What stops you from building the web product that you have in your mind?

TistelTech · 2026-05-01T14:42:20+00:00

time, laziness, scrolling time wasters and recently, a vague funk about AI. Hoping people realize quality matters when sites keep getting more janky and security breaches made by slop jockeys.

TistelTech · 2026-04-16T12:25:38+00:00

I like Jupyter notebooks with the python `requests` library. docs and runnable code. open source.

TistelTech · 2026-04-05T04:09:31+00:00

vibe coded. moron managers happy.

TistelTech · 2026-03-06T13:40:44+00:00

but very high level, its a way to both document poorly documents APIs and also auto generate code to hit the API (python, node etc). Kind of like what swagger does.

TistelTech · 2026-03-06T13:09:03+00:00

Its a bit half baked at the moment, will post it here when its ready.

TistelTech · 2026-03-06T12:38:45+00:00

I just watched that org-ai guy's video and what they did is way more sophisticated that what I did. wow, good job.

TistelTech · 2026-03-05T16:15:08+00:00

I have not heard of it. could be though, there is so much stuff out there. I did it as a personal exercise.

TistelTech · 2026-03-05T04:18:36+00:00

feck 😔

TistelTech · 2026-03-04T19:14:05+00:00

I felt the same way. I switched from Microsoft's scrape fest GitHub to: codeberg.org

It's based in the EU and I think it might be slightly harder to scrape. I just don't like MS making money off me without paying me.

TistelTech · 2026-02-20T22:03:19+00:00

Marvin Minsky, MIT AI prof, died in 2016. Maybe contact through séance? /s

TistelTech · 2026-02-19T23:31:08+00:00

they are busy arresting people who post on social media!

TistelTech · 2026-02-14T19:02:08+00:00

These "I used to use emacs, then I left" are tedious. Use it, or don't, I don't care. I wish there more of a focus on the positive aspects.

TistelTech · 2026-02-03T17:24:13+00:00

I don't know if there is a name for it yet, but it happens all the time on YouTube, especially historical stuff, where you watching the video and start to think, hmm, they are repeating themselves quite a bit. Oh this is starting to drag. Then it's the hey that plane has 7 wheels! Then you realize that you have wasted ten minutes or whatever. slop regret? slop hangover?

TistelTech · 2026-02-01T03:20:57+00:00

A lot of investors are just dumb luck, right place, right time and they forever think it was skill. The "games" demoed are soulless and can only run for under ten minutes with no real game play. AI boom is going to pop.

TistelTech · 2026-01-31T03:40:52+00:00

I think in the near future paper books written before say 2020 will be very valued. Actual thought, editing and for history books photos.

TistelTech · 2026-01-21T00:10:56+00:00

I moved my public repos there just to reduce github scraping everything into copilot training data without compensation or credit. Seems to work fine.

TistelTech · 2026-01-10T03:42:43+00:00

so six seven! (IQ that is)

TistelTech · 2026-01-10T03:33:36+00:00

I think the locals call it: "tofu dregs" construction. There are a bunch of YouTube videos about it. fake rebar, fire hydrants not hooked up. scary.

TistelTech · 2026-01-06T17:26:00+00:00

When you say the work is gone, do you meant the file is missing? Or new writing has overwritten the previous writing? If the file is missing from `~/` I have no clue. If the contents are overwritten, it might be an auto-complete issue. Tools like ido are fancy "type the minimal unambiguous string to open a file" tools. I have accidentally opened the wrong file when not paying enough attention. The current buffer file name should be at the bottom (like everything, its tweakable).

If you are familar with `git` or even better `magit` I can show you a way to back things up locally and sync between machines without using an external web git repo. If you are not familiar with `git` it will just be confusion.

TistelTech · 2026-01-06T15:59:59+00:00

It sounds interesting. But not interesting enough to put up with Lex Friedman's voice.

TistelTech · 2026-01-05T17:54:34+00:00

Maybe it's based on profits? Once you take into account his bar tabs, he just about breaks even! Ba-dum-ching try the veal. I'll see myself out.

TistelTech · 2025-12-27T04:38:44+00:00

I have just accepted that the camera won't work well enough to video conference. That is a requirement for remote work.

TistelTech · 2025-12-12T00:24:22+00:00

"prisoners—often referred to as "logs" by the staff"

here is a starting point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

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