It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Vercel wants to train on your code!! This is so infuriating.

You need to opt out by March 31st or they will use your repos as training data. All hobby plans are opted in by default.

#ai #fuckai #webdev #nodejS #programming

Llegamos al mínimo, que es para pagar el precio de la abogada. Y ahora necesitamos ese extra para los peritos.

¿Nos ayudáis a difundir por vuestras redes, colectivos, asociaciones etc.?

Retoot please.

https://www.migranodearena.org/reto/frena-a-amazon-defiende-aragon-contencioso-historico-contra-los-megacentros-de-datos

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

RE: https://front-end.social/@piccalilli/116057564937944260

Hello #WebDev and #frontend folks,

I wrote a couple of words about a certain #html attribute you might not need.

https://piccalil.li/blog/you-might-not-need-rolepresentation/

Thank you once again @piccalilli for having me and special thanks to @heydon for your much appreciated feedback! ❤️

#a11y #accessibility #css #blog