PokerFacowaty

A lot of things in this article made me go "wait, are you me?", it's fascinating.

The strategy for swapping whatever you do on your phone whenever you have 2 free minutes with reading helped my reading a lot, too. I initially swapped scrolling Reddit with short-form reading https://pokerfacowaty.com/blog/reddit-heroin and then swapped that for my ebook reader, reading books and a weekly newspaper. The latter also helps being less angry at news when you're not reading them in the form of rage bait tweets.

As for highlights, I now have hundreds of handwritten ones on my books, no sensible support for it in open source apps is the only thing keeping my Kobo on its stock firmware (unfortunately).

You're right that it's not totally true, because it's not a universal Markdown flavor, but at the same time their additions are well-documented in their docs (they have to be for people to use them), so migration tools can just keep up with that.

They are not the same "cheating kids" though. How easy it is to get it to spit out your homework and how widespread it is encourages more people to give up, think "everyone is doing is, so why shouldn't I, I'm a loser if I work honestly", and do the same.

I'd say oh-but-what-about-calculators-i-am-very-smart comments call for a drinking game, but no one should be doing this, as they'd die

The idea always has been that it's writing on paper with all the convenience of a tablet like syncing your notes. A notebook will feel like paper, but won't sync, an iPad will not feel even close to paper.

I was considering reMarkable when upgrading my ebook reader with note taking capabilities, but it's mostly a notepad with an option for ebooks (and not the other way around) and the subscription model on top of $500 hardware was ridiculous.

> In these situations a good manager is what makes the difference; some will fold to the pressure in the hopes that being a "team player" will get them brownie points from leadership (it wont), and some will stick up for their team out of decency and hoping it will get them brownie points from their colleagues (it will).

One of the dimensions I judge my managers on is the "I screwed up, what now?" factor. A good manager will be the shield between me and the higher-ups and will meet with me to discuss the issue to understand it better. A bad one will tell me everyone including them is angry at me. So far I've been lucky to mostly have seen the former.

"helps couples rediscover the joy of swiping" never for a second have I felt joy while swiping

Off the top of my head there's two things that rub me the wrong way about Goodreads.

One is there isn't a separate section for professional reviews (Polish movie/TV site Filmweb has that), so that right off the bat the first comment might be that someone doesn't like what the book is even about, it's a 1-star, liked by 15 people.

Two is they closed their API completely, so there's no way you can get any book info from their DB, not with limits and/or authorization, not if you pay, just not at all.

This is a great article and I think I agree with most of it, not being an agent user myself.

One point the author might be missing is:

> If you were trying and failing to use an LLM for code 6 months ago †, you’re not doing what most serious LLM-assisted coders are doing

The tech giants and AI bros alike have been bombarding us with "but look what it can do NOW", "the new shiny model is revolutionary, now buy tokens", "look what's around the corner" and whatever else for over 2 years now. Can you really blame a typical "skeptic" for not being interested in putting their time to veryfing these claims themselves after seeing mediocre results so many times? You start to develop a filter for these things.

I recently spent 2 hours on finding the bug, precisely because JS can't comprehend dates/times without a Unix timestamp underneath. I'd take a date from Postgres as e.x. "2025-05-24" and the first time somewhere deep in the package I was using, when JS encountered that, it needed to add a time (midnight, that's sane) and timezone (local time :) ). I was trying to use UTC everywhere and since the read dates had midnight of UTC+2 as the time, they were all a day behind in UTC.

Special shoutouts to the author of node-postgres saying the PG's date type is better not used for dates in this case.[1] I love programming.

[1] https://node-postgres.com/features/types#date--timestamp--ti...

I'm looking into setting up Wallabag for myself, maybe it could work for you too? https://wallabag.org/

Seconded, I've been using plappa for a couple months after Apple messed up PWAs after bringing them back (Audiobookshelf didn't want to change to next chapter when the app was in the background) and I'm generally very happy