Placebo Domingo

I'm not sure we'll make it to 2027, let alone 20026 🤣

So... achievable for the average guy 😅

How many millions in that picture?

A Laravel package to serve markdown to AI agents | freek.dev We just published a new package called Laravel Markdown Response that lets your Laravel app serve markdown versions of your HTML pages. Your existing controllers and views stay exactly the same. Let me walk you through what the package can do.

📦 Repo: github.com/spatie/lara...
📖 Docs: spatie.be/docs/larave...
✍️ Blog post: freek.dev/3016-a-lara...

Yeah baby! I've been waiting a long time for this puppy!

I wish I didn't need LI but unfortunately there are companies that demand a LI profile link when you apply for a job. Pretty fucking dumb to make that mandatory.

Dat keyboard 🤌

Hey, it's what I do every morning!

Hey I built a thing! 👋

It's refdocs-cli, a tool to provide your agentic coding tools with super token-efficient documentation search using local markdown files you pull down. So far it seems to use far less tokens than MCP.

Totally offline, very fast and light weight.
github.com/dynamik-dev/...

👏 your designer knocked it out of the park

Well, I like Miatas and flower shirts, so maybe? 🤔

20+ yr career here. Feels like the end of days for software engineering. AI has killed the spark for me. I use it a lot just to keep up with the huge amount of work, but there's no joy in it. I'm not even close to retirement, but it's as if there's no place in this world for people like me anymore.

In a house, robots are painting, writing and playing music, with smiles on their faces. Outside, in the pouring rain, a human empties a wheelie bin into a refuse vehicle while another sweeps the street with a glum expression on her face. A third human is cycling down the road with a Just Eat food delivery on his back, while a fourth walks along the pavement, arms filled with packages from Amazon.

Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.

Every business right now thinks its such an essential part of your life that you'd give them anything to keep using it and brother I am here to tell you I don't need a chat app that bad

Oh no this could never happen in the US :\

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

Yep except I don't feel it makes me 10x more productive. It may be the case if it was actually competent, but having to hand-hold it at every step kills that advantage. It's just a tool that can help when I get stuck. I just can't use this shit as the main driver - it kills the joy of coding for me.

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

I've seen this passed around a bunch and skimmed it and nodded in agreement (because obviously the new mac OS interface design is bad), but I didn't actually sit down and read the whole thing until just now.

God, it's just brutal.

tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

I love you, Ian, but I disagree. AI has sucked the joy out of coding. That's why I avoid it until I'm stuck. Even then, I usually refactor a lot of the slop it gives me. I won't even mention PRs coming my way with 100s of lines of AI spaghetti that's impossible to review by a human.

screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted

ROFL this is comedy gold

Cool, but it makes me question if I should continue to buy Garmin stuff when they don't support last gen watches like the 965 anymore.

Hah that's a cool way to take resumes!

A set of 8 soft plastic-looking buttons.

Round shiny glass buttons.

Modern-looking buttons.

Rounded square shiny glassy buttons.

Some single `button` sets I made on @codepen.io a while back:

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Verge - A Minimal PHP Framework A minimal PHP framework for code that explains itself.

Docs for my minimal PHP framework are up!

I was really inspired by Hono & wanted a similar experience in PHP. But, I didn't really like the existing options so I made my own.

The idea is there's 4 primitives:
- Container
- Router
- Middleware
- Events

& the rest is composition

verge.dynamik.dev

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves

Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars

Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

It's not a bug, it's a feature. If you read the manual it says it's to aerate the vapors.

We need sunlight! Screenshot of sunlight calculator showing that there are 21 days until the sunlight increases, among other statistics.

In case you need it: I made a calculator that tells you how long until the daylight increases again. Hang in there!

benholmen.com/sunlight