Ayush Agarwal
@ayushnix.com
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Now that personal computing seems to be dying, I wonder if people are still apologetic about using LLMs.
December 6, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Now that personal computing seems to be dying, I wonder if people are still apologetic about using LLMs.
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down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...
The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...
eev.ee
July 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...
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No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
January 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.
Reposted by Ayush Agarwal
A plea: please disable syntax highlighting on you blog.
You’re not supposed to have so much code on the page that it could help, half the time it guesses the language wrong and makes it unreadable, and—my biggest syntax highlighting pet peeve—why make comments harder to read if you included them!!
You’re not supposed to have so much code on the page that it could help, half the time it guesses the language wrong and makes it unreadable, and—my biggest syntax highlighting pet peeve—why make comments harder to read if you included them!!
November 23, 2024 at 11:57 AM
A plea: please disable syntax highlighting on you blog.
You’re not supposed to have so much code on the page that it could help, half the time it guesses the language wrong and makes it unreadable, and—my biggest syntax highlighting pet peeve—why make comments harder to read if you included them!!
You’re not supposed to have so much code on the page that it could help, half the time it guesses the language wrong and makes it unreadable, and—my biggest syntax highlighting pet peeve—why make comments harder to read if you included them!!