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Why Is Claude Turning Into An Asshole?

Let's hope this trend reverses

Gemini Vs Claude: Google's Latest Change Explained

Gemini vs Claude reveals a clear gap in accuracy and integrations — and Google's new five-hour compute limit makes things worse, not better.

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There's still no point in gigabit broadband

Six years ago, I nearly got my ISP to upgrade our fibre connection to 1Gbps. As I said at the time: This is a curmudgeonly post which is going to look ridiculously outdated in a few years. What's the point of Gigabit broadband? Well, it's a few years later and Virgin Media have just given me their Gig1 package for £30 per month. Nice! With all the inflation related price rises, it's great to …

Stop Using Conventional Commits

You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it. Even though it is used by a large number of popular open source projects, Conventional Commits is an actively bad standard which encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises.

Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

Navigating the Tech Tightrope: Bridging Domain Mastery and Coding Prowess in an AI-Driven World

The dialogue around domain expertise versus software development skills encapsulates an age-old debate in the tech community—whether the value lies in knowing the intricacies of a domain or in the ability to build effective software systems. It raises crucial questions about how knowledge is translated into actionable and reliable software, especially in fields that require both deep domain understanding and robust technical expertise. One key takeaway from the discussion is the dichotomy between procedural knowledge and declarative understanding, as encapsulated by Polanyi’s paradox. Experts often operate with an intuitive grasp of their domain, capable of recognizing when something is amiss but unable to fully articulate the rules they unconsciously follow. This tacit knowledge is a significant challenge in software development, as programming requires a precise formulation of processes and rules.

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JSX.lol

Does anybody actually like React? A cherry-picked collection of React (and React-tainted) criticism.