Snarky reply but most software today makes me feel very strong feelings :'(
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lionkor commented on Laying out the 404 Media zine tedium.co/2025/12/10/404-... · Posted by u/robenkleene
Lutris is so fantastic, if anyone here is on Linux and needs wine, try Lutris. It puts each app in its own wine prefix, its just nice to use.
lionkor commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
These posts like the one OP made is why I'm losing my mind.
Like, is there truly an agentic way to go 10x or is there some catch? At this point while I'm not thrilled about the idea of just "vibe coding" all the time, I'm fine with facing reality.
But I keep having the same experience as you, or rather leaning more on that supercharged Google/SO replacement
or just a "can you quickly make this boring func here that does xyz" "also add this" or for bash scripts etc.
And that's only when I've done most of the plumbing myself.
I have a feeling that people who are genuinely impressed by long term vibe coding on a single project are only impressed because they don't know any better.
Take writing a book, or blog post; writing a good blog post, or a chapter of a book, takes lots of skill and practice. The results are very satisfying and usually add value to both the writer's life as well as the reader's. When someone who has done that uses AI and sees the slop it generates, he's not impressed, probably even frustrated.
However, someone who can barely write a couple coherent sentences, would be baffled at how well AIs can put together sentences, paragraphs, and have a somewhat coherent train of thought through the entire text. People who struggled in school with writing an introduction and a conclusion will be amazed at AIs writing. They would maybe even assume that "those paragraphs actually add no meaning and are purely fluff" is a totally normal part of writing and not an AI artifact.
lionkor commented on Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go github.com/ziggy42/epsilo... · Posted by u/ziggy42
this is absolutely shocking!Does kafka do fsync on every write?
the article says no )
lionkor commented on I wasted years of my life in crypto twitter.com/kenchangh/sta... · Posted by u/Anon84
How does that work? You transfer the money in BTC, you exchange that into real money, you open a new bank account, you deposit that money, the bank's anti-money-laundering detection sees a large deposit to a newly open account and triggers an alert, the bank locks you out of the account and asks you for a proof of income/tax payment, you have no explanation of where that money came from legally, they freeze your account and report you to their local revenue services, you're SOL.
Oh yeah, this isn't about large sums, this is about "I need money to live there for a month".
However, with a lot of BTC trading sites, you get money from real people's accounts, so its not that crazy as long as the amounts are low.
lionkor commented on GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst nesbitt.io/2025/12/06/git... · Posted by u/robin_reala
> The researchers identified four fundamental security properties that CI/CD systems need: admittance control, execution control, code control, and access to secrets.
Why do CI/CD systems need access to secrets? I would argue need access to APIs and they need privileges to perform specific API calls. But there is absolutely nothing about calling an API that fundamentally requires that the caller know a secret.
I would argue that a good CI/CD system should not support secrets as a first-class object at all. Instead steps may have privileges assigned. At most there should be an adapter, secure enclave style, that may hold a secret and give CI/CD steps the ability to do something with that secret, to be used for APIs that don’t support OIDC or some other mechanism to avoid secrets entirely.
You're missing that the D in CI/CD means deployment; be that packaging on pushing tags and publishing to a registry, or building images, or packaging github releases.
lionkor commented on Java Hello World, LLVM Edition javaadvent.com/2025/12/ja... · Posted by u/ingve
Equally I don't like how many instructions and scripts everywhere use shorthands.
Sometimes you see curl -sSLfO. Please, use the long form. It makes life easier for everybody. It makes it easier to verify, and to look up. Finding --silent in curl's docs is easier than reading through every occurrence of -s.
curl --silent --show-error --location --fail --remote name https://example.com/script.sh
Aren't there tools for which the short flags are standardized (e.g. POSIX) but the long flags aren't?
It does not cost you anything to put your code on the internet; you don't need to use something like GitHub. You can just publicize a tarball. Its about sharing and giving, which is fundamentally not about you.
When people ask you to open source, they most likely want to learn and build on it.