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For example, .js files are supported for loading locally
Technically yes, but last time i tried that it gives you CORS errors now. You can start your browser with CORS disabled, but that makes sharing your .html file impossible. So back we go to inlining stuff :)
The whole issue is why i stopped using in-editor LLMs and wont use Agents for "real" work. I cant be sure of what context it wants to grab. With the good ol' copy paste into webui I can be 100%sure what the $TECHCORP sees and can integrate whatever it spits out by hand, acting as the first version of "code review". (Much like you would read over stackoverflow code back in the day).
If you want to build some greenfield auxiliary tools fine, agents make sense but I find that even gemini's webui has gotten good enough to create multiple files instead of putting everything in one file.
This way I also dont get locked in to any provider
This fits them I would say. I was, at a time, chasing the dragon of software minimalism. Y'know, using lynx to browse the web, using suckless software and so on. I was using KISS Linux for a while and even tried to make a package for suckless slock (which iirc was accepted only after someone from the KISS team basically redid my build scripts). So I kinda see myself as a fan of dylan and a great influence on my formative years. (Edit: Formative years apparently means 0-8. I meant more like 16-20 - my bad )
What alwas struck me about dylan araps's software was that the minimalism didnt come from a lack of scope or complexity, but rather the approach to use as much of the tools that were "already there" (at least thats my way to interpret this - i might be wrong). The pure bash bible is describing how to do common tasks in pure bash. Tasks that usually were done with external tools like sed an awk etc. Then later came the pure sh bible, doing the same for POSIX sh and therefore shedding the dependency on bash-isms. This represented to me a chase to go "deeper".
And this part clearly seems to still be a driving force to this day. Farming and producing olive oil and wine by hand, no chemicals no bullshit - that sounds like dylan araps alright. Looking at the website you can also see this spirit everywhere. Go ahead and disable JS on https://wild.gr/wine - the image slider still works. It uses inputs and CSS transforms. Makes the markup ever so slightly more complicated, and future changes ever so slightly more involved (unless the code is generated). But lets not kid ourselves, how often are those kind of web elemts updated?
It is once again a project that excels in "using whats already there" and I personally really like that, and even though I am not rocking KISS linux and DWM anymore, this way of thinking is still with me to this day, and I believe it was taught to me by dylan araps. For that I am thankful!
I agree with both of your points since I use LLMs for things I am not good at and dont give a single poop about. The only things i did with LLMs are three examples from the last two years:
- Some "temporary" tool I built years ago as a pareto-style workaround broke. (As temporary tools do after some years). Its basically a wrapper that calls a bunch of XSLs on a bmecat.xml every 3-6 months. I did not care to learn XSL back then and I dont care to do it now. Its arcane and non-universal - some stuff only works with certain XSL processors. I asked the LLM to fix stuff 20 times and eventually it got it. Probably got that stuff off my back another couple years.
- Some third party tool we use has a timer feature that has a bug where it sets a cookie everytime you see the timer once per timer (for whatever reason... the timers are set to end a certain time and there is no reason to attach it to a user). The cookies have a life time of one year. We run time limited promotions twice a week so that means two cookies a week for no reason. Eventually our WAF got triggered because it has a rule to block requests when headers are crazy long - which they were because cookies. I asked an LLM to give me a script that clears the cookie when its older than 7 days because I remember the last time i hacked together cookie stuff it also felt very "wtf" in a javascript kinda way and I did not care to relive that pain. This was in place until the third party tool fixed the cookie lifetime for some weeks.
- We list products on a marketplace. The marketplace has their own category system. We have our own category system. Frankly theirs kinda suck for our use case because it lumps a lot of stuff together, but we needed to "translate" the categories anyway. So I exported all unique "breadcrumbs" we have and gave that + the categories from the marketplace to an LLM one by one by looping through the list. I then had an apprentice from another dept. that has vastly more product knowledge than me look over that list in a day. Alternative would have been to have said apprentice do that stuff by hand, which is a task I would have personally HATED so I tried to lessen the burden for them.
All these examples are free tier in whatever I used.
We also use a vector search at work. 300,000 Products with weekly updates of the vector db.
We pay 250€ / mo for all of the qdrant instances across all environments and like 5-10 € in openai tokens. And we can easily switch whatever embedding model we use at anytime. We can even selfhost a model.
Fair. I was probably just projecting. I cant even figure out when to use a comma in my native language. So caring about which type of hyphen was used feels like overly sophisticated to me - because I dont care myself.
I always thought the whole argument was about explicitly using em dash and / or en dash. Aka — and –.
Because while people OBVIOUSLY use dashes in writing, humans usually fell back on using the (technically incorrect) hyphen aka the "minus symbol" - because thats whats available on the keyboards and basically no one will care.
Seems like, in the biggest game of telephone called the internet, this has devolved into "using any form of dash = AI".
Great.
Do you have any resources here? The /r/seo subreddit seems vers superficial coming from an web agency background so its hard to find legit cases versus obvious oversights. Often people make a post describing a legit sounding issue on there just to let it shine through that they are essentially doing seo spam.
What "changes in methodology applied by Google in September" are you referring to? There surely is a public announcement that can be shared? Most curious to hear as a shop I built is experiencing massive issues since august / september 2025
I ran into the same thing! My site still isnt indexed and I would REALLY like to not change the URL (its a shop and the url is printed on stuff) - redirects are my last resort.
But basically what happened: In august 2025 we finished the first working version of our shop. I wanted to accelerate indexing after some weeks because only ~50 of our pages were indexed and submitted the sitemap and everything got de-indexed within days. I thought for the longest time that its content quality because we sell niche trading cards and the descriptions are all one liners i made in Excel. ("This is $cardname from $set for your collection or deck!"). And because its single trading cards we have 7000+ products that are very similiar. (We did do all product images ourselves I thought google would like this but alas).
But later we added binders, whole sets and took a lot of care with their product data. The frontpage also got a massive overhaul - no shot. Not one page in index. We still get traffic from marketplaces and our older non-shop site. The shop itself lives on a subdomain (shop.myoldsite.com). The normal site also has a sitemap but that one was submitted 2022. I later rewrote how my sitemaps were generated and deleted the old ones in search console hoping this would help. It did not. (The old sitemap was generated by the shop system and was very large. Some forums mentioned that its better to create a chunked sitemap so I made a script that creates lists with 1000 products at a time as well as an index for them.)
Later observations are:
- Both sitemaps i deleted in GSC are still getting crawled and are STILL THERE. You cant see them in the overview but if you have the old links they still appear as normal.
- We eventually started submitting product data to google merchant center as well. It works 100% fine and our products are getting found and bought. The clicks still even show up in search console!!!! So I have a shop with 0 indexed pages in GSC that gets clicks every day. WTHeck?
So like... I dont even know anymore. Maybe we also have to restart like the person in the blog did and move the shop to a new domain and NEVER give google a sitemap. If I really go that route I will probably delete the cronjob that creates the sitemap in case google finds it by itself. But also like what the heck? I have worked in a web agency for 5 years and created a new webpage about every 2-8 weeks so i roughly launached about 50-70 webpages and shops and i NEVER saw that happen. Is it an ai hallucinating? Is it anti spam gone too far? Is it a straight up bug that they dont see? Who knows. I dont
(Good article though and I hope maybe some other people chime in and googlers browsing HN see this stuff).
Lets go one level deeper: What's the reason that the vim disgners keyboards had hjkl as arrow keys? Because it made sense for it to be the home row. I still use arrow keys though
So since RCS is now here, Apple needed a new way to force people into buying iPhones by direct social pressure from peers.
(In the US)
As mentioned in another comment my step moms UC is likely stress related. My crohns doesnt seem to be; but sport helps me a ton. Something thats interesting is that even with MC and also PSC there are multiple "forms" of it.
My doc says my crohns is inflaming the whole end part of my colon somewhat consistently; my small intestines are fine. Many other patients of hers have inflammations at specific parts that are more severe, and also sometiumes the small intestines are affected.
And then my PSC seems to (so far) only affect my small ducts; which doesnt mean it cant get more severe but so far is "less damaging" then "normal" PSC. No one seems to really know if these are the same disease, related or entirely different. Its kinda crazy tbh
My (non-bio) mom has UC and her one big flare up in life was high school exam time she said (she still has nightmares about that time). Since then only small episodes easily treated with prednisolone, but often easily attributed to stress as well. Like days before an important work event: problems. Team members being ill and she has to cover: problems.
I personally have Crohns and PSC as well, and I think less stress helped; but I am on Rinvoq (INN-Upadacitinib) and eat psyllium husks and still have occasional diarrhea, what helps A TON however is sport. I skateboard (and whenever I find the time I go HARD), and 1-2 days after I am always good, colon wise. When I dont skate for a week and eat slightly fatty i have problems, but when skate on a friday and then order opne of those disguting cheap pizzas from that greek place i am still good (i dont do this often but it happens).
Why I have these autoimmun diseases is also an interesting question. My biological parents are both good in that regard, so is my extended family. However I do know my bio-mom smoked while pregnant, and i passively smoked in the household up until I was 12 (and then started smoking at 14, quit with 18)
So maybe thats part of it too
Its very interetsing all that, also scary
That makes sense! I'd still assume thats way less then ideal on fuel usage. Again anecdotal but my gramps is charging his on a regular wall plug. Takes long but gets the job done. And if not you still get to drive anyway, you're never stuck.
See my comment, my grandpas neighbors are seemingly doing that
Personal anecdotes ahaead:
I'm German. My grandpa was an electrical engineer. He is very enthusiastic about his PHEV and talks about it alot. He bought one because not only is he interested, but also PHEV sales got heavily subsidized (i think like 6000€ or smth) and so many people bought one in his area as well. Apparently, a surprising amount of old middle class German people bought PHEVs and literally never charge it. My grandpa told me he onced asked his neighbor for a cable and that thing was brand new.
I'm not sure if its ignorance or deliberate though. If you never use the battery the resale value might be higher? It's also literally just an anecdote but it was surprising
I have red green color blindness (deuteranopia) and i have no idea if my answer is right or wrong on until i change my monitor settings to high saturation. (I usually turn that off because it messes a lot with other colors)
That implies people leave it plugged in, which is not advisable. Also ignores the fact that these keys have certain phishing protections. 2fa will fail when you're on a cloned phishing page, so you can't enter your totp code in a fake site. I use mine ALONGSIDE a traditional encrypted pw manager
Can Confirm. I was big into telegram communities at that time and joined when her group was public. I have nothing to prove because I delete all my stuff but the indictment shows screenshots and transcripts from the group. She literally posted selfies on Twitter sometimes.
I don't agree with most of her more radical views and find her methods to be too extreme, but she clearly stood behind them and didn't hide
make the Lockdown mode browser look to external websites like it isn't in Lockdown mode.
This will be instantly defeated by benchmarking the js performance. But disabling JIT is a VERY important step to harden your browser. This is one of these things where you have to actually choose between privacy and security
var_filter is more comparable to things like a form validation. You obviously don't use that for security neither. If you actually wanna pass stuff to system() or equivalent, you'll use escapeshellarg()
That is if you actually use raw php. Very few (good) people do. (Kinda like ruby). And symfony / laravel have functions for both these use cases. Symfonys process takes care of this for example
Reminds me of what deletescape and their associates did. They just broke into stuff and leaked it. There's lots of tweets and telegram messages explaining their motives. Now most of the tweets and telegram messages are deleted but there's still some to see in article's and even in the FBI indictment.
Tillie had TERRIBLE opsec from day one tho. Everyone knew her real name and face. I once mentioned this in the group chat and she promptly tweeted a selfie saying "don't have opsec like me".
Considering this, it lastes pretty long actually.
Disclaimer: I was in no way involved and publicly stated my disapproval in the deletescape Chats. It was however a thrill to see these things go down. Although it is equally as sad how this young lady threw away a lot of future potential for her ideals, without making any significant changes imo
That does indeed sound like heaven for insider threats. Thank you very much for following up. I'll think about this information.
I'd love some examples of this. I'm about to buy a new phone and originally planned to get a s21/22. But now I'm questioning this. But I'd also like some more details on this
What exactly was so terrible? I'd like to re evaluate my planned next phone purchase but you didn't provide details really. Thanks in advance :)
Any details? Concerned Samsung phone user here. This statement is very unspecific
Bookmarklets.
At least the work on mobile chrome. You open a site, then tap the url bar and type the name of the bookmarklet and tap that.
I have one that removes all iframes, getting rid of 90% of ads
That'd be nice.
But all we got is Linux on the desktop...
Somewhat? I often compare it to a mix of Twitter and Reddit for people that haven't experienced IRC.
If you have experienced IRC, it's basically that. You have smaller rooms (groups) and bigger ones. Every room has their active 1%, their own rules and customs and after a while, their own inside jokes etc.
Otherwise, it's a bit like reddit because you join groups that are usually about a certain topic / niche (general programming, JavaScript, Counter Strike, cooking, what have you) and it's also a bit like twitter because there's often a "hot topic" for a day or two with small things happening in between. Also because no one in their right mind treats those chats like actual group chats, as in, you don't read all the messages you missed. After a weekend i have at least 10k "missed messages".
This comparison is also cool because it reminds you to treat telegram just like reddit and twitter: it's public basically. Anyone can join groups you're in and log every message (there's plenty bots that do that) and they can see the contents of a public group even without joining. It's not encrypted by default and frankly, barely anyone uses secret chats, if only because ppl are on their desktop half the time anyway