scaling *down* a business is so much work. I think things mostly grow, or crash and burn. here I'm doing "let's be smart with money, switch to cheaper options, lower my pay for now" — it's going to be fine, there's tons of exciting stuff on the horizon, just have to do more with less for now.
Is Orion good on macOS yet or is still a crashy mess? Would you trust Kagi with your passwords? idk
guys, GUYS I'm starting to think caffeine may be a stimulant
Is there any bank in France that doesn't suck ass? BoursoBank is ass, HelloBank was ass last time I checked. None of the neobanks let you open a "Livret A". Where do I freakin' go? I wish Qonto would make bank accounts for individuals.
my bank's mobile app is loading an image over the internet for its "are you being scammed right now?" stock picture of a masked man on a whatsapp call with you — I know because there's a layout shift. wtf guys.
I see Microsoft is going in for a new class action speed run
https://www.theverge.com/news/622528/microsoft-dragon-copilot-ai-healthcare-assistant
> Creation complete after 47s
Guess the terraform provider!
The browser situation in Q1 2025 sucks. There is no right answer. Would you rather give away functionality, privacy, security? 🙃
The web is a utility now: switching to a Firefox fork is like buying your neighbor’s bottled tap water.
From Reddit: “I’m switching to a fork of Firefox. I find anything chromium based a risk, since most of the money comes from Google developing it still.”
Babe where do you think Firefox money comes from? Google + all the unpopular Mozilla moves 🙃
my blog is down for maintenance today, apologies — I'm moving a lot of stuff around.
un-fusing my personal and professional life after 10 years of being at it is.. not easy.
Ah well.
Woo hoo! fish 4.0.0 that contains the rust rewrite is finally out and stable! I have been using fish for a few weeks now and it’s really nice to not have to worry about 1000 Z shell plug-ins
This is really really cool. I’ve always been fond of this technique!
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2025/02/24/you-should-make-cross-views/
Okay now THAT is a paper https://www.emergent-misalignment.com
Used Claude Code to perform a pretty big change on my website's backend, moving from "running a vite build watcher in the bg" to "build just-in-time and add dist files to the revision", a dozen files involved, it made its way through them like a champ. Also added colors because why not! https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/74c5a7e59cf60cfdd2d375f4ceb25f67dea76bf001c2720598988733d59ae69d/d532c42b22a7f3174371961b6ca51c9564af889f952efbbfbbc040350c0f130c.webp
Whew, this took a couple hours to track down — svelte removed an internal and I'm fairly sure it broke all vite-based projects using it (don't update to the latest svelte until this is fixed!) https://github.com/sveltejs/svelte/pull/14946#issuecomment-2682870304
anyway: if you want to be mad, read zitron. if you want to be informed, read willison.
lmao Ed Zitron saying "that gen AI shit" to refer to "using an LLM to classify e-mails"
at least /his/ business model is clear — but, I'll repeat: the current era deserves more informed critics.
also: I would like to understand why they thought it was a good idea to mess with/disable copy-paste on a tax simulator form but I guess I will never know.
I have spent several hours this morning doing a tax simulation for the last year and apparently they owe me >10k. Maybe they can pay back interest as well? 😬