My go-to for spinning up a site has been Jekyll + Bootstrap with the occasional bit of React for well over 10 years now.

While it still does the job, I'm a little curious to explore more modern options, if for nothing else to understand the choices a more junior dev would face/make today.

I'm seriously considering giving Atro a go. Is it worth it?

Yes

Guess I should have stated the questions as "what makes Astro worth while to try out?" :)

> This is somehow deemed acceptable by everyone involved

By some, not all. It's been crazy from the start and it is still crazy to pipe a script to bash!

This serves as a good reminder that relying on AI models is borrowing your tech from someone else. They can take it away or raise the prices arbitrarily.

If you rely on this as a core part of your business/profession, you will be at their mercy and subject to whatever whims or challenges they have.

I started to look at LLMs not as writing code, but rather as predicting what code it would expect someone to write given the context.

For some people that matches their expectation or they don't really have an expectation. While for other people it doesn't match their expectation.

There is something to be said for the split mechanical keyboard in the demonstration video and the sound the switches make when 'moving the mouse'.

I get the blue squiggly underline with suggestions on how I can improve what I write. I bet if I open up two drafts it will happily suggest contradictory improvements on it's own suggestions.

I'm starting to develop a squiggly line blindness, so be it if grammar in my email suffers :)

I also got the Alya message.

In addition to all the creepiness, the email had a link to stripe to pay them $500? I wonder if the email is hiding a prompt injection somewhere to trick a bot into paying?

Location: South Africa

Remote: yes please :)

Willing to relocate: not at the moment

Technologies: Linux, Web, DevOps,

Résumé/CV: Not a CV, but https://www.thebacklog.net/projects/

Email: dirk@code27.co.za

I’ve been working as a full stack developer with a focus on education for more than 13 years. Increasingly my focus has shifted from just the technology towards the product. I believe that technology should empower people and create a healthy society that we all want to be a part off. This requires deliberate effort and attention to achieve and maintain. I'm looking to build a product I believe in, for profit, while learning new things and forming meaningful professional relationships.

That was my first instinct, but thinking about it just a little it doesn't seem crazy, esp for GitHub.

How many folders do you have on your computer with some bits of code? It's probably not a terrible practice to add those folders to GitHub.

Across a big engineering company that can easily add up to way more than 3,800!

I recently had to do google takeout on an old google apps account. The account didn't have 2 factor auth and while enabling it I got stuck in a loop scanning the QR and getting a code via text message. I can't remember how I eventually broke out of the loop?

I wonder if there is a single engineer at Google who actually understands the whole registration/verification flow and all the edge cases?