Ryan McCuaig

Reading an e-book and suddenly wondering why the table of contents is at the “start” and the index is at the “end” instead of being dedicated zones of the UI entirely outside the flow.

(Oh, right, because Amazon bought every single promising e-book upstart 10+ years ago and doesn’t care, and the lone person Apple has had working on Books.app has only so many hours in the day, right, I forgot).

I mean it’s one gallon of gas, Michael. What could it cost, $10?

men—big burly men with tears in their eyes—come up to me and say: sir, sir, no one has ever seen a brain this smooth and wrinkle-free in the history of our country

the truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand

@schwa@mastodon.social haha apparently 95 devs working for 6 years full-time produced my experiments folder, for the low cost of $76m

people making the argument “LLMs are good for code now; don't get left behind” sound to me like they're saying “Doritos taste better than vegetables; we should make them a food group” like it's not incorrect on the first part but also maybe there's some missing nuance there around the ways that human brains respond to usually-correct automation/enormous amounts of salt