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Re:elect.horse on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:03PM (#50305868)
ZERO idea of what I'm supposed to do.
Re:CSS-Tricks has a new owner on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:26PM (#50247508)
learning css is going to go the way of learning jquery. at this stage with AI, having a fundamental grasp on css is about all you need. with the stuff that claude and company can produce, do anyone really code css by hand anymore?
We just started using GrokBot. After hooking it up to our PSA, the INCREDIBLE reports that this thing generates has blown us away. From a simple prompt like:

I need a usage and analytics report from the PSA. I need by tech, company and service board

That was my prompt and this thing created a report that was amazing in 10 minutes and something that we could NEVER get with BrightGauge. If you haven't already hooked up GrokBot to all your services, you are doing yourself an injustice.

Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:46AM (#50179987)
In the age of AI where people are saying that it hard to understand or maintain the code that AI puts out, conventions are your savor. Rails has always been about any programmer looking at an existing application and getting a grasp on the code right away cause of the conventions. I feel that will become even more important in the future when people need to look at the code that AI is producing and understand or debug it.
I wrote open source libraries and frameworks for years. some successful, some not. I never bitched about it, I did it to give back and because I loved it.
I stand by what I said and the point wasn't missed. You can still program by hand if you want. This dude is just embarrassing himself by crying that he is no longer relevant since agents can do the work now.
whatever... i guess pissed in his cheerios this morning and he decided to rage quit. trust me, you won't be missed. That's the best thing about LLMs and agents coding now... you aren't held hostage by someone else for a library you depend on. If you need it, you can create it or update it yourself now.

These developers whom have this God complex are going to find out they were Gods in their own minds real quickly.

That's cause Broward is a BLUE country unlike the north half of Florida that is RED. BLUE counties are the worst down here when it comes to HOAs. Almost every development or neighborhood has them and they are AGRESSIVE. In the northern RED areas of Florida, there are either no HOAs OR the HOA only has authority or the communal shared spaces (ie, club houses, pools, common esways) and leave the home owners themselves alone in terms of dictating their lives.
Re:GitHub Actions Has Problems on Monday October 05, 2026 @05:11PM (#49970815)
Write it in Rust!!!
Just vote for your party. cough Republican cough
Re:Sites in ChatGPT on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:59AM (#49944890)
You're ridiculing and laughing at something that probably took 10 minutes to prompt and make while the same thing would take you 6 months to do. You're being ridiculous with your analysist.
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:10PM (#49895754)
This is actually really cool and the stuff they have planned is really helpful
so glad I move over to TMDB the other day. Letterboxd layout is the worst.
Re:People Hooked on Vapes Try a New Way to Quit: Cigarettes on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:58AM (#49815388)
Here's how I quit smoking after 30 years, smoking 2-3 packs a day (Yes, I am and always will be a VERY HEAVY smoker).

I use the patch.

Go get your all 3 step patches: 1 box of Step #1 1 box of Step #2 3 boxes of Step #3 You will start on a DAY OFF from work. I would HIGHLY not recommend trying to quit smoking on days you have to go into the office OR have to be around coworkers.

Day #1: before going to bed, get rid of all cigarettes, ash trays, lighters, everything that involves smokes or reminds you of smoking, both in your house and in any vehicles you drive. Take a shower BEFORE going to bed and scrub yourself so you don't have anything smoke smell on you. Put the Step #1 patch on and go to bed. Yes you read that right, put the the patch on BEFORE you go to bed.

Day #2: Morning. Get up, change your patch, get ready and GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!!! Go for a walk, go to work early, go get coffee somewhere, doesn't matter what, just GET OUT OF THE HOUSE! If you can get out of the house and start doing some sort of outside activity, you will have an 80% success rate.

Day #3 - WHENEVER: Follow the patch recommendation, go through Step #1 patches, then onto Step #2 patches. Remember that you are ALWAYS wearing patches even while you sleep. Once you are on Step #3, you will continue to wear the patches until you forgot to put them on (this is why I make you buy 3 boxes in the beginning), trust me on this. There will come a day where you will forget to put the patch on and it won't bother you.

When I quit, it was on a Thursday that I forgot to put my patch on and I just went the entire weekend without wearing my patch. I didn't realize it until Tuesday when someone asked me how the quitting was coming along and I touched my shoulder and realized I wasn't wearing it.

Now... that all said, I will say this and die on this hill, quitting smoking was this WORST thing I ever did. 11 years later and I STILL to this day crave a cigarette and absolutely LOVE IT when people smoke around me. I LOVE the taste of tobacco and wish to God that I could smoke again. I just remember how hard and how many times it took me to finally quit and I NEVER want to go through that again. I know for a fact that if I have ANY sort of cigarette, cigar, pipe, whatever I will be smoking 2-3 packs a day IMMEDIATELY.

Case in point, my wife vapes. She used to have those vapes where you had to fill them with liquid. Anyway she asked me to fill it one time and some of the liquid got on my fingers. I wipe it off thinking nothing of it and then for some reason, I rubbed my lips, why I did that, I haven't a clue. Within 5 seconds my lip started to tingle from the nicotine and that RUSH went immediately to my head (you know what I'm talking about). Let me tell you, it took WEEKS, WEEKS for my head to go back to normal. I was looking for cigarettes on the ground to smoke, it was HORRIBLE. I tell that story to warn you, you can NEVER touch any sort of nicotine product again after you quit. It will trigger you and God help you if it does. Once you quit, just stay quit.

Re:Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen? on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:07PM (#49743633)
Honestly.... This is why I have everything in Bitwarden. All 2FA runs through it so even if my phone got stolen, I could still access everything. I honestly don't understand why more people don't pay the $10 a year and just use Bitwarden.
Re:CSS-Tricks in Limbo on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:49PM (#49731971)
You're going to be singing an entirely different tune when the "call to pray" is sounded through out your country, your women are dressed head to toe in burkas and your 9year old daughter is being married off to elder men.

Western and eastern cultures don't mix. I could care less what they do over there. But I do care what they do over here.

There is a difference between someone who comes to a country and assimilates into the cultures of that country and someone who comes into that country to destroy it.

Sorry bro, but most immigrants today are here to take over and destroy the culture of countries. They should be deported or jailed and I'm not going to idle by while my country is over taken. I'll gladly be called a racist if that is the case.

Re:CSS-Tricks in Limbo on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @08:10AM (#49711328)
Let's call it what it is, someone crying because their project isn't getting the love it wants while someone new did. Welcome to life. This happens all the time in business. CSS-Tricks is old, it had it's time and now it's time to move on. DO can do whatever they want. If they want to focus on getting Omarchy popular, then so be it.

And dude, what is with all the DHH hate??? The dude isn't a Nazi, fascist or racist. The dude sees the country he loves turning into a cesspool and wrote about it. We're seeing the same thing here in the US with all these immigrants taking over Michigan.

Re:Claude is no longer available for minors on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:58AM (#49656937)
DeepSeek is the BEST model for the money. Why people still waste money on Claude is beyond me.
I will continue to be amazed by how much power you get from DeepSeek Flash for the cost. I have let that puppy lose on so many projects and it is has never let me down. It can build and entire Rails app in no time and even do the tests. For most things, I don't get why people pay the money for Claude. DeepSeek Flash is my default agent in Omarchy.
Re:Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @07:50AM (#49624954)
In all honesty, I don't think this "concern" is valid anymore. With AI, I firmly believe that if it needs to be done, you should do it. Look at Bun. It took 11 days for them to rewrite it into Rust from Zig and it was all done through AI.

https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust

People are so childish nowadays. The fact that things escalate to the point.
It would be funny if Grok Bot for Windows was used to port itself to Linux :)
it makes going to the see the released "Apology Tour" of the 1986 Transformers that much more heartbreaking. RIP

https://www.fathomentertainment.com/transformers40thannivers...

exactly what I'm saying, 3K per server is pretty damn steep.
I understand what you are saying, but with AI now, I don't see writing a pipeline as a hurdle anymore.
I'm kind of having a hard time understanding what problem this is trying to solve? I can't even tell what this is actually doing from the site. There is barely any information.

I mean Visual Studio automatically has a way of deploying directly to IIS for years now. Also as others have added, IIS isn't even used anymore with the rise of caddy and nginx.

The pricing itself seems really steep as well $3K a year?!? I don't exactly know who this is targeting.

I don't see anywhere in the post or the repo how much it cost him to do this in tokens.
Alternatives to Google Photos and self hosting:

If you pay for an Amazon Prime account, Amazon Photos is included. You get unlimited photos storage

If you pay for a M365 license, you get 1TB of photo space on OneDrive

I get these aren't free, however if you are already paying for a service which give you photo storage, why pay Google. Also, let's face it, most people have an Amazon Prime account or pay for a M365 account to use Office.

ads are like billboards. the company doesn't make money by making sure your buy the product, it make money by getting the product in front of you. You might not buy the product today, but there is a chance that since you've seen the product, you might buy it in the future.

many of times, i have looked to purchase a product or service and remember an ad that i saw that has alter my decision.

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