I use native browser bookmarks all the time for project- or work-oriented purposes, organized into folders. All my dashboards, git repos, various hobby stuff, etc.
I miss del.icio.us. That was my favorite, by far.
Readit Newsscelerat commented on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow bower.sh/you-might-not-ne... · Posted by u/elashri
> vim, tmux and iTerm2
Interesting, I've been using exactly that combination for ... as long as tmux and iTerm2 have been around?
I am not aware of any color or font issues. What am I missing?
I could never get italics to work correctly when in iTerm2/tmux mode. Pure tmux, yes, iTerm no tmux yes, iTerm+tmux I would get weird background colors instead of italics. It's been a while so I don't remember specifics
scelerat commented on Replacing tmux in my dev workflow bower.sh/you-might-not-ne... · Posted by u/elashri
This is written for the Linux-on-the-Desktop crowd, and good for them. But tmux really shines for folks using MacBooks with iTerm2. Its tmux integration is so good that it simply disappears into my workflow.
With this in my `~/.ssh/config`, I can just type `ssh tmux` to get back to my remote dev box whenever I wake my computer or change connections.
Host tmux
HostName 1.2.3.4
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/etc.etc.etc
RequestTTY force
RemoteCommand tmux -CC new -A -s 0
I ran into so many little annoying color and font issues with vim, tmux and iTerm2 that I gave up on tmux (for local work). What small benefit I got from tmux on my local machine (basically surviving updates and a little more session persistence) I rarely miss.
I wanted it to be better, and might go back if I could figure out the font issues, but I just don't have the time right now.
scelerat commented on The death of partying in the USA derekthompson.org/p/the-d... · Posted by u/tysone
The natural solution would be to increase the number of teams to also accommodate people who are interested but don’t want to or are unable to dedicate their life to sports. But if schools need to cut costs, it’s tough to do.
It’s a common trend in many domains: universities, housing, jobs. An underabundance of resources means people need to gear up to fight over the things that still exist.
> natural solution would be to increase the number of teams
Reminds me of my dad (b. 1945) talking about his HS sports experience in the early ‘60s at a large (~3500) Southern California public school. Not only were there varsity, JV and frosh teams, in high-interest sports like football and basketball there were multiple teams for every grade. Competition was still high if you wanted to play at the highest level, but if you wanted to play, there was probably an option for you.
Public schools are simply not funded the same way today
scelerat commented on LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust jaysthoughts.com/aithough... · Posted by u/CoffeeOnWrite
All of this fighting against LLMs is pissing in the wind.
It seems that LLMs, as they work today, make developers more productive. It is possible that they benefit less experienced developers even more than experienced developers.
More productivity, and perhaps very large multiples of productivity, will not be abandoned due roadblocks constructed by those who oppose the technology due to some reason.
Examples of the new productivity tool causing enormous harm (eg: bug that brings down some large service for a considerable amount of time) will not stop the technology if it being considerable productivity.
Working with the technology and mitigating it's weaknesses is the only rational path forward. And those mitigation can't be a set of rules that completely strip the new technology of it's productivity gains. The mitigations have to work with the technology to increase its adoption or they will be worked around.
I didn't see the post as pissing into the wind so much as calling out several caveats of coding with LLMs, especially on teams, and ideas on how to mitigate them.
scelerat commented on Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/m... · Posted by u/jandeboevrie
IBM didn't invent this scheme. Apple Lisa had Cmd+X,C,V. Early Mac apps switched to K,C,V but obviously they switched back at some point.
cmd-K for Cut? I don't ever remember that on the Mac.
I remember the lower left row on the US keyboard was always the first four operations from the nearly-ubiquitous Edit menu since day one.
Z - Undo
X - Cut
C - Copy
V - Paste
Early apps frequently also had "Clear" in the Edit menu, which was like Cut except the cleared item didn't go into the system Clipboard
scelerat commented on LLMs pose an interesting problem for DSL designers kirancodes.me/posts/log-l... · Posted by u/gopiandcode
Good to see more people talking about this. I wrote about this about 6 months ago, when I first noticed how LLM usage is pushing a lot of people back towards older programming languages, older frameworks, and more basic designs: https://nathanpeck.com/how-llms-of-today-are-secretly-shapin...
To be honest I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing, but it does mean that there is a stifling effect on fresh new DSL's and frameworks. It isn't an unsolvable problem, particularly now that all the most popular coding agents have MCP support that allows you to bring in custom documentation context. However, there will always be a strong force in LLM's pushing users towards the runtimes and frameworks that have the most training data in the LLM.
Linguistics and history of language folk: isn't there an observed slowdown of evolution of spoken language as the printing press becomes widespread? Also, "international english"?
Is this an observation of a similar phenomenon?
scelerat commented on The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes zed.dev/blog/software-cra... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
I don't know if it's been documented or studied, but it seems the availability argument is a fallacy. It just open the floodgates and you get 90% of small effort attempts and not much more. The old world where the barrier was higher guaranteed that only interesting things would happen.
It seems there's some kind of corollary to what you're saying to when (in the US) we went from three major television networks to many cable networks or, later, when streaming video platforms began to proliferate and take hold -- YouTube, Netflix, etc.: The barriers to entry dropped for creators, and the market fragmented. There is still quality creative content out there, some it as good as or better than ever. But finding it, and finding people to share the experience of watching it with you is harder.
Same could be said of traditional desktop software development and the advent of web apps I suppose.
I guess I'm not that worried, other than being worried about personally finding myself in a technological or cultural eddy.
scelerat commented on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic wave3.social... · Posted by u/nswizzle31
This idea appears every once in awhile, as it’s obviously a major issue in modern life.
The interesting thing though is how the solution is always location-agnostic. By that I mean it’s never really about a specific cafe or restaurant or soccer field, it’s always an app or service that organizes people to show up in various places.
I bring this up because if you look at places that had lively social activities a few decades or a century ago, they were almost always a specific place.
The neighborhood cafe where locals can stop by at any time and see other locals. The bar that everyone stops by after work twice a week. These are stationary physical locations that don’t require pre-planning, schedules, apps, or anything else.
It seems to me that an underlying assumption of every so-called "social" app is that its users wish to avoid contact with people in real life. That the users wish for some sanitized, safe and dimensionally meager simulacrum of human interaction.
Obviously, that's not an absolute; clearly people yearn for human contact. But as you point out, there was a time when people participated in social activities and public life with a much higher degree of physical presence than they do now, and the popularity of apps which sidestep this indicate to me that people also desire not to engage with others so proximately.
If you want to have relationships with people, go to where people actually are, buckle your belt, set aside your dread of rejection or indifference, and introduce yourself.
Still love OmniGraffle which itself is getting long in the tooth but still has one of the nicest diagram layout engines I’ve used