My original reason for blogging was because I wanted an easy way to link people solutions I'd found for various programmer problems. Posts don't 'work'. You have to write to write. For a long time my main motivation to blog was blowing off steam from work related frustrations.
Readit NewsSevii commented on Ask HN: Is starting a personal blog still worth it in the age of AI? · Posted by u/nazarh
My company recently really cut back on slack retention. At first I was frustrated, but we all quickly got over it and work carried on getting done at the same pace as before and nothing really got impacted like many of us imagined it might.
It's fine until you need evidence someone agreed to something months ago but all records have been deleted.
Sevii commented on Did that Colorado station sign say gas for only $1.69? Yes, it did coloradosun.com/2025/12/1... · Posted by u/mooreds
It really is remarkable compared to any other consumer good. My 2002 Corolla has cost $20 to fill up since it was brand new. The benefits of empire I guess.
The US went from being a net importer to a net exporter during that time period. Makes a big difference in prices.
Sevii commented on 2026: The Year the IDE Died (Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Talk AI Coding) · Posted by u/mikebiglan
When people talk about IDEs, there’s almost always an hidden assumption that they are referring to something like Visual Studio or IDEA (VS Code is a lesser version of these). But no comparison has ever been made to Smalltalk, or REPL development like Slime. There’s not even a mention of programmable editors like VIM and Emacs which can leverage the Unix OS environment.
Most people in the industry have never used Smalltalk or VIM or Emacs or heard of Slime. Thats where your hidden assumption is coming from.
Sevii commented on 2026: The Year the IDE Died (Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Talk AI Coding) · Posted by u/mikebiglan
I've never been a fan of IDEs. Claude Code makes them less necessary which I find amazing. I want to be in the terminal and a light text editor like Sublime Text.
Sevii commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve
The US would rather pay off to tarriffs the competition than properly compete. Even the Ford CEO drove A Chinese EV for 6 months and he didn't want to give it up. Also indirectly he didn't think Ford could compete, calling it an "existential threat"
https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-ceo-driving-xiaomi-su7-...
It's really stupid because Xiaomi isn't making anything truly revolutionary. It's just a lot of consumer thoughtful ideas, not ones that try to shove ads and subscriptions in your dang car. And this is our "existential threat" to a century of manufacturing. Wonder how Henry would feel.
(and the tarriffs stuff isn't just 2025. That's been there through all of Biden's admin. Good idea... If they used those 5 years to actually ramp up production).
There is no way we can compete in a global free market while paying 4x as much for labor. At a comparable level of technology and organizational skill the Chinese will win every competition, labor costs are that important. They have already caught up.
Sevii commented on Yadea is coming to the Western market newatlas.com/motorcycles/... · Posted by u/breve
Motorcycles. Or perhaps scooters - they are form we rarely see in the US so I'm not sure exactly what to call them.
It's a lot more reasonable to use a motorcycle or scooter as your main form of transport when the max speed you are likely to encounter on the roads is 40MPH. In the US you will be sharing freeways with people going 80+MPH in SUVs daily.
Sevii commented on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration ankursethi.com/blog/gemin... · Posted by u/speckx
The odd thing about all of this (well, I guess it's not odd, just ironic), is that when Google AdWords started, one of the notable things about it was that anyone could start serving or buying ads. You just needed a credit-card. I think that bought Google a lot of credibility (along with the ads being text-only) as they entered an already disreputable space: ordinary users and small businesses felt they were getting the same treatment as more faceless, distant big businesses.
I have a friend that says Google's decline came when they bought DoubleClick in 2008 and suffered a reverse-takeover: their customers shifted from being Internet users and became other, matchingly-sized corporations.
That has definitely changed. Google AdWords today is one of the most unfriendly services to onboard I've ever encountered. Signing up is trivial, setting up your first ad is easy, then you instantly get banned. Appeals do nothing. You essentially have to hire a professional just to use it.
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Sevii commented on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products windowscentral.com/artifi... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari
AI assistance is a gold rush — promotions are to be made and huge complex system to be over-engineered in Big Tech. The race to stake out the future empires is underway, and there is no time to think about the quality control, UX etc. But who am I kidding though, there is no time to think about those things during the chillest of times either, as any user of Power Automate can concur.
It's being treated like a gold rush but I don't think it really is. This is like dotcom 1.0 all over again. They didn't know what the best use cases for the internet were but they still poured billions into it. The gold rush didn't come until the 2000s when social media took off.
Normally you get a frontier exploration phase where fringe people experiment with the new technology and try to figure out what it's good for. It feels like we just skipped that step entirely.