Dreaming of a ten-year computer – alexwlchan
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Great gusto here from someone looking to fill landfills less. Get more use from what they paid for. Dodge some tough times in the hardware industry. I’m going to argue that the 10 year computer is not one bit crazy right now. No idea what the future entails, if local llms get good enough to really get so useful they feel required this could easily change. One issue I had with the post as they are looking to get a machine for the next 10 years is they were so focused on themself that they missed the point. They were so focused on buying something that would work for them for 10 years that they bought something brand new rather than thinking about the bigger issue of how do we get hardware to last 10+ years. Some factor of this involves giving our devices a second life. Two things went wrong here. First it appears they they have a perfectly good imac with a broken screen. I know nothing about apple/imac, assuming that the screen is toast and unrepairable, I know you can ssh into a mac this feels like good potential for server hardware. Next they purchased a brand new mac mini. Hardware has been good for a long time,...
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Very interesting takes from @thdxr in this interview. A lot has been hashed out by others all over the place, but a hot take here is that code quality is higher than ever right now. Codebases are becoming more consistent than ever. If you are not starting with a good consistent base from the start you are poising your context and doomed to fail and have all the common failures of ai written code. He still reads almost every PR, and will read all of the code eventually. There are a few cases where reading the PR is not worthwhile only when its low stakes, knows that good patterns have been established and followed. He argues that someone needs to be the expert of the code and of the product still and fears that too many people not looking at prs will fail companies.
Thinking about ai productivity again
Thinking about AI productivity again. It's allowing massive amounts of work to
get done, to levels that humans cannot physically type out in some cases. But
not all of this work is necessarily high value work. Right now I'm working on
one of the biggest PRs to an internal cli library. Probably the largest PR
I've ever done professionally. It touches all of the cli, refactors every
command, reaches into the business logic layers to drive deeper separation. I
reaches into the common layers to drive consistency. It ensures that every
command (50 or so) has similar flags, supports --plain, --no-color. It specs
out contracts to ensure that data goes out stdout, any extra goes out stderr.
This makes everything unix pipe friendly. There was quite a bit of research and
prep that went in, that turns out to already be distilled down into clig.dev.
The point is that this is all good work. It will make the product consistent,
repeatable, expected, and most of all boring. Most of the time, it wi...
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Kids are leaving the party early, not drinking, cant watch netflix without the laptop open. They are leaving the party early to check on their agents. I get it, that feeling that you need to eek out one more prompt, keep your agents running. if they arent running what are you even doing. If not you 6 others are ready to pass you up. The timeline to be first has shrunk to nothing but unachievable.
I recently discovered Uncodixfy [1] by cyxzdev [2], and it’s truly impressive.
the holly uncodexify instructions - letting GPT create uncodexified UI
References:
[1]: https://github.com/cyxzdev/Uncodixfy
[2]: https://github.com/cyxzdev
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😂 Should I be concerned that My 12yo installed Arch BTW on his own?
Pluralistic: The web is bearable with RSS (07 Mar 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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It’s wild how much of a hit Google took from killing reader, almost any time I hear about killedbygoogle, reader is the top of the list. Its the thing that we all remember being really good and the incumbants just did not match up. Somehow we are here 13 years later still bitching about it, despite it only having a 6 year run. You should probably get an rss reader, and follow some incredible people that make feeds. Most sites that produce content have the ability to subscribe over rss. Unlike @pluralistic [2], I dont read in my reader. My reader is just a list of links out to the web and I typically read it how the author intended on their site. I nod a long to Cory’s enshitified internet just as much as the next guy, I love text based interfaces, I despise the bloat that js has brought on. But I don’t believe all js is bad, I don’t turn it off, even though he has me questioning this now. News sites kinda suck, we can agree there, but its rare that a small indie web creator has fully enshitified their site with js. I don’t buy that. Sub to the feeds.
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Justin Searls
@searls
I need a new blog to subscribe to. Know any you think I'd like? E-mail me: [email protected]
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Sent Justin my list https://go.waylonwalker.com/blogroll, will soon be on the main site, but right now its only on the go subdomain. I’ve long had reader.waylonwalker.com, but thats soon going to be wrapped into the main site as well at /reader.
I’m interested to see what good stuff Justin gets and if you have any good ones to share reply.
References:
[1]: https://justin.searls.co/takes/2026-03-08-23h18m29s/
Did you even like to code?
Here's something I've been wrestling with lately. I keep hearing people come
to the realization that they never liked coding, they thought they did, but
secretly hated it the whole time. I dont think I've ever kidded myself about
this. I like building things. I like having an idea and see it come to life.
Just because I like the end product more, and that coding really was a means to
an end, something I will never do again in the same capacity that I have in the
past, does not mean I did not enjoy the art of solving problems by typing
syntax into a file to tell a computer how to solve a problem.
The only thing that seems interesting is AI right now
The only thing that seems interesting is AI right now, I'm writing less code,
and I kinda just don't care as much about the small open source stuff as I used
to. I enjoy reading about what other people are thinking, doing, creating.
But when I go to grab a podcast while I wait on my clankers its one talking
about how other people are using them, how to make them more secure, more
effective, how the new models change things, what models are good at what.
It's all so new and changes so fast. Any sort of new open source project
starts out sus that it was just vibe coded anyways, So at the moment it feels
like ooh how did you get that, how do I make mine, and that the thing itself
has less value. I hate that its this way, but it is.