Oh wow, this is awesome! An ASCII wireframe editor that’s quick and fun to use, and you can also grab what you make as Markdown. Love it!

https://www.mockdown.design/

"Relieved, and then immediately guilty about the relief, and then annoyed at myself for feeling guilty about something that is, by any rational measure, a completely reasonable thing to do."

Honest piece on the ethics of AI code tools now that they're actually good. It's easy to opt out of something that doesn't work. It's a lot harder when your industry is making it a requirement and you still need to pay rent.
https://matduggan.com/i-sold-out-for-200-a-month-and-all-i-got-was-this-perfectly-generated-terraform/

Introduction time!

Just moved from mstdn.ca but joined Mastodon in Nov 2023
Photographer
2 sets of twins
LGBT mom
Atheist, feminist, pedestrian vigilante
3 cats (no trench coat)
East York #Toronto

I post about #photography, politics (#CdnPoli, #OnPoli), trans and LGBT issues, art, #Canada, and anything else that seems interesting

The three skills with a lot less overlap than you’d expect:

1. Ability to code.
2. Ability to perform well in a coding interview.
3. Ability to validate code.

18 years ago today I released MindNode. I was so anxious I was checking my email on WAP (basically the ancient version of mobile internet) whenever I left the house, just in case something broke. 😊

It didn't. And somehow, 18 years later, MindNode is still here and supporting a small independent team without outside funding, still shaped by the people who use it every day.

Thank you for 18 years. 🎉

— Markus (Founder)

I really want more utopian scifi and fantasy. (In the style of The Culture, or even The Polity.)

Why would I want to read more dystopian books? I've got a perfectly working news feed.

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@VeeRat/116217413471160500

at university i realized that i rarely reread the mountain of notes i took.

the act of taking notes was sufficient. writing by hand is slow. that slowness forces you to process the info well enough to summarize it.

i was lucky to have a laptop early and for a while tried using it for notes and i was fast enough to transcribe every word. even though typing is physical, i didn’t need to summarize at all. i remembered nothing, and pretty quickly went back to my notebooks and fountain pens.