why not embrace fashtech! they’ve got: - terrible Fisher-Price CSS - the most toxic part of the Wayland ecosystem, and that’s saying something - the worst part of the X11 ecosystem, and that’s saying something - suckless tools and they all fucking suck - corporate control over the packages you wrote, for your own protection - distributed functional programming that doesn’t function or distribute

it’s fucked how every time I use a tool that calls itself opinionated, the opinions are always some annoying dev’s terrible defaults that they want to make into an industry standard and not anything of value, like how transphobes can fuck off forever if your priorities include dictating code formatting and exclude keeping bigots out of your project, your priorities are fucked

I can refuse to pay $80-$100 for games longer than your studio can remain solvent

so the founder of the federated blogging platform Ghost is one of the AI bros that’s tricked themselves into thinking the slop machine makes them 10x more productive in spite of all evidence to the contrary if your site’s built on Ghost, it might be worth checking how much of the code you’re relying on is slopcoded https://john.onolan.org/.ghost/activitypub/note/751e39e3-365e-4398-830b-7cdf7ceb2882 edit: since Ghost links don’t seem to work properly, it’s John’s post in this thread

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Please excuse the Substack link, but given that "84% of developers now use or plan to use AI tools"*, it is interesting to see measurable proof tha...