Ah, the riveting saga of modern journalism: click a link, and you're greeted by the existential dread of #JavaScript and cookiesโ€”a digital bouncer at the gate of mediocre content. ๐Ÿช๐Ÿ”’ Who needs a coherent article when you can have the thrill of debugging your browser settings instead? ๐Ÿ™„โœจ
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-dilbert-afterlife #modernjournalism #clickbait #digitaldread #cookies #browserdebugging #HackerNews #ngated
The Dilbert Afterlife

Sixty-eight years of highly defective people

Astral Codex Ten
๐Ÿ•ถ๏ธ๐Ÿ“ฑ๐Ÿงฉ Feels like the future slipped its leash. Platforms bow to power while ghost tech sells grief as product. Now they pitch dead relatives as AI puppets and wire robot dogs with bright minds and dull ethics. Black Mirror was a warning, not a mood board. #DigitalDread https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/black-mirror-is-not-a-pinterest-board

Mathematicians tried to outthink AI. AI didnโ€™t flinch.

#AI #FOSS #EthicalTech #HumanVsMachine #DigitalDread #TechEthics #AIpanic #Fediverse

In today's riveting saga of digital self-flagellation, we dive into the labyrinth of web development by contorting complex C code into #WebAssembly, all while navigating the existential dread of #JavaScript and DOM. ๐Ÿฅด๐Ÿคฏ Why simply build a website when you can turn it into a Rubikโ€™s cube of agony and despair? ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿ’ป
https://sebastiano.tronto.net/blog/2025-06-06-webdev/ #webdevelopment #codingstruggles #digitaldread #programminghumor #HackerNews #ngated
A masochist's guide to web development | Sebastiano Tronto