using the web now frequently feels like living in a house being constantly renovated without a clear or obvious architectural vision. less hearst castle and more like an airport that always has one terminal being redone, but now with less acoustic damping despite having better dining options.
there is probably no food i consume more whose quality varies dramatically week over week, where the cheesemonger's hand is so obviously visible, than cottage cheese.
it's a real bummer how bad the gof design patterns are when compared to the christopher alexander pattern language book is. but the problem imo is that they were trying to understand inscrutable software and using really coarse 'gof patterns' to make assumptions about how Actual Application-Level Patterns were being implemented, so we get Singleton and not patterns like Authentication or Trusted RPC or A Place To Modify User Settings.
funny to see the same “food is bad and portions too small” from the switch 2 as from the ps5 launch “nobody needs this right now and there are too few exclusives.” i think a profound misunderstanding of consumers that routinely buy new phones or tvs on a similar or even faster cadence
@caseyliss a reason to consider the ioniq over the mach e if you have range anxiety is that the time to fast charge to 80% is generally twice as fast on the hyundais/kias that are all on 800v platforms. the advertised ioni5 fast charge 10-80% in 20 mins thing is real. (also, the ioniq5 isn’t rabbit-small but the ev6 looks like a jr suburban)
lots of fun things about having worked on a large-ish webapp, but the worst is probably when you hit a site with an expired session cookie and trigger a 500 page instead and wonder what the ensuing fallout is from just slamming that reload button for thirty minutes straight.
really curious about what tld opengraph blacklist there is baked into messages.app where the same webapp on a sub-subdomain of .cx fails but .net works.
i know it's no longer fashionable and that docusaurus is probably much easier to use/maintain, but boy is it great to go to a project's documentation and find everything in one page that i just leave open in a tab for like a month
adaptive cruise control feels like something that should have a reference implementation and test suite that automakers can get certified against, like the css acid test or something
if ai agents are as good as they're promised to be, i'm looking forward to using one to dynamically block ads on sites i already pay to view without having to specify arcane rules or use ublock style lists. i'm sure this will be easy. trivial even.
it sounds very Conspiracy Theory, but every time i see a bunch of adjacent confounding business decisions that happen at the end of q1/q2/q3/q4 or h1/h2, it makes me wonder if there's a whole cohort of doomer/prepper execs that have some pathological need to cash out in order to retreat to their death cult's bunkers.
My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails