hnarayanan

I really appreciated that such a large chunk of time in the middle was dedicated to the conversation around QT not being free and the birth of GNOME and the competition that followed.

I literally thought this website was about DBUS Hell and I was all for it.

Alas.

Yes. Literally one of the best.

It would help (me) if this documentation had at least one screenshot.

Tiny mono fonts.

How is it possible to make graphs that look this hideous?

Thank you. I turn grumpy when my colleagues keep calling it N+1. What even.

This is a more general question, which is "Why don't people take accountability for their actions?"

Because it's hard work and it's easier to let someone else bear the costs.

I do not have this kind of money :( :)

This drives me insane! To combat it, I maintain a list of banned words and phrases. Claude mostly follows this (but sometimes ignores it).

blast radius, land, landed, lands, spine, earned its keep, grammar, spike, cutover, bake, seams, honest, honestly, honesty, long pole, long poles, register, grain, dissolve, floor, ladder, dear, seal, sealed, in anger, resent, amazing, incredible, perfect, sprint, epic, story points, stand-up, retro, grooming, robust, comprehensive, rigorous, surgical, elegant, systematic, dive, deep-dive, delve, unpack, leverage, streamline, surface, it's worth noting, to be clear, importantly, that said, the moment, in one breath, the thing itself, here's the thing, not just X but Y, not X it's Y, em-dashes