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clinton's plan to beat trump was to elevate him above the rest of the republican field and then coast to an easy victory. i don't think she was right about that

bunbeats part 2 episode 1, by SnugglyBun 4 track album

new snugglybun bandcamp release
an ep featuring some of my latest songs so far.
haven't had time nor energy to make a full blown album but hopefully you like it still

valeriasan.bandcamp.com/album/bunbea...

#bandcampfriday #bandcamp #music #art #digifu #digitalfusion #chiptune

yall why does rubocop depend on mcp

11 DAYS LEFT UNTIL ELECTION DAY!
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writing about how you got fucked by using an ai is an effective way to find community and get attention among other ai coding enthusiasts. this is typical information gathering and sharing for these folks, they are numb to the dunking by outsiders because outsiders are not their demographic

get in here and hang out with adrian and the automaphonica crew in chat while we listen to his incredibly unhinged music!

this is a very good thread. the point of rough drafts is that by creating them, you *learn about the nature of the problem you are trying to solve* and your new understanding shapes your strategy

hey go pick this up today! this is one of those albums that reminds me how much fun making music can be

We're having a listening party later today at 3pm EST
You should really be there!!
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i just think that maybe a lot of people look at someone doing a technical task they don't understand with tools that had to be learned over time, and their brain shortcuts to "this person is a fundamentally different kind of being than me". maybe that's school trauma or something idk. or just apathy

could claude have done all this? maybe? but i would be several hundred dollars poorer and still not have learned the skills, vocabulary, conventions, and worldview of authors of ancient C/C++ code. ...wouldn't that have been a shame?

when you've worked this way for a while you come to enjoy friction, because friction means you are about to level up. i tore out my hair trying to compile ancient C code a year ago but now i have several skills i didn't before! i've written CMake files! i can cross-compile for windows using docker!

Cosigned. The whole "users shouldn't have to think at all" thinking I guess makes sense for general purpose software/websites, but it infiltrated serious tool design as well. Smooth onboarding is great, but I'd much rather optimize for the serious user who is willing to learn!

i watched a video of a guy vibe coding with claude the other day, and i have to say, 99% of what he was using it for was to avoid learning bash commands. bash! like listen i know ffmpeg and imagemagick are not the most intuitive tools in the world but for whom do you think the manpages were written

(i still use bitwig for mastering compilations etc don't get me wrong, renoise is actually legit just not the tool for some things)

something like ableton or bitwig can seem like they're more user friendly because they barrage you with big clicky buttons that you can click to do something the product manager decided most users want to do. but i find that overwhelming as i get into detail work.

people often balk at Renoise's interface, but is that not also made with people in mind? i find it to be an extremely human friendly interface, all the info is right there in front of me to use my human eyes, ears and fingers to listen and compose. what else is it there for?

and you'll find that even tools made for experts that do little to welcome uninterested or new users still have affordances! the documentation isn't written for the machine! keyboard shortcuts aren't there for AI agents, they're there for *you*.

to me that's what "intuitive" means - it's intuition i built myself through deliberate engagement with a tool, shaping it to fit my needs. obviously this only makes sense for things you use a lot, but i find myself relying on these kinds of skills more often than you'd think. than *i'd* have thought

SKULL HONEY, by Adrian Shegstad 10 track album

happy bandcamp friday!! ICYMI i dropped some feral goblin mode shit, and trust me when i say this will hold your attention the entire 20 minutes adrianshegstad.bandcamp.com/album/skull-... #bandcampfriday

i've been frustrated for a long time about how much tool design is for users who are not engaged, willing to learn, or even paying attention. i get that affordances for new users are important, but personally i've always been willing to put in a little more work to get my workflow feeling right.

Why I Don’t Vibe Code A “brief” accounting of various reasons why vibe coding has just never clicked for me personally as a developer.

Hey all, I decided to write up some of my thoughts in more detail about why I don't vibe code, in case it's interesting to any of you

jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...

Photo of Andrea LaFlamme wearing a shirt with the Desmond Tutu quote, "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Hi everyone! My name is Andrea LaFlamme and I'm running to unseat Susan Collins in the US Senate. I'm a feminist public health professor and the ONLY candidate in this race who has worked in education, municipal health, and as an elected union leader. (1/2)

move slow and repair things

I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.

The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context

I remember seeing a quote from Roberta Williams where she said something like she expected players to spend months with each game, and have solutions occur to them while they were going about their lives.

That made the intended experience click way better for me

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

i guess!

i have no idea what marathon is and at this point i'm afraid to ask

I keep seeing lots of people saying "LLMs are like compilers/assemblers for prompts"

Noooooooooo
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

LLMs are not compilers, and they're not assemblers. Determinism is a key aspect to assemblers and compilers.

And they *certainly* can't be part of a reproducible pipeline