I want to love Matrix, but every time I use it I think about whether I could just convince more people to use XMPP instead

Reminds me of all the times I’ve run into “Please provide another email address we can use to verify your signup for this email address.”

So I can’t have an email address unless I already have an email address. It’s the most asinine thing

I got my first ever random contributor pull request for my little hobby project just the other day and was super excited about it. After looking it over and other work by the author, I suspect it could be AI written and that really took the wind out of my sails. I haven’t confirmed but I hate that I have to worry about it

I don’t hate Rust, but I do get annoyed by and suspicious of the evangelism for it I often see. This is by no means unique to Rust but it does seem to be seeing a very aggressive push even into trying to fix/replace tried and tested things that aren’t broken. It has that feeling of aggressively taking everything over.

Man I love this comment so much. I’ve dreamed about doing this kind of thing

Oh dang

I’m still looking for a good one that looks and feels like Pidgin or something. I don’t like designs that are so full of stuff that they pretty much assume you have them full screen.

Also: obligatory boo to AI slop

Man, I miss when Linux felt like a refuge. It’s always been flawed of course but now it feels like everyone in positions of influence are embracing the awful