[-] mke@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ironically, the writing felt weaker than Drew's, which led to unexpected feelings while reading. For example:

r/preteen_girls (why this was even allowed to exist is beyond our comprehension)

Emphasis mine. My immediate reaction was this shouldn't be beyond comprehension to anyone who looks into Reddit's history and culture. Silly, not even a nitpick proper—though I have one—but it got a snort from me.

Anyway, assuming provided information is correct, seems he:

  1. Likes sexual anime-like depictions of minors
  2. Is sloppy at compartmentalizing his internet activity (or didn't care to; why?)

I, uh, also wonder if one can get in trouble for hosting screenshots of certain content for a report. Guess it also depends on where they're hosting from. I hope they're fine, because from this report and the rest of their blog, they seem to enjoy internet slapfights.

[-] mke@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Yet, Bluesky didn't even support video posts until two weeks ago. Many other highly requested features are still missing. To what extent does the success of each platform come down to money? What did Bluesky do with a larger budget to get an edge?

[-] mke@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

In theory, I doubt development would continue. For a federated cohost to survive long term, it would also need to be open source, with a developer community that could fork the project and carry the torch. That's a very different cohost we're envisioning, even excluding required UX changes to make it possible.

At that point, one might as well imagine a cohost that explored better ways to make money, or attracted more users, or ran a tighter ship. Both scenarios lead to this discussion never happening.

[-] mke@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I meant that it's not directly associated with you as the owner through your migrated account.

Edited comment (many to some).

[-] mke@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

This isn't an absolute rule. Of course they don't (and shouldn't) ask for feedback before cutting off Nazi instances, but it's not always so clear.

.world defederated from fosstodon and I'm still unsure why.

[-] mke@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

What you're describing sounds closer to how atproto is supposed to work, but it's yet unproven in regards to decentralization.

[-] mke@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Problem is, programmers don't want AI.

I wish it was that simple! This is, understandably, the most unpopular post in the community. But I looked around in other websites and saw plenty of programmers quite into LLM tooling. In Zed's repository, you can easily find many users looking forward to more AI features, and even outright requesting them.

Programmers are too diverse a group to generalize like this.

[-] mke@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I only recently started learning rust, years after leaving vsc, so there's not much I can offer here. What I can comment on, in case you weren't already aware, is the fact that Zed is built almost entirely in rust and its developers have publicly said they're using it daily on the job.

Zed probably lacks some feature(s) you'd get with the vscode extension because even though it supports rust out of the box, there's lots of general functionality missing. That said, things will continue to improve, so I wouldn't be surprised if Zed eventually surpasses VS in rust development, simply because Zed has a lot more incentive to improve the development experience for it.

It's been pretty pleasant for me, though, I can tell you that much.

[-] mke@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I spend most of my time thinking, not writing code. I really don't care all that much about time saving, but I do concede that not taking my fingers off the home row feels really great. Other editors, even this very text input I'm writing my comment in right now, feel clunky in comparison.

The most important part to me, however, is how customizable it is. I'm not just using (neo)vim, I'm making and using my own personal development environment. Almost every aspect, be it visual, keybinding, system integration or behavior, is changed as I go to suit my needs above all else. I think the only way to go even further with this would be switching to Emacs :^) lisp machines are no joke.

It's not necessarily mechanically faster—though it absolutely can be: sometimes I get my editor state to where I wanted so naturally and so quickly that I actually pause for a moment after to ponder, wait, how the hell did I do that?—but darn do I like spending time in it, and it just keeps getting better. In a way, that actually makes me more productive: I'm a happier dev.

In the end, it's all about you. If you are at your best in vscode or sublime or whatever, keep at it. My only suggestion is: if you're willing to put in the time and effort, consider trying to make whatever you use truly yours.

[-] mke@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Glad he brought up Discord's quality.

I'm a bit tired of people saying e-mail/IRC work just fine. Yes, they do, but that's not the point. Discord works better for way over a hundred millions users, many of whom rarely ever send mail and aren't interested in learning how IRC or whatever alternative you use works.

It's like instead of collaborating to solve this issue half of the open source community decided they want to die in IRC, while the other half just straight up gave up. Metaphorically. I get why, but it saddens me a little.

Will have to check out Zulip later.

[-] mke@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

I volunteered because I worried for the community. There were few comments and I couldn't sit by when it seemed so straightforward to step up for the sake of something I care about.

Later, admins shared that they'd been taking care of it (things were never as dire as I feared), and they've since appointed actual moderators. Even one with actual experience, too! I trust things will be fine, now.

All this to say: I'll be here as an option, should you want more people, but I'm happy with how things turned out. Much better than the communities that (sadly) spend months looking for volunteers.

[-] mke@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

More people than I expected volunteered, which is nice to see. Since I ended up creating an account, I'll leave it here anyway.

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