JRR Tolkien: One of the best dialog writers of all time. Actually insane levels of character and worldbuilding packed into every word any character says.

Also JRR Tolkien: 10 page exposition song about someone feeling sad

I had no idea that Kurosawa directed a Soviet wilderness epic onsite in Siberia in the 1970s. Looks absolutely amazing and the full film is on youtube for free https://youtu.be/sFaL03SKEzE?si=XaUPYNRpthQJsIOl

Dersu Uzala (1975)

Average backend engineer pull request: I removed redundant microservice logging, reducing costs by $15,000 a second.

My pull requests as a frontend engineer: I moved the SmileyFace icon 4px to the right. It is now in the perfect place on the screen.

The best mac app already exists and it's Boop https://boop.okat.best
- Quick access to any text transformation you can think of
- No ads tracking network requests etc
- No updates in 5 years (it's already perfect)

Everytime I see someone asking ai to format a json string (sending private information to their server, running probably hundreds of network requests, costing real money to execute) my heart lowkey breaks a little. Boop heads rise up