RE: https://labyrinth.social/@nash/116178591588359360

you ever write code so inefficient you have to secure 80% of the world’s DRAM production

“I need to discuss science vs. engineering. Put glibly:
In #science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In #engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it."

― Richard Hamming, "The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn" (1997)

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.

Reject the pull of hype and rage cycles, protect your attention

Read a book, bake a tasty treat, go on a little walk, snuggle a cat or dog

I believe in you

Sharing this again because it's so fucking good: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/#u-washington

It's long, but only because it makes so many brilliantly insightful points. I thought I remembered these points being spread across at least three different articles, but they were all in this one

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116274330297497647

this also includes a little trick I’ve been using for a while: there’s an undocumented Info.plist dictionary you can enter to generate an app icon.