an eldritch horror from 2009

 

One advantage of being a literal graybeard is remembering when you see an old problem raise its head and finding artifacts of its earlier reign....  in this case a 2009 post about the inadisability of parsing html via regex

smart humble design

 It's almost amusing, in a Don Norman "Design of Everyday Things" sense, how much better the old-fashioned jug is than the pretty new style container. It really makes one appreciate the elegance and cleverness of the integrated handle that easily allows for one handed pouring.

UX and Design really can make life better..

yeet!

ahaha the vibe coding approach to deployment - yeet inspects your code, figures out which provider to host it on, and does it. and gives a millennial response about code quality.

automatically set branch tracking when pushing new branch

 For a while I was using 
 git push --set-upstream origin HEAD

when pushing a new branch to the remote, and wanting to track (which is like always the case)

but today I learned I can run this command

git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true

which means I can go back to easier to type (no need to copy and paste) "git push".

rage against the machine

fun hackers vs the spying vacuum story....

https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/ 

good easy screen recordings on Windows

ScreenToGif seems like a pretty solid package for making a GIF from screen. We've been encouraging devs to put screen recordings as proof of "it works on my machine at least" on Pull Requests, and this seems a little easier than some One Drive video options.

some good ai advice

Keep a very tight leash on this new over-eager junior intern savant with encyclopedic knowledge but who also bullshits you all the time, has an over-abundance of courage and shows little to no taste for what's good. Keep an emphasis on being slow, defensive, careful, paranoid, and on always taking the inline learning opportunity, not delegating.

--capper to some good advice on AI-assisted tech workflow by Andrej Karpathy

via Gina Trapani in her piece Measured AI, trying to have a balanced view of where we go from here.