seriocomic
@chud.space
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - Refugee Lurker from Xitter/Mastodon
Recently noticed a large increase in the number of personal blogs powered by SubStack - admittedly, biased towards HackerNews where this observation arose, but after investigating the platform, I'm not sure I understand the appeal (apparently monetisation and subscription management)?
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Recently noticed a large increase in the number of personal blogs powered by SubStack - admittedly, biased towards HackerNews where this observation arose, but after investigating the platform, I'm not sure I understand the appeal (apparently monetisation and subscription management)?
"Home-cooked software doesn’t need product-market fit—it just needs to fit you." - mrkaran.dev/posts/ai-hom...
Except when you _want_ to make it for others 🤨
Except when you _want_ to make it for others 🤨
AI and Home-Cooked Software
AI is enabling a new category of personal software. Welcome to the era of home-cooked applications.
mrkaran.dev
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
"Home-cooked software doesn’t need product-market fit—it just needs to fit you." - mrkaran.dev/posts/ai-hom...
Except when you _want_ to make it for others 🤨
Except when you _want_ to make it for others 🤨
1 day to build a working function
2 months to solve for all the edge cases
2 months to solve for all the edge cases
a cartoon illustration of a hammer with a penguin on it
ALT: a cartoon illustration of a hammer with a penguin on it
media.tenor.com
July 4, 2025 at 5:54 AM
1 day to build a working function
2 months to solve for all the edge cases
2 months to solve for all the edge cases
Nuts!
Claude (Sonnet 3.7 > 4.0 > Code) - lines of code: 160k (as in 'thousands')
me: 12 (as in 'twelve')
Claude (Sonnet 3.7 > 4.0 > Code) - lines of code: 160k (as in 'thousands')
me: 12 (as in 'twelve')
June 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Nuts!
Claude (Sonnet 3.7 > 4.0 > Code) - lines of code: 160k (as in 'thousands')
me: 12 (as in 'twelve')
Claude (Sonnet 3.7 > 4.0 > Code) - lines of code: 160k (as in 'thousands')
me: 12 (as in 'twelve')
did a random check on a domain - saw that the 1st archive snapshot was 9999 days ago - thought "that's not right"... but...
June 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
did a random check on a domain - saw that the 1st archive snapshot was 9999 days ago - thought "that's not right"... but...
"whatchya doin?"
- making stuff...
"yeah, but whatchya really doin?"
- watching LLMs make stuff for me while I sit back in my faux glory...
- making stuff...
"yeah, but whatchya really doin?"
- watching LLMs make stuff for me while I sit back in my faux glory...
May 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"whatchya doin?"
- making stuff...
"yeah, but whatchya really doin?"
- watching LLMs make stuff for me while I sit back in my faux glory...
- making stuff...
"yeah, but whatchya really doin?"
- watching LLMs make stuff for me while I sit back in my faux glory...
First time "vibe-coding" (VS Code, Github CoPilot using Sonnet 3.7 + Agent). Pretty impressed! Testing guard-rails are needed, as is constant revision, documentation. But the sheer amount of code and functionality created (tested and working) is significant 🤖🦾
April 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
First time "vibe-coding" (VS Code, Github CoPilot using Sonnet 3.7 + Agent). Pretty impressed! Testing guard-rails are needed, as is constant revision, documentation. But the sheer amount of code and functionality created (tested and working) is significant 🤖🦾
Reposted by seriocomic
He did it because those tux-wearing bastards never once said "thank you."
April 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
He did it because those tux-wearing bastards never once said "thank you."
Political tipping point for @bsky.app as heavy-weight (ex)politicians like @hillaryclinton.bsky.social join the community (as is their right) - Twitter became a political echo-chamber based on post/feed algorithms, not sure how Bluesky will manage/adapt to maintaining civility in #free-speach
April 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Political tipping point for @bsky.app as heavy-weight (ex)politicians like @hillaryclinton.bsky.social join the community (as is their right) - Twitter became a political echo-chamber based on post/feed algorithms, not sure how Bluesky will manage/adapt to maintaining civility in #free-speach
Reposted by seriocomic
I still have bookmarks in my sidebar (why uses top/menu bars!?) from 2019. I have them staring at me with the same urgency as lint on the floor the robot-vacuum missed...
March 17, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I still have bookmarks in my sidebar (why uses top/menu bars!?) from 2019. I have them staring at me with the same urgency as lint on the floor the robot-vacuum missed...
Managing virtual environments for Python coding is gotten to the point where I'm lost every time - was it PyEnv? HomeBrew? Conda? which version... where... global? Did I alias Python3/pip3 to python/pip???
March 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Managing virtual environments for Python coding is gotten to the point where I'm lost every time - was it PyEnv? HomeBrew? Conda? which version... where... global? Did I alias Python3/pip3 to python/pip???
It puzzles me to see so many "top" SEO's that are completely happy/oblivious to have suboptimal handles on BlueSky - why are they so content to have @generic_name_here.bsky.social when they could (should?) have @their_custom.domain ??
March 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It puzzles me to see so many "top" SEO's that are completely happy/oblivious to have suboptimal handles on BlueSky - why are they so content to have @generic_name_here.bsky.social when they could (should?) have @their_custom.domain ??
Surprising (in a good way) discovery/bonus of replacing my House to Shed (100m) #Wi-Fi Link - the new TP-Link EAP211-Bridge (replacement for my Pharos units) also comes with their own Wi-Fi Radios - extending my Wi-Fi to a previously annoying black-spot. www.omadanetworks.com/au/business-...
Omada 5GHz 867Mbps Indoor/Outdoor Wireless Bridge
The Omada wireless bridge, EAP211-Bridge KIT, delivers up to 867 Mbps wireless data rates and gives a long-range transmission up to 1 km. Auto-pairing and centralised management enpower your efficient...
www.omadanetworks.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Surprising (in a good way) discovery/bonus of replacing my House to Shed (100m) #Wi-Fi Link - the new TP-Link EAP211-Bridge (replacement for my Pharos units) also comes with their own Wi-Fi Radios - extending my Wi-Fi to a previously annoying black-spot. www.omadanetworks.com/au/business-...
Great recap with examples on investing in your "own space" on the net by @den.dev : den.dev/blog/be-a-pr...
Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet
The year is 2025. The internet in the shape that we've known it in the early 2000s is no longer there. Or, not quite in the shape that we've seen it before. This is not just plain nostalgia talking - ...
den.dev
January 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Great recap with examples on investing in your "own space" on the net by @den.dev : den.dev/blog/be-a-pr...
Dust gathers on a few ideas I'd like to write about, but don't have any single "home" for them - some are SEO specific, so might be worth a LinkedIn post, some are tech related where I used to blog, and I feel the socials are just too ephemeral...
December 26, 2024 at 10:56 AM
Dust gathers on a few ideas I'd like to write about, but don't have any single "home" for them - some are SEO specific, so might be worth a LinkedIn post, some are tech related where I used to blog, and I feel the socials are just too ephemeral...
The amount of shenanigans this change to Apple Wi-Fi privacy for my DHCP reserved IPs has caused is somewhat annoying: support.apple.com/en-au/102509
Use private Wi-Fi addresses on Apple devices – Apple Support (AU)
To improve privacy, your device will use a different MAC address with each Wi-Fi network.
support.apple.com
December 18, 2024 at 12:32 AM
The amount of shenanigans this change to Apple Wi-Fi privacy for my DHCP reserved IPs has caused is somewhat annoying: support.apple.com/en-au/102509
No one is more pedantic than me - proof: I alphabetically sort my HTTP headers
November 28, 2024 at 11:28 PM
No one is more pedantic than me - proof: I alphabetically sort my HTTP headers
And with that, the old Mastodon instance is disabled, and this is the new home of short-posts by @chud.space / aka 'Seriocomic'
November 28, 2024 at 9:57 PM
And with that, the old Mastodon instance is disabled, and this is the new home of short-posts by @chud.space / aka 'Seriocomic'
Jeepers, the upgrade path on Mastodon from the 4.2.x to the 4.3.x is scary enough for me to consider switching to the other twitter if I fail...
November 20, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Jeepers, the upgrade path on Mastodon from the 4.2.x to the 4.3.x is scary enough for me to consider switching to the other twitter if I fail...
Thanks USA for capping off my crap week - Alpaca died, mowed over phone, dropped/cracked new phone, now Don the Con is back...
November 6, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Thanks USA for capping off my crap week - Alpaca died, mowed over phone, dropped/cracked new phone, now Don the Con is back...
Not gonna lie - that SpaceX Starship 5 launch/catch video was pretty freaking awesome - highlight reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUSWUwbjTtQ
October 13, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Not gonna lie - that SpaceX Starship 5 launch/catch video was pretty freaking awesome - highlight reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUSWUwbjTtQ
Gosh golly, the whole Wordpress / Matt Mullenweg vs WPE thing is such a slow-motion train wreck - the number of people on HN telling Matt to "shut up" (e.g. lawyer advice) is insane: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726197
October 3, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Gosh golly, the whole Wordpress / Matt Mullenweg vs WPE thing is such a slow-motion train wreck - the number of people on HN telling Matt to "shut up" (e.g. lawyer advice) is insane: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726197
Speaking of CMS's - all this brouhaha in the WordPress space led me to discover that the only WP Trademark subl-icensee is "Newmark" and that Newmark owns a heap of known hosting solutions and even Yoast (of the SEO Plugin fame). So much #TIL in one day!
September 28, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Speaking of CMS's - all this brouhaha in the WordPress space led me to discover that the only WP Trademark subl-icensee is "Newmark" and that Newmark owns a heap of known hosting solutions and even Yoast (of the SEO Plugin fame). So much #TIL in one day!