AI-Generated

I’m sick of effortless AI-generated crap. Like t-shirt designs that all look exactly the same and repeat the same mistakes. Guitar that have 5-7 strings depending where on the fretboard you look? Check. Hands without thumbs? Check. Hilarious mistakes in text? Check.

Another one: plastic-looking images that replaced stock photos. I thought that stock photos were bad, but at least they were photos! Now they’re “plastic box which looks like PlayStation 5 + plastic controller which resembles Xbox pad”, or a “classroom with periodic table with elements that don’t exist”.

And don’t let me start about “AI-assisted” emotionless, one-size-fits-all prose. With forced suspense. By breaking sentences. In strangest. Places. (read with deep male voice in your head of course)

Blackened

I love Blackened by Metallica and it’s super fun to play, but holy shit, timing signatures and tempo changes in this song are crazy!

Commit Details

I noticed that in git log I’m always interested in commit date, not author date. The difference is that author date shows when author finished their work and commit date shows when it actually landed (was merged by someone else, like CI bot). Commit dates are arguably more useful because they preserve the chronology of git log. As there’s no built-in log formatting which would give me a combination of author (not committer) + commit date, I had to become a little bit creative:

# This goes e.g. to ~/.gitconfig

[pretty]
    # format:/tformat: controls spaces between commits
    commitdetails = "format:\
%C(yellow)commit %H%C(auto)%d%Creset%n\
Author:     %an <%ae>%n\
CommitDate: %cd%n%n\
%w(0,4,4)%B"

[format]
    pretty = commitdetails

Reading hurts

Reading hurts because people (me included) don’t know how to write. We don’t cross out the wrong words. (sidenote: Mark Twain reference, at least according to Civilization 6.) If you don’t know how to keep attention of your readers, do everyone a favor, yourself included, and be concise. Go straight to the point and write 3-4 sentences instead of 3-4 paragraphs, because this is the most that people bear before losing interest. (sidenote: Too bad that schools teach the exact opposite of this idea.)