Nice. I consumed Hacker News like this for a few weeks.

This is one of the most punk rock things humanly possible. "F** the doctors; I'll fix the cancer myself!" Gigantic respect, and massive congrats to being right!

Good on you, Mr. GitLab!

I’ll be the second then. I’ve love to use Fluxbox or xmonad on the Mac. I know that tiling mangers exist on macOS, but it’s never been the same experience.

Used to use XQuartz often years ago for (I think?) forwarding Firefox running in containers for browser-facing integration testing. It was pretty slow IIRC. Switched to VNC, which worked much better.

basically readme driven development at that point.

They write good _looking_ documentation. How good those docs are is entirely on the person/people who prompted them into existence.

This is facts. All of this talk about putting agent skills directly into repos (as Markdown!) is maddening. "Where were LITERALLY ALL OF YOU whenever the topic of docs as code came up?"

This is doubly maddening with NotebookLMs. They are becoming single sources of knowledge for large domains, which is great (except you can't just read the sources, which is very "We will read the Bible to you" energy), but, in the past, this knowledge would've been all over SharePoint, Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, etc.

I've chose to embrace the silver lining where there is now business backing to prioritize all the devx/documentation work because it's easier to quantify the "value" because LLM sessions provide a much larger sample size than inconsistent new hire onboarding (which was also a one-time process, instead of per session).

I do think people are going way overboard with markdown though, and that'll be the new documentation debt. Needs to be relatively high level and pointers, not duplicate details; agents can parse code at scale much faster than humans.

Haha indeed. At work suddenly documentation and APIs are important, but it's all for/behind "skills". Before it was always "sure, that would be nice"...

I do welcome the improvements to doc and APIs this brings though!

Uninstall the app and use it in a browser that lets you disable them. It’s the only way.

Same here. In fact, I uninstalled the YouTube app because there was no way to disable Shorts within it while I can use browser extensions to do so in Safari. (I pay for Premium.)

Then again, I hardly use YouTube, so I don’t think I’m the target audience for this.

This would be great, yeah. Disable infinite scrolling and page caching (so that you’re not infinitely scrolling horizontally) and video autoplay too. Also add opt-out time limits and breaks.