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• Oct 26, 2026 I love the analogy of jazz musicians and AI-empowered developers. What a time to be alive and building solutions.
  Jazz musicians can improvise freely because everyone on the bandstand knows the chord changes and the form of the tune. Without that framing, they’d just be making noise. A roadmap does the same job for a team of people and their agents. It sets the boundaries, and inside them everyone can move as fast as the tools allow.
• Oct 26, 2026 Foldable phones are just stupid.
  If you really want a foldable phone pick up a TCL FLip 2. It's retro, cheaper, and much cooler than any foldable "smart" phone.
• Oct 26, 2026 When articles are absolutely unreadable due to stupid CSS tricks

  This article is a perfect example of someone getting carried away with stupid CSS and web experiences - it overpowers the actual article's content and makes it unreadable.

  This is a disturbing trend that I'm seeing more and more. I tried to read the article with a "readability" extension (Reader View) but it only shows a portion of the text due to the stupid web experience.

  Please stop doing this.

• Oct 24, 2026 Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night' depicts the sky on July 22, 1889

  Researchers think they might have pinpointed the exact night sky that we see depicted in Vincent van Gogh's iconic painting "The Starry Night."

  He apparently painted it the day after my birthday (only 75 years before I was born).

• Oct 24, 2026 I love stop motion but not Laika - all of their films are ugly and dark.

  Why do they have such an endless fascination with such dark, similar designs?

  Laika would have folded long ago if Phil Knight wasn't directly funding his son's career.

  Laika's ugly designs have influenced other stop motion efforts too - Netflix's recent "I Am Frankelda" is also dark and ugly.

  I miss the artistic beauty and of Ray Harryhausen.