There are college students younger than this user agent!

Yep. All coming from two ASNs.

I won't be able to make it tonight, but are the daytime meetings at ECTO open as well?

Don't make the mistake of Makefile creator Stuart Feldman by clinging to compatibility:

"Even though I knew that 'tab in column 1' was a bad idea, I didn't want to disrupt my user base [of a dozen friends]

So instead I wrought havoc on tens of millions."

As you know, all changes are breaking, I wrote about this exact topic earlier this year! digitalseams.com/blog/is-back...

Haven't had the chance to test it myself as I don't write that much code these days, but I want to know if it helps!

I saw a tip that Claude is role-playing a programmer and will happy tell you a feature will take 1-2 weeks to implement, then write all the code in a few minutes.

Apparently it helped to constantly prompt that there is no time pressure or deadline, and the important thing is doing it right.

Via "The Art of Chicken Sexing", by Richard Horsey: web-archive.southampton.ac.uk/cogprints.or...

I love a tab girth slider

Which is not to say we're all doing basic research, but I think it's much happier to reserve time for seemingly-unimportant work. It helps thread the needle of the @visakanv.com meme that lives in my head:

"We are probably digging too deep within established areas, leaving plenty of unexplored stuff under the surface, just one poke away. When one dares to try, rewards are not guaranteed, but at least it is an adventure."

"Frankly, I do not believe that the above success rate can be explained by my lateral ideas being particularly good. More likely, this tells us that poking in new directions, even randomly, is more rewarding than is generally perceived."

"There were two dozen or so experiments over a period of approximately 15 years and, as expected, most of them failed miserably. But there were three hits, the levitation, gecko tape, and graphene. This implies an extraordinary success rate: more than 10%..."

If the difference between good and great were so obvious, life would be a lot easier. I think of Ed Gein's "Friday night experiments" from his "Random walk to graphene" Nobel lecture journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract...

This reminds me of when I realized olives were just pickled grapes

Via @tricialockwood.bsky.social in Will There Ever Be Another You

It is a delight and worth following up on every little dangled thread

Oo, I didn't know that, I'm not familiar with these Shopify tools. Yeah, I see how that can get more controversial.

I'm headed to IETF 124 in November and pretty excited to meet others interested in these emerging standards!