But a "clicker" was what changed the channel on the tv!

I know when my dad would say "go get the garage opener" he didn't mean the motor - what do we call the thing what sits in a glove box / junk drawer that you push the button on?

Essentially it's a salve on the problem that useful communications on complex things have become obscured by the endless slop of the internet and the slide of information sharing into algorithm mills.

Yes - GPT got mildly useful to devs by workably grokking patterns and intent of tools, libs & languages when researching new skills. The fact is it's vaulting over terrible/missing documentation, outdated forum trash, SEO'd tutorials atop Googles results, and info that retreated to youtube vids.

Monitoring the geegaw market closely for ripple effects.

Peak performance for me at my current stage of life would be the ability to chug three times in a row from a glass of water without sending the third sip down my lungs. Not sure when I lost the ability to do this properly as I have been practicing drinking daily for quite some decades now.

"Punkass busters need to check themselves"
- Abraham Lincoln

You're in throwing distance of the aquarium, go tell our belugas hi for me

Here's a deep cut: "QT", a type-in game from Antic magazine for atari computers.

One of the sick things that internet culture has done to people is giving them a sense of ownership of other people's work under the terms of being a community.
"How dare a game studio/ movie studio/ author/ streamer do this thing, when we the community have decided they should do something else?"

And it's all our fault.

I'm here for the future where we just post lyrics we like and shower thoughts, like the old vagueposting LiveJournal days.

Go back, there is nothing but cold here