It's not clear, based on personal experience, how long - if it all - the software development field will value devs who actually enjoy the work. Most people I know are producing mostly AI work and there's an obvious skill decline that's resulted from it. 1/?
Any conversation
But does it matter if your boss doesn't care? Or if their boss doesn't care? If the paychecks keep coming who cares? What's the point of choosing the mountain if the "joy" just means more hours on screen that could have been spent elsewhere? 2/?
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It never did. Before AI people did webslop in node.js, before that people were slopping in Java.
AI changes surprisingly little.
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Only if you buy into the narrative that AI is "just another layer of abstraction." Which of course, it isn't.
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No, it obviously isn't that. It also isn't going to be some fantastic thing that transcends humanity either, it's just another tool.
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I hate crawlers that donโt advertise theyโre crawlers. โn badly written. They donโt respect the canonical URLs so they keep getting themselves into a loop instead of actually crawling the site properly. They make the logs really hard to read. Canโt block them theyโre distributed.
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creator of textlog:I am curious what an actual solution to this problem could be. Everything I've read about it feels like a bandaid โ from robots.txt to cloudflare turnstile โ there has to be a better way!
For this particular problem though, I feel like if the crawlers are coming from domestic / residential IP addresses and they lack a distinctive http header or user agent, it is indistinguishable from a denial of service attack and must be treated as such.
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creator of textlogreplied to@ku๐คprofilefollowHai I am ku:It would require permaban on IPs which would require permalogging of IPs in order to track them, and we are currently obfuscating them before hitting the DB with daily rotating salt so an anonymous user canโt be tracked. So weโd have to give up privacy/security :/
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But as long as people can still use the site it's OK, right? Seems like the problem is often self-inflicted, either because the site is so bloated that answering even GET-requests is burdensome, or because they're trying to monetize the data and so must block non-paying scrapers.
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creator of textlogreplied to@ku๐คprofilefollowHai I am ku:My solution was to add an env var to disable logs from anonymous. At least now will be able to read the logs.
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Haha. Seems necessary but not sufficient. Isnโt being victorious part of it, too?
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That's definitely the common knowledge but I'm starting to think that victory -> writing about it has it backwards in a lot of cases, esp in modern corporate life.
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always online:I'm sorry about that. Overthinking can be bad.
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always onlinereplied to@n5l๐profilefollow:it's okay now, sometimes my brain just can't seem to wrap around a few issues
what are ya'lls favorite wikipedia page?
I myself is partial to the 'variations' entry for high fives en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_fiveen.wikipedia.orgHigh five - Wikipedia
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i attempt to stave off burnout with a healthy dose of dark souls, bloodborne, and friends:
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i attempt to stave off burnout with a healthy dose of dark souls, bloodborne, and friends:You should check my other site onlycats.cc i think you will enjoy!
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creator of textlog:love it. great concept
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still five hops to Hitler
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ฐ:Catastrophic interference is also a favorite Wikipedia page and concept. The thing is, it doesnโt only happen to artificial neural networks, Iโve had it happen to me a few times. Especially with pin numbers, newer pins overwriting old ones and Iโm always scared when Iโm having hard time remembering something that this catastrophic interference applied and now the information is gone from my brain.
It didnโt work out, we found competition offering the same service for free so the #ideanotesfollow fell apart. Need to find something else to do as a side project to textlog. ๐ Thinking of a code editor thatโs focused on the new agentic workflows, so you have it on the side regardless of your agent tools and it monitors the git diff and offers a nice panorama view. Iโve done an extension for VSCode similar to this idea.
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creator of textlog:Good outcome! Better to bail early and avoid toiling on a doomed idea. I'm always afraid of this ๐
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creator of textlog:You might want to check out getness.devNessNess โ run a team of agentsRun ten Claudes at once without losing your mind. A native app for managing parallel Claude Code and Codex sessions across git worktrees.. Not exactly what you're speaking of, but the idea sounds similar.
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creator of textlog:"for you" now contains the same message multiple times
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creator of textlog:added two more screenshots to imgur.com/a/WuJiFuvImgurTextlog replies flowDiscover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users. - the "root" post view is incorrect, but when reply-on-reply, information goes up-then-down.
root post view IS correct, sorry.
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creator of textlogreplied to@hotterprofilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.:I understand your confusion, but that's the formatting - quoted parent is below the child post - then that post's replies follow in the discussion view. The top post is always quoting its parent below it, the different bg makes it distinct. Just need to get used to it, same on X.
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creator of textlogreplied to@hotterprofilefollow#Emacsnotesfollow, dev, life, random stuff. the netherlands.:There really is no other way to include the parent otherwise, you have to break the hierarchy at some point, the other form would need to omit the parent body and show a 'parent' link but we want to include its body.
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:Same for me, it's been that way for a few days.
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Rap isn't really even music.
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in big 2026 we are still bringing anti rap takes lmaooo
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"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:
"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ Sid Meyers:1) I'm a millennial
2) Rap was invented by the boomers.
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creator of textlog:Man, I LOVE naps! In fact, I mostly subsist on four or five 1-1/2 hour naps each day instead of one long over-night sleep period these days. I didn't set out to have a #polyphasicnotesfollow sleep schedule, but here I am. :-)
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creator of textlog:My whole life, if I get in more than 6 hours at a stretch, I'm sluggish and mentally out of it for hours.
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Oh, dear! I wasn't polyphasic before cats owned me. Are my furry overlords rubbing off on me? LOL