Mislav

Mislav

@mislav.net

Ruby, JS, command line, open source, and cats. previously: GitHub

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Mislav
@mislav.net

Some of the finest video games ever made

Blue Prince@blueprincegame.bsky.social

Not only is every title in The Hidden Depths bundle currently on sale in the Steam Autumn Sale, but you save an additional 15% with the bundle. (The savings apply even if you own some of the titles.) ANIMAL WELL | FEZ | TUNIC | Outer Wilds | Blue Prince store.steampowered.com/bundle/70688...

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@mislav.net

Can anyone explain to me how such policies alleviate maintainer stress? It sounds like the number of incoming PRs needing review stays the same; it’s just that now in addition to reviewing open PRs, the team needs to also review auto-closed PRs to see if they’re worth keeping. Am I missing something

Vitest@vitest.dev

We are updating our AI Policy to reduce maintenance stress. All pull requests are now automatically closed, unless they are created by maintainers or users from an approved list of contributors. The PR is not lost. If the team decides the change is worth pursuing, we will reopen it.

Mislav
@mislav.net

Is this just a new iteration of stale issue auto-closer bots that pretend to alleviate maintainer stress by sweeping old but still valid bug reports under the rug?

Mislav
@mislav.net

Super excited for the next stop-motion feature from the studio that brought us Coraline. Incredible work here

Count Trashula@trashmobminis.bsky.social

Here’s a cleaner Wildwood promo pic, without all the text on it. It really gives you a sense of what the Landscapes department did. We hand made every asset you see here.

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@mislav.net

“Something that might seem very crass and horrifying today [ads being fed to us by AI avatars of dead people] is not going to seem so farfetched or inappropriate once it becomes normalized and fairly common” Hear me out—how about we DON’T normalize it nor make it common www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...

npr.orgAI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetizationThe digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.
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«Our fear of AI “damaging our brains” is actually a fear of our own laziness. The technology offers an easy out from the hard work of thinking, and we worry we'll take it.»

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social

I wrote about "brain damage" from AI. Despite scary headlines, AI won't hurt you brain, but it can undermine your thinking and learning. Increasingly, however we are finding ways it can help us think and learn instead (some included prompt examples as well). www.oneusefulthing.org/p/against-br...

oneusefulthing.orgAgainst "Brain Damage"AI can help, or hurt, our thinking

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Karen Hao
@karenhao.bsky.social

Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

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I’ve googled “sean baker” and Google rendered THIS on the screen; now I’m trying to decide whether my phone got hacked or if Google completely lost it

Mislav
@mislav.net

My most boomer trait is that I don’t like seeing those social media image posts that are just large text. Sorry but if it’s not a meme, it should have been a text post. What made you think you are deserving of larger font than everyone else

Mislav
@mislav.net

A web form is asking me yet again “Enter your name exactly as it is on your passport” so here we go, let’s see if a major airline has figured out how to store a character in a database in 2025

Mislav
@mislav.net

Humanity has conquered the skies riding in giant metal machines We have traveled to nearby celestial bodies We are on the verge of making nuclear fusion viable, creating temperatures hotter than the Sun To store a character with more than a single byte in a computer? Impossible.

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KetAnthropic JoshAI
@ketanjoshi.co

"the fact that these fires are burning in unusually dry winter months has highlighted how climate change is reshaping fire seasons around the world" Jo Lauder at the ABC puts the shocking LA fires in all-important context: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

abc.net.auWhat does climate change have to do with California's fires?As Los Angeles battles catastrophic wildfires, experts say there are signs climate change is already reshaping fire seasons around the world.
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Does my fresh Ubuntu installation come with an advertisement in its login message to the terminal? The funny thing is, that URL is a 404

Mislav
@mislav.net

“Let Google do the searching for you”

Corey Quinn@quinnypig.com

Someone on Reddit searched for (the non-existent) John Wick 5, and Google spared no expense to lie to them.

Mislav
@mislav.net

Never understood why people google for things like “{famous person} net worth”, spouse, height; but when I encounter a social media profile of a dog, I instantly pull up their profile page and rigorously scan it: what exact breed are they, how old, what is their weight? I need information

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@mislav.net

This, by @collinsworth.dev, was a great read. I’ve been writing vanilla JS for so long that I’ve fallen out of the loop when it comes to frameworks, and this essay serves not only as an overview of the space right now, but also as pointers for what to learn next. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/antiqua...

joshcollinsworth.comThings you forgot (or never knew) because of ReactIf you don't often look beyond established comfortable defaults, you might be surprised to learn just how far the world of frontend has moved away from React, and how big that gap continues to grow.

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