johnnyicarus

Fucked up a perfectly good transformer-based translation engine, look at him, he's got anxiety

"It’s been a while, so quote this skeet with your favourite $20 dollar word."

autochtone

It's more efficient b/c you don't actually have to throw it away! Synergy!

Important to note that the difference between a design prototype crafted by hand with HTML, CSS (what I aim for and like I believe @set.studio offers) and a vibe coded prototype is that you can actually use the code from the first one for the final product.

I am currently writing down my thoughts on coding with agents, and yeah that feels like a great one-sentence summary of the first 1000 words

So you save time with relatively terse instruction but the parrot still behaves

Yes after dabbling I am pretty confident most of the reason why LLMs seem better at code is clever product engineering around the model.

All the "context" (tool calls, mcp, skills) constructs a prompt for you that's much more likely to get you the output you want

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

Nice

I feel the same way, I sometimes see this floating around as advice for "semantic" styling, but in effect you're tightly coupling HTML semantics and visual meaning, with the effect that every project of even moderate size has to overwrite 80% of its heading styles.

We should do a contest with a panel of judges scoring who can get the most sycophancy out of it

Well sometimes I use this to be polite when I really want to say "I don't want to build this because it is bad design qua design and will make the product worse" (such is my arrogance) but point taken that I should find a better way to say this

But also Apple's fault for hiring someone with the completely wrong profile

Oh definitely, I missed that post the first time around!

The fun bit about this is that he was allegedly poached, not fired

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"So, if 'pixel perfection' is no longer a viable goal, what should we be striving for? The answer, I believe, lies in shifting our focus from individual pixels to design intent."

Some more 🔥

"A pure 'pixel-perfect' approach treats every instance as a unique snowflake, which is the antithesis of a scalable, component-based architecture."

Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design — Smashing Magazine Amit Sheen takes a hard look at the “Pixel Perfect” legacy concept, explaining why it’s failing us and redefining what “perfection” actually looks like in a multi-device, fluid world.

This is fantastic by @amitsheen.bsky.social: "True perfection means a site that works for everyone. [...] 'Pixel perfect' often prioritizes visual aesthetics over functional accessibility [...]" 🔥

www.smashingmagazine.com/2026/01/reth...

Orchestration as in for coding agents? I would say it's the exact opposite, breaking down tasks needs a lot of hands-on technical knowledge and management without that is generally horrible at it

LLMs in this case are a shortterm and likely unsustainable bandaid for issues that are already caused by underinvestment and shorttermism, mostly appearing in proximity to bullshit tasks (following Graeber), i.e. where we do box-ticking, duct-taping or taskmaster-responding

ChatGPTing e-mails that need to be formulated properly?Write less and accept communication in bullet points.

Need RAG because no one finds anything on your damn website? Fix your information architecture!

Transforming PDFs into structured data? Why didn't you invest in actual data infrastructure?

Trying to roughly collect and categorise ways that LLMs could be considered actually useful and one major category emerging is just bandaids for broken stuff

@apply is way overused and I found it hard at times to make people see that but just using it *for everything* *by default* is brutal lol

For what it's worth, "Tailwind solves problems that are made worse by our current organisation of labor and its gender aspects" is 1) true 2) not a difficult synthesis to make since all participants in this discussion are 90% of the way there

A great deed, making fans of other clubs feel better since 2013 😂

I'm not joking and this isn't funny. We have been trying to orchestrate the Weltgeist for more than 5,000 years. There are various options, not everyone is aligned. This team goes and does it overnight.

claude code is fucking insane

i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism

Hegelly Blonde

A screenshot showing that Google Balls followed me back

Let's goooooo #googleballs

Rewrote marinaeschba.ch to Astro.

I made the site when I too deep into combining frameworks, but now I tossed out a lot of guff and replacing it with vanilla CSS. Really the best technical solution if you are comfortable with the cascade and know the new features!