I get your points here; I've had a similar discussion with my VP of Engineering. His argument is that I'm not hired to write `if` statements, I'm hired to solve problems. AI can solve it faster that's what he cares about at the end of the day.

However I agree there's a different category here under the idea of 'craft'. I don't have a good way to express this. It's not that I'm writing these 'if' statements in a particular way, it's how the whole system is structured and I understand every single line and it's an expression of my clarity of the system in code.

I believe there a split between these two and both are focusing on different problems. Again I don't want to label, but if I *had to* I would say one side is business focused. Here's the thing though - your end customers don't give a fuck if it's built with AI or crafted by hand.

The other side is the craftsmanship, and I don't know how to express this to make sense.

I'm looking for a good way to express this - feeling? Reality? Practice?

IDK, but I do understand your side of it; However, I don't think many companies will give a shit.

If they can go to market in 2 weeks vs 2 month's you know what they'll choose.

Whatever happened to that Microsoft project that would use a lazer to destroy the wings off female mosquitos?

It was a personal project by ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, a guy who spends insane amount of money for weird/fun projects.

In 2010 he gave a TED Talk about a laser that could kill mosquitoes and therefore "end malaria". AFAIK, the project never worked properly, and it has been dead for a while now.

[0]: https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_could_this_laser_z...

No idea but let me guess. Consumer safety?

> I believe 2026 will finally be the year of Linux desktop.

I’ve been hearing this substituting in YYYY+1 every YYYY for the last quarter century.

The year of Linux desktop will never come. Why?

- Money. Hardware manufacturers make more money selling computers that are optimized for Windows and there is nothing on the horizon that will change that meaning that the Linux desktop experience is always the worst of the three main options for hardware compatibility.

- Microsoft. Call me when Office runs natively in Linux. You might be happy with LibreOffice or Google Docs, but MS Office still dominates the space (and as someone who does a lot of writing and has a number of options, I find Word to be better than any of the alternatives, something that 30 years ago I would have scoffed at).

- Fidgetiness. All the tweaking and customizing that Linux fans like is an annoyance for most people. Every customization I have on my computer is one more thing I need to keep track of if I get a new computer and frankly it’s more than a little bit of a pain.

Legit is there any reasonable cost alternative solutions, because I'd use that in a heart beat.

That still have enterprise/business level support?

A book I read 'spark' by John J Ratey, discussed this in a few chapters. Cardio/Running at 70% maximum heart rate lead to brain plasticity and even allowing new synapses to make connections and grow. However, he did argue an exercise that also required concentration e.g dancing, basketball, skateboarding would have better results.

It's absolutely crazy, that we misunderstand how our brains are intended to work in the old world. Our brains are for movement, the ability to think, plan and utilize tools appears to have been a happy accident that allowed our ancestor an advantage in survival.

brains be braining.

I like trail running. It combines cardio with balance and problem solving (where do you place your feet, dodging obstacles, recovering from stumbles, very dynamic compared to running on a road or treadmill).

I strongly believe that trail running is much less prone to cause repetitive stress injuries, I see so many people pound thousands of kilometres on pavement and then wonder why their knees give out at 45.

On the other side I know people getting injured when trail running, but it always seems to be acute (like scraping a knee or spraining an ankle) and they are back at it within a week or two.

Finally, at a pseudoscience level I believe that we as humans evolved to run over uneven semi-soft ground and therefore trail running is one of the most natural movements.

sophisticated coordination and balance are the most effectful brain stimulation i know, it also makes you develop a different understanding of space and time which makes you calmer (larger planning abilities maybe ?)

Just a shout out to https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery. My favorite productivity extension. I'm a tab hoarder, this makes my life manageable and gives my Firefox all the screen real estate by using keyboard shortcuts to open/close the tabs easily.

I also use the Firefox css to hide the top sidebar, so I get maximum screen usage.

Their bookmark feature is pretty awesome too.

You might like this one too https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/grasshopper-u...

I'd also add Winger to the list, it makes it easy to group tabs by window and move them between windows.

link: https://github.com/l10nelw/winger

With Sidebery, you don’t need to use multiple windows (which are a PITA). Instead, you use panels which are always visible and easy to switch

Thank you! I just learned I don‘t need Arc to achieve this

Is there a name for this phenomenon, where with limited resources humans get more creative? There are still some astonishing technologies that are ongoing today, but much more limited to the early era of computer science.

Limitivity

hey just curious, any reason why some of these articles I see from time to time don't apply some simply CSS? I don't mind the raw html, I'm mostly wondering if there's some benefit to it that I might not be aware of.

Just a guess, but the folks interested in low level graphics programming are probably the same people who would want to stay away from bloated frontends?

A simple blog post doesn't need super fancy design when its content can speak for itself.

The site definitely has CSS, just not a lot of it.

Indeed. I used as little CSS as I could because I love minimalist websites. And the lack of syntax highlighting was inspired by Go blog, for example. :)

Raw HTML definitely looks much uglier, sadly (“Reader mode” in most browsers makes websites without CSS easily readable, though!).

Your site looks nice and is quite readable! The thing I most dislike about sites that just use raw HTML is the lack of `max-width` on the text containers (which makes using reader mode necessary), so thanks for including that

Thank you! :)

reminds me a lot of http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

pretty much all HTML, with only the bare minimum CSS to make it somewhat responsive.

I guess if you want one tiny piece of feedback, based on the above site:

>A little less contrast

>Black on white? How often do you see that kind of contrast in real life? Tone it down a bit, asshole. I would've even made this site's background a nice #EEEEEE if I wasn't so focused on keeping declarations to a lean 7 fucking lines.

I agree with the advice, but I've definitely seen many a heated debate over raw black on raw white amongst designers. So take with a grain of salt and a handful of personal preference.

> Black on white? How often do you see that kind of contrast in real life?

In books. If you have really high-end hardware where you have enough contrast to be painful, turn down your contrast setting. On regular-person devices, grey-on-grey is needlessly hard to read, and there's no way to turn the contrast up without introducing clipping.

I read a book called spark by John r. Ratey. Changed my perspective a lot, some of the newer research and school programs happening from the research is promising.

My biggest take away is that the brain is not wired primarily for thinking, but for moving it changed my perspective. Along with some new research about how the heart produces certain hormones that only happens under stress e.g 75% heart rate for an extended duration.

As someone who's been around a lot of people suffering with mental health and at times myself I notice movement really gets things back on track.

You can't replace the vascular, lymphatic/glymphatic cleanups that come from locomotion.

I just use excalidraw for free form drawings. Might not be what you need, but the performance and utilities is perfect for my workflow