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What if they are actually right and decentralization isn't the solution for everything?!

I wrote something personal about software, AI, and what it feels like to build a career in uncertain times. Not technical. Just honest. sadiqrahmati.com/posts/programm…

inventing a sacrifice nobody needs

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” — Thomas Sowell

If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.

X’s translation feature should win some kind of peace prize

individualism > collectivism

“There is only one means of salvation, Make yourself responsible for all men’s sins. As soon as you sincerely make yourself responsible for everything and for all men, you will see at once that it is really so, and that you are to blame for everyone and for all things. …”

firefox is hot garbage

@byteHumi The problem is their product sucks, and at the same time the org behind it is pro censorship and has no regard for privacy. it takes real effort to get that kind of reputation while competing as a nonprofit against google.

Still the only browser that's not a chromium wrapper since 2004

“Be satisfied with even the smallest progress.” — Marcus Aurelius

It is nonsense to suggest you can’t write any app, of any complexity, in C. I do find a light level of C++ beneficial for many larger projects, but it can also go tragically wrong. Sometimes, specific language features can be transformative valuable, but not nearly as often as language advocates think, and there is value in writing to an “elder language”.

Yes, Omarchy runs on master. So will every project I start from here-on out. I got fooled by the good-faith exploit once, but won't repeat that mistake. world.hey.com/dhh/forcing-ma…

In over 15 years of open source, I can't remember ever saying "your example doesn't compile" (I probably did, but it's so rare I can't remember). Now, I literally say this everyday. Please, can people using AI be less fucking stupid about it.

I'm about to do something I think I've never done before, which is assert every bit of whatever authority I have as the person who discovered and wrote down the rules of open source. After ten years of drama and idiocy, lots of people other than me are now willing to say in public that "Codes of Conduct" have been a disaster - a kind of infectious social insanity producing lots of drama and politics and backbiting, and negative useful work. Here is my advice about codes of conduct: 1. Refuse to have one. If your project has one, delete it. The only actual function they have is as a tool in the hands of shit-stirrers. 2. If you're stuck with having one for bureaucratic reasons, replace it with the following sentence or some close equivalent: "If you are more annoying to work with than your contributions justify, you'll be ejected." 3. Attempts to be more specific and elaborate don't work. They only provide control surfaces for shit-stirrers to manipulate. Yes, we should try to be kind to each other. But we should be ruthless and merciless towards people who try to turn "Be kind!" into a weapon. Indulging them never ends well.

Live demos on stage are always a gamble, but I'd much rather watch someone try and fail than suffer through some slick, prerecorded snooze fest. It's having something on the line that makes it worth watching!

The Left is the party of murder

"My first instinct was exactly what such people would delight in happening. To watch the rest of us recoil, then retract, and perhaps even eject. To leave the internet for a while or forever. But I can't do that. We shouldn't do that." world.hey.com/dhh/words-are-…

>”my made up complicated rules are interfering with writing code”