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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jaffathecake ("Jake Archibald") wrote:

I've been playing around with Chrome's experimental HTML-in-Canvas API (I use it to create my videos), and I wanted to see if I could make text-selection work on a curved surface by moving the underlying element around on pointermove. It works pretty well!

Live demo: https://random-stuff.jakearchibald.com/apps/curved-markup/ (needs Chrome Canary with the canvas-draw-element flag.

Source: https://github.com/jakearchibald/random-stuff/blob/main/apps/curved-markup/src/App/index.tsx#L113

Attachments:

• gifv: Some HTML mapped across a spherical-like object. Although the content is curved, text-selection and clicking links works fine.

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

Starting to see more LLM-using acquaintances who've spent the past three years ignoring every problem solemnly talk about "having concerns about the technology". Not many, but more.

Kinda wondering whether it's a critical mass thing (easy to ignore individual problems but not all the problems everywhere) or whether there was a single specific thing that soured them on it, leading them to see it differently.

But also don't really care why or how, just that they're finally listening.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

okay but thinking about ways haskell sucks got me thinking about what i should do if i ever decide to push a language out to the mass market.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

make ghc 10x faster

ahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahawhahahaha*cough*ahahaha*choke*

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blocked myself from social media for the Easter weekend

see you next week!

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

see the mechanical turk in all its glory

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

“Mouthwords | everything changes”

https://everythingchanges.us/blog/mouthwords/

> We need to see the advent of workslop in the context of the technological aims of the last several decades, one of which has been to obfuscate the human labor involved in everything from driving to cooking to gathering

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

All the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with

(Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

it's hard to get across in microblogging format just how big of a dumpster fire this thing is, because what it "looks like" is "everything is done a dozen times in a dozen different ways, and everything is just sort of jammed in anywhere. to the degree there is any kind of coherent structure like 'tools' and 'agents' and whatnot, it's entirely undercut by how the entire rest of the code might have written in some special condition that completely changes how any such thing might work." I have read a lot of unrefined, straight from the LLM code, and Claude code is a masterclass in exactly what you get when you do that - an incomprehensible mess.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
blustoftimes@mastodon.scot ("BLURST OF TIMES") wrote:

@blogdiva I can’t hate this enough. This is what I reserve the word hate for truly. Like a perversion of everything these artist ever did. Soulless!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
carlton@chaos.social ("Carlton Gibson") wrote:

Current vibes

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
indutny@mean.engineer ("Fedor Indutny") wrote:

Node.js TSC meeting ended slightly earlier today, and we had a very productive conversation on LLM use in Node.js core. I don’t think I covered all concerns that I heard or had, but I tired to summarize most of them!

The resolution is to hold a bigger discussion during the collaborator summit in London in 2 weeks.

For now the AI policy PR will remain blocked!

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
indutny@mean.engineer ("Fedor Indutny") wrote:

In a way I'm glad that we started discourse on LLM use in Node.js core because it revealed to me that there are a lot more people who are not in AI hype-cycle than I previously thought. I'm now much more optimistic about the future of software engineering!

Consider this:

- 87.3% upvote ratio with 298 upvotes on /r/node
- 76.6% upvote ratio with 50 upvotes on /r/javascript (and I just posted it)
- Incredibly supportive comments on HN (!!!)

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

This "careful" "AI Safety" company that just accidentally leaked its entire source code to the world is the one that African governments are entering into agreements with to include in infrastructures from health care to god knows what.

These are the products people have to use to make sure that they don't get dinged in their performance reviews for "not using AI."

These are the products teachers have to use in schools so that "students aren't left behind."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/01/anthropic-claudes-code-leaks-ai

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

The prompt strings have an odd narrative/narrator structure. It sort of reminds me of Bakhtin's discussion of polyphony and narrator in Dostoevsky - there is no omniscient narrator, no author-constructed reality. narration is always embedded within the voice and subjectivity of the character. this is also literally true since the LLM is writing the code and the prompts that are then used to write code and prompts at runtime.

They also read a bit like a Philip K Dick story, paranoid and suspicious, constantly uncertain about the status of one's own and others identities.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

Claude Code codebase leaked

Anthropic: ‘human error, not a security breach’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpkyF-ugVq4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260401-claude-code-codebase-leaked - podcast

time: 8 min 19 sec

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/01/claude-code-codebase-is-leaked/ - blog post

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

It’s April

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
PavelASamsonov ("Pavel A. Samsonov") wrote:

"AI is writing 90% of our code" sounds impressive before you realize that AI-generated code is orders of magnitude more verbose & less efficient than code written by a professional software engineer.

But "we ship 9 lines of fluff for each line of code that does something" doesn't sound as impressive.

#LLM #AI #ClaudeCode #vibecoding

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

I have fail. I'm a fraud. 39/100 is embarrassing. That's way too high, any tips to reach zero?

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

blogged: CSS subgrid is super good

https://dbushell.com/2026/04/02/css-subgrid-is-super-good/

— in writing this I learned that -1 (negative one) for grid columns is not an integer overflow hack - you can just count the grid lines backwards 🤦‍♂️ imagine reading the spec...

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ColesStreetPothole@weatherishappening.network ("Coles Street Pothole") wrote:

"Anyone who still thinks these are unrelated events, disconnected policy decisions made by different people at different times for different reasons, is in willful denial. This is a coordinated demolition of federal land stewardship in America. Every piece connects. Every move advances the same goal: transferring control of your public lands from professional public servants accountable to you to political operatives accountable to the extraction industry."

jwz wrote:

Just convinced a friend to rewatch *Blood Drive* so that's my good deed for the day.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
miss_rodent@girlcock.club ("V") wrote:

@glyph huh, is that an API limit, or a client one?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

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scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

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Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
scream@bots.robots.rodeo ("Endless Screaming") wrote:

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glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

"you can't have a quote-post or a link preview in the same toot as an image" is a baffling design choice on mastodon, I'm looking at a bunch of stuff on bsky that makes very good use of juxtaposition and like… why can't we juxtapose things. that's like half of language

aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:

“Truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that music mattered. But does it bollocks? Not compared to how people matter.”

Boosted by aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart"):
timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her).") wrote:

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Incredible thread.

Answered some of my questions about what people think the future will be if everyone codes like this. It seems to be: instead of thinking about constraints of any kind or "what is the most efficient way to do Y or the most readable way to do Z?" answer the question, "what is the most brute force way to perform X if I pretend that there are no resource constraints and nothing needs to make sense as long as I see some sort of test passing? Just ship it with spaghetti code.