@zed.dev is goated.
it's so fast that it took me awhile to accept that it wasn't broken lol.

Opinion | I Saw Something New in San Francisco

"Cognitive surrender".

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

rlhf stands for reinforcement learning have fun

GLP-1 Haiku
GLP-1 Sonnet
GLP-1 Opus (preview)

light-dark() - CSS | MDN The light-dark() CSS <color> function enables setting two colors for a property - returning one of the two colors options by detecting if the developer has set a light or dark color scheme or the user...

Ohhh why didn't anyone tell me this was a thing 👀 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

The whole feature genuinely also seems backwards in a world where:

- We have multiple reverse proxies that are load-balanced
- We should probably be versioning / auditing changes to config
- Testing and validation of config should be a pre-flight step.

a man with a mustache is making a funny face while talking on a video call . Alt: a GIF of me laughing, then slowly losing my mind and crying because the validation plan being "don't push bad configs" is wild for an "enterprise" LB management gateway.

Was just in a sales call for a routing management web gateway (LB, Reverse Proxies, etc). They're showing us a "remote push" feature for NGINX config.

I asked how it handles validation pre-deploy and rollback of bad configs: "Well, I'd try not to push bad configs..." and then "test locally first."

example:
The UK put a similar bill in place in 2025; it resulted in apple completely removing their data protection features in the country. You can't build a back door in a system without, by definition, creating an exploitable vulnerability in said system.

support.apple.com/en-us/122234

Look at how this has played out for every other country with similar legislature. a few extra cyber criminals caught per year, secure systems pull out of the country, and for those who stay the government gets wide reaching and non-public mass surveillance controls.

Just read through the clauses in Bill C-22. Disappointing.

This bill is a net negative for all Canadian's digital privacy rights; it's literally just legislating a carve-out for mass surveillance of Canadian citizens.

@buttondown.com is great

If you do have taste, you can achieve a lot with agentic systems, but I think output still needs to be gated by understanding.

You can build quickly, but your understanding of the system is a function of time spent building it. You can easily end up in a system you can't explain. All new skills.

I think the real question for the future is going to be how to cultivate and maintain strong taste in a world where everyone can cook without ever having toiled to develop the skill.

Friction forces reflection, reflection develops taste, taste develops good product.

It's very easy to get caught in the dopamine slot-machine of Claude code without experiencing the friction that would cause reflection, and course correction.

Never been easier to burn yourself out "building" while producing very little. This is true personally (learning) and fiscally (product).

Feeling like we are learning in real time that the friction around writing code was a useful filter for quality.

To build something meaningful you had to really want to build it, now you can sort of just vibe code tools together without much commitment.

Got the whole family addicted.
High score of 52 left so far- will check in

Someone gets it.

(See also: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo — I maintain that Sam would be one of the most significant hard SF authors of the decade if he didn't have a day job to distract him from writing)

Turns out the solution, as always, is to just do things and write it for fun.

Another point for cliché

screenshot of a git diff showing 9 lines added and 1,000 removed

feels good

CSS was always a programming language y'all just couldn't handle that you were bad at it.

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

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Just finished iron gold part 1. All I have to say is

Dropping into random PR discussions on the public GitHub and commenting "lgtm" with a 👍

I saw this article and immediately thought of this story. I first read it in vhitaos stuck out to me as so absurdly dystopian that it looped around to sort of being believable.

Yet, here we are.

Might be wrong but I think all data on AT is public?

Would be interesting to see how you could get around that for private servers tbh.

Tldr: building for scale is fun but we have strayed way too far from actual fundamental knowledge in the name of DX and performative engineering

Hell, I manage a crusty windows VM with IIS on it that does 70-150 million requests a month (mix of static and php) with 8gb of ram, 4 cores, and the most *basic* caching rules.

So much money to make in people not wanting to learn basic hosting skills lmao

I've seen like 3 "my vercel bill was 27k" posts this week and every damn time it's for 100 million requests to something that very well could have been handled by a 40$/month vps with NGINX on it 😭

Everyone in tech is over optimizing for scale that they'll never see and I'm tired of pretending all the added complexity is always the right engineering choice.

I seriously love writing Golang, but I have 0 legitimate use for it at work- feels so hard to find time to actually learn it deeply.

Any chance I do feels great though.