🌫️ Grant Forrest

The writing is way hammier though.

Why is this weapon scientist delivering a melodramatic monologue instead of describing how the giant laser works

Foundation is still decent and I still want a cut where they eliminate Gail's narration completely.

If you replaced it with silence it would be better and you'd still understand everything just fine.

Between vibe coders and people who turn off the react-hooks/exhaustive-deps lint rule

Venn diagram between vibe coders and people who push a commit called "fix tests" that adds test.skip to all the failing tests

What a lovely juxtaposition. And one I never noticed before. Thank you for sharing it!

"slop-native" makes me shiver

A platter of browned ribs with spices and a bit of lemon zest, garnished with fresh oregano.

Braised ribs! Italian style. Made a sauce with the tomato and pepper braising base, not pictured.

I'm relaunching a design system at a big org and would love to see this. I adore Suspense and co but it's been hard getting it adopted by teams who just want to ship same-old patterns; baking features into the system sounds great.

Love it when my cat looks at things. Good stuff.

I'm just a random this got boosted to, but if I were applying I'd throw one at Base UI, seems like a cool gig if you like React and component design.

Good luck, it sucks out there.

base-ui.com/careers/desi...

Untitled Leaflet

Leaflet.pub is so good, I've decided I will probably abandon my blog publishing app project and use it instead.

Unfortunately that project was procrastination for actually writing something and now I may actually have to write something.

I have been saying that we need the board game nerds to write a new constitution with balance patches

I doubt any of this is novel insight but I'd never really thought much about it before, it's cool.

Probably also plays a part in the effectiveness of our patterning to begin with; enjoying, inventing, and seeking out memorable counterexamples seems beneficial. The social phenomenon of joining in laughing when you don't know the joke is training, too.

Humor is a really neat trait.

If you wrote a story about aliens whose adaptive superpower was pattern matching, you might give them existential breakdowns whenever things veered wildly out of expectations. But humans love it.

Old (early 'AI', 80s) but still relevant, I picked up Studying Those who Study Us on a random rec and found it thoughtful.

Basic argument: everyone underestimates how much goes into human experience until you try to encode it.

e.g. how do humans know any random SCP is fun fiction? Not trivial!

Good. I like the Zod middleware particularly. But typing breaks down a bit with any fancy middleware behaviors.

2yo decides he doesn't like pasta anymore though so possibly cursed food

Spaghetti Alla Nerrano (fried zucchini and cheese) alongside some asparagus and speck

Stanley Tucci was right on this one

You know it's gonna be good when it looks like a Ghibli film on the stove

People talk about how the movie made them feel hopeful. I think part of what that means is it challenged you to think of how to be a better person while also, importantly, not depicting it as depressingly hard, costly, and complicated.

Sometimes (sometimes) it's genuinely not!

It doesn't explore these ideas very deeply, but it frames them in an effective way to make an impression on the audience.

And the fact that it's fun is an aid to this, not a compromise.

More reflections on Superman:

Art does not have to be serious to impart meaningful ideas. The movie is purposefully fun but also has something to say about virtue, conscience, and the mire of ethical justification paralyzing good and legitimizing evil.

This line activated my cynicism / derision immediately but the cool thing about the movie was I liked it so much I actually sat there and examined why I found the line lame and whether that was just a self-protective response.

Enjoying things is a door to self-reflection.

I get the sense the film was both trying to be very fun and also hit this point really hard. Which was a great call.

I really like my boring new job where I upgrade React to latest, help new grads with Git, and clock out at 4:30 every Thursday to get a beer with the team.

A plate with a charred peach half, burrata, and speck (a thin sliced cured ham). That's really all that's in the dish. The plating is not particularly inspiring.

I did the charred peach + burrata + speck thing. It was good!

Hazelight deserves credit for bothering to make good couch coop games but they are way too confident in their writing for their own good.

Unless the goal is to help people bond with their partner by constantly groaning.

In a sane world at this point we would ban all government officials from unstructured chats with LLMs like we do unencrypted phones.

Can't believe I called this over dinner while explaining how LLMs work to my mom.

Explained what SCP was and how much it replies on the reader's sense of reality to land as entertaining fiction versus horrible secret truth. And how that context may be missing for an AI reader.