I recently had a PHP problem I was struggling with. Instead of using AI, I asked #mastodon.

I got a great answer and they kept helping as I continued to struggle.

In the end I learned and the community helped.

That’s the way it should be.

h/t @gmazzap

Remember "don't print this email" in signatures that was a bit cringe? It doesn't feel that cringe anymore in retrospect. I'm doing an experiment now with this new email signature :D Anyone doing something similar? Could it catch on?

edit: BTW please absolutely steal/modify this idea if you want!

I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.

It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai

#AI #LLM #Programming

TIL that:

<? this ?>
<! this !>
</ and this >

…all parse as HTML comments.

It hits a part of the parser the spec where the content is "reconsumed in the bogus comment state".

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/parsing.html#tag-open-state:bogus-comment-state:~:text=U%2B003F%20QUESTION%20MARK%20%28%3F%29