Rust doesn't run on all of their platforms so this is a good example of where git may not be viable for OpenBSD long-term (if they were to switch from CVS one day, which is a big IF)
> The simple alternative is just around the corner: sprinkle vanilla JavaScript where it’s needed and don’t build your identity around a framework. That mindset is hard to swallow, though (especially when companies have spent millions convincing developers their stack is the only way forward).
I worked with a front-end developer (React) who needed help integrating with a payment processor. I looked at the docs and hopped on a video call with them to get them unblocked. I ended up having to explain how to POST hidden inputs via an HTML form to them, and their reply was something along the lines of "Oh, HTML is obsolete." They didn't understand the basics because they only new React.
It just takes the minimal amount of discipline, and some conventions. I know it can be done because I did it, lots of people did it just a few years ago (some of those apps are STILL running today.)
I used a colo once a few years ago at a small datacenter in the midwest, I was shocked at how unprofessional everything was, machines laying in the hallway, a guy was sleeping in one of the offices. They let me setup my server and was left unattended several times, I could have just poked the power button on a nearby server or moved a cable or whatever. It was a 1.5 hour drive away, and I wasn't running anything serious so I just went with it but pulled my stuff out after my 1 year subscription was up.
> We're entering a new age of AI powered coding, where creating a competing product only involves typing "Create a fork of this repo and change its name to something cool and deploy it on an EC2 instance".
I've been curious about how LLMs would impact open source, I have some theories and this is not the only one.
Got tired of this with a few extensions I made too. It felt like every year or so they'd completely break some API and I'd have to go switch to the new one, then they wanted a privacy policy, then justification for permissions, etc etc. Wasn't worth the trouble eventually and I just let them die.
The company I work for has a legitimate service that runs on the loopback (it provides our web apps APIs for some device integration) hopefully its just as simple as the user accepting the prompt else we'll be drowning in support.
We had to go the path of the local service because they killed NPAPI. I've been thinking about using web serial as an alternative but Firefox doesn't support it.
That being said, I think this is an overall win, hopefully Firefox implements it in a consistent manner as well.
I would strongly suggest speaking with a human accountant. I did this recently after doing some contracting on-the-side for a couple years and I should have done it sooner. It cost me something like $50 for an hour of their time and had I done it sooner I'd easily have saved $5000 in taxes. They can help you understand things like how to pay estimated quarterly taxes so as to avoid the penalty of not doing so. What you can and can't deduct (there was a TON of things I could have deducted) and how to track and log it.
I'm tired of getting thrown AI slop, but I think its a people problem not an AI problem.
"Hey, I made this doc, can you just make sure it looks OK, maybe add a couple things to it?" - Only to find out its completely useless AI slop and barely any details are correct and everything essential is absent.
Same situation with:
- "Hey, can you take a look at this script to see if it's ok"?
- "Hey, do you know why this code isn't working?"
- "Hey, I created that diagram..."
slop, slop, slop. Low effort people will put in low effort with these tools. I bet there's lots of people I work with that use AI and I don't know because they're high effort people.
And in all cases I've fixed the problems and helped them but I've realized two things and stop doing that recently:
When these folks use AI to generate artifacts, they take even less accountability "I dunno, that's just what the AI did..."
The also have no interest in learning. They get AI to do the thing they don't want to learn, then when that fails just try to get someone else to do it for them.