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Just for giggles, I asked Claude 4.7 to write a script that would automatically up or downvote people on Reddit with a 5 second timer to bypass botting restrictions.

It told me it would not help me.

Past iterations of Claude have done this without blinking.

I don’t like that it’s telling me what I can and can’t do with technology.

That feels like it’s trying to make judgment calls like it’s a Terminator instead of just the exoskeleton I used to fight the Queen Alien.

Modern Figma design libraries are one of the best things to happen to product teams in the last 20 years.

Reusable components. Shared styles. Auto layout. Variants. Design tokens. So many useful plugins! Interactive prototypes. Dev mode handoff. Versioned libraries. A single source of truth keeping designers, engineers, and PMs speaking the same language.

It's fucking bliss when you use it right. And best of all, anyone on the team can build with the legos the designers gave us!

Teams finally started treating the design system like infrastructure instead of decoration.

Then Figma Make showed up.

It generates pages that ignore your components, skip your tokens, and treat every screen like a fresh snowflake. Looks fine in the mockup. Lands like a brick on the dev team. Now every page is bespoke and every handoff is a rebuild. Fucking sucks.

We had it all figured out, then we fucked it up.

AI was supposed to accelerate momentum. But it just so completely lacks maturity. AI Tools are dragging teams back to 2010, when every page was a Photoshop file (with way too many layers and shitty names for them) and none of the designers can agree on what radius to assign to their buttons.

Good design systems are a discipline. If your AI tool doesn't respect the library, it's not a designer. It's an intern with a Molotov cocktail waiting to destroy your productivity.

I haven't used Claude Design yet, I'll try it, but I LOVE Figma, and I hate Figma Make. I don't have high hopes for Claude here.

Fiverr probably hired someone from Fiverr to do the web build security.

Seems like more vendor lock-in tactics.

Not saying it doesn’t look useful, but it’s something that keeps you from ever switching off Claude.

Next year, if Claude raises rates after getting bought by Google… what then?

And what happens when Claude goes down and misses events that were supposed to trigger Routines? I’m not at the point where I trust them to have business-dependable uptime.

Gonna make for a depressing read.

People still on Twitter have the same energy as the last guy at a house party who won’t leave. The lights are on, the host is asleep, and you’re in the kitchen trying to one-up a drunk stranger on Kierkegaard to impress a girl who’s clearly not going home with either of you.

Just when you thought interacting with cyclists couldn't get any more annoying... introducing the Škoda DuoBell! New from Mattel!

Yeah, but think of how much money you’ll save when you’re able to just pay a poorer person to go grocery shopping for you!

1996 Boss: "Let's look at the lines of code you produced today."

2026 Boss: "Let's look at the AI tokens you used today."

The technology changes, but the micromanagement layer stays exactly the same.

Time is a circle, my friend. (=

"I told it don't make mistakes, and don't use a lot of tokens! I'm a 10x Engineer now!" (=

Yeah... The cat gets a penthouse AND a front-row seat to watch me destroy both knees every time I sit down -- courtesy of the hidden shelf under the desk. Truly designed by evil cats, for evil cats.

Nothing stopping them from being great with kids. All dogs can be great with kids.

Pit bulls have a long history as family dogs -- they're loyal, affectionate, and incredibly gentle with kids. The whole 'nanny dog' reputation exists for a reason.

An example... https://www.luccishouse.org/post/misunderstood-angels-the-hi...

My pit mix was actually a therapy dog for autistic children through a program at a local hospital in Austin. The kids would read to her while she cuddled up next to them, putting her paw on them gently when they were nervous or frustrated. The program was designed to help the kids build confidence by providing a social interaction where they wouldn't feel judged. And she was great at it. It was the highlight of her week getting to go to the therapy center.

I've had a lot of dogs in my life, and I've never had one more sweet or gentle than she was.

But look, any dog can be awful or wonderful. That comes down to the owner, the environment, and the individual animal way more than the breed -- and honestly, the whole concept of 'breeds' is a bit silly to begin with. But I get that people need to classify things. It's just dumb.

So, stop being a dog racist. (=

Good news -- you can do this too! https://github.com/actions/stale

Seriously, auto-closing issues that haven't seen activity in 3–6 months is one of the best things you can do for your project.

If nobody's touched it in that long, it's time to accept it's never getting prioritized -- it's just collecting dust and making your backlog feel way heavier than it actually is.

So let it go. Let it go! (It feels good to channel your inner Elsa!)

A clean backlog is a healthy backlog. You'll actually be able to find the stuff people care about instead of wading through years of noise. And if something truly matters? Don't worry... those issues come back, they always do.

> It makes really good engines, and that's starting to matter less and less.

Maybe. But here's the thing... most cars today feel completely lifeless.

Honda knows how to build an engine and wrap it in a car that actually makes you feel something. That still matters.

Anyone here driven an S2000?

It's still the best car I've ever owned. Light, raw, grippy, and genuinely fun -- every drive felt like an event, not just transportation. (And it was still an affordable car!)

They killed it around 2010. I've never found anything that captures that same feeling since, at any price point.

So yeah -- Honda will always have a place in my heart. When they want to, they build something truly special.

Here's one of their marketing films they can use to find inspiration again.

* Failure: The Secret to Success - A Honda Documentary - YouTube // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOVig5H7UbM

It might be fraud, but it’s hard to drum up sympathy for internet perverts. Imagine a guy in his 50s believing an 18-year-old with thousands of followers is personally texting him. It’s pure delusion - like going to a strip club and thinking the girls are actually into you. There are no innocent victims on these sites, just losers looking to exploit someone. Maybe them getting exploited instead is just poetic justice.

It might be fraud, but it’s hard to muster up sympathy for perverts on the internet. Imagine guys in their 50s who actually think an 18-year-old girl is talking to them. There are no innocent people on porn sites — just losers looking to exploit. Maybe it's just poetic justice that they're the ones getting exploited, no?

The features I want are the macro builder from Razer, and chords.

My take, after spending years in the prep-school-to-Ivy pipeline: it's not a lack of education, it's a signaling mechanic.

For most of us, grammar is a proxy for competence. We proofread because a mistake could cost us a grade, client, or a job. But the ultra-rich are basically operating post-economically. They aren’t trying to advance; they started rich and they’ll end rich, so they have absolutely no one to impress (and certainly not you).

When you grow up in an environment where friction is historically outsourced—where papers are bought, tutors do the heavy lifting, or SATs are taken by proxies—you never really get held to the same operational standards. You just learn to slop it across the finish line because the consequences for failure are zero.

So who are they trying to impress with their grammar? Nobody. It actually becomes a display of asymmetric leverage. Taking the time to craft a perfect, well-punctuated email screams, "I spent my valuable time optimizing this for you." A typo-ridden, lowercase, one-sentence reply sends the exact opposite message. It establishes a power dynamic where their two seconds of raw attention is the most valuable commodity in the exchange. Following spelling conventions is just middle-class anxiety; sloppiness is the flex. All conventions are for the plebs anyway.

Plus, low-fidelity communication gives them incredible optionality. A garbled, ambiguous text provides perpetual wiggle room. They weren't late or wrong, it was just a typo. It allows them to remain completely non-committal—just another way to maintain high status while shedding any actual accountability.

> The Apple on the lid isn’t shiny

This made me laugh. Thanks for the breakdown! (=

ChatGPT wasted no time bending over backwards to appease Trump.

"We'd sure love to turn our AI into a mass surveillance tool! Please, aim it at the Americans Population! And Kill Bots, we can't wait!"

My car has some sort of operating system, right?

My TV, my fridge, my 30 year-old TI-82, my sprinkler system… my mom’s pacemaker.

And will I have to verify again when I switch to command line? =P

What a joke.

Boo.

They made it until Tuesday! They stood tall as long as they could! =P

> Can someone explain to me how Discord got so big in the first place, particularly for non-gaming uses?

It won by simply building a vastly superior product during its growth phase.

For gamers, it replaced fragmented, clunky, or paid alternatives (TeamSpeak, Ventrilo, Mumble, Skype) with a frictionless, free app that had excellent voice quality and modern UX.

It worked so perfectly for gaming communities that non-gamers inevitably took notice, realizing it was effectively a better, free version of Slack for community building.

But that was the user-acquisition era. Now, we're seeing the classic enshittification phase.

Every other notification badge is an alert trying to sell you something. I still use it, but the product development focus seems to have entirely shifted to selling $9.99/month "blinky bullshit." I understand they have to monetize eventually, but it's exhausting.

Ultimately, it got big because for a few years, it was undeniably the best, cleanest chat client on the market. It was just relentlessly good for the user.

Whether it stays good, or follows down the Microsoft path of turning into a full-on ad-distribution network remains to be seen. But right now, despite all the crap sales, it's still pretty good... (=

Accessibility matters.

In 2026, tools like WAVE, Lighthouse, and a real screen reader should be part of any website design process. They catch issues early. A stitch in time saves nine.

I know you may not be a designer. That’s fine. Starting with a solid, off-the-shelf CSS framework can get you much closer to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance from day one. It sets a baseline so you’re not reinventing solved problems.

Building from scratch is absolutely valid. It’s cool, even. But right now it reads less like an intentional design choice and more like missing fundamentals.

I’m not trying to be a dick, the project has potential! A few design improvements would make it usable for a lot more people.

Cheers!

This is one of the hardest sites I’ve ever tried to read.

The pages are dense blocks of tiny gray serif text with default line height and almost no visual hierarchy. It feels like gray text on gray blobs. It is exhausting to scan and read.

In 2026, this should not be an issue. We have clear standards. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) exist for a reason. Basic accessibility best practices have been documented for years.

https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://cia-factbook-archive...

The issues are not subtle. Small text, low contrast, and long unbroken paragraphs are not design preferences. They are barriers. They make the content harder to read for everyone, especially people with visual or cognitive challenges.

This is fixable. Increase the base font size. Improve contrast ratios. Add meaningful spacing. Use clear headings and structure. These are foundational usability principles.

Accessibility is not extra polish. It is baseline quality. Right now, the site is unnecessarily hard to read. That is a design problem, not a content problem.

You’re absolutely right!

Ha. Every time an AI passionately agrees with me, after I’ve given it criticism, I’m always 10x more skeptical of the quality of the work.

> Protein target: 1.2–1.6 grams per kilogram of body weight per day.

Since this is an official US government website, are we now officially using metric?

So this setup is for people who use a Mac, but not a Mac laptop (or who keep the laptop closed and use it exclusively with an external monitor), and who also don't want to buy Apple's keyboard with Touch ID, or an Apple Watch. I gotta say, I don't think that's a huge group of people.

I hit a similar issue on my MacBook Pro. Whenever I watched YouTube or streamed Spotify while playing a game, the audio broke into little "clipping chirps" and static.

For me the culprit was Game Mode. I still don't really know what it does, but disabling it fixed everything. None of my games come close to stressing the CPU, yet Game Mode was throttling anything that wasn't the game. It was also on by default, which felt like a design miss.

For MacOS, a better approach would be to check what's happening on the second monitor or at least avoid throttling apps that aren't being displayed. Assuming the game deserves all system resources and that the user doesn't want to watch or listen to anything else is a bad bet.

Anyway, the good news is the fix on a Mac is simple once you know where to look. (=