Pirijan

[New Blog Post] The Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools Era

https://pketh.org/the-human-tools-era.html

The Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools Era

At the dawn of the industry, we needed big companies to deliver quality software. You’d buy version 1.0 because the way it worked was revolutionary, and it let you do amazing new things. You’d buy version 2.0 because it added helpful new features. Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, etc. became household names because software was hard to make, and even harder to box up and get on store shelves.

pketh.org
Mar 4, 2025 at 2:00pmWeb
Show threadpeter schillingMar 4, 2025
@pirijan always excited to see a blog post from you! surprised i didn't catch this in my rss reader, but then i noticed pub date is feb 2, is that right? or is this from today?
Show threadPirijanMar 4, 2025
@schpet whoops you're right, I'm terrible at dates. Just shipped a correction but not sure if it'll update rss :(
Show threadpeter schillingMar 4, 2025

@pirijan ya looks like the update showed up for me! but note that your rss feed has

```
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
```

since i'm in PT, my rss reader renders that as 'Mar 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM'. (endless fun with timezones)

Show threadPirijanMar 4, 2025
@schpet I’m using Jekyll and the post dates by default are based on basic yyyy-mm-dd file names. But in the future I’ll look into seeing if I can override that :)
Show threadsphygmusMar 4, 2025

@pirijan reminds me of Linus Lee's writing about building one's own tools – an even deeper level of enthusiast perhaps?

https://thesephist.com/posts/tools/

(I also think a more interesting world with LMs might be one where enthusiast non-coders leverage them to make custom and personal tools. of course the corporations don't want us leaving their tools so that would still remain niche!)

Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools | thesephist.com

Show threadPirijanMar 4, 2025
@sphygmus for sure - a lot of ppl excited by no-code both before and with llms , but I haven’t seen it generate anything non-trivial and maintainable so far
Show threadLucas ✦Mar 5, 2025
@pirijan thank you ❤️