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Difficulty is too many technologies available. So a beginner needs something/someone that teaches principles.

I have realized that simplier (boring) is better. E.g. simple html5 css combo is better instead of trying to navigate in JS frameworks.


Did they ask for reindexing? Did they do redirects? What are the keywords that are searched? (“Excel” is different and much more searched than “row”.)

LFS is known but it is really more a cookbook than explanatory principles.

Principles can be studied from “Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces“ book - https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

Rob Love wrote the book “Linux Kernel Development”. https://rlove.org/

And then continue with reading LFS.


Nicely done.

Online editor seems not loading in mobile Safari browser.

Imho “vector PDF” is going to be confusing for focus group. Just “PDF” is fine.


The app was not made to work on mobile. Being dedicated for writers/authors, I figured that this is something done on the PC. Because of this I did not spent time to optimize the app for mobile. Don't even though how I could fit everything on such a small screen.

Fair enough. Make a splash screen that detects mobile device. “Please use app on desktop. Small screen mobile devices are not supported.” or something similar…

Added the splash screen. This was a great suggestion. Thanks

You are welcome. Happy to help.

Great suggestion. Thank you

Getting burnout from LLM-assisted coding or any other activity is here.

What exhausts and leads to burnout, is probability.

Sometimes you get so much dopamine if it goes right.

And sometimes you feel like an idiot because LLM does so many mistakes even if you think that you prompt it right.

As the pace is so fast, you change your mind’s state so frequently and quickly that it may lead to a (mild) burnout.


> As the pace is so fast, you change your mind’s state so frequently and quickly that it may lead to a (mild) burnout.

This is so true. Cognitive brute-force always when dealing with AI.


Certainly not always. There's a hedonic adjustment which happens however, where some tasks go very smoothly without much specification and a lot of "you know what I mean" to the LLM, while others then require you to get painfully specific after it badly misinterprets your intent.

Or maybe you can just get too spoiled with it grokking your intent, then become so vague that your vague ideas are actually just bad ideas. Certainly has happened to me.


After almost 4 years with LLMs, if my prompt is too vague that I don’t know how to ask precisely, I use this prompt “I have this idea… {description here} How would ideal prompt look like to make idea realize?” And in second round I polish prompt myself. It usually works.

I don’t like how LLMs answer and as they are statistical machines I have found out that I need to check every text they produce. From the first sight everything seems cool. But it isn’t. :)

Exception is code that is so huge output you can’t read everything. But I have to try ponytail skill for coding that should shorten the output.


News sites can be very large - so running on Wordpress.com infrastructure can cause such amount. With cloud storage (provided by WP), additional support etc.

A screw can't be 99.9 percent correct—it has to be 100 percent correct. Microns matter.

Claude Code: Oops, I am sorry but I was wrong.

As you say it is quicker to do it by hand. Now.

I certainly wouldn’t entrust this job to a general-purpose (universal) tool that gets it 99.9 percent right.

But a domain-specific harness? Maybe it could work.

Hardware and engineering dont tolerate hallucinations, trust-me-bro numbers, deviations.


Thanks for mention they are not associated w/ Herdr.

I've banned myself from installing any more software for half a year. Otherwise, I'll never get rid of this anxiety caused by all the available options :)


Typography of these LLM-generated sites is bad.

Design is a question of taste, I am not commenting it.

But yes, you are right that we get tired of these sites as they are indistinguishable.

Have anyone tried to print or switch page to browser’s reader mode? Here starts hell :)


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