Same, I got so much fomo from reading the gas town post I think you’re alluding too. Someone else can link it but it’s not “worth the read” in the way this was communicates so many ideas and captures/distills the zeitgeist of that time.
I guess the gas town one does capture our moment, but embracing YOLO spaghetti-o with reckless abandon, is a) depressing, even though I also feel like a middling programmer and b) actually seems to be dazzling these newer beleaguered bureaucrats precisely because they think they could just talk to the LLM instead of TMitTB.
Anyway, if that post and its ilk leave a bad taste, this was mouthwash for me. Lucky 10,000 I know, but I had never seen this (or felt so seen, as they say). I had to go check that he wasn’t wrong about PHP being Personal Home Page. I somehow never picked up that the recursive naming thing is a backcroynm.
>Happy to take suggestions and answer questions about the quirks I ran into along the way.
Got up out of bed from doomscrolling to play with/implement this! My less-technical partner tends to reach for Apple Notes and I have offered/threatened to make something, but they've kept (begrudgingly) relaunching VSCode after a "oof, I know it was just real quick." Thanks for the inspiration/headstart.
The last time I commented extolling the virtues of uv on here, I got a similar reply, pointing out that PEP 723 specs this behavior, and uv isn’t the only way. So I’ll try again in this thread: I’m bullish on uv, and waiting for Cunningham.
I am all in on uv as well, and advocating for its use heavily at $dayjob. But I think having as much as possible of these things encoded in standards is good for the ecosystem. Maybe in a few years time, someone will make something even better than uv. And in the meantime, having things standardised speeds up adoption in e.g. syntax highlighting in editors and such.
I’ve started migrating all of my ~15 years of one-off python scripts to have this front matter. Right now, I just update when/if I use them. I keep thinking if were handier with grep/sed/regex etc, I’d try to programmatically update .pys system-wide. But, many aren’t git tracked/version controlled, just laying in whatever dir they service(d). I’ve several times started a “python script dashboard” or “hacky tools coordinator” but stop when I remember most of these are unrelated (to each-other) and un/rarely used. I keep watching the chatter and thinking this is probably an easy task for codex, or some other agent but these pys are “mine” (and I knew^ how they worked when I wrote^ them) and also, they’re scattered and there’s no way I’m turning an agent loose on my file system.
^mostly, some defs might have StackOverflow copy/pasta
You could run ripgrep on your file system root to find most of them, its insanely fast, then feed it to claude or something to generate a script to do it for you.
Nemo saltat sobrius… nobody dances sober
nisi forte insanit… unless he is insane
Your user name, HN join date, and comment history (largely flagged) are intriguing to me. Do you have any longer form version of your ideas publicly available?
I share my normal as of you congenial side to acrue karma, so that I may burn it saying truthful things the mind coddled intelligentsia do not want to hear.
For me, these are the hare.
I will message something from your profile. Thanks for taking an interest in the greatest estrangement of our humanity.
I have had a hand full of former HN accounts. Some search condition (“thought control”) may reveal them all.
That’s my biggest takeaway. I have almost completely de-googled my personal and business life, but do use ChatGPT for work occasionally, mostly boilerplate python but occasionally refining emails. I don’t know why it did not occur to me that the tool could just send my entire prompt, and a whole bunch of other identifiers and tags to an external source, but of course there’s nothing to prevent that, except possibly efficiency… but since Google and other external search engines are all doing AI summaries I wonder if this wasn’t a bit more intentional. ChatGPT makes the call out and offloads some “work” to someone else’s AI summary. Yuck.
B&H does this for shabbat and other high holidays. I always thought that it was kind of neat. Little over a year into a boot-strapped startup, and I’m still trying to figure out how to implement ANY boundaries in my life. I don’t know why I thought I’d feel BETTER “being my own boss” having spent so much with the guy. I hope to someday have “please come back” confidence.
My father-in-law, something of a renaissance man, and also a long-time successful commodities trader, regularly uses your latter expression. The first time I heard him say it, I attempted to correct him (“some are useful”) and he confidently brushed me aside. As I’ve matured, I’ve grown confident that his (your) version is less wrong.
I guess the gas town one does capture our moment, but embracing YOLO spaghetti-o with reckless abandon, is a) depressing, even though I also feel like a middling programmer and b) actually seems to be dazzling these newer beleaguered bureaucrats precisely because they think they could just talk to the LLM instead of TMitTB.
Anyway, if that post and its ilk leave a bad taste, this was mouthwash for me. Lucky 10,000 I know, but I had never seen this (or felt so seen, as they say). I had to go check that he wasn’t wrong about PHP being Personal Home Page. I somehow never picked up that the recursive naming thing is a backcroynm.
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