I can’t agree more with this. Wtf are they thinking.

SWEET

Not a spanish speaker but isn’t ‘nada’ also swim, as in a command to?

If I’m the only one doing it then I’d prefer to stick with sqlite. But the reality is that everyone I work with does these kinds of things in excel, and it’s a shitshow. Yes, u could say ‘don’t blame the tool’, but it’s ms shoving it down our throats and they could’ve done much better with the time they had.

I get that. But it’s a case that’s just so incredibly common. Tagging/categorization. We end up with multiple columns like ‘cat 1’, ‘cat 2’, etc. Or doing pivot tables. I guess to me there’s pretty much always something that can do the job better, but the reality is that in the corporate setting I operate in everybody uses Excel.

Excel is such an incredible piece of shit. There’s many reasons to hate it for me, but what i hate the most is not being able to do relationships in any meaningful way. So often i need to have one to many relationships and this garbage makes it impossible. Data consistency? Nope. Opening a csv? Fuck you! Why the fuck are there online tools that are better at this shit? You had 40 years ffs. No amount of AI is going to fix this turd. God I hate Excel.

Dankjewel.

Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. When you arrive to someone’s birthday it’s common to go around, shake everyone’s hand and congratulate them (with Rita’s birthday). Or just do a wave when you enter and collectively congratulate everybody.

Congratulate everyone with someone else’s birthday. Netherlands.

It’s such a shame to see the difficulty Mozilla has to find a viable business model. I understand the reactions here and agree it’s appalling, but at the same time, what can they do? AFAIK they rely on Google to pay for the search engine integration. That already sucks, and is a serious existential risk. So they need to diversify, which I think is what they’re attempting to do here: let companies pay for being the default “lens”, LLM, weather service, etc. From a business perspective this makes a lot of sense, to reduce the risk of depending on one customer.

It doesn’t help that the c-level are just as greedy as you’d expect for any random company, raking in the millions, and arguably are doing a really bad job by being reactionary only, and then choosing the course of action that alienates the traditional user base. I don’t really see any good way out of this other than radically changing their business model, e.g., going full non-profit, and move to a subscription model for revenue. But that’s extremely risky as well. I would definitely pay a subscription for a Firefox where the primary focus is stability, safety and speed, as opposed to new features. But, there’s also a limit to what I’d be willing to pay, $1 a month seems like a no brainer, but $5 would feel steep.

Long story short, they’re in a tough spot, I feel for them.

For the first time ever I did some vibe coding this week. I needed what amounts to putting a file in a folder and watch until a file in another folder appears, with a monitoring utility.

I was very impressed with the definition phase. It was a back and forth about the spec until it was what I wanted. I then let it built.

This was quite interesting. It set up a scaffold, wrote tests and ran the tests, fixing errors as it went, then went on to finalize the app. Magic.

Finally it was done, so I go in to play with it. Riddled with bugs. Try to get it to fix them. More bugs. End to end spend a morning doing all this until I gave up and manually wrote what I need in about an hour.

Conclusion: Vibe coding is a complete waste of time. Worse: in the wrong hands it is dangerous. You need to be a pretty damn good programmer to assess the output, and if you are, why the fuck would you use it in this manner?

It reminds me a bit about the no-code/low-code evangelism of some years ago. To the novice it looks magical and a world of possibilities, and the road to riches. But in reality you can only use those things if you have decent programming skills, otherwise it’s a path nowhere.

Need a quick demo? Sure, this might help the novice. Want something for production? Get a professional.

This is by far the easiest and fastest method.

You do see the problem, right?

Yes, you’re it.

I understand the sentiment, but I had the pleasure of working with a great PM on a high profile project in my company and it was really good. The more moving parts and stakeholders there are, the more you’re going to need someone to manage the stream of information, set expectations, keep the focus on the end goal. It was very good and I learned a lot from them.

Thanks. I appreciate the LLM disclaimer, and I understand better now.

I saw wireguard tools, isn’t that a kernel module?

Although this looks interesting, I have trouble understanding the pro’s and cons vs something like flatpak or containers.

I haven’t had it in a while, but I was obsessed with Lekker Bekkie Mango Chutney, from Surinam. Not exactly chilli sauce, as its more chunky, but so good. Very tasty, very spicy. I’ve been thinking about this for the past days, gonna get it tomorrow 😀

Lately we’ve been mostly making our own chili. We use chili de arbol seco. Nice because we can make it spicy to taste. I boil some water, put a couple tomatoes to take the skin off, add about 15 chili’s. Then transfer the chili’s and tomatoes to a food processor. Add a splash water, a small piece of onion, and a bit of salt, and process. Actually I put the onion after processing the tomatoes and chillies so the onion can be bit chunky. Its a simple recipe, but very good. Can add a clove of garlic optionally.

Last store bought we got were cholula and one from la morena, they’re not too bad, but I like it a bit spicier.

That reads like Dutch to me. Perfect! I’ll be fine.