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fudgeonastickon Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML

If you're confused, and have tried Opus for coding, I'm keen to hear what problems or workflows it's not good at.

If you're genuinely confused, and haven't tried Opus for coding, then it's not surprising you're confused!

It is also okay for you to just not like the idea of LLMs for coding (but say that!).

fudgeonastickon Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

This stuff is amongst my favourite type of engineering.

Practical. Useful. Not sexy. (I am only one of those.)

Bravo!

fudgeonastickon Ask.com has closed

https://ask.com/ is my go-to site that I know will be up, but I know will not be in my DNS or browser cache. I use it as my "wait, is my internet really working" check.

I hope the domain lives on, and that I don't want to visit it.

fudgeonastickon Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

I once implemented my blog as pure RSS, but also a website that could render arbitrary RSS feeds as a normal looking blog. (Passing the RSS feed via query parameter).

The nice part was that the bit that was mine was just a single static file.

The awkward part was the URLs looked crappy.