Programmer/web developer from Norn Iron living in Australia. Making Control Panel for Twitter and Control Panel for YouTube at https://xitter.cf/t.co/ZlvkRfy6xS

Brisbane, Australia
Joined August 2012
Include

Only show posts containing:

Exclude

Hide posts containing:

Time range
-
Minimum likes
One by one, the lore of all the doppelgangers I accidentally receive emails for is revealed
2
81
Fucksake OFX
1
117
Hello fellow Django and JSX enjoyers, there are dozens of us bsky.app/profile/jbscript.de…
107
The AI (LLM) Mandates to AI (LLM) Cost Controls pipeline is real
110
Guy Montgomery's Guy-Mont Spelling Bee Live! in Brisbane next weekend 🎉
72
TIL a trailing & in nested CSS adds an ancestor selector developer.mozilla.org/en-US/…
101
Control Panel for YouTube v1.37.0 adds an EXPERIMENTAL option to disable the new watch page layout on desktop, a new option to disable AI-generated chapters and much more… Release notes: github.com/insin/control-pan… If you have the new layout, please give it a go and let us know
1
22
1
118
3,684
Oh no! Not my personalised recommendations!
109
How are we going to repackage Markdown as an exciting new AI experience tonight, Brain?
73
Replying to @LukeParkerDev
Somebody slop-forked a repo of mine in the Claudiest way and this thinks I have 16 commits in it
1
107
Replying to @dmitriid
One function per module, oh my Java
1
46
Gee, Brain, whadda you wanna do tonight? The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to get the ADHD to sit down and drive the autism
134
Unfollowing your former tech heroes as they go fully into "AI" bullshitposting
72
When your "${song} for 1 hour" video has 10% of the views of the original song - made this loop because I wanted it to exist
1
1
76
*clap* Every time I clap *clap* someone explains their _totally unique process_ *clap* for using Markdown files with an LLM *clap* on Hacker News *clap*
1
148
The pro-slop push-back in the comments tho
I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code that could easily be seen by looking at the code, but omitting the higher-level framing needed to understand broadly what the code is doing. I think people like having AI write these things because the output looks structured and thorough, which makes it feel professional in a way. But this isn't actually valuable. Concise, high-level descriptions are better for everyone. If I need to use my own AI to interpret what your AI wrote then something is wrong. Let AI write code, sure, but for the description, I'd rather see your prompt than your output. We could maybe have extended agents.md with guidelines on writing descriptions, but this seemed a bit pointless since a good, concise change description only takes a few minutes to write -- not a significant time savings to delegate to AI. At least, it doesn't take long if you understand the code -- and if you don't understand the code, then I'm definitely not merging it.
2
164