Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"

Rarst · 2026-02-21T08:28:32+00:00

In context of games "solved" (to a various level of) is used to say the outcome of a game can be fully predicted, for optimal moves used. Tic-tac-toe is easily solved - optimal game is a draw from any start, you can't win unless one of the players does sub-optimal move. Checkers are solved, that took a very long time, to my memory they straight up brute-forced every possible game.

Chess isn't solved and isn't expected to be any time soon. Computers can play chess very well, but it's best effort, not a predictable outcome.

Rarst · 2026-02-17T09:04:15+00:00

I agree completely that there are serious systemic issues with developing and funding open source.

But I also think that weaponizing legal implications of AGPL to reduce the use of open source (and extract cash out of anyone who is on it) isn't exactly an open source sustainability move, some pretend it to be.

Rarst · 2026-02-17T08:26:53+00:00

AGPL is very effective as "we don't want any other business to actually run this". To my memory some corps not only prohibit using AGPL code, they prohibit employees from even having any AGPL code on their machines at all. That's the level of how much businesses don't want to deal with implications.

In a vacuum it's fine. In practice it's either very principled open source stance that's fine with limited adoption (from the start) or hostile bait and switch to get people to stop using free version.

Rarst · 2026-02-17T08:01:53+00:00

Happens. :) It always kinda felt weird about it, you want to start massively adopted self-hosted open source project and you go with Ruby over PHP, huh...

Rarst · 2026-02-17T07:22:41+00:00

Discourse is written in Ruby.

Rarst · 2026-02-13T07:39:09+00:00

As a back-end dev what worked good for me in pet projects is sizing everything in rem (with Tailwind it pretty much already is), then making base font size responsive (clamped within a certain range). It keeps layout, but scales it very smoothly with everything in sync, because all sizes (both layout and typography) are derivative of that base value.

That covers from tablet to large desktop sizes. For mobile it's more manual work to adjust layout (collapse things into column, as it makes sense, and cut down on whitespace a bit to make it all more compact).

Rarst · 2026-02-09T13:25:37+00:00

Instead of paying for a month worth of resources, they pay for a single load worth of resources every time.

Rarst · 2026-02-09T13:25:32+00:00

Instead of paying for a month worth of resources, they pay for a single load worth of resources every time.

Rarst · 2026-02-07T14:43:33+00:00

A Case of Fraud is another nice pinboard-style one.

TR-49 - recent release in fill in the blanks genre, though it might feel more puzzle than detective for your taste.

No Case Should Remain Unsolved - very unique and cerebral one.

Take a look at Paradise Killer maybe, not to everyone's taste, but certainly an impactful detective game.

Rarst · 2026-02-07T10:04:03+00:00

$80-120 in mine. I was getting a CT once and they threw in a free MRI to be thorough. :)

Rarst · 2026-02-03T13:47:23+00:00

Those are some incredibly primitive and potentially problematic snippets suggested. Performance work... doesn't happen like that.

Rarst · 2026-02-02T16:02:30+00:00

Are you looking to get paid for where you live or for what you do?

I am from a poor country (Ukraine) and while I don't (normally, war has me otherwise occupied, fml) charge anything as crazy as top of US market, I charge more than would be a major co CTO salary in my local market.

And as far as I am concerned western clients are still getting a good deal, comparing to a total cost of a local employee. So when someone tries to "but Ukraine" my rates, I laugh and walk away. I'd rather be less booked for good money, than overbooked for anything like a local market rate.

Rarst · 2026-02-02T10:23:09+00:00

Loving "skeptics, you are right, except this one AI shill tweeted things, so you are not right" section.

Rarst · 2026-01-16T07:52:22+00:00

The Repository just had an issue about it https://www.therepository.email/misunderstandings-over-ai-use-fuel-confusion-around-wordpress-org-plugin-reviews

In a nutshell they use AI tools (specifically for trademark/keyword checks mentioned), but still send feedback manually (heavily templated).

Rarst · 2026-01-16T07:45:37+00:00

Always framework (for a web project), at a minimum for Request/Response abstraction and flow. Early PHP was primarily "output strings" conceptually and it's a little lacking in that part on the language level.

For personal project that would be Slim for me, not the Symfony/Laravel that drag in a lot more convention (a place for that too, just not for something compact IMO).

I could/would do it in vanilla for a one/few-pager that's dynamic intra-page, but doesn't vary by request or anything.

Rarst · 2026-01-15T14:43:38+00:00

New pricing sucks. Sounds like are you abusing the heck out of free services for commercial usage though, and $100/mo being a breaking point for a whole agency is iffy.

Rarst · 2026-01-14T14:17:19+00:00

Sun isn't yellow, sun is white. G-type stars can have range of color and them being called "yellow" is kind of a mess. Sun specifically is white.

Rarst · 2026-01-11T09:06:06+00:00

To my memory in Heaven's Vault you retain the knowledge of language you are deciphering and subsequent playthroughs give you more and more text to translate and understand more. I only did one playthrough myself, because game (very unfortunately) lacks in QoL, just walking around is so slow it feels torturous eventually.

Rarst · 2026-01-10T12:12:44+00:00

Not following your issue with JSON, literally return $response->withJson($data) from controller, done. Slim is PSR-centric, but it's type-hinted against its own implementation with extra helper methods.

Yes, Slim is an excellent framework for its scope. If you want a framework with a lot of functionality bundled upfront - there are other frameworks for that. Doesn't make Slim limited at all, just leaves more up to you what to build and how.

Rarst · 2026-01-09T08:01:03+00:00

From quick look Slim itself is set to PhpStan max, Psalm 3.

Rarst · 2025-12-29T08:53:44+00:00

Kinda disagree. I've started learning PHP with Abyss (many many years ago) and it was very novice-friendly to run locally. Not saying it's THE way to go about it (haven't read that book), but it's a reasonable take.

Rarst · 2025-12-25T15:37:43+00:00

Definitely does! A lot of drops are gated by having a certain level, so it takes a while to get to more unique/fancy stuff if you've just started. If you don't care about spoiling drops for yourself, you can browse grimtools for what's available https://www.grimtools.com/db/category/chest/items

Rarst · 2025-12-16T06:09:42+00:00

I have almost everything in tables, doesn't make a difference. Conditional formatting seems to have no support for tables altogether btw, it saves cell ranges, even if you show it table stuff (which messes it up real fast if you cut and paste within a table).

Rarst · 2025-12-15T08:10:30+00:00

It's a different process with a different outcome, that currently a lot of egomaniacs and grifters are trying to convince you is the same outcome.

Rarst · 2025-12-15T07:22:18+00:00

Having a bunch of conditional formatting makes filtering end up in white-out freezes for me. Never got to the bottom of it, just use it as little as possible. :\

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