I made a website that makes you cry
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ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea
ZUSE is a sleek, minimal IRC client for your terminal. Built with Go and powered by the elegant Bubble Tea framework. Chat faster, cleaner, and without distractions right from your terminal. Installation go install github.com/babycommando/zuse@latest Build from Source Get and build: git clone https://github.com/yourusername/zuse.git cd zuse go mod tidy go build -o zuse # or […]
Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
In my opinion, one of the best critiques of modern AI design comes from a 1992 talk by the researcher Mark Weiser where he ranted against “copilot” as a metaphor for AI. This was 33 years ago, but it’s still incredibly relevant for anyone designing with AI. Weiser’s rant Weiser was speaking at an MIT […]
Designing a Flatpack Bed
I just moved into an unfurnished apartment and my professional woodworker friend just got a plywood-sheet-sized CNC router, so I’ve been designing myself a bedframe. The rough scope / requirements: fit a 200 cm x 180 cm mattress have 50 cm of clear space underneath for storage visually hide this space from the front (required) […]
Making Postgres slower
Everyone is always wondering how to make Postgres faster, more efficient, etc, but nobody ever thinks about how to make Postgres slower. Now, of course, most of those people are being paid to focus on speed, but I am not (although, if you wanted to change that, let me know). As I was writing a […]
IBM Keyboard Patents
A gallery of patents that describe technologies or illustrate designs relating to IBM and family keyboards, typewriters and keypunches. This includes keyswitch/actuator designs, ornamental designs (overall appearance), integrated pointing devices such as TrackPoints, and host systems such as PCs, laptops, terminals, consoles and electronic typewriters. All illustrations provided are from the patents themselves, which are […]
The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It
Understanding and Undoing Google’s Dominance over the Internet “Don’t Be Evil” My first encounter with Google occurred in 2000. I was active on Usenet newsgroups, and Google had just bought DejaVu, a search engine for these newsgroups. I was now having to deal with Google rather than DejaVu. Google quickly changed how search results for […]
GPT might be an information virus (2023)
Obligatory: the views and opinions expressed in this post are my own and do not represent the views and opinions of my employer. In light of all the hype going around about ChatGPT, I wanted to offer my “hot take” on what the next 2-5 years of the web look like. One aspect of the […]
I hacked my washing machine
If you’ve known me for some amount of time you knew this was something that was bound to happen eventually. Yesterday (and technically today), me and a friend went on an endeavor to hack our washing machine, partially for the fun of it, and partially because there’s actually a practical use for it. Some background […]
Disabling telemetry in ByteDance’s VSCode fork increases data sent to its server
Executive Summary This analysis examines concerning performance and privacy issues discovered in Trae IDE, ByteDance’s fork of Visual Studio Code. Key findings include excessive resource consumption (33 processes vs 9 in VSCode), persistent telemetry transmission despite user settings, and concerning community management practices. 1. Background and Methodology During evaluation of development environments for a personal […]