Activity Log
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 07:58
@funkatron Nice! Yeah a workflow where I actually found it helpful was writing something (an idea or requirements summary), and prompting the LLM to ask clarifying questions.
It was just as exhausting as a regular human meeting, but way easier to keep participants on the agenda.
The way I put it in an interview the other day is that the marketing materials have us trying to use LLMs to find answers, but I’ve found it more useful helping me find better questions.
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 09:27
working on an interactive theme toggle for my site because shiny is fun and may attract jobs
using _hyperscript because hyper shiny is hyper fun and let’s see if we can attract interesting jobs
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 12:45
Oh hey I recognize that voice that’s Riz (who I mostly know from Swetshop Boys)
#NowPlaying via #KEXP
Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) by K’naan, Snow Tha Product, Residente & Riz Ahmed
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 14:22
Every place I worked that proclaimed “bring your whole self to work” tapped out before I even hit 30% of my whole self.
The ones who didn’t mention it at all did much better, oddly enough.
The “bring your whole self” folks don’t bring their whole self to work either, but they’re way better at compartmentalizing. So they don’t really think of Me Who Clocks In To Work and Me Who Shouts Racist Slurs in COD as the same person.
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 15:24
The frustration that CSS-only Masonry layout kinda works in Firefox-based browsers like Zen, and basically nowhere else.
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 15:30
@gsuberland I’m a wizard with a few dozen commands that are muscle memory, never got around to the rest, and stopped caring years ago. There’s a particular approach to splits and tabs I’m fond of.
But I’m also fond of opening Zed or VS Code for high-level browsing of code or shared sessions.
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 18:23
I use loads of tech under the AI buzzword umbrella, including LLMs. I use them sparingly – mainly while I’m thinking my way through an idea. Basically figuring where it seems confused or has questions is roughly where a neurotypical teammate would get confused or have questions.
But I don’t prompt an LLM for code, and even code autocomplete frustrates me often enough that I just skip it currently. Nope. Just “here’s what I’m thinking about. Ask me questions to help me refine my ideas.”
(took a couple tries typing this. I smell food.)
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 18:54
Looked at Steam friends status and it said @ceejbot was “surviving extreme conditions” and aren’t we all but then “surveying a planet” oh sorry my bad I misunderstood.
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 22:37
Converting a complex Tailwind layout back to actual CSS is sufficiently headache-inducing that I am prepared to use the term “vendor lock-in” to describe the consequences of relying on it.
hackers.town: 2025-02-07 Fri 22:39
Tailwind is a fantastic framework for applications.
Alas, I’m trying to make a web site over here.