I keep coming back to this idea that the more I pursue so-called thick desires (eg seeking to understand a thing enough to be changed by it in some small way) the more fun it all is. And that, iterated, has a compounding factor on learning and enjoyment.

Idk man. I spent a lot of this year self-teaching CSS and web app UX instead of having AI spit it out and I came out of it with a great skill.

I do use AI to sketch ideas for me or spitball things. But the work remains my own, and I think that makes my learning stick.

Gonna start adding a CLAUDE.md file to my repo with a single line involving some choice words.

Indeed, Github has one job...and it has nothing to do with AI.

An eye for typography can be a curse when you work with F/OSS stuff. :)

(I work in Linux 8 hours a day.)

It’s not too late to read about how the horror that is the Oreo Thanksgiving Dinner Cookie Tin. www.theomnicosm.com/the-oreo-tha...

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Excited to have you join!

Also, excellent music reference.

This repo is fun and doesn’t use any metaprogramming: github.com/mattgreen/le...

Have yet to find a lang that is as lovely to write in as Ruby. It just seems to flow. But DX is way more than the initial writing: typing, LSP maturity, ecosystem quality, etc.

TBH I haven’t found anything I love for this. I usually just reach for Python and import subprocess for the 75474th time.

“tHiS tImE iS diFfeRenT” is usually a tell for grift