their embed could use a little work; gin the spirit is great, Gin the http library for Go is terrible

huh a green cross means something totally different to me

a number of open source projects have been inundated with poor quality PRs and bug reports that are AI generated and have had to change or lock down their contributor policies as a result.

e.g. curl daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07...

I saw one of those in Andersonville and immediately thought "oh these are the things that Seth Rogan hates in Platonic, I get it now"

I would guess Chicagoans can widely name a third since everyone has done the architecture boat tour and Chicago has many architecturally significant buildings, but my third was Bertrand Goldberg and my wife’s was Louis Sullivan

too much juice always feels to me like misdirection used to mask the absence of grace; like a stinky guy putting on axe body spray instead of taking a shower

I think in this one, I started to notice it when the Swiss army knife has two scissors at 3:22, and found it very distracting from that point forward; I kept wondering if I had to check the author's work or not.

I think it depends a lot on the specific examples. Your examples I probably wouldn't even think about, but the more its used the more tiring it gets. Here's a concrete example from recent memory of a talk where I found it really obscuring the content. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB...

In a pre-AI internet you plausibly believe that a photo found on google images depicts a thing that actually happened (a reality), whereas AI output is not a thing that has ever happened; it is a fabrication, a non-reality. What other non-realities is the speaker presenting as reality?

ten years ago five of those things would have found a way to involve bacon. bacon salt, bacon scented soap in the shape of bacon, bacon advent calendar, alligator bacon, bacon flavored bullets, bacon truck nuts

so many sci-fi stories are “robot wishes to pass as human” or “human finds out they were a robot all along” and not enough “human wishes to pass as robot” or “robot finds out late in life they were actually human the whole time”

as a programmer I do not accept tools that harm non-programmers just because they might be useful for me. That’s textbook sociopathic behavior, the type of thing that becomes normalized when programmers only talk to other programmers. It’s like saying “but asbestos is a good insulator”.