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chrisweekly··on Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think
Sure - just a decent place to start
chrisweekly··on Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think
Search for "Broca and Wernicke" to learn more about the distinct areas of the brain responsible for producing vs processing language.
chrisweekly··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
There's been too much guessing already. Anthropic employees answered in this thread almost 4h before your response.
chrisweekly··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
FWIW, Fastmail is awesome.
chrisweekly··on Official Claude Code extension compromise
Try smolvm microvms from https://smol-machines.com
chrisweekly··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
Your dismissive assertion is rude and inaccurate.

Larn was a text-based RPG that was in fact easily run as a networked game over a modem to a server at GenRad where my dad worked. Details escape me (it was over 40 years ago, I was like 12 years old) but these basics are factual.

chrisweekly··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
Get off my lawn! I was playing Larn on my dad's VT100 long before the C64 was released.
chrisweekly··on GitLab Security Incident: Attempted Exploitation of CVE-2026-97229
that's incredibly confusing. what's the point of the tag if the version is really the sha it happens to now point to? it only looks like semver?
chrisweekly··on Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Right, so it's not just git, it's a bunch of system-provided utilities; macOS trusts bad certs, and these utils that trust the OS are affected. I use homebrew for my git and curl but haven't yet checked to confirm whether that matters here. Kind of outrageous that Apple's guidance is to edit the cert chain manually, and to expect that subsequent OS updates may revert your mitigation, reintroducing the vulnerability (as happened at least once so far).
chrisweekly··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
"formally-privileged" -> "formerly-privileged"
chrisweekly··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
I'd love to hear your ideas about what makes TanStack Start less "serious" than Astro
chrisweekly··on Anthropic S-1
> "SpaceX has the vertical integration to be able to plonk down datacenters and get them powered with literal jet/rocket engines/turbines that they make from scratch"

Is that really a viable path? (Honest question)

chrisweekly··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
Yeah, that's what I figured too. Sadly, that shallow / kneejerk response leads to unearned mindshare advantage for problematic incumbents like Next.js, and risks stifling meaningful improvement.

TanStack Start absolutely merits a closer look. It's not a flash in the pan or "the new shiny". It's the robust, coherent, independent and logical evolution of battle-hardened wisdom and brilliant design and implementation from first principles. See TanStack Router and TanStack Query for more evidence and background context. I've been around the block (25+ years in webdev) and gained a deep appreciation for Tanner's way of thinking. No affiliation, just a grateful user trying to help others notice by amplifying the signal in the noise.

P.S. Yes I wrote ~"it's not X, it's Y". No I didn't use genAI to write here (nor anywhere, ever).

chrisweekly··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
I'd be grateful if whoever downvoted my comment could explain what they found objectionable.
chrisweekly··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
+1 for TanStack Router (and TanStack Start if your needs evolve to merit a metaframework).
chrisweekly··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
I recommend ditching Next.js in favor of Tanstack Start^1, an alternative metaframework that gives you more freedom, better DX, and better defaults. Stick w the best aspects of SPAs and introduce SSR selectively if and when it makes sense.

1. https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-start-1-0

chrisweekly··on I reverse engineered a board game
FWIW, the original Hitster game is really fun, highly recommended.
chrisweekly··on mitmproxy adds --emudhra option
mitmproxy is an amazing cli powertool I first discovered over a decade ago (around the same time as lnav). highly recommended.
chrisweekly··on Most advice is right for the person giving it
The idea that "most users" won't notice the absence of 2 slices of bread per day strikes me as unlikely.
chrisweekly··on The Future of CSS
That's not quite right. jQuery was exactly the right tool for those of us who knew what we were doing. Browser inconsistencies in the early days were practically insurmountable without jQuery to provide a consistent API surface.
chrisweekly··on DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine
Relying on an LLM's baked-in syntax knowledge is suboptimal, compared to leveraging reasonable context affordances (skills, examples, tool calls, MCP servers, search) to ensure adherence to precise APIs and language specs. Don't get me wrong; a model specifically trained on your desired framework is obviously preferable for more consistent generation of idiomatic code -- but relying on that in a large general-purpose model is a questionable proposition IMHO.
chrisweekly··on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
good for you, I hope it lasts another decade+

just sharing my lived experience

chrisweekly··on GLP-1 may slow biological aging
you're not necessarily wrong, but science is likely also to continue saving a lot of lives while the endless search for our collective ass continues
chrisweekly··on France's supermarket fridges were vulnerable online for months
into the modern era... ... or back into the dark ages
chrisweekly··on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
Synology NAS - an ugly doorstop with data loss resulting from its half-baked post-purchase attempts to enforce hardware vendor lock-in. (Was working fine w/ a Western Digital drive, the next day, boom.)
chrisweekly··on William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace
no doubt (tho I see it as a "yes and")
chrisweekly··on If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
(meta commentary) really gnarly word choice: "drop" in "they're going to drop the real prices in your lab"?

I took your meaning as "they're gonna drop [a bad surprise on you by raising] the real prices"... so at least it's not quite as tortured as the ambiguous "support for version N dropped today" (where you often can't even infer the direction from context).

this isn't just a tangent, I'm having trouble understanding the point you're trying to make, which hinges entirely on deciding if you meant "drop" literally

chrisweekly··on William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace
I will not stop using good words like those. (We really do need a direct replacement for "trump" in card games, though.)
chrisweekly··on Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text
Thank you for this gem of a comment.

I'm no expert (let alone compared to others weighing in here on HN), but this strikes me as incisive -- and it clearly articulates a logical case (beyond my previously merely instinctual aversion) against such "safety filters" / "nanny" processes. It also resonates with ancient (e.g. Buddhist) ideas about the futility of trying to exert control, such efforts most often being counter-productive.

chrisweekly··on Intuitive concurrent programming in any language
Yikes.

And right on about disabling auto-correction.

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