lines of code, asking for a .reduce instead of a .map.filter, bikeshedding function names, and so on. At the same time, you’ll miss the opportunity to guide the AI away from architectural dead ends.

I think a good review will often do both, and understand that code happens at the line level and also the structural level. It implies a philosophy of coding that I have seen be incredibly destructive firsthand — committing a bunch of shit that no one on a team understands and no one knows how to reuse.

> The remaining developers seem to implement things primarily client side, to the extent I even wonder if they have lost their ability to safely roll out backend changes.

Thanks for putting this into words — I have also noticed this and felt that product decisions have been shaped by this force of institutional rot.

Seriously agree — try using something like Sonnet 3.7 and then switching to Gemini 2.5 Pro. The code that both output is fine enough — especially given that I mostly use LLMs as a fancy autocomplete. Generally a better prompt is going to get me closer to what I want than a more robust model. The speed hit with Gemini 2.5 Pro is just too substantial for me to use it as a daily driver.

I imagine the speed difference might not matter so much if you are performing seismic updates across a codebase though.

Death spiral is unfortunately a very correct term for this. I really can't express how different the conditions of public transit in SF and Philly are. Riding the L in Philly is unbelievably sketchy at night (passes through K&A) and I would not ride it alone if I were a woman. This is one of the main intra-city commuter rail lines in Philly. At this point, there are so few viable options that I can't really recommend public transit in Philly to anyone. Compare that to SF, where I literally take public transit everywhere, every day.

My first guess is that this is an unauthenticated server action.[0]

0 - https://blog.arcjet.com/next-js-server-action-security/

100dvh is your friend.

It's a shame that it's come to this. I feel that all arguments that TikTok is unhealthy or spyware and bad for our general public are valid, but the same arguments also apply to Instagram/Twitter/Whatever. Rather than have some sort of further regulation for what data any application can collect and present to Americans, we've just brought the hammer down on the millions of people that use this application for their livelihood. This serves only to enrich our American tech monopolies — companies which have proven to us that they have bad intentions towards our country's people.

Truly bleak.

I’m blown away. Literally laughed out loud when the lo-fi beat kicked in. Neal has outdone himself here.

In some cases (cough javascript sdk) you can literally feel the fear of being fired from the people who were writing these services.

A bit slept on, but Extreme G 2 soundtrack has a ‘96-97 Source Direct vibe to it.

First ask yourself: do I really need an expert? Or do I need someone that is just "good enough"? I'd reckon 99% of the time it is the latter.

I don't disagree — but it takes two to tango!

It's egregious that this conservancy group can waste the time of the city's government on something that is trash when A) there is a LOT of historical shit that needs preserving in Philly and B) the city has •actual• problems (highest rate of extreme poverty of any large city in America). Something tells me if I parked a "historical" no-start '88 Ranger outside of a board member's Main Line McMansion that it would be promptly removed.

Love to look at this boat when I’m down there, but it’s good to see something happen. Wayyyyy too much abandoned shit in Philly that remains abandoned because of owners/proprietors that are just frankly irresponsible to others. A large lot on Broad & Washington (intersection of two busiest thoroughfares in South Philly) was similarly abandoned for 25 years due to a mixture of headstrong, incompetent owners and government gridlock, which was a weird safety hazard. It has since been developed, but I say use or lose it.

There's a point to be made that these silly little shows are what let Google promote a self-image that they are some ineffectual, twee organization like a local art collective, and it's this mild image that let's Google manufacture spyware without more intense scrutiny. It's subterfuge, and two sides of the same coin.

Crowd clapping on the 1 and 3 is a nice confirmation that the crew has zero fucking rhythm.

Buried pretty deep in the docs: “Effect's major unique insight is that we can use the type system to track errors”

This website should probably start with this. Instead it’s a bunch of like, modern synergy-ese.

I recently received a result that gave me the wrong date for a college class registration, which was pretty fucked up. It was off by three days. Luckily, I double checked my schools official website.

It'd be cool if the vocal-on-twitter-urban-planner-community expanded their imagination a bit and explored this kinda stupid thought exercise with some different locations. Obviously this is tricky because it seems this crew has only ever been to NYC (but never the Bronx) and Bay Area suburbs. But I'm here to ask: what if Naples, Florida was built more like Philadelphia?

Some of the 2022 Broncos were literally dropping valves right off the lot, so this feels quite minor.

> But I cannot stress enough, they did not just spend money on 20,000 tshirts to give out, they set up a whole new business entity in Germany to run their own t-shirt printing operation, with its own building and warehouse and employee(s? I get the sense it's one guy but I don't know). And this cost them 1/3 of their $670k funding round. One, fucking, third. For t-shirts.

Holy shit

> TLDR: Please don't do this: https://company.com/resource/c6b10dd3-1dcf-416c-8ed8-ae56180...

But like... why? This article literally does not explain the benefits beyond copying, they are just assumed. I'm not immediately sold on shorter === better, especially when the updated UUIDs are only marginally shorter and you have now introduced the overhead of a translation layer for one of the most basic building blocks in your application.

Look no further than developers on Ethereum, who are still doing shit like voluntarily writing assembly for basic software to account for compute constraints. I can say from some brief experience, it’s a reality that I’m glad we don’t all occupy.

There's a couple different ways to skin this cat, but WebAssembly is definitely the "coolest". I'd imagine even a Service Worker is overkill compared to just inlining an optimistic response in whatever rest client you're using.

Kind of similar to the content of this article, I wish people were more upfront with their reasoning. Doing something because "it's rad" is definitely fine by me!

Would love if this also validated my perceived decline of MongoDB.

Obviously, I’m sympathetic to the writer and I am aware of the plight of the modern newsroom.

What’s surprising here is that this all sounds like something I — as a software developer — have been through with like 70% of the places I’ve ever done contract work at. The stress of external VC cash, the loose interconnectedness of employees, and the vague indifference towards pulling the plug. These are, to me, cultural artifacts specific to software startups. Why does a media company need to run this way? Software is eating the world, but maybe not in ways that are immediately apparent.

Love seeing the range here, from the worst bike I can think of actually riding (IRO hi-ten with heavy ass Velocity deep v’s) to probably my most aspirational frame (Merlin titanium).

Thinking back on the worst bike I ever owned right now, a jacked up, semi-frontalled cro-mo Bianchi Pista that I bought off a handsome firefighter in the Bronx. This shit had cruiser bars flipped like a reverse bullhorn when I picked it up, crazy. When I locked the cranks on it I could feel the whole frame flex. I seriously was never worried that anything would ever happen to it… as close to a no-lock bike I ever had.

I remember working in a record store about a decade ago and coming to the conclusion that 99% of our (very large/broad) catalog was, to me, terrible music that I would prefer to have never, ever heard. Us warehouse guys would listen to all the new tracks as they came in during our receiving shifts, which sounds nice on paper, but really was much closer to 8 hours of punishment. Lots of really terrible execution of even worse ideas — algorithmic renditions of real books, half-assed dub reggae covers of classic rock songs, note-for-note European remixes of zombified disco classics. We had a saying: "most music is bad".

It's great hearing the dreadful output of this infernal contraption named "Suno" and being reminded specifically of this bittersweet time in my youth, but also broadly of how difficult it is to make memorable, sweet music, and how precious that can be.