In other words, revisiting the code you've already written and making it more concise could improve its readability (and also why code review is a thing).

This also aligns with the "Writing code that is easy for others to read" chapter in the Programmer's Brain book.

Just a simple demo of transforming one iOS app design to another where upon using an app we try to ask to the following questions:

- Where am I?

The app should make it clear right away, so Im not left wondering where I am or how I got here

- What can I do?

I shouldn't have to guess – actions should be clear and easy to understand

- Where can I go?

A clear sense of next steps to keep the flow going and helps me avoid hesitation or second-guessing

I wish some professional software answered those questions. As well as mine, really. Should rewatch it from time to time.

The language models’ greatest feat is also their most significant drawback—by absorbing the personal voice from every piece of content they have ever encountered, they produce a whole bunch of nonspecific, generic, mean-reverting Whatever that manages to say much but convey very little. All it can ever be is a circumlocution machine. It won’t tell deeply embarrassing tales of its youth, wear its grudges on its sleeve, passionately hold an unpopular position, or tug at threads without knowing ahead of time what the other end might be attached to. It doesn’t wander off onto interesting tangents that bring the reader along on a little shared journey of discovery. It has no discernible soul, no passion for its work, no real ability to justify the screen space it has filled up—let alone the time and attention the reader is now giving it. We can tell when it’s genuine. God dammit, we can tell.

And some talk about SQL and relational models.

Site of a dude that owns 70+ drawing tablets and shares his experience. Nice.

“Structuring your theory into a story makes it more compelling.”

So much of building tech stuff is a figurative conversation - between you and the machine, you and the abstraction, you and the people who will use what you build, you and the people who will maintain it, you and those who came before you. To understand such a varied audience you need to anchor on your understanding of yourself. Improve the one tool you can never replace - you.

FediIndex data on Betula. Very interesting! 1.3.0 is still used by some, 1.2.0 has ceased to exist. Third of all instances are hosted in Russia.

I wish it knew more Betula instances though.

A Minecraft clone made with pure HTML & CSS – no JavaScript.