A Supermarket Bag And a Truckload Of FOMO

The day was nearing to a close. The sun has already set, but that Friday evening in Amsterdam was still warm. Unusually warm, in fact, for those late days in March – as if spring decided to bless my pilgrimage, for that pilgrimage was not jovial. I was sitting at a ramen joint, sipping on the broth. To my left, a blue, crinkled supermarket shopping bag was sitting solemnly, inconspicuously. Inside that bag sat a slightly used Mac Studio, which I have just purchased to be able to edit CSS of my own application. By the time that evening descended upon the south of Amsterdam, I have lost 3 days of my life trying to figure out why I was unable to edit CSS. But let me rewind a bit.

Julik Tarkhanov
Ah, the wonders of modern technology! A groundbreaking app that requires the revolutionary concept of enabling #JavaScript to function 🔧💡. Truly, we're living in the future where web basics are still a riddle 🤔😂.
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map #moderntech #webdevelopment #innovation #futuretech #HackerNews #ngated
Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust

I announce Xee, the implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust that I've been working on for the last two years.

Secret Weblog
Oh, the #nostalgia of procmail! 🌻 But fret not, #OpenSMTPD and #Maildrop are here to rock your inbox with their synchronized dance moves you won't care about. Because, clearly, getting modern tools to work together is rocket science. 🚀🙄
http://blog.whenhen.com/posts/opensmtpd-and-maildrop-working-in-concert.html #procmail #emailtools #moderntech #HackerNews #ngated
OpenSMTPD & Maildrop working in concert

What we really liked about this project was how opinionated it was, how well the documentation was crafted, and how packed the mailing list was with years of helpful solutions.

Sync’ up! … without getting drained
🤣 Ah, "vibe coding"—where typing random keystrokes and calling it "software engineering" is the future! 🧙‍♂️ Who needs syntax when you have good vibes? Throw in a Rick Rubin cameo and a viral Reddit post, and voilà, the pinnacle of modern tech innovation! 🚀
https://alexp.pl/2025/02/19/vibe-coding.html #vibecoding #softwareengineering #techinnovation #rickrubin #redditmemes #moderntech #HackerNews #ngated
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Steering Your Rails Application to Continuous Success

Yo, been getting 10,000s of hits from Anthropic's Claudbot... Super nice stuff. IP range block won't work because they are using Amazon AWS.

I used htaccess to block the user agent.

Yay! AI making the world better again....

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/25/24205943/anthropic-ai-web-crawler-claudebot-ifixit-scraping-training-data

#ai #bot #linux #webdev #thisisbullshit #online #shop #moderntech

Anthropic’s crawler is ignoring websites’ anti-AI scraping policies

Anthropic’s ClaudeBot web crawler has aggressively hammered iFixit’s website, seemingly violating the repair company’s Terms of Use in the process.

The Verge
Isn't it nice when you buy a brand new cooker and it straight off throws up an error message that is not listed in any of the documentation so they have to send out an engineer?
Quite bafflingly, the documentation tells me what error 6 and 8 are, but not 7.
#ModernTech, eh?