I’ve had some pretty good results with Claude Code over the last 18 months or so, and “agentic engineering” (as opposed to “vibe coding”) is now very tightly integrated into my workflow. But it’s pretty easy to see how it can devolve to Dunning-Krueger-as-a-service if you don’t know what you’re doing. Which sadly appears to be the case far more often than it’s not right now.

I know this is controversial, and imperfect, but the longer this crap continues the more right I feel about this as a solution:

What if we taxed advertising? https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0177-what-if-we-taxed-adver...

It would have to be an incredibly tiny tax, no?

Now we’re into a conversation about degree, and not principle. Yes, it could be small, applied like a sales tax a percentage of the spend on advertising. The idea would be to create a price disincentive to do it. Ultimately, it’s a form of digital pollution, so the less we have of it the better (in my view).

The enshitification will continue until morale improves.

As an Aussie, it’s always amused me that we managed to name a public swimming pool after a Prime Minister who (at least as the official story goes) died whilst swimming.

I went back about 2 years ago and speed ran all of them. Somehow the sequels seemed substantially better than I remember them. In fact, on the first watch I was _so_ disappointed with 2 that I didn’t even watch 3. 20-odd years later, I had a very different (positive) experience. Not sure why. Maybe I was in a good mood.

What? I thought the idea of running Linux in a PDF was pretty cool. Apologies if that bummed your day.

And here's the PDF: https://linux.doompdf.dev/linux.pdf

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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Note: This PDF only works in Chromium-based browsers.

I thought that PDF was some sort of open standard.

Is there a writeup somewhere on how it works?

Is it turing complete, runs actual linux binary through wasm or something

edit: went to tweet RISC-V emulator in PDF

“Siclair” or “Sinclair”?

Congrats! Nice work. I’m a fellow “Phoenix |> Elixir” fan and built something similar here [0]. I’m still ironing the kinks out of mine, but I’ve moved all of my personal sites over to it and it’s been running for almost a year now.

[0]: https://laksa.io

And there’s also the Ash framework for Elixir.