Yousef | Developer | e/acc

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

But what if the sex doll suplexes you?

Trying to find a hex code for a specific color, dropping it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. They each give me a diff hex code. I run it through again multiple times on each model. Now each of the models are giving me different hex codes. I love this system

One vice I have that I can't even explain to myself: I love good cables, power adapters, and could (and have!) essentially buy new Anker stuff every two weeks. Something in me tells me that I need this. Look at that display. That knob. I don't need it, it's expensive, ... BUT.

BREAKING: Oracle laid off 20,000-30,000 employees this morning with a single 6 am email.

The stolen childhood in Gaza

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

Valve: 350 employees Epic Games: 4,000 employees Valve: $17B annual revenue
Epic Games: $5-6B Valve charges devs 30% of their revenue for simply listing their game. Epic Games charges devs 0% revenue share on the first $1,000,000 Valve is one of the greediest companies in gaming. You cannot be pro valve and be pro developer at the same time.

In the coming days, employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality folks. An important thing to understand is that Epic never lowered our hiring standards as we grew, and the layoff wasn't a performance-based "rightsizing" as companies call it nowadays. It's a sound bet that anyone with Epic Games on their resume is in the top few percent of their discipline.

Elon Musk says X could become half of the global financial system if done right.

Somone created Vib-OS: an operating system built almost entirely through AI-generated code. In practice: >no internet connection at all >a notepad that refuses to save file >a calculator that breaks on decimal points >clock that never updates >DOOM that simply won't start when you click the icon.