Developer jmac announced Crawlspace, a tool for the His Majesty the Worm role-playing game, and faced a question about whether it was "vibe coded" after a community member noticed the tool's brown-and…
John Gruber reflects on his experience with the proto-chatbot ELIZA, calling it a "selfless void" and arguing that people who considered it a useful confidant "suffered-a-permanent-head-injury wrong."…
A diner at a Chicago-area cafe noticed an upside-down 'S' in a 'PARIS' sign, reflecting on how similar inattention allows obviously AI-generated art to appear in public spaces without challenge. The a…
Developer Jason McIntosh resumed active development of his open-source blogging software Plerd after a pandemic-era hiatus, during which Google's legal department forbade him from working on it while …
Generative AI coding assistants are making programming language popularity less relevant, as tools like Claude Code can work with older languages like Perl if sufficient documentation exists. The auth…