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#LLM coding agents (particularly #ClaudeCode and #Cursor) are powerful. But they can leave a mess in their wake if you let them do too much all at once.

I'm spending the morning cleaning up generated code that looks like this:

<div class="compose-drawer">
    <i class="compose-drawer__pull"/>
    <button class="compose-drawer__btn compose-drawer__secondary"/>
    <some_other_set_of_elements/>
</div>


<style lang="scss">
compose-drawer {
    background: black;


    &__pull {
        background: white;
    }


    &__btn {
        some-style: something;
    }


    &__secondary {
        some-style: something-else;
    }
}
</style>

I don't use that __ syntax - maybe that's something that real front-end coders do, but it looks terrible to me. In tens of thousands of lines of code, I don't do that anywhere, but the LLM decided it should write a lot of it like that. What I generally write is more like this:

<div class="compose-drawer">
    <i class="pull"/>
    <button class="secondary"/>
    <some_other_set_of_elements/>
</div>


<style lang="scss">
compose-drawer {
    background: black;


    .pull {
        background: white;
    }


    button {
        some-style: something;


        &.secondary {
            some-style: something-else;
        }
    }
}
</style>

It may not look like that matters much, but with deeply nested HTML, those long a__b__c__d class names just piss me off.

It's probably the sort of stylistic choice I could enforce in an instructions file and I should look into that. But in general, the LLM doesn't seem to do a great job with CSS stylistic conformity. The code it generates works, but I hate looking at it and certainly wouldn't want to impose it on anyone else without adjustment.

The Dress™ arrived. It's right from the package, so it will need some ironing to get into shape.
But it fits pretty well!

The bow in the back is so large that it's nearly impossible to see the back neckline

Backing Up Spotify

Link: https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339

RE: https://mastodon.online/@electrek/115751865309327929

What an odd (and bad, in my rather uninformed opinion) decision by the Delaware Supreme Court.

Please, people. Stop buying #Tesla. This company is not only broken, it’s literally financing Elon’s evil deeds. The man has starved 600,000 people through DOGE’s destruction of USAID. He’s a white supremacist. He’s a Hitler sympathizer. He’s polluting the sky with junk satellites. He’s poisoning poor people with his data center emissions. What more does he have to do for you to stop sending him your money?

#FuckTesla

FYI: 20 U.S.C §20i(a) (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/76i): "The Board shall construct for the Smithsonian Institution, with funds raised by voluntary contributions, a building to be designated as the John F. Kennedy Center". In other words, the name is set by statute. And I reviewed all of the other relevant sections of the statute—none give the Board the power to change the name. In fact, there are other provisions that make sure that this stays as a memorial to Kennedy, e.g., §76j(b)(1): "no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts."

Wookash interviewed me a while back and the video is now public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7nIghaXJ80

spoiler: we don't really even make it past the introductory questions despite the length :)

목이 가니까 듀오링고 음성인식이 안되네 -_-;;;

Today's #caturday is Cat vs Cream Cake! (We stopped the cat in time.)

Worked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.

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ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ

Big GPUs don't need big PCs

Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/big-gpus-dont-need-big-pcs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338016

Hello, it’s time (for breakfast)

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties

and as usual if you take a look at the repo, I am not claiming any of it is of particularly high quality. it's just something I mess around with in my spare time for fun.

anyway, #rue-lang is still gonna be "higher level than rust, lower level than Go", but I have a lot of things that I'm still not sure how they're gonna work out

I don't think it's "better than Rust" or something but engaging deeply with some of this design stuff has made me realize why Zig does some of the things that it does, and why some of Rust's choices contribute to the way it is. that's been very gratifying.

the thing i'd mostly talk about in the post is actually how, as I investigate designing this language for myself, I've come to appreciate #ziglang more than I used to. I've always respected andrew a lot, but it wasn't ever for me. But I'm appreciating it more and more.

some of that is due to: 1. me learning things and getting better. i think i'm sequencing features better this time around 2. my design vision being a bit stronger. i have less layers of IRs. 3. models getting better. this is using all latest claude stuff 4. me getting better at agentic dev.

One quick way to lose my respect is to say "we don't know whether AI is gaining consciousness"

WITH A STRAIGHT FACE.

Oh. My. God. Yes we do. Large language models are not intelligent. They are not conscious.

If this is difficult for you (or someone you know) to understand, please read the book AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.

#ai #chatgpt #llm #artificialintelligence #openai #marketing #capitalism #gemini #technofeudalism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pruef_hh/115753660335684848

#muenchen #pruef t am 10.01. auch wieder

Ich habe immer 1-2 Großpackungen Süßzeug dabei und verteile; macht Menschen happy.
Wer mindestens drei Freunde / Bekannte mitbringt kriegt und mich findet kriegt extra Süssigkeiten. Deal?

#munich

우리 강의실에서 페미니즘 얘기하자 - 여성학 강의실을 들여다보다 ⇢ www.snujn.com/news/73453 도현 씨는 “이전에는 군가산점제 폐지에 부정적이었는데, 강의를 듣고 이것을 성별 문제가 아닌 군필자와 미필자 간 문제로 다시 보게 됐다”고 말했다. 남성이 손해를 보고 여성은 이득을 보는 단순한 구도를 넘어, 남성 사이에서도 병역 이행 여부에 따라 군가산점제에 대한 의견이 갈릴 수 있다는 점을 생각하게 된 것이다.

起きるか……始めるぞ今日を。

I guess this is never going to be fixed.

Save the date schonmal vor den Feiertagen: Am 10.01. gehen wir wieder gemeinsam auf die Straße!

📅 10.01.2026 (Samstag)
⏰ 14 Uhr
📍 Hamburger Innenstadt (genauer Ort folgt)

#pruef

아바타 불과 재를
아이맥스 CoLa 레이저, 돌비시네마로 관람하고 포맷별로 비교한 후기를 블로그에 작성했습니다.
https://creativesilver.tistory.com/413572

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Backing Up Spotify

Link: https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339

asking my British friends shit like "When you burn the edges of food do you say it’s a bit chippy instead of crispy?" and "do you call spongebob squarepants spongebob squaretrousers up there"

“Axis power political yaoi love triangle analysis”, for a truly unholy combination of words

Truly amazingly unhinged video

https://youtu.be/jvb46ldR2k8

엄마가 섬그늘에 굴따러 가면~

귀에 걸면 귀걸이 코에 걸면 코걸이 볼에 걸면

Being against #TERFs isn't being against women; it's opposing oppression. It's against the most despicable people. Deal with it.

Automated Equality Checks in C++ with Reflection (C++26) https://lobste.rs/s/dmqgar #c++
https://lemire.me/blog/2025/11/09/automated-equality-checks-in-c-with-reflection-c26/

I am looking for a web application framework https://snug.moe/notes/agi8dp7fm1d837xj

Now that Italian food is protected by UNESCO, can I denunce this establishment for putting cream in carbonara? 🇮🇹

RE: https://mastodon.online/@electrek/115751865309327929

What an odd (and bad, in my rather uninformed opinion) decision by the Delaware Supreme Court.

Please, people. Stop buying #Tesla. This company is not only broken, it’s literally financing Elon’s evil deeds. The man has starved 600,000 people through DOGE’s destruction of USAID. He’s a white supremacist. He’s a Hitler sympathizer. He’s polluting the sky with junk satellites. He’s poisoning poor people with his data center emissions. What more does he have to do for you to stop sending him your money?

#FuckTesla

最近サボってた終了画面の設定もやったので​​​​

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

As a sabrecat, I love the idea of a .meow gTLD so much that I've just supported @dotmeow.meow ∙ see ya around ^-^' 's crowdfunding campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round-gtld-application

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anyway just to be clear I'm not overly negative on rust or anything, that's not why i'm really worried about replies, just that it's a good opportunity for a general "year in review" kind of thing and well, that may get more spicy

Heute wäre der 74. Geburtstag von Wau Holland (20.12.51), Hacker-Aktivist und Mitgründer des Chaos Computer Clubs. Hörspiel von Nika Bertram https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/programm/sendungen/wdr3-hoerspiel/wau-holland-daten-sicherheit-hacker-100.html

Honestly, if there's anything you want in a senior engineer, it's probably the ability to say "You're about to try something that seems smart but I can tell you from experience that it isn't.'

I feel like I flubbed an interview because, while I was describing my work with xpaths, the interviewer caught me off guard by asking how I would implement a simple xpath engine. I was caught off guard and answered "I think that's a mistake. I've seen a lot of half-assed xpath implementations. I would rely on the engine optimized by very smart people, as if it were a compiler." Really the interviewer was asking "Do you know about trees and graphs?"

Happy Caturday!

Our heating isn't working properly at the moment, so I needed to cover my feet.

Willow volunteered unasked to keep my feet really toasty.

Rusty prefers to keep a respectful distance from the boss of the house.

#Caturday #MaineCoon #MaineCoons #Coonie #Coonies #RescueCat #RescueCats

Dear to whom it may concern,

My name is Dr. Bernadette “bird” Bowen and I was fired for telling the truth about Charlie Kirk in September. If someone could hire me before I potentially become homeless in a month or two, that would be great LOL

In virtual solidarity,

Dr. bird

not a newt!!

로또나 됐으면 로또를 사야…

I've tried a few times in the past to build Python bindings for a C library and always gave up pretty quickly. This time I was looking to make Python bindings for https://github.com/fastserial/lite3.

Antigravity + Gemini has gotten everything working over the past hour or so. It's been 20 years since I've done any C, so not sure I'd call any of this production-level code, but it's been fun to play around with it at least.