While a fun idea, arbitrary limits like this just aren’t necessary. Yes it’s all well and good in the name of reducing trackers, etc but what if I want to have an image heavy site? Why does that get perceived as a bad thing?
Readit NewsHuwFulcher commented on Why the open social web matters now werd.io/why-the-open-soci... · Posted by u/benwerd
Being against Nazis is not a niche political agenda.
The definition of “nazi” will make it niche
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It would be cool if you could somehow form chains of trust with this, maybe even with links to other social media, where you could "follow other people that this guy has vetted". I want my social media censored and curated, but I want to choose my own censors and curators.
There is the concept of Data Vending Machines (DVMs) and curated follow lists now.
There’s also work on a Web of Trust in some clients that filters notes from people that don’t meet the WOT score. It’s essentially a weighted score based on who you follow and who they follow
HuwFulcher commented on Writing code is easy, reading it isn't idiallo.com/blog/writing-... · Posted by u/jnord
An AI tool can both navigate a legacy codebase and help explain it to you successfully currently, right now, if you're doing it correctly.
I've contracted some of this understanding of pieces/intellectual work out to Claude code many, many times successfully.
Yes it’s definitely possible now. My point was that people need to move past “vibe coding” to using the AI as what it should be, an assistant
HuwFulcher commented on Writing code is easy, reading it isn't idiallo.com/blog/writing-... · Posted by u/jnord
This is a challenge which I don't think AI tools like Cursor have cracked yet. They're great for laying "fresh pavement" but it's akin to being a project manager contracting the work out.
Even if I use Cursor (or some other equivalent) and review the code I find my mental model of the system is much more lacking. It actually had a net negative on my productivity as it gave me anxiety at going back to the codebase.
If an AI tool could help a user interactively learn the mental model I think that would be a great step in the right direction.
HuwFulcher commented on Mastodon is not decentralized · Victor Wynne victorwynne.com/mastodon/... · Posted by u/janandonly
I like the idea of there being interest specific mastodon servers. It makes content curation easier but the locking of accounts to a particular server is problematic.
Protocols like Nostr offer a good alternative to this. At the moment relays are just used as nodes in the decentralised network but there is work on how to view feeds from specific relays which could make the idea of content specific relays more likely
HuwFulcher commented on Next.js 15 Markdown Boilerplate github.com/dtedesco1/next... · Posted by u/dtedesco1
> Next.js
Hmmmmmm no
It turns out that what I wanted all along was the ability to seamlessly read books I buy from any source, not any deeper hacking of the OS.
Kudos to Kobo for keeping their system so open. These days it’s not that common