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Danborg··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
Vibe coding should be done in Python, and probably only in Python.

If a project is important enough to require C or x86 assembly, where memory management and undefined behavior have real consequences, then it’s important enough to warrant a real developer who understands every line. It shouldn’t be vibe coded at all.

Python’s “adorable concern for human problems” isn’t a bug here, it’s a feature. The garbage collection, the forgiving syntax, the interpreted nature: these create a sandbox where vibe coded solutions can fail safely. A buggy Python script throws an exception. A buggy C program gives you memory corruption or security holes that show up three deployments later.

The question isn’t what language should AI write. It’s what problems should we trust to vibe coding. The answer: problems where Python’s safety net is enough. The moment you need C’s performance or assembly’s precision, you’ve crossed into territory that demands human accountability.

Danborg··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
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Danborg··on A blog does not need “analytics”
If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.
Danborg··on A blog does not need “analytics”
Ignorance is bliss.
Danborg··on Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability
Thank you for doing this.
Danborg··on What makes Claude Code so damn good
The reliance on “IMPORTANT” and “NEVER” tags feels like a necessary evil that points to current model limitations. It works, but it’s not elegant. I’m curious how this will evolve as models become more steerable.
Danborg··on I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe)
this reads like a confession for his CFAA deposition
Danborg··on I'm Archiving Picocrypt
This is dumb
Danborg··on Home truths about macOS
It works as long as you’re willing to stay current on Apple hardware. If you’re not… then macOS probably isn’t for you…
Danborg··on Dwell House – 540 sq ft prefab home that you can add to your backyard
The price is absurdly high.
Danborg··on I leased 85,000 hectares of land for $1/year for 5 years. What can I do with it?
Camping
Danborg··on Ask HN: Is there a developer laptop that does not suck and is not a Mac in 2022?
Frame work laptop
Danborg··on An odd discovery on Spotify
Look at the Peaceful Guitar editorial playlist on Spotify. (It’s one of the biggest and most streamed in the world.) Every artist on there that doesn’t have a Bio is a fake artist. Meaning Spotify owns the music. They populate their playlists with these artists they own and that way don’t have to make royalty payments to them. It’s very shady.
Danborg··on Docusaurus 2.0
Reminds me of Gatsby.
Danborg··on Thermal Pad ‘Mod’ Makes M2 MacBook Air Faster Than 13″ M2 Pro
Can’t you just buy one of those laptop stands with a fan integrated into it for cooling and accomplish something similar?
Danborg··on Fran Blanche: This Is Not Legal
Seems like NASA should step in and help with this.
Danborg··on Dont think of price, think of cost per use
Think of how many people bought RVs…. Never having been camping before! After you drop 50 grand is not the time to decide you don’t like something.
Danborg··on Smaller is better – The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software
I disagree, it was touched on, and glossed over, in the article.

>> “… means being able to start your website by dumping everything into a folder and you're pretty much done (1 step installs).”

>> “Dumping everything into a folder and it just works (1 step installs) makes it easy for even beginners to get a website running, but also it makes your website, blog, forum, journal, or whatever, portable. Very easily portable. You need to put your website on a thumb drive and/or move it to a different domain? Done. Easy. It's just like backing up any folder.”

Danborg··on Smaller is better – The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software
Still, it is a consideration, and it all factors in. Copying your WonderCMS files to another host, great… oops, it doesn’t have PHP mbstring extension, sorry, won’t run. (And if you’re trying to use “free” hosting, you probably don’t have privs to install the missing requirements.)
Danborg··on Smaller is better – The rise, fall, and rise of flat file software
Using flat files only solves half the problem, in order to truly be able to host anywhere, you also need to be able to ditch PHP and server side processing requirements. (Wonder CMS, highlighted in this article, requires PHP with a couple of mods.) That’s why I think static site generators are the more interesting code in this space. I’m a big fan of Gatsby, but there are several other great ones as well. This allows you to host your blog on even an old school “tilde club” type site, and it works just fine.
Danborg··on The tools I use to write blogs
Ugh, that font hurts my eyes.
Danborg··on I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app
Maybe Apple wants you to use up all your space with fat Apps so you have to upgrade to a bigger iPhone. ;-) (Tim, if you’re reading this, I’m just kidding. Please don’t delete my iCloud account.)
Danborg··on Off the Grid
I agree with your take. I felt the same way while reading this.
Danborg··on Oldest family tree created using DNA
Is anyone alive today that is descended from this tree?
Danborg··on Anti-mimetic tactics for living a counter-cultural life
This article is full of dumb advice that will cause nothing but grief if you follow it. This is an anti-mimetic comment. ;-)
Danborg··on Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
Has anyone figured out how to run Visio? ;-)
Danborg··on Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal?
Load the client in a virtual machine.
Danborg··on 21st Century Baker's Tent
It looks a lot like the Oztent RV-2 to me.

https://www.oztent.com/products/tent-range/oztent-range/ozte...