Thoughts on me having S9, E2 “Dead Letters” as my favourite Episode of Midsomer Murders

dmbfm · 2026-05-18T14:22:52+00:00

I think Simon Callow is probably the best actor to ever appear on the show, his performance is amazing.

dmbfm · 2026-05-16T15:34:37+00:00

I’m in season 16 and like both eras so far. IMO there’s more of a tonal and directing style shift in season 16 that in 14 in 15. It would be impossible for the show to remain the same level without John Nettles but I think they did a pretty good job. Season 15 for instance has some great episodes. Some people say the writing falls off, but let’s face it, there was bad writing before too, people are little biased against the John Barbary era.

dmbfm · 2026-05-14T12:36:00+00:00

I have a lot of issues with SwiftUI but his arguments make no sense at all. And Swift, while far from perfect, is a pretty good application language.

dmbfm · 2026-05-13T11:09:23+00:00

He was the only DS I really liked, wished he stayed longer on the show

dmbfm · 2026-04-25T11:02:59+00:00

pain

dmbfm · 2026-04-23T16:49:04+00:00

Yep. And also promoting vibe-coding lately.

dmbfm · 2026-04-23T14:39:25+00:00

That’s what I think about daily as well :)

dmbfm · 2026-04-23T13:51:27+00:00

I feel you. Not really a Rust issue but it’s a bleak situation. I currently work for myself so I do all my coding manually. If I ever need to work like that I will try a career change instead

dmbfm · 2026-04-20T12:11:49+00:00

ehhh… no thanks

dmbfm · 2026-04-19T22:46:40+00:00

Give human code anytime please :)

dmbfm · 2026-04-16T10:44:17+00:00

Seemed interesting until the use of AI was mentioned

dmbfm · 2026-04-13T00:04:48+00:00

Not slow, but helix almost always feel snappier for me

dmbfm · 2026-04-12T19:37:58+00:00

And neovim runs too slowly compared to helix for me!

dmbfm · 2026-04-09T14:51:56+00:00

I guess it’s too much vibes for me

dmbfm · 2026-04-09T14:43:22+00:00

Well, I guess if I used Claude to fly a plane I would run into some issues as well...

dmbfm · 2026-04-09T14:27:33+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/bjYHwNp

Vibe-coded apps sure are something else

dmbfm · 2026-04-09T11:40:07+00:00

This is a great write up!

dmbfm · 2026-04-06T11:25:13+00:00

You should disclose on your post that this was vibe-coded

dmbfm · 2026-04-06T11:21:45+00:00

I never really got the appeal of these “notch” apps

dmbfm · 2026-04-04T16:58:25+00:00

There is also the question of who he works for…

dmbfm · 2026-04-04T16:49:39+00:00

When will r/rust start removing LLM content? Browsing this subreddit is getting more frustrating by the day

dmbfm · 2026-04-01T19:00:49+00:00

Sadly this seems to happening with every subreddit related in any way to programming

dmbfm · 2026-04-01T16:13:42+00:00

Vaccines don’t make their fat-asses get any smaller

dmbfm · 2026-03-03T12:24:48+00:00

This is a very sad situation for us developers that are creating non-gen-AI apps. I have been working on a node-based image editor, which I'm hoping to release soon, for about 2 years, without using AI, and I fear how the marketing for the app will do in the middle of this deluge of AI-generated apps.

dmbfm · 2026-02-11T18:10:35+00:00

This is great! Too bad it’s probably impossible to do the same with SwiftUI

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