WOULD SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW WE ENDED UP IN THE SPLINTER REALITY WHERE DEVS ARE STARTING TO LOSE THEIR FUCKING MINDS ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
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It used to be I could waste an entire day of work doing shit like writing a bash script that rips YouTube audio, organizes the mp3s sanely in the filesystem, and generates a nice playlist alongside the artifacts.
So I can, you know, to listen to productiveity-boosting music from an internet-connected computer's filesystem instead of YouTube.
Now it takes 15 minutes with Claude.
WTF am I gonna do at work now.
Can you imagine if people complained about all the general life tasks they have like they do about nostr.
"What do you mean I have to brush my teeth? EVERY DAYYY? TWICE? Why can't this be easier? I have to wipe my ass EVERY TIME I poop? Who thought this was a good idea?"
Anyone see Obsession?
Thoughts:
1. How did the cat open pill bottles and cat food tins? Did I miss something?
2. Within five years, Inde Navarrette is going to be in everything for a year. Hollywood is going to chew her up and digest every last ounce of her.
Writing an interview ode test in Python turned into a rabbit hole of the following:
- Setting up a WSL2 Ubuntu environment I'm Win11
- Setting up LazyVim
- Installing all the various support LSP and linting stuff in LazyVim for python
- Setting up `tmux`
- Integrating `tmux` and LazyVim seamless pane navigation
- Uh, learning `tmux`, because I've been meaning to do that
- DAY ENDS, NO CODE TEST WRITTEN GG