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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

so we have this program that takes some abstract schema and generates a bunch of different representations of it. when i started working on it, there was a bunch of spaghetti procedural string munging code in every renderer. So i wrote this templating system to separate the different concerns: the procedural translation between domains from the declarative representation in the target domain - "how to make" from "what is made". This makes a nice programming surface that can be read and written, the last human being to do any real work with it before "AI" was very pleased with it, saying "you really cooked with this" after having worked with the more spaghettilike code.

we have reached the point of LLMs where their utility is dramatic brute force, fable is good because it just keeps generating until it gets it right. since this templating system is not oversampled in the training data, though, and the documentation is in a slightly different location than the code, fable just brute forces through it and not only undoes the work of the templating system, but uses the templating system to introduce two novel forms of spaghetti and code divergence.

so anyway. asbestos et al. actively undoing any design work. a pulp mill that pressure-casts every problem into statistical boilerplate broth. fractal regression as a service

https://github.com/linkml/linkml/pull/3818#pullrequestreview-4990129294

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Here's a link to the article, in case you missed it: https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

I get that Olly wants to sell his web service. I also sell a web service. But I'm never going to discourage people from building their own web pages and being truly independent, if they want to explore that. I think the "IndieWeb" has gravitated toward too many layers of abstraction, and it's especially sad when we're abstracting people away from the beautiful simplicity of an HTML file on a server.

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

This part really cracked me up:

> "If you choose the hardcore DIY approach, you're subjecting yourself to a lot of maintenance, unexplained errors and headaches that suck up a lot of time, or will require you to pay for an LLM to fix it when you're stumped."

We're not operating a nuclear reactor here. Making a web page and sticking it on a web server is one of the most simple and maintenance-free things you can do on the web.

And if anyone ever runs into problems writing HTML, please feel free to just ask me for help. Any time. No LLMs needed. 👍

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://indieweb.social/@olly/117128684877670880

I think Olly kinda missed the point of Hardcore Indieweb. It's a piece reminding everyone that making your own web pages yourself and uploading them to a web server is still an option in 2026, and it's the *only* option that eliminates your reliance on others. The only actual "indie" option. It may not be the best option for everyone, but it's still an option!

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i picked up a cat last week and it just melted into my arms and remained docile and essentially inactive, but still cat shaped. i picked up a cat yesterday and it released all the tension in its muscles. i picked up my cat and she remained rigid and buff and lept expertly out of my arms without a scratch and wall-jumped up to her perch and grabbed some of my hair in her claw to show her dominance. built different.

dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret") wrote:

Here it is, the rust FPV Lego car

https://dystroy.org/blog/picamobile/

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

some cats are big ragdoll furballs and that's great for them, they have more friends and live easier lives, but she has chosen the life of the warrior and it shows.

dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org ("Denys Séguret") wrote:

Les écologistes ont devant eu un boulevard, qu'ils vont manquer.

Ils pourraient dire, à chaque intervention, qu'il faut à la fois lutter contre le changement climatique ET contre ses conséquences, qu'il faut limiter la pollution ET adapter les territoires, que ceux qui nous ont mis dans cette merde par stupidité et égoïsme ne sont pas ceux qui peuvent nous aider à y survivre.

Mais ils vont encore, par dogmatisme, refuser de préparer scientifiquement le second volet.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

i adopt the value system of my cat when choosing what to be proud of her for and after visiting a number of other cats i am so proud of her for being so fast and ferocious. she is like 3x as fast as the other cats.

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jplebreton ("JP") wrote:

the horrible bros harassing women with the glasses are a problem for facebook only insofar as they associate their product with that kind of behavior, but the bros are doing FB's ideological work: steadily grinding down everyone's resistance to living in a total surveillance society, every action recorded and financialized, never safe from being recorded for random "viral" content, wearily compliant subjects of adtech hell. that's what the glasses are most fundamentally *for*.

jwz wrote:

Facebook's Pervert Glasses functioning as designed.

Meta glasses are a workplace menace: The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media. Another Target manager came across the video...
https://jwz.org/b/yk-8

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

RE: https://toot.cafe/@slightlyoff/117124586590788576

Here's the piece:

https://infrequently.org/2026/08/notes-on-performance-remediation-strategies/

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Doing it doesn't make someone trustworthy but if someone doesn't immediately collapse into ritualized babytalk when arriving home to their pets then they definitely are not to be trusted.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:

Falsehoods ADHDers believe about tasks

• I’ll remember to do the task today
• I’ll remember to do the task
• I’ll remember that the task exists

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Oh, forgot a couple more from ~2 weeks ago:

- irc.social.lol ➡️ Ergo 2.19.1
- elk.social.lol ➡️ Elk 1.0.1

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

Some recent omg.lol service updates:

- social.lol ➡️ Mastodon v4.7.0+glitch
- source.tube ➡️ Forgejo 16.0.3
- phanpy.social.lol ➡️ Phanpy 2026.08.08

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mjg59@nondeterministic.computer ("Matthew Garrett") wrote:

"Well, folks, this is your captain. I've been flying 30 years and I've never heard the noise this plane just made, so we're going back to the gate"

Chat, is this good

Boosted by jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)"):
ferrix@mastodon.online ("Greg Bell") wrote:

@jonny dude there's so many cruft layers, some of the physical laws are still using the particle API so they have to still support *both*. Lots of weird bugs from that

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Call 1800 I'm sorry to reach sorry ain't enough

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Even I am not stubborn enough to walk the duration it would take me to catch a cab home so I can ride my beloved D line

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

The people mover grift going on at LAX is some of the most preposterous bullshit. Its THERE. it RUNS. But nobody can USE IT.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Its sort of cool how light is a physical phenomenon that can bend and be reflected and wavelengths and whatnot but its also sort of bullshit and they should patch it so things just look like how they are

Boosted by neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:

Long past time to quit X. “Those who continue to post on X — in particular those X users who are not racist psychopaths — are enhancing the site’s usefulness to [Musk] as a propaganda tool by drawing more eyes to the platform… “ https://publiccomment.blog/p/it-is-past-time-for-you-to-quit-elon-musk-s-x

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik :prami:") wrote:

omg.lol office hours begin in just under an hour. If there's something you'd like to chat about, feel free to pop in! https://home.omg.lol/office-hours

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Hey: Polls mean shit if you don't get out and vote

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

currently spinning: https://music.apple.com/us/album/la-iguana-feat-lila-downs/1442610809?i=1442611129

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it would be pretty fun if bun was the thing that made everyone realise LLMs are shit. and totally on brand for AI companies to sail too close to the sun.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:

OK, I guess I wasn't done after all.

Much of the opining about developer backlash to LLMs falls into two loose theoretical categories:

(1) Labor problem: developers now experience employment threat, loss of job security, layoffs, new levels of worry about the future

(2) Identity problem: developers used to feel special because generating code was placed on a cultural pedestal (sign of a special third brain lobe or whatever), that perceived specialness was a pillar of our personal identity, and now our egos are bruised because machines can do it and we don’t feel special anymore

While there’s doubtless truth to both of those in some / many cases, I posit a third theory:

(3) Purpose problem: contrary to popular belief, developers actually care quite a lot about the people who use our software and we derive a sense of purpose and meaning from doing what we believe to be good work; the current environment undermines that, not just LLMs but LLMs as part of a broader vortex of enshittification, and our world is effectively saying “everything you cared about doesn't matter, you can't hope to fight to make it matter, and you are stupid for caring”

I think there's evidence for that last theory in the kinds of despair you hear from developers: not just anxiety about paying the bills, not just angry feather-puffing, but a kind of existential despair that comes from the unraveling of one’s internal sense of purpose and meaning.

4/3

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I'm brainstorming about what more I want to add to it. I'll probably add a "file share" option.

I just realized that if the `tcp-connect` option would open up a TCP port on the local client it could act as an HTTP proxy. So that may come next.

I keep feeling the urge to add social-network-y things like FOAF or user profiles or something but I feel like the amount of people who want a CLI-based social network is 1. (me) 😆

LMK if you find Sned useful or have ideas!