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fpauseron Resist "AI"

Good argument. In the end we are all ignorant opportunists.

fpauseron Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

Clever move.

fpauseron Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

says google

fpauseron Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU

;)

fpauseron Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

SLMs for the rescue!

fpauseron Is Python Becoming Pinyin?

Maybe the/a big "selling point" for python is the fact, that many teachers don't know better.

fpauseron Is Python Becoming Pinyin?

Not to forget "The Beam" - especially gleam!

fpauseron Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

Thats why I use vaultwarden. I also like the fact, that vaultwarden is written in rust and does not consume a lot of resources, which is great for selfhosting.

fpauseron Why most product tours get skipped

Good UIs are self explaining.

fpauseron My AI-Assisted Workflow

> What is AI actually good at? Implementation.

AI is good in generating a lot of spaghetty code.

fpauseron Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase

Bodyless classes only for carrying annotations... too much magic for my taste.

fpauseron Returning to Rails in 2026

rails = ruby = oo/mutable && slow && resource hungry

fpauseron Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

Yes!

fpauseron Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

But they have to make money somehow! ;)

fpauseron Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?

1. https://exercism.org/

2. disable copilote

3. only "talk" about concepts and patterns with AI

fpauseron Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

> [..] the "creative power" of Nano Banana [..] This “creative power” is used everywhere to produce fake news and spread lies...

fpauseron Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

One more reason not to use chrome. I don't want this AI bloat. And for sure I don't want to redirect my personal website content through googles privacy sucking data pipelines.

What I just discovered: The good old google search without AI bloat but with privacy via https://www.startpage.com. Highly recommended!

fpauseron Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

Adding "No smalltalk and no emojis" to the instructions helps a lot.

fpauseron Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph

Closed source vscode extensions: not for me.

fpauseron AI is a business model stress test

nah

fpauseron I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

I switched from Windows to Linux ~20 years ago because and never came back to Windows. First years I used Ubuntu and experimented with Xubuntu, Lubuntu etc. Later went to Fedora Linux with Gnome Desktop which is still my preferred Linux Distribution. Nice to see so many people thinking about free and open alternatives to big tech!

fpauseron ChatGPT Health

I'd rather not talk to a commercial LLM about personal (health) details. Guess how they will/do try to make this completely overhyped chat bots profitable. OpenAI could sell relevant personal health related data to insurance companies, or maybe the hr department of your next job. Just saying...

fpauseron What I've Learned Writing Gleam

Nice gleam patterns, well explained. Worth a read!

fpauseron Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

> Oh, and I did this all without ever opening a single source file or even looking at the proposed code changes while Opus was doing its thing. I don't even know Kotlin and still don't know it.

... says it all.

fpauseron Parental controls aren't for parents

Young kids exposed to overly attracting games cannot limit these activities by themselves. This has nothing to do with a lack of explanation, but rather with how the brains of young kids function. Thus, accessible parental controls with a simple mechanism that limits the access to games, blocks ads, disables marketplace access and sets a maximum gaming time per day are a much-needed tool that parents should have in their hands.

fpauseron Parental controls aren't for parents

> Companies generally want good parental controls

Nope, parental controls are fucked up since ages. And this is by design, and not because of some "b-list developers".

fpauseron Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer

> I don't care if it hallucinates if it solves my problem with code that is half decent. Which it does.

Sometimes.

fpauseron Why more American seniors are getting high

Even responsible use of cannabis does not per se prevent cannabis psychosis.