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I wouldn't call it completely broken; Pressing buttons still does something, it looks like an OR filter instead of an AND. It should be updated to be an AND filter as that's more intuitive.


If you squint, it looks kinda maybe superficially useful? But if you actually critically look at it, it makes no sense.

The categories are clearly LLM generated from the GhostPepper codebase, with vague low level descriptions and links to code. Most categories apply to every listed project.

The UI is the same tiny bit of LLM generated information displayed five different confusing ways. Like seriously, click on a project and you first see a bunch of haphazard feature cards, then a bunch of “feature ... active” rows. Looks fancy, but actually just noise. Textbook slop.

Better would be a simple awesome-style markdown page, with a feature matrix having categories and descriptions curated by a human that actually understands and cares about the domain.

Sorry if this is harsh, but passing off LLM output as “curation” is particularly insulting to me.


My website is at https://mulquin.com

I used to care that I wasn't "writing enough" and that I spent more time tinkering with the code than making content. But the reality is that I'm the main audience and that anxiety was coming from potential perception of others.

Tinker away tinkerers!



To be pedantic, it is still a conspiracy, just no longer a theory.


To be pedantic, a theory that has been proven correct is still a theory, right?


I found it cute until I realised it didn't disappear when you let it finish shrinking, nor if you click the little blue square. Then I found myself annoyed by it and left the page.


Continuing the confessions: I do php.net/<function_name> at least twice a day


Is that a bad thing? I also call man <libc function> several times per day, most times I think I already know the calling semantics, but there is always some nitpick about the calling semantics or a bug description, that I didn't had in mind.


Is there a way for you to split the configuration out into a separate file? That way you can tell it to explicitly ignore it altogether.


They do it intentionally to annoy you in particular.


This is true: when I load the page I just get stock photos of business meetings and cubicle …


Non-paywall link: https://archive.md/SpAV5


To be fair, the blog post does not explicitly say anywhere that the week was for bug fixes only.


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