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Comment · 20 days ago
I have. It’s a mess.
Comment · 20 days ago
The problem is also that enticement thing it does. Over representing the importance of some bugs or introducing more complexity to squash something that doesn’t matter.

If you aren’t 100% on it the entire time it’ll make 4 bugs for each solution and then write tests that hand hold the nonsense through. The juice isn’t always worth the squeeze and it messes with your ability to parse it all.

Comment · 20 days ago
I mean this crap will die hopefully die off when they get priced out of the needed tokens and their customers realise that there’s a limit to how many times you can write “Claude fix this bug plz” before the “devs” actually need to wade into some real, and at the scale of a vibed up PS clone, extremely confusing engineering.

LLMs remain a microwave.

Comment · 20 days ago
It’s really badly put but I thiiiink they’re trying to say that due to the pace you can work with AI, you can have something technically complex but badly engineered quickly. Like three years of bad engineering in an afternoon? Or something? It’s still bad as even three months of bad engineering would normally contain far more foresight than a vibe coded weekend nonsense project
Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah, I’d like this too. It’s one of the only things I still miss from Google.
Comment · 2 months ago
I love Kagi. I want to see them do well, of all of the search alternatives, this is the only one where I’ve never felt the need to go back to google.

I was setting a up a new computer the other day and got confused that the first three links for a search were ads, then I remembered it was google and they hide the things you’re looking for.

Site priority, lenses and the slop filter are all icing on the cake.

Comment · 2 months ago
Odd! Yeah nah, wasn’t really a thing in England.
Comment · 2 months ago
Having a "stink" is right. Even without much thought, it's off-putting, does not sound professional and really icky. When you think a bit harder, it's just kinda awful. I do actually suspect the name does have some measurable impact on adoption. Most people don't want to say "I gave up photoshop, I use gimp." outside of hardcore linux circles and since then, it has gone from the only open source gig in town to just one of many alternatives.
Comment · 2 months ago
In the UK, it’s the sex one and would be used as a general “idiot” word but that seemed to have mostly faded away. It’s not a word I’ve seen used in that context for many years.

Not refuting anything here, just adding some context from over here. Whichever way you slice it, it’s always been an awful name.

Comment · 2 months ago
I had been playing around with ideas for a few months after becoming a little frustrated with the noise and friction generated by longer lived and larger tailwind codebases. I was on a long-ish train ride and brought those bits together into a little utility micro framework/toolkit I call Crayon.

It’s an interesting project, certainly not for everyone, but it does serve a legitimate and interesting niche.

“Others might find this interesting! Let’s get the docs in shape and release it as a proper FOSS project!” the quite naive me said to himself.

Writing good docs, and I’m not calling my docs good, just an attempt at them, is such a hard thing to do. I learned so much and it took SO long to make sure I had covered all the features, that I added as much sassdoc as I could for API docs, tone etc.

I’ve gained so much respect for the people who maintain open source docs and it has reminded me to contribute more than I do currently.

The TLDR of Crayon is it leverages some familiar utility patterns for prototyping but draws the line at anything not derived from a shared scale.

Think of it as the most common parts of tailwind list of classes but _almost_ no single property classes, no arbitrary values and no inline breakpoint, state or dark mode stuff. I promise it does make some sense

Scoped CSS exists in most frameworks and CSS and Sass provide more power and better ergonomics for larger projects. Crayon says to lean into those tools and provides other tools and mixins to keep those values centralised and some additional things you can’t do with tailwind or plain CSS with some pretty powerful composition mixins. Oh and if you’re an LLM-interested person, they take to Crayon really quickly. There’s nothing groundbreaking here, Crayon is intentionally teeny-tiny.

This is not me trying to make a “tailwind but better” or “I hate utility classes” it’s a hybrid approach and as I said earlier, definitely not for everyone. Hope some of you find this interesting!

Comment · 2 months ago
I mean clearly she was doing a bad job. I’m shocked this was even a position there.
Comment · 2 months ago
Over here in the UK at the moment you can. They’ve recently made huge changes to a lot of chocolate products in the space of a year or two. Especially cadburys which is now just at the legal definition of chocolate over here. Any lower and they legally have to call it “chocolate flavoured” which has already recently happened to a bunch of classic lunchbox chocolate bars. So shit.
Comment · 2 months ago
You’re right. I apologise
Comment · 2 months ago
Agents are effectively a full McDonalds kitchen, yes.

...and yes, I know you don't mean that. I just disagree.

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