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ronbenton··on Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
IMO this is the social internet at its best. Pretty obscure question answered relatively quickly with answer and source.
ronbenton··on Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown
Easy, then you just delay your project’s dependency updates just a little more than everyone else
ronbenton··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Weird dark surveillance state stuff. I thought EU was trying to champion privacy?
ronbenton··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
Glad to hear this is a universal big tech experience. The promo process is entirely antithetical to shipping good products
ronbenton··on Maybe you should learn something
One “trick” nowadays is to just do a thing for the sake of doing the thing. I draw. Not to post my drawings to social media, not to try to get income from paid commissions, but rather just to enjoy the act of drawing. It’s very liberating in a world where it feels like almost everything has to be in service of some kind of larger scheme.
ronbenton··on Vite+ Beta
Truly have so much trouble keeping up with the frontend (or JavaScript?) ecosystem. I so miss working in laravel. Wish more jobs paid well to use it.
ronbenton··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
Seems like a good way to get targeted by attackers
ronbenton··on Elastic lays off 7% of employees
Here's my translation of this announcement: https://layofftranslator.com/layoffs/2026-06-24-elastic/
ronbenton··on PostgreSQL is enough (2024)
I have worked some places where a significant amount of business logic lived in database functions and triggers and, hoo boy, that was really hard to reason about. If you're disciplined enough to have migrations around that implemented all that stuff, you're still going to have an unpleasant time piecing all of it together when debugging. But often you're in a state where you don't even have those breadcrumbs and you're pulling out your hair trying to figure out what's going on.
ronbenton··on The new HTTP QUERY method explained
I’ve seen a framework strip body content off GET requests, so doing hacky things doesn’t even always work. The QUERY method is a welcome addition
ronbenton··on Developers don't understand CORS (2019)
No? CORS is about preventing an unauthorized third party from _accessing_ data. That’s the meaning of “resource sharing.” If you want to prevent action-taking, there are other mechanisms. For example, using a header-based CSRF token if your auth scheme relies on cookies.
ronbenton··on CSSQuake
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
ronbenton··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
Some felt too easily guessable. Too many joke answers maybe?
ronbenton··on Show HN: Are You in the Weights?
Can’t trust anything online
ronbenton··on 2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation
In this market they can essentially all collude to treat employees like garbage
ronbenton··on 2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation
They’re saving that for the next one
ronbenton··on Is Fable 5 Back?
lol how is something so simple both inaccessible (poor color contrast) and not mobile friendly?
ronbenton··on Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded
For a hot second I thought we were looking at glorious jquery until I saw this line at the top

const $ = (id) => document.getElementById(id);

ronbenton··on Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health
Very happy I had my wife and kids throughout the pandemic and continued remote work since then. I would not have done well otherwise.
ronbenton··on MAI-Code-1-Flash
>Build for developers, not benchmarks

That sounds like something you say when you don't benchmark well

ronbenton··on Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products
I’m shocked I say. Shocked.
ronbenton··on To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
Humans are complex. I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume there are a lot of people who both rely on and don't like the idea of AI. People can need a car to get around and also be worried about the effects of car emissions. People can dislike cigarettes and be smokers.
ronbenton··on To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
>This makes me an outcast. In tech, and out of it.

In tech, maybe. Out of tech? No way. A bunch of surveys show that people are mostly negative on AI. For example: https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans...

ronbenton··on Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells
Petition to rename this “SlopCop”
ronbenton··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
Hey surely Meta wouldn’t send that data to a government interested in regulating women’s reproductive rights
ronbenton··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
Imagine having the second fastest marathon time ever yet not winning the marathon you ran it in
ronbenton··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
Accidentally migrating the wrong domain name is incompetence. Doing so without any of the required documentation is negligent. This is bad on multiple levels
ronbenton··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
This wasn’t a phishing attack. Did you read the article?
ronbenton··on GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation
I don’t think you read the article. GoDaddy transferred the domain to someone in a local chapter of the same organization. When that person realized what happened, they called the original owner and got everything fixed. There’s no way this is an “inside job” of any kind.
ronbenton··on The Knight Programming Language
From what I can tell, the person who posted this is not the author of the language
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