> if you’re working on novel code, LLMs are absolutely horrible This is spot on. Current state-of-the-art models are, in my experience, very good at writing boilerplate code or very simple architecture especially in…
This is my feeling too. I’m never sure why React is the tool that is reached for in this situations (an entirely unreactive page?)
20, 15, 10 years ago this sort of stuff (Rails, Laravel, Phoenix) was free, and open source. The good ones are still going strong. I wonder if these sorts of schemes will still be offered in 20, 15 or 10 years
the economic picture is not getting any better. In part because so many people each month are coming off fixed-term mortgage deals bought in the ZIRP era. The more time they give Labour to govern, the more rope they…
If you don't already know a language and its ecosystem, then I'd recommend Rails. It is simply the most mature and batteries-included framework. Ignore the claims that it is dead - if you're a solo developer the…
Ruby on Rails has recently started actively marketing itself as the solo developer framework. I've worked with it for a long time now (among a bunch of other languages and frameworks) and I have to say the recent…
A srangely loaded question. You’re not going to get a straight and accurate answer to such a broad philosophical topic. Perhaps it’s worth reflecting on whether, in a pandemic, someone’s personal freedoms are…
I dug back six or seven of the blog posts and they all looked static enough to me - my point is that react is complete overkill for sites like this.
Why do you need react to render static blog posts?
My dog would not stop scratching his face, so I made a habit tracker for me and my wife to try and measure the impact of various behavioural tweaks. https://joshvince.site/blog/20230803_dog_days
Just want to say, I love your writing -- it's rare to find someone with such a distinctive voice. I've read a bunch of your articles and posts, keep going!
I wrote about this recently, mostly through the lens of the sentimentally important things like videos and photos https://joshvince.site/blog/20230903_little_metal_boxes
You must be fun at parties!
This is spot on. As people, a sense of community is not something we usually associate with commerce, but these online platforms are _only_ instruments to get a return on someone's investment. The fact that part of the…
got a source for that company? Presumably it'll be semi-public knowledge. I'd be incredibly surprised if a business was already proficient enough to replace software teams. Call centre operatives or content-farmers…
You're among the first people I've encountered with both experience in writing your own software and prompting an LLM to do it. I have a few questions for you (maybe the answers will make you feel better, or maybe…
All the recent furore about Twitter's monetisation and Reddit's API changes reminded me of this article from 1993. Clearly, only one guy's opinion but I think we've strayed pretty far from this vision of the internet,…
I understand what you’re saying and I agree that dismissing it out of hand is obviously the wrong approach - but this does feel like it meets the bar to be a “conspiracy theory”, in that people theorise that the…
People are so desperate for the next bubble
This is cool, but I think you lost me when you said “it just works out of the box” about your OS. I mean, sure, but you’ve had to order a new screen, touchpad, battery and RAM. That’s a lot of boxes to work out of
To add on to this great and pragmatic reply about your job situation, I'd add this: Even if things remain tough job-wise for the foreseeable future, are you able to derive self-worth from things in your life that aren't…
If I were in your position, I’d evaluate my relationship with “work”. Challenges you describe might be perennial wherever you go, so maybe the question is not “how can I be more fulfilled at work?” But rather “how can I…
He's only 19 though, right? It's not like time has healed his mentality, it was months ago...
> "Imagine wanting to watch a video on how to help one of your loved ones who is choking and you get 10 unskippable ads before you can watch the video." Someone pop this in a time capsule and label it "peak twitter,…
I find it fascinating that we're in an era where there are more elite sportspeople playing deep into their thirties or fourties across many sports that historically saw shorter careers. Ronaldo and Messi in football,…
> if you’re working on novel code, LLMs are absolutely horrible This is spot on. Current state-of-the-art models are, in my experience, very good at writing boilerplate code or very simple architecture especially in…
This is my feeling too. I’m never sure why React is the tool that is reached for in this situations (an entirely unreactive page?)
20, 15, 10 years ago this sort of stuff (Rails, Laravel, Phoenix) was free, and open source. The good ones are still going strong. I wonder if these sorts of schemes will still be offered in 20, 15 or 10 years
the economic picture is not getting any better. In part because so many people each month are coming off fixed-term mortgage deals bought in the ZIRP era. The more time they give Labour to govern, the more rope they…
If you don't already know a language and its ecosystem, then I'd recommend Rails. It is simply the most mature and batteries-included framework. Ignore the claims that it is dead - if you're a solo developer the…
Ruby on Rails has recently started actively marketing itself as the solo developer framework. I've worked with it for a long time now (among a bunch of other languages and frameworks) and I have to say the recent…
A srangely loaded question. You’re not going to get a straight and accurate answer to such a broad philosophical topic. Perhaps it’s worth reflecting on whether, in a pandemic, someone’s personal freedoms are…
I dug back six or seven of the blog posts and they all looked static enough to me - my point is that react is complete overkill for sites like this.
Why do you need react to render static blog posts?
My dog would not stop scratching his face, so I made a habit tracker for me and my wife to try and measure the impact of various behavioural tweaks. https://joshvince.site/blog/20230803_dog_days
Just want to say, I love your writing -- it's rare to find someone with such a distinctive voice. I've read a bunch of your articles and posts, keep going!
I wrote about this recently, mostly through the lens of the sentimentally important things like videos and photos https://joshvince.site/blog/20230903_little_metal_boxes
You must be fun at parties!
This is spot on. As people, a sense of community is not something we usually associate with commerce, but these online platforms are _only_ instruments to get a return on someone's investment. The fact that part of the…
got a source for that company? Presumably it'll be semi-public knowledge. I'd be incredibly surprised if a business was already proficient enough to replace software teams. Call centre operatives or content-farmers…
You're among the first people I've encountered with both experience in writing your own software and prompting an LLM to do it. I have a few questions for you (maybe the answers will make you feel better, or maybe…
All the recent furore about Twitter's monetisation and Reddit's API changes reminded me of this article from 1993. Clearly, only one guy's opinion but I think we've strayed pretty far from this vision of the internet,…
I understand what you’re saying and I agree that dismissing it out of hand is obviously the wrong approach - but this does feel like it meets the bar to be a “conspiracy theory”, in that people theorise that the…
People are so desperate for the next bubble
This is cool, but I think you lost me when you said “it just works out of the box” about your OS. I mean, sure, but you’ve had to order a new screen, touchpad, battery and RAM. That’s a lot of boxes to work out of
To add on to this great and pragmatic reply about your job situation, I'd add this: Even if things remain tough job-wise for the foreseeable future, are you able to derive self-worth from things in your life that aren't…
If I were in your position, I’d evaluate my relationship with “work”. Challenges you describe might be perennial wherever you go, so maybe the question is not “how can I be more fulfilled at work?” But rather “how can I…
He's only 19 though, right? It's not like time has healed his mentality, it was months ago...
> "Imagine wanting to watch a video on how to help one of your loved ones who is choking and you get 10 unskippable ads before you can watch the video." Someone pop this in a time capsule and label it "peak twitter,…
I find it fascinating that we're in an era where there are more elite sportspeople playing deep into their thirties or fourties across many sports that historically saw shorter careers. Ronaldo and Messi in football,…