where paul graham primed a bunch of folks to accept both Lisp and right-wing libertarianism as the same bundle of ideas

PG gets off way too lightly as a mere annoying vc most of the time. There is plenty of sneer project potential in each of his pointed, dumbly confident “essays”

This (driverless tech) is amazing for what it can do to help people that are old/poor and live in places with no public transport

Roark66, I like you, kid. You have a whole life ahead of you

thanks! I had to squeeze one out to avoid a whole year passing since my last blog post. Hopefully will keep 'em coming from here on. Settled nicely in Amsterdam now

need a meme image that represents the way Apple is legitimising openai after all the crypto degens were desperate for apple to legitimise nfts. the jealous hot mess rejected for another hot mess

I’m sorry you are this way

Mastodon, too, will not give you anything if you have JS disabled.

we used to strive for minimum possible front-end payload, and it was an embarrassment to do anything with JS that wasn’t backed up by a non-js default. Will never forget how suddenly React removed all those things from front-end team meetings.

They were solid industry-wide concerns that just… disappeared

I remember seeing an argument on reddit between a css dev that understood the depth of the responsive design philosophy and a dismissive Reacter that shut them down by calling them an old “list-aparter”

as a developer my favourite thing about react componentisation is how it makes me and my team more readily replaceable

praise the circumstances that enable the scourge of b2b saas products imposed on employees at the collaboration factory