bitbasher

Decent updates but still lacks a lot of small polish. One thing that annoys me is the mouse cursor. I wish it would disappear when typing or idle.

Yes— this is annoying. At first I thought my sound wasn’t working. Took a while to figure it out…

We had a "Karl" at my first engineering job. Karl happened to be our team lead, but he produced a lot of Karl code. Many expletives and facepalms in that office. It got so bad, a member on our team that was highly religious asked to have their own office (and he got it).

I do all of my code by hand. I don't even use an LSP. It makes sense as long as it makes sense to you.

You don't need to change the way you do things because of some perceived thing you're missing out on. That is what the AI companies want you to feel and think because it benefits them.

This applies to more than AI, but programming language choices and more. Heck, it even applies to social issues and politics :)

Make your own choices and walk your own path.

I recently read Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It was oddly sad to read.

The enthusiasm and optimistic view of open source and the future of software and craftsmanship. Looking at it in 2026.. incredibly sad.

Forget the bazaar. Back to the cathedral.

Funny how I could tell without reading anything. I immediately lost interest upon noticing.

Lots of emoji in that readme. Was it mainly codex?

For in the darkest hour, hope springs eternal.

Bad news for Christopher Nolan, AI isn't the only slop audiences reject.

I have been self hosting my repositories on my own VPS using nothing but Git itself (you don't need to install anything else). Sharing write access is a bit of a pain, but I tend to work on things alone anyway.

I believe so. I cannot view any repository from my phone. It asks me to log in first.

Why buy this over a framework desktop?

I was on the Postgres train for 10+ years. Then I fell in love with Sqlite and have been using it for everything.

You could meditate.. or you could write some code and care about the craft. I find that much more fulfilling than a few minutes of mindful breathing.

Hell, you can do both!

I agree we need to address the elephant in the room, but our community is about as polarized as politics in America.

function > form

I don't see any other way? When you sleep (suspend to RAM), everything is stored in RAM and is encrypted but the master key is present in kernel memory (if I recall correctly).

However, if you hibernate (suspend to disk) the entire contents of RAM (including the master key) is written/encrypted to disk and the RAM is cleared.

When you wake the machine up you have to re-enter the passphrase to decrypt the master key to re-load disk contents back to memory.

Claude.md was added 8 months ago.

https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c/blob/deluge/CLAUDE.md

I enjoy writing code.

I've tried AI tooling in the past and it felt wrong to me. The software was alright (it worked).

I don't know if anyone can relate, but it didn't feel like it was "mine". I didn't even keep the project/code. It was a working software emulator for a video game console but I felt zero connection with it and couldn't even get myself to keep the code.

Maybe I'm old fashioned and/or stubborn, but I like to write code. I like to know the minute details with regards to how things work. I like to know every function an API provides. I like to understand the differences between platforms, devices, hardware, etc. I've always loved it and always will.

I don't really get stuck, but when I do the answer is usually in documentation or a man page. I probably read documentation and man pages more than the average developer.

You could argue that is slower than asking an LLM, but I am willing to do things a little slower if it means building up my knowledge and getting stuck less in the future.

For whatever it's worth -- I run my own product/company (software). I do all code by hand and don't use any AI.

Getting a user to do _anything_ on your site is difficult.

I run a SaaS product that has closed sign ups. I get inbound email asking (sometimes begging) for access to the service. I follow up with their usecase (make sure they are a good fit, I get a lot of abuse). They respond with a seemingly good fit. I generate the account and give them access and they never log in. This happens way more often than I would like.

It's so bad, I started to wonder if there's some kind of underground market for selling accounts. In the end, people are finicky and you can't predict anything they will do.

Most dependencies in the C/C++ world come with fewer dependencies of their own (at least, an order of magnitude fewer than the average rust dependency).

Perhaps a Makefile could be considered arbitrary code execution, but we've been running Makefiles for 50 years and we haven't had the supply chain issues we see in NPM, etc.

Supply chain risk was always considered in the C/C++ world... think back to Ken Thompson's 1984 paper "Reflections on Trusting Trust" where he questioned if you could even trust your compiler.

Perhaps the main difference between the Rust and C/C++ world is less about the tooling or languages, but more cultural? I don't know, just something to think about.

I've seen it, but it's from 2016. They have known about the issue for a 10+ years and haven't fixed it yet... seems unlikely to change!

Maybe some day though!

Rust's standard library is incredibly thin (intentionally so). As a result, you need to use the crate ecosystem. This comes with some downsides.

1. Each crate you depend on generally comes with dozens of its own dependencies.

2. A large number of crates have few downloads. You can use blessed.rs to try an find "trusted" dependencies.

3. Cargo comes with "build.rs" for compile time code execution. Basically, your code (or your dependencies) can run arbitrary code when it first gets compiled.

4. A Github account is required to publish crates to crates.io (this sucks if you don't want to be locked in to another Microsoft system).

These are just a few of the issues I have had with Rust before switching off it.

edit:

Point #4 is personal for me. I have multiple crates published on crates.io and I cannot log in and manage them because I deleted my GitHub account a long time ago. I wonder if someone could create a GitHub account using my name and claim ownership of them...

Memory safety is a concern, but there are many solutions that don't include Rust. Rust is certainly one solution, though.

However, Rust seems to trade memory safety vulnerabilities for supply chain risk.

I read this blog post and the authors other blog posts. They give off a strange vibe to me.

It's almost like a reverse doomer-doomer-ism. I'm terribly sad because others don't see the value in this thing I grew to value. It is very New York hipster.

“Just” curl and openssl. Those are not small and do a ton of lifting… easily adds 2-3mb to a static binary.

Libera gives all registered users a cloak to hide their ip.

Ticket Master can never be replaced because Terry Davis himself worked on it.