In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more…very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself.

External discipline is the only road to happiness for those unfortunates whose self-absorption is too profound to be cured in any other way.

via: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2091#comment-326664

not a bad point, i wanted to add: a lot of brilliant individuals get poached by finance (even though their degrees are in theoretical physics).

if AI art makes hollywood slop so disgusting it finally convinces creative minds to forego financial gain motives in exchange for pursuing genuinely creative projects, we might actually end up with a renaissance of good art, not just content.

A vscode file explorer which shows only recently modified files based on a combination of Git history and your pending changes - FreHu/vscode-fresh-file-explorer

Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace.

GTK-NoCSD - An LD_PRELOAD library to disable CSD in GTK3/4, LibHandy, and LibAdwaita apps.

In this post we are going to

Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow.

A pub/sub notification system that I did not know about.

article about Prothean (some “AI” company) just making shit up

and also some more general comments about LLMs

A new TypeScript TUI with performance exceeding OpenTUI.

In which Jack can’t get enough of the way that Robby smells.

Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.