At first I thought “vibe-coding” was just writing code that felt useful at the time without having like design documents or a formal plan. Literally just coding based on vibes. And I thought it was nice that they finally recognized the way I have been writing code for the past ten years when all my bosses and managers haven’t.

Imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be what it actually is.

I don’t know about you nerds but that skeleton is definitely part of me. I don’t live in it: I AM it.

Not in an emotional way, but like digesting news from around the world and seeing logically we are fucked so may as well just quit?

I would challenge that belief.

Things are bad, sure. Climate is gonna change, people are gonna fight and die over the dumbest shit, and billionaires are going to loot any public good they can get their hands on.

But good people are still fighting. It’s a lot less top-down and much less visible, but it’s happening. Lives can still be saved, the damage can still be mitigated, and the bad guys can still be meaningfully opposed. Things can change quickly!

We have to keep in mind that the news is never gonna be good. Even when it isn’t a glorified right-wing propaganda machine, it’s a business that thrives on attention. And things that make you sad or scared or angry are always gonna grab your attention more than anything else.

We’re not getting hit by a giant meteor. We’re not all irrecoverably fucked. It’s better to prepare for an uncertain better future than give up preemptively!

You may also want to check the extruder arm. The stock plastic one on the ender 3 is prone to cracking.

Not exactly what you’re looking for, but Ad-Nauseum is a nice way to inject a ton of garbage into the data corps collect.

Author’s website + followup comics:

https://www.nickmaskell.com/comics/

Looks like this is episode 1 of 4 so far.

Tools that use a GUI are just as good (if not better) than their CLI equivalents in most cases. There’s a certain kind of dev that just gets a superiority complex about using CLI stuff.

Googling something is probably the most efficient way to find an answer, in the same way that flavorless nutrient shakes are probably the most efficient way to fuel your body. Asking questions and conversing about the answers is fun. It’s madness to abandon an entire genre of human conversation just because some search engine exists.