'round the world and home again, that’s the sailor’s way…

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Cake day: March 21st, 2025

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  • Using an LLM, I managed to rewrite all the functionality I used to pay for in 20 minutes

    No, you didn’t.

    • The service you pay for polls the APIs of these services and dynamically fetches the linkedin shout outs or w/e, then displays them.

    • You had AI scrape your linkedin, convert to JSON, then convert again to static HTML, which you manually do and deploy.

    It’s a fun project and It’s awesome to build stuff yourself, but pretending like these things are the same is disingenuous. The irony here is the service you replaced is trivial to build and have AI build, but it would have taken you a lot longer.



  • I have gifted several repos to the community writ large… Transferring to a stranger is dangerous. Shutting it down is letting the community disolve into the broader ocean of OSS. If you care deeply about this project (AND are not burned out, this is key) I would highly recommend transparency first. Edit your main readme or make a post on your issues/forum/etc, whatever is the most popular, asking for community leaders to step up in taking the reigns. Promote one to many (depending on how popular this repo is) contributers to become stewards, where they are essentially granted all permissions except a rolling a new version, retain that power for yourself and over a year or so you approve releases but take no active part in development. Once one to many contributers assume the ownership role (in spirit only as you hold the release keys) and are actively progressing what used to be your baby, then and only then do you pick the best of the worst (lol sorry RLM is always in the back of my mind) to be your true successor - handing over the last of your exclusive permissions and breaking a bottle of champage on the figurative new ship.

    I wish you the best and I thank you deeply from my heart for contributing your labor and love to the OSS community.




  • we present a systematic literature review of 37 peer-reviewed studies published between January 2014 and December 2024

    So they AI summarized other people’s work.

    Most studies are exploratory (64%) and methodologically diverse, but lack longitudinal and team-based evaluations.

    And later acknowledge there are major gaps in methodology. I wouldn’t be linking to this as proof of accelerated dev imho.






  • They aren’t scams, they are tech nerds trying to re-invent another wheel. Plebbit looked the strongest to me imho but advertising a 4chan clone as your top site on the chain/torrent network will raise alarm bells with most folks.

    The two main problems I see with these approaches:

    • Chain-based: lots of cpu and inter-node traffic for what? Guarenteeing you’re seeing the current version of the site? meh
    • Torrent-based: quirky, less popular sites will have less peers and you may be waiting forever to see the site.

    Not really doing it for me at all to be honest.