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I don’t understand. Do the people generating ‘content’ with LLMs themselves enjoy pissing away their own time ingesting the output they’re asking an LLM to produce?

For all the amazing creative work carefully (or not) crafted by humans directly, you’d rather have the derived token sausage?

Writing with intent to deceive a human, and otherwise generating ‘art’ with models is the laziest application thereof, and I’d argue it’s unethical. If you generate something and present it to me as your own work, worthy of direct human consumption and thus, my finite human heartbeats, I instantly have a problem with you.

Email in perfuckingticular: if your actual reply is “yep, meet you there!” And you ask the LLM to expand it and bloat it in some way, what’s the justification?

I was never bothered by the animations, but was livid when they redid the desktop thumbnails, and offered no way to always show the preview by default. You have to mouse up to them to get the previews.

It didn’t seem to bother the rest of the Mac world, but I used to organize my desktops in a chaotic way that worked great for me, and the ability to see the preview thumbnails as soon as I popped into mission control or whatever they call it enabled me to quickly go where I wanted to after a quick glance. I used to rename entire desktops, too.

The whole thing instantly became worse for me when they took away my ability to name your own virtual desktops, and added the extra speed bump of making me mouse up to trigger the previews. I’m still bitter about it.

I had no idea holding the spacebar moved between characters now. Your comment fixed a years long gripe for me.

I was insanely disappointed when Apple took away the pressure sensitive functionality almost solely because I routinely used it for this purpose, and it never occurred to me that they moved it.

In spite of the manufacturing drama it introduced, 3D Touch was an insanely great feature for editing alone. Push a little harder on the keyboard and have a cursor to easily place where you need it.

I was real grumpy when they took it away. Editing had only become even worse since. I’d love to know what they’re trying to achieve.

Very cool! I think about subscription overload pretty frequently, and how something like this could line up with the news industry.

I haven’t seen a product in a while, but I feel like libraries offering news access is about as close as there’s been to a successful product in subscription consolidation.

I was looking for this comment! Not a doctor, but as I understand it muscle is roughly equivalent to fat as far as your heart’s workload is concerned. I thought I also read that muscle movement helps with blood return.

I feel like everyone runs into this in WP dev eventually, but not everyone is honest with themselves about it. It can get messy, fast — I’ve certainly been there!

I’d be interested to know what sort of work your plugins are doing. I think a lot of that ecosystem is there to fill gaps — ACFish custom field functionality, for example, is core functionality in Drupal, Payload and many others.

Just another example — I love Drupal, but the Paragraphs module was always filling a gap in Drupal that Payload’s simple, but quite powerful ‘blocks’ field type makes easy.

Another thing I didn’t realize I love about it until just now: the hooks system is super clear. It’ a lot of the same stuff you use in WP, Drupal and others, where you can hook into functionality. With WP and Drupal, it wasn’t super obvious which hooks fire when. It can take some immersion to really understand it.

I’m such a Payload Stan. I don’t work there, I swear! I’m looking forward to trying out 3.0 embedded in Sveltekit soon here.

I worry about the criticisms I see about Payload not marketing to marketers and site builders, because as a dev I’m a huge fan and would love to see it thrive.

It’s a fair point, especially given that in so many cases the marketers are the ones procuring the CMS. And people who don’t code at all are a big portion of WP’s market.

My main concern is I’m not sure it’s easy for non-devs to see how much of the PHPish ecosystems are filling gaps in the CMS core. I don’t know how many previous CMSes the Payload folks had used before going about building it, but I’ve built tons of features and templates on most of the big ones, and IMO they did a phenomenal job of boiling it down to exactly what a developer needs to build any feature any customer or employer could ever want.

There’s no need for, say, a heavy SEO plugin. You can just define the fields you want your people to fill out and attach those fields to whatever content types you’d like. Then use those fields in the head when presenting the content out front in whatever frontend you want to use.

On top of that, you have all of the JS ecosystem you can plug right in. Dataviz for custom dashboards, data crunching, video and image processing, all of it. And because you’re not starting with a huge, opinionated plugin/module/contrib, it’s not the clunky and unfun when you need a feature that wasn’t there before. It’s so much easier to build exactly what you need if you’re comfortable with code.

SO much of a serious CMS is just content CRUD, and Payload makes it so simple to define your content types in code, where they objectively should be defined for the sake disaster recovery and reliable builds across all environments.

I recently started a project with C#/.Net8 with Sveltekit using adapter-static, and it’s been pretty great so far.

Different tech, obvs, but similar spirit. I like the idea of starting with my own monolith with a clear path to breaking out the frontend in the future if we need to scale.

I’ve played it — it truly is amazing. If I’m remembering correctly, it made it to iOS, too.

I’m a cancer survivor (lymphoma), and one of the things I learned during treatment was that wasting disease is one of the big things that actually kills patients.

My calf atrophied substantially toward the end of treatment — enough that I was a bit worried. Almost three years later and it’s still noticeably smaller than the other. I ate a ton, and gained quite a bit of weight overall (100mg of prednisone * 5 * 6 lmao).

I never tried extended fasting before treatment. There really wasn’t time, but there’s at least one documented case out there of someone curing their lymphoma with fasting.

I’m also not a doctor, but I don’t think fasting on chemo is the play. They know about those drugs and what they do. When it’s treatment time, they calculate the drug amounts on your body surface area (you weigh in when you get there) and mix them on the spot. I’d trust what they say about those drugs, while on those drugs!