ChrisGammell

I can't help thinking "doesn't matter much unless it's perfect" because if someone is using this to build a board (cool) but then it's not flawless, troubleshooting will be quite tough as a novice. Like, say, when I start digging into the web code generated by a coding agent.

I am most excited about it bringing down the barrier so more people join in on hardware fun, so hopefully it will unlock folks that stayed away in the past.

All the people here are focused on security and costs while I'm like "hey kicad on the announcement page!" Every clanker is an autorouter these days, eh.

Yep, insert the "always has been" meme. I learned from my early blogging that finding something that was popular just ended up having me chase that high again, instead of the things I wanted to be writing. True of every platform before and since.

2005! Didn't realize it was that long ago. Have been thinking about that book every time I read about people that move to "100% AI coding" in their work. Sure, they might have an increased output, but what happens when their "computer is ripped off their face" like the main character?

I didn't realize the Bending Spoons acquisition was a second time go-round. I do know after they enshittified (sorry, "harvested called for the PE overlords") two other web properties I used and loved back in the day (Evernote, Meetup), and thus I have an unfortunate to-do list item to migrate my 1000+ video library over to something else in 2026. Currently looking at Cloudflare for the files and some kind of player on top.

Sigh.

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A message in a bottle, thrown into your own swimming pool every evening. I like it.

I'd love to hear more about how the "sales engineers were the influential ones" manifested. I have an idea in my head, but I'm curious about details.