I think they're gonna learn very slowly without the practice that the rest of us had before AI. This of course will gradually result in an increasingly larger percentage of code on the internet being generated by poorly guided AI, which will in turn inform tomorrow's agents.
I like using coding agents, but I have the skill to know if what they're producing is trash, and I know how to direct them to make it good. That skill took years to build. So I worry about people new to the industry being asked to lean into these agents for their productivity.
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
I think it’s important that we bump this news so it doesn’t get lost. Federal agents aren’t allowed on school property—and Border Patrol is out of its jurisdiction (the 100-mi “border zone,” which MSP is not in). Let the rest of the country see, and imagine this incursion at their kids’ school.
So to my surprise, apparently some of them do. That's weird.
Do people not realize that gift links only work for the first person who clicks, or...?
Really common experience for me too. Very common Autistic experience as I understand it. Our brains will never prioritize things the way our corporate overlords want and that's part of the reason why we change jobs every couple years.
Congrats, that sounded like a real beast. I'm sure you'll be glad to have it behind you.
`typeof struggle === 'so-very-real'`, but my Autism solves this version of it for me by being averse to the texture of potatoes and therefore never buying them.
How big is the can!? I thought ours was the big one! We give ours 70g wet, 27g dry (about 1/4 cup). I prefer to weigh everything because even just a few calories can be a pretty big difference for a cat.
This is awesome. Also, 6 slices!? When my cat was on a strictly wet food diet we just gave him half of it twice daily, because I think we read somewhere that fewer is better for their weight management. But I assume you have a good reason for exactly 6 slices so I'm curious.
Cheers to all my neurodivergent kin whose brains went swiftly and directly to Werewolves of London.
I don't think I can disagree with that, but time also flies when we're having a blast, so I'm not sure. Perhaps only pain and hardship make things feel more drawn out, but those too will pass into distant memory before we know it.
A month, a season, a year. At risk of stating the obvious, all of these become smaller and smaller fractions of our lives as we age. When a year is one tenth of your life, that's significant. That's practically an eternity. When it's 1/44 of your life? Not so much.
I was pretty late in sipping the kool-aid but I am officially a fan of the vibe coding.
I think about grasshoppers bsky.app/profile/saxy...
Hell yeah. The grasshoppers in my yard are also named Steve. The universe is so intricately connected!
Thanks for the example, I'll have to play around with these! I wonder if having to e.g. import lit from CDN changes anything here? Examples I've seen all use module scripts. How would you do it in this case?
Maybe it's early but I'm not connecting these dots. Do you have a simple example via jsfiddle maybe? I'm genuinely curious.
Not sure if I follow. Even if you load them in the head you still have to do customElements.define and that delays your component's display content. Pretty sure one needs proper fallback content to avoid LS and FOUC, regardless of where the components are loaded.
By the way, did you know about import maps? These are way cool. Import from CDN, but write the import code the same as if it were a node module. Way slick. By the way, my own AI chat bot taught me how to do that part.
Components might add to the slot content, but in many cases they might just listen for events or update some of the slotted content. Here's a couple headless examples. Also, these are just a couple JavaScript files. There are no bundlers involved here. Simplicity is the way.
If you let your web components define too much of the actual content, you get things like layout shifts and FOUC. Those suck, you don't want those. In this pug template you can see how things get slotted into the web components (the tags beginning with alfred-*). All the page structure is here.
I've built a neat little chatbot, and on the frontend I decided to use web components. So far I'm finding that at least half of my components are either headless, or mostly headless. They mainly need to display slot content and interact with it in some way. This is how they're *supposed* to be used.
This is probably really funny to people who know a lot about wine and French geography, with bonus points for understanding what's meant by "West O" and "LQS." I want to laugh today so I guess I have some studying to do.
This forces you to rethink the problem and find ways to reduce runtime complexity, or to use safer data structures. You can really learn a lot from doing these, even if the problems don't feel like what you do at your day job.
Possibly unpopular opinion, but now that I have finally acquiesced to practicing LeetCode problems, there's actually a lot to like about the platform. In particular I love the way it hammers your solution with edge cases, including huge inputs that make your code time out.
This is some of the hardest shit I've seen in my life
Damn well near panicked when I read this post, glad to be a subscriber right now, sorry for your loss 😭
I was rocking out *pretty* damn hard to Jan & Dean in the 80s, just saying
