React is what powers your Windows Start Menu.

It can become pretty bad quickly, with just a small project with only 15-20 files. I’ve been using cursor IDE, building out flow charts & tests manually, and just seeing where it goes.

And while incredibly impressive how it’s creating all the steps, it then goes into chaos mode where it will start ignoring all the rules. It’ll start changing tests, start pulling in random libraries, not at all thinking holistically about how everything fits together.

Then you try to reel it in, and it continues to go rampant. And for me, that’s when I either take the wheel or roll back.

I highly recommend every programmer watch it in action.

I met a guy who would say “pan forward” and “pan it in an angle”.

You folks still say bot? I my company, we say AI.

I gotta admit, I was pretty amazed when they built Polygon out of scratch. It was just passionate game writers who is wanted to share the content they like reading. The first year was full of great writing. Then it kinda faded into the background, which isnt a problem.

Seeing how that happened gives me hope that a new website filled with passionate game writers will sprout up.

My root issue with people who shit on AI is that by pretending like it doesn’t exist or refusing to use it, your voice is not part of the conversation.

The world will use AI, regardless of your personal feelings.

And if you arent in the room to help shape decisions, don’t be surprised when we are fucked.

Nah. It’s just a paradigm. I hated it when I studied it in the 2000s, and have gained some appreciation of it 20 years later.

What I realized isn’t that I hate OOP, moreso I hate how old ass books/old guard developers used OOP.

Could also be related to c++

But I want AI to convert my mp3s to Oggs and vice versa 😭😭😭

Not some stupid “conversion library” or whatever that is

Edwin Evans-Thirlwell 3223 Staff 23 hours ago

I have lost my job to wider cuts a few times myself and on reflection, I think I prefer being “aligned” or “realigned” inasmuch as it makes me feel like a cool laser satellite. But I am not immune to the frictive charms of being “restructured”, which makes me feel like a Transformer

I absolutely love the comments on RPS. It’s hits like these which makes me keep coming back.

In a room full of dickheads, it’s often the loudest dickhead that gets their way. Often it’s the CEO.

Pretty much. These commenters seem to believe engineers are given all the resources needed to deliver everything in time in perfect condition.

I just realized I have no idea who pays for Let’s Encrypt. I just run the server commands, automate it, and move on.

They cover more here

https://www.thegamer.com/kingdom-come-deliverance-2-controversy-gamergate-dei-woke/

I completely forgot about the term SJW until this little dig into history.

Joplin.

Ive been paying for Workflowy and honestly, I’ve reached my limit of cost vs value.

I needed a way to do more than just bullets, like Evernote without the bloat, or OneNote/Notes without the megacorp, something I can export and read 100 years from now.

I was surprised how often I use it, and slowly weening off of Workflowy.

You weren’t kidding! This is a rollercoaster ride of incredible twists and turns!

The problem, according to three former Cooler Screens executives and a former Yahoo executive, was that their clients thought of the screens as “shopper marketing,” an old-timey ad category that covered in-store promos like the balloons or cardboard displays that clerks hang over cases of beer. Spending in this area was far lower than the more lucrative digital ad rates Avakian hoped to charge. One of the former Cooler Screens execs says that Avakian wanted marketing dollars well above what the industry was willing to pay and that his lieutenants could be preposterously condescending on calls with the Yahoo sales team, which at times devolved into shouting matches. “The Yahoo people hated them!” this former exec says. “Their MO was to ride them [Yahoo] like Secretariat.” (A Cooler Screens spokesperson says that this description is inaccurate and that Avakian’s relationship with Yahoo executives remained positive.)

Condescending calls with Yahoo sales team. Fucking hilarious.

If it helps, they also lock a lot of product, requiring employees to come and help customers directly.

https://eurweb.com/2025/walgreens-theft-prevention-struggle/

It’s like they made their stores as hostile as possible to shop in.

They just keep finding interesting ways to fail!

Right? The nerd who looks at steam on their phone and then on their desktop and rages about the UI… Like dude, chill.

The UX in UX/UI stands for User Experience and it’s great.

People may show excitement over the hot new thing, but nobody is going to migrate their entire architecture/platform over unless it’s incredibly convenient or they’re rebuilding from scratch. Backward compatibility makes it less of a barrier of entry to migrate.

That’s good for adoption.

But also a foot gun, since the roadmap of Deno just starts to look like Node.