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valiant55··on Pico CSS is no longer maintained
This saddens me, thank you for Pico. As a backend engineer I used Pico for an internal tool used by dozens of people at my company and it was praised for how intuitive and easy to use it was which was in large part due to how easy it was to build something beautiful with Pico.
valiant55··on Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
I'm hosting Forgejo for my homelab and couldn't be happier. I have everything running in containers with dind for CI/CD. Most of my workflows just worked with minimal changes. YMMV and this is far from an enterprises' needs but it's working great so far for my needs.
valiant55··on Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers
I could get behind "stunts on" instead of "slams" for article titles.
valiant55··on Video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts
I don't think we should be constructing data centers anywhere near population if the are constantly producing noise pollution. XAI has been setting up generators to support their centers, possibly illegally. The strain on supply chains (RAM) is going to have ramifications that touch every part of the economy.
valiant55··on Video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts
> Anti-AI sentiment is pointless if they can't tell the difference.

I disagree, you can object on moral grounds of which there's a few angles that could take.

valiant55··on Mario Meets Pareto
Probably but they could be arrived at via different means. In WoW for instance top players run simulated combat using third party tools to compare different gearing setup, often to determine if a new piece of gear is better than their current piece. This often isn't immediately obvious if the stats are completely different and "simming" is the easiest way to evaluate a piece of gear.
valiant55··on There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
The one that stuck out to me was all the automation, full breakfast etc but the house has to remind them to pay the bills.
valiant55··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
A lot of the programming adjacent subreddits have been post after post of weekend vibe coded projects. It's become really exhausting how easy it is to turn out a new wheel that's going to get abandoned in a few weeks at best.
valiant55··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
I have a CRV with adaptive cruise (USA) and while the car reads the speed limit signs it only uses them for display. There are instances where it misreads signs which is understandable because some of the road signs are very similar or the posted speed only applies to trucks ect.

But it does not adjust based on the reading, I manually set the speed but of course it'll slow down if there's a car in front. Automatically adjusting to the speed limit sounds insanely dangerous. It's very common place, at least in the US, to go 10 over the posted limit on controlled access highways, does the EU not operate in a similar mode?

valiant55··on Rent collections are down in New York
The pandemic didn't end when Mamdani was elected. The economic impact from the pandemic is going to be felt for decades.
valiant55··on The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs
In what way does buying a property and renting it create wealth? Isn't buying a property with the intent to rent it manipulation of economic conditions?
valiant55··on A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
A comment the adds nothing to the discussion but derails the conversation with an anecdotes from the writers childhood because how this topic vaguely reminds them of something kind of similar.
valiant55··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
PA did this with construction zone cameras. I'm not sure where that landed because its been a while since I've seen one. I successfully appealed my ticket to the magistrate. It initially started as a pilot program and the law requires signage which during the pilot was quite inconspicuous. After the launch the sign was changed to a tiny little thing, about 1/5 the size of the pilot program.

I was going 5 over the reduced speed limit, in the slow lane with rush hour traffic. That thing must've issued thousands of tickets.

valiant55··on C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper
There's a data type precedence that it uses to determine which value should be casted[0]. Nvarchar is higher precedence, therefore the varchar value is "lifted" to an nvarchar value first. This wouldn't be an issue if the types were reversed.

0: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/data-...

valiant55··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
This is definitely not always the case[0], let's not pretend these companies give a fuck about the communities in which their data centers operate[1].

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk...

1: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/texas-hood-county-cr...

valiant55··on I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard
I got the battery extension and it lasted more than 10 months (I have it on a 30 minute refresh). Highly recommend TRMNL if you want something to hack on without fussing with hardware.
valiant55··on Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
I'm too entralled by TikTok to build a guillotine.
valiant55··on Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling
The powers that be have always saught wealth. At some point they gained enough power to start usurping the law that was supposed to keep them in check.
valiant55··on Sergey Brin's Unretirement
I'm not doing FIRE, I have children and just live below my means. I'm hoping to retire around 55 assuming the AI bubble doesn't nuke everyones portfolio.
valiant55··on The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow
Yeah, and the tooling is changing more quickly than JavaScript and is riddled with security issues. I think the best move right now is at best using AI as a (in)glorified Google / Stack overflow and waiting until the dust settles on tooling.
valiant55··on Was it a billion dollar mistake?
Unity isn't written in C#, it's C++. C# is used as the scripting engine.
valiant55··on Outside, Dungeon, Town: Integrating the Three Places in Videogames (2024)
Buyer beware, this game has been in alpha for 10 years despite sufficient funding. The cash shop is charging $25 for skins in a alpha game.
valiant55··on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
I had this issue with my alternative account. Despite my main account being associated (not by recovery, I think this predates that feature), and most messages being forwaded to my main I was never able to successfully recover the credentials.
valiant55··on Permission Systems for Enterprise That Scale
I'm struggling to understand what the issue that the author is getting at. The point of a database is that it's ACID compliant, wrap insets/updates/deletes in a transaction and no such drift would occur. What am I missing?
valiant55··on TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components
There's a guy complaining that the creator is poisoning the collective code used to train LLMs. If that's all it takes we have a moral responsibility to flood GitHub with garbage.
valiant55··on TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components
Complexity demon everywhere.
valiant55··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
One example is linked in the article where he expressed women are biologically less interested in tech.
valiant55··on Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer
Copy-Item is a cmdlet, the native way to do it in PowerShell. Gp posted a hack to replicate the GUI in PowerShell.
valiant55··on Perl's decline was cultural
I'd love for politics to not infiltrate most aspects of life. Until everyone is able to, at least in part, persue life without being oppressed because of their immutable attributes, their belief or lack of belief system, who they choose to love and/or how they view themselves I think it's our civic duty to crusade for those causes.
valiant55··on Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes
I'm not sure I'd refer to some of these individuals as "luminaries" which typically has a positive connotation.
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