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joeri_s@mstdn.social ("Joeri Sebrechts") wrote:

Just saw claude one shot porting a suite of mocha/chai/testing-library unit tests for a vanilla web app to a vanilla runner in about ten minutes. The runner’s code is clean and minimal, the test files look a lot like the mocha version did, and the 135 tests passed on the first try.

I don’t know whether to be happy for vanilla web dev that LLMs are this good at writing that code, or sad that the time of writing code myself is coming to a close.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

TFW tech boosters co-opt the language of critical analysis and advocacy to argue the only way to fight “bad AI” is to make “good AI” not acknowledging that it doesn’t actually solve the problems they themselves copy-pasted—sorry, I mean cited—from those who have been talking about it for years

(This is a generalisation, not a sub-post, a distinction that matters. I’ve seen several guys make this same argument in this same way over the past month)

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0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

@slembcke to confirm what someone else said while I was asleep, it’s an independent third party tracker called the “missing” github status page. https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

they track ten subsystems separately, which are each in the 96% to 99.9% range, then overlay all those incidents on the same timeline to arrive at 90% overall.

I do not have any particular stance on whether github’s own tracker or this third party one is more fair and accurate, beyond “90-90-90 is hilarious” and observing only one of them has a contractual stake in possibly sometimes downplaying issues a little bit.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking”

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/grammarly-shows-how-prototyping-turned-into-an-excuse-for-not-thinking

> But in the moment it actually mattered, critical thinking was swept away by the false urgency of pushing things out.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/116311817974687217

> In short, if friction is neglected, morale quickly ends up in the toilet and no progress to speak of can be made.

The whole piece is very good

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vnzn@mas.to ("Christian Noll") wrote:

CSS is DOOMed (nielsleenheer.com)

https://nielsleenheer.com/articles/2026/css-is-doomed-rendering-doom-in-3d-with-css/

#doom #css #web #games #programming

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
iris_meredith ("Iris") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris%5Fmeredith/116311817974687217

Resources are running low, rent needs to be paid and the relevant support systems are distinctly unhelpful, so I'm going to be pushing out more LinkedIn-relevant articles for the next little while. Apologies to those who read my work for the critical essays.

GuillaumeL@hachyderm.io ("BigSaur G") wrote:

Balade et atelier à la Foire du livre de #Bruxelles hier. Ca fait du bien de retrouver le plaisir du livre physique, dans un espace créatif qui propose des millions d’autres thèmes plus intéressants que l’IA. Je commençais à saturer là. #AIFatigue

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ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Looks like they've ziptied Lady Liberty.

#uspol #NoKings #protests

(paywall)
https://www.latimes.com/california/live/no-kings-protests-live-updates-southern-california

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jsnell@zeppelin.flights ("Jason Snell") wrote:

Let's go INSERT BASEBALL TEAM NAME HERE

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dev@discuss.systems ("Dev") wrote:

I read Microsoft’s self-congratulating post about the public-private partnership that connected Seattle and the east by rail, and it is hilarious. I thought by public-private partnership they meant they funded this expansion.

But no, they funded *campaigns* for *ballot measures* to spend public funds on it. lol. And they donated land to build a station for themselves. It is not nothing but it is quite funny.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/microsoft/stories/sound-transit-light-rail/

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tvaziri ("Todd Vaziri") wrote:

maybe we should stop talking about how movies are made because I don’t think some people can handle the complexity of the process

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RandallBeggs@mas.to ("Randall Beggs") wrote:

#NoKings #PedoPOTUS

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

the vibe coding is coming from inside the house

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"If you have any questions about your bill, @@supportUrl@@. This email confirms payment for the iCloud+ plan listed above. You will be billed each plan period until you cancel by @@url@@ to the free storage plan from your iOS device, Mac or PC."

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Artemis201@mstdn.social wrote:

Folks, this is a perfectly accurate description of getting a PhD studying space.

#space #academicchatter #phd #astrophysics #Astronomy #Astrodon #science

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jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Red Hat chose a red fedora as its logo in 1996, long enough ago for it to have eventually become embarrassing for two completely different reasons

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/brand/standards/history

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sundogplanets ("Prof. Sam Lawler") wrote:

I managed to proofread and comment on the entire 6 page American Astronomical Society draft response to Reflect Orbital's reply and also write my own draft response and not throw my laptop out the window with rage over Reflect Orbital's absolutely fucking terrible plans. Please clap.

Do I think this will actually help? No, not really, the FCC is evil and blinded by $$$. Do I still have to do this? Yes. Yes I do.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

we live in hell but at least PyPI works in hell

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

serious question though, is there a requests (or httpx or treq or whatever) compatible selenium driver so that I can write a simple Python CLI that just says "give me URL please" and Safari does all the HTTP traffic so it can get the request body with all my ridiculous CAPTCHAs and news website logins in it

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

(I did not actually do this. But it is an advertised feature of chrome, and I am pretty sure it would "work", as much as any AI-based solution "works".)

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

I am writing a blog post about why it is bad to use AI. It is extremely heavily sourced. I have a tedious automation problem formatting my citations. No problem, I think. I will write a computer program. The computer program does not work, because websites are blocking simple computer programs in an effort to block AI. Solution? Simple. Browser comes with AI embedded, browses like a human, has all my cookies. Just ask the AI. It sails through the primitive anti-AI measures easily.

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thejenniwren.teamlh.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Jennifer C") wrote:

Nobody predicted frog costumes and choreography at the No Kings D.C. protest but here we are and honestly? We needed this. 🐸💃 Protestors dancing to “War — What Is It Good For?” reminds us that joy IS the resistance. You can’t crush a movement that knows how to dance. #NoKings2026

Attachments:

• video: 6766a987c27332a4.mp4

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spocko@mastodon.online ("Spocko") wrote:

Video of the #NoKings human banner in #SanFrancisco at Ocean Beach.

Message reads “TRUMP MUST GO NOW!"

I'm in the bottom right "W"

From Brendan Gutenschwager @BGOnTheScene

Attachments:

• gifv: Overhead Drone video of the #NoKings human banner in #SanFrancisco at Ocean Beach. Message reads “TRUMP MUST GO NOW!" @spocko@mastodon.online is in the bottom right "W" From Brendan Gutenschwager @BGOnTheScene@pleroma.salastil.com

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MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz ("Martin Escardo") wrote:

I have a calculator that is correct 80% of the time. But don't worry, every time I use it, I check the results myself.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
decay@todayiwilllaunchmyinfantsonintoorbit.com ("Gary Strydom's Tiny Car") wrote:

LLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

RE: https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116308515135493571

"How many standard deductions are in the word strawberry?"

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Youtube ad with AI woman just straight up talking about fucking. Using the word “fucking.”

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I'd asked folks for recommendations, and sadly the majority of the recommendations were from companies that are better than (ex) Chrome, but only because they clearly want to BE the next Chrome.

One of the biggest tells: While most modern browsers will let you change the "homepage" displayed when you start the browser, none of them that I tried before LibreWolf would let you set a custom "New Tab" page. Instead, they render a search bar that nets them ad money when you use it.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Recently reevaluated my choice of browsers. Got tired of feeling like my browser was constantly trying to sell me something or get me to log into services that it could use to skim/sell my data.

Landed on #LibreWolf. Very good privacy-focused defaults. Comes with uBlock Origin, which I can use to disable JavaScript by default. (I'd prefer a browser that built that in, vs. relegating it to an extension, but maybe I'm splitting hairs.)