Why not slow down?

Why does it have to be frenetic? Why not just slow down? I suppose you could, but I don’t recommend it. It’s just such a miserable experience to spend your day close-reading LLM output: carefully chewing and savoring each morsel of slop. It’s far less unpleasant to skim through quickly and pick out the useful nuggets of content.

Couldn’t you simply do more of the work by hand? It’s unfortunately true that tech is high-pressure these days. If you’ve got the time and space to work more slowly, that’s great! But when your company gives you a “solve this task ten times more quickly” button, you are heavily incentivized to use it as much as possible, or risk being outcompeted by your peers.

Damn...

For the NLNet Betula grant, I had to redesign the logo. The old one was not very recognisable at small sizes, barely looked like a birch, etc. June 2026, I spent several days working on the new one. Turned out, logo design and vector graphics are so much more complicated than I anticipated! Went through multiple approaches until I settled on the final logo. It's live on https://joinbetula.org or instances running newer versions, such as https://links.bouncepaw.com.

Whenever I remember to stop trying to have time, and instead focus on having worthwhile intentions, time seems more abundant. It seems to show up as needed when I’ve got a good intention going.

This makes sense, because the feeling of not having enough time doesn’t come from not having enough time. It can’t, because you always have zero time. It comes from the pain of valuing wishes and hopes over intentions, and what happens to you over who you are.

Arm yourself with knowledge

О том, в каком значении употребляется «мир» в романе «Война и мир»

Алекс Хитеч подкидывает документы компании, которая забыла, как устроен её завод.

используйте неизменяемые объекты, не допускайте частичной инициализации, требуйте обязательные поля сразу – не надейтесь, что кто-то заполнит их позже

When a player starts a session, they are the car driver, and each person that joins is seated in one of the other three passenger seats.

Players are automatically connected via voice chat.

The radios stations are real-life internet radio streams and several of them are available in the game world.

Бесит, что всё больше подкастов монтируют и оформляют всякими джинглами, перебивками и эффектами. Такое ощущение, что туда понаприходили люди с радио и телевидения, которые не понимают, как устроен интернет, и притащили с собой весь эфирный мусор. Причём многие слушатели, кто открывают для себя подкасты только в последнее время, думают, что так и надо, и не видят в этом абсурда — другого-то они не слышали!

Instead of asking over and over again if she is working tomorrow. I just consult her very organised calendar — and when she wants to check if I'm free she looks at my very empty calendar.

Did you ever wake up in the middle of the night wondering what would happen if you applied JPEG-style lossy compression to text?

Fast, powerful, yet easy to use template engine for Go. Optimized for speed, zero memory allocations in hot paths. Up to 20x faster than html/template

Кристина и Егор обсуждают знакомства и отношения.

Егор, психолог, общается с людьми на психологические темы.

The author doesn't like how modern UI:s are designed. Gives good examples.

Сайт, где можно посмотреть, какой инстанс в федивёрсе, по какой причине и у кого был забанен