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Author of Terminal Click. Founder of Handmade Cities and Handmade Network.
Well that's no different than vegans. We "need them" to preach obnoxiously because cars are presumed indispensable.
Vegans gave us the Impossible Burger, which I'll eat instead of regular burgers when available. What might anti-car people trigger as a positive?
Someone paid a chef to make a fancy pizza, then told his friend "look what I made!"
The author's message would've landed if he demonstrated human authorship. Like this blog post [0] attaching a notebook page or my own [1] video proof.
And this article is largely LLM-generated. Is that ethical?
Tell me more about Emby. Solid replacement?
Yeah that’s the infamous curse of knowledge.. it’s quite hard to imagine oneself as a beginner again (although the skill can be learned.)
Imagine the cost involved for this though: I know you know my proof is genuine. Are we saying we’ll soon efficiently automate the generation of believable video evidence… for blog posts?!
This has the happy flipside that anyone who would like readers to classify their article as high-status rather than low-status can apply the judo move of simply writing it themselves.
I really really hope more people take up pen and paper! My last blog post [0] came with proof-of-work attached.
Goes the other way around too: many many employees didn't care about layoffs or the less fortunate until [complete this sentence].
Lovely writeup! I'll bookmark this for my own research.
My terminal's "clickity clackity" features [0] are local to the machine so I lose graphical-ness as soon as we remote in somewhere.
That's starting to change a bit with offline replay [1] where the native GUI and TUI work in tandem to unlock some rewind. But there's quite a road ahead and I love seeing others experiment properly. (Terminals are massively underserved.)
[1] https://terminal.click/posts/2026/06/tui-stability/#:~:text=...
I'd love that console-esque experience for my primary gaming PC as well.
So does the typical gamer who's not a nerd like GP. I'm not framing it as an insult, more like a reminder: we infamously ignore the power of brands and sensible defaults chosen for you.
Oh yeah I remember reading that in a book about botnets. Valve can only do harm reduction here, but calculating actors will seep through.
Spamming account creation won't work, because accounts need to have been created in April or earlier. They also verify address, payment method etc. to reduce double-dipping.
Just that the devs are better at marketing than others.
I will "quietly" self-plug Terminal Click [0] because Ghostty and TC have discussed their differences in the past (check out the Media page.)
I'm definitely not ready to do splashes of any kind, because what Ghostty lacks in novelty Terminal Click lacks in polish.
My last post [0] has proof-of-work: video evidence of my physical notes. How many people are willing to draft a complete essay on pen and paper first?
Dana should’ve repeated the lie before companies started blowing past their annual AI budget and began to panic.
And the form is not unlike Paddle's verification. You need a company, EIN, samples of what your texts will look like. Massive pain.
In defense of Paddle (I use them for my own livelihood), they're on the hook for remitting sales taxes to ALL the governments where your customers might reside. They also manage customer disputes, chargebacks, refunds etc. I always redirect support emails to Paddle.net [0] which does the trick 99% of the time.
Stripe or PayPal are nothing like that. They're just payment platforms.
Since Paddle takes on so much liability, it seems reasonable to ask for a lot of initial paperwork from its sellers.
I've met people whose lives were almost destroyed due to games. This is true. I've also met those whose lives were transformed positively by it (no, not Pokemon.) They run the whole gamut.
I'll concede an email app doesn't produce that kind of wide-ranging effect on humans.
This is a crazy worldview to hold when looking at the annual revenue of just a single IP like Pokemon? Video games surpassed Hollywood years ago! If we want to measure value differently, I already treat certain games with the same reverence as literary classics, and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
Meaning it died at committee?
Thoughts on Kagi? It's a paid product which slows down network effects. However, I'd argue search being "free" is part of the problem.
It usually takes years for someone's values to be thrown out the window! How long was this one?
Digital human fortresses are totally becoming a thing.
For example, our community [0] asks you to submit an application before you're granted an invite code. If you attend a meetup in person we'll grant a "Verified Human" badge too. This gives you the power to invite others into the fortress: you're responsible for them.
The price to pay is steep because community growth is now glacial. It really does solve the slop problem though. (I'm also no longer convinced maximizing growth is Good.) Maybe there's some in-between solution for those who dislike invite-only spaces.
and now with prompting
The friction is nonexistent compared to the other two. That can be good, but I'm not convinced it's always a win.
Agree with the rest.
Can highly recommend it. Gitea issues, PRs and actions all work as expected.
the recent Penguin edition attempts to present the original tone in English
Which Penguin edition is this?
Financial literacy isn't taught as much as it should, and I know devs who grew up in generational poverty who tragically mismanaged their paychecks. Nobody pointed them in the right direction before it was too late. The younger they are, the more I feel they have reasonable excuse.
Yep, I also know of multiple devs going into nursing. It used to be the other way around!
Could you expand? I couldn't find anything relevant after a few search attempts.
Nitpicking but early 60s still seems perfectly fine? I’d start the offramping between 66 - 70. Fully pass the baton by 70, basically.
As a community organizer for systems programmers: welcome to my world! I've finally made some headway after a decade, helped by the mass layoff apocalypse. (Turns out social skills help you stay solvent.)