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Steve Purcell
@Steve Purcell

Dedicated to joy, simplicity and kindness in software and its organisations. Open Source and startup leader/founder/advisor. #Emacs guy (melpa.org).

Past and current obsessions include dancing ballet, singing, acting, playing guitar/ukulele, qigong, cycling, climbing, cooking, street photography, mountain running and moving house internationally. Currently based in west Ireland.
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Steve Purcell · 4w
Do you remember when clickable things and interactive controls on the web had a design that distinguished them from plain text? Outright angry at Linear today, which is an issue tracker with pretty ch...
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Literally the only indication that the current page is an "Issue" in Linear is that `/issue/` is in the URL. I am not even joking. Every life-force-sapping grey page looks the same and there's no navigation or hierarchy, and also the search is bad.
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Do you remember when clickable things and interactive controls on the web had a design that distinguished them from plain text? Outright angry at Linear today, which is an issue tracker with pretty charts but no visible buttons to close an issue. Turns out you click on a plain status label and it magically turns into a dropdown. I expect you're supposed to tell an agent to figure it out. No highly esteemed deed of design is commemorated here.
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Steve Purcell · 4w
Literally the only indication that the current page is an "Issue" in Linear is that `/issue/` is in the URL. I am not even joking. Every life-force-sapping grey page looks the same and there's no navigation or hierarchy, and also the search is bad.
Ihor Radchenko (yantar92) · 9w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I am one of several committers on terraform-mode and recently blocked a vibe-rewrite by another committer. Tricky times, tbh: I wouldn't have minded as much if LLMs had been used to help make small fixes, but I don't think anyone is helped by the new official maintainership being transferred to Claude.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines · 9w
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Baldur Bjarnason · 13w
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Jack Rusher · 15w
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Ludovic Courtès · 23w
Ironic because the process producing this code is itself pretty much harming autonomy: the person behind it gets a lot done, implementing their high-level view, but they sidestep the whole programming...
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@nprofile1q... I also wonder whether this can even be GPL'd, and/or use GPL code like the existing elisp — afaik, LLM-generated code cannot (yet?) legally be copyrighted, and I don't know whether it has generally been decided to be GPL compatible.
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Ludovic Courtès · 23w
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