@kwramm I suppose my problem is thinking it surely can't get any worse, but then of course it gets worse.

I thought AI takes in LinkedIn were bad (hyperbolic in either direction, trivial crap disguised as insightful, etc), but WOW: people are surpassing themselves with takes praising Apple's new OS design.

I've just read one attributing near magical qualities to it, even to how unreadable it is. I had to read it twice to make sure it wasn't satire.

The crap is accelerating!

At this rate, the next tech bullshit news cycle will achieve some form of singularity that engulfs the whole planet.

@koantig @hzulla ditto

This Saturday, Saturday, Saturday: Citizens Queens 10k. It's the twisty one.

#running

@UkiahSmith @hisham_hm $5+, varies. I pay the $10

https://kagi.com/pricing

@hisham_hm I might be a biased data point (mostly programming stuff), but: when I was using DDG my split was about the same. Now that I'm full on Kagi, it's more like 99.8% Kagi, 0.2% Google (and only for images basically).

When I'm unhappy with a result in Kagi, I do !g just to double check and it's never better for web searches.

Really sort of surprising how much more efficient it is. And since I downgraded/filtered out shitty sites in settings, it also makes it better, not just "as good".

@psychicparrot42 But that's the setup, isn't it? Big engines are expensive and work flawlessly in a console because they have special arrangements with the publishers that allow them to have console specific code shared with customers. Godot doesn't because it's an open source thing that can't expose private apis/get any sort of commercial agreement with publishers.

It's not "lolz", their hands are tied.

Can you imagine how wonderful the world of software development would be if we had listened to Tom DeMarco (Slack, Peopleware, others) rather than Frederick Taylor.

I'm not a manager, but Tom's work is my favorite literature on software management. I wish more people read, understood, and practiced its lessons.

Peopleware summary: https://www.runn.io/blog/peopleware-book-summary

Slack summary: https://herbertlui.net/slack-tom-demarco-summary/

Here’s Bill Atkinson (and rest of team) answering questions right after the Macintosh was debuted at the Boston Computer Society in 1984: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tQ5XwvjPmA starting at 28:25 - he demos MacPaint and more. May his memory be a blessing!

@bit101 it's really well done, very very polished. The intro/start of the game is badass incarnate, the perfect setup for that sort of power fantasy.

Just, you know, not Doom exactly

Before playing the game I was under the impression it had a lot of "Dark Souls" influence. I still think it's a lot of that, but it goes deeper. It's now a game where aiming is not very important anymore. You need to do things (melee, shield) in a general direction, but you don't need to be pixel perfect anymore.

It's not a bullet hell game anymore, it's a rhythm game: parry/shield/melee at the right time, aim and position be damned.

Console (gamepad) influence, perhaps.

Finally played "Doom: The Dark Ages". Great game. Awesomely made. Beautiful and runs butter smooth.

Also it's not Doom at all. Took me 10 minutes to realize the guns were useless: unnecessary, and a hindrance even.

The guys behind Untitled Goose Game have a new game in the works, Big Walk. This just became my most anticipated game of 2026.

House House and their publisher, @panic, are two teams that basically turn everything they touch into gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ez7AP4-GM

@fabio somewhat related, there's a story in "Peopleware" (book) about an organization that worked in a shitty old office building, and yet they were very innovative. They owned the space; customized to their liking, even making holes on the wall. They moved to a shiny new office space. Soulless, could not be touched. Innovation died.

I think about this often.

Innovation and creativity seems to come from lack of guard rails. The more you box people, the more their energy is spent in conforming.

I used to make fun of series like Dragonball Z where "nothing" would happen for several episodes as characters engaged in long monologues, and scenes were basically still forever.

But I think the industry has overcorrected. Kids' "Action" animation nowadays (Ninjago, Sonic Prime, even Dog Man, etc) seems to be 2000% nonstop action: every moment is a crucial event, everybody is screaming all the time, everything is always at stake, no slack. It's like watching an endless ADHD-fueled chase.

With a lot of help from @stan (and over 50 contributors) the Adobe Alternatives list has been updated! Loads of alternative software, and all better choices than to keep supporting Adobe.

https://github.com/KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives

@mwichary I'm not a writer, but I'm terrible at finishing things. I get my personal projects to 90% and then lose interest.

What made me somewhat better at it was reading Camus' The Plague (of all things). There's a character there who's writing a novel, but he can't get past the first paragraph; he keeps rewriting it over and over. It's a ridiculous behavior when seen from the outside. Thinking of it shames me into finishing things and moving on.

https://theconversation.com/first-sentences-establish-a-contract-with-the-reader-about-what-is-to-come-57984

Geez, Yarn (package manager) went to sh*t with this v3+ architecture and I didn't even realize?!

A bunch of different configs/keys. Requiring committing lots of files to the repo. Polluting .gitignore/.gitattributes even more. A new install method that leaves 1.x users in the dust.

I understand why they did it, but now it just screams Enterprise Fizzbuzz. Someone went too far.

Time to move to a different manager I suppose.

(Only realized with a dependency that refuses to work in Yarn < v3)

I'm using Astro to produce a website. It generates some perfectly, performant static HTML from heaven, but goddamn if I don't have to perform some satanic rituals (of the bad kind) just to read some freaking markdown and get it inlined as html.

I have 3 pages on this website and each of them is a (different) deep well of regrets and questionable decisions, filled with unholy components, blood-soaked "resources", and nightmare inducing "utilities".

Can't wait to have it online