“Writerdeck: My Tty-Only Laptop for Maximum Focus,” n.d. https://tinkerbetter.tube/w/fH9CJGepAbZWN646ChbJ44
Have you ever seen how TTY in linux looks like? If you have linux installed ctrl+alt+f1 -\textgreater f9 allows you to open terminal session without any X server running.
So this girl decided it’s a nice way of making distraction free writing station just by disabling X server and running pure terminal.
She inspired me to do similar thing but could not get the font scalling working on my ARM64 laptop. Still w3m, lynx and vim worked properly so whenever I need distraction free writing it’s there. Laying barebone on my Pinebook Pro.
Also when you don’t start X battery discharge is soo small. Damn. Literally I can sit with my laptop for hours without worrying about conneting it to charger.
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So this girl decided it’s a nice way of making distraction free writing station just by disabling X server and running pure terminal.
She inspired me to do similar thing but could not get the font scalling working on my ARM64 laptop. Still w3m, lynx and vim worked properly so whenever I need distraction free writing it’s there. Laying barebone on my Pinebook Pro.
Also when you don’t start X battery discharge is soo small. Damn. Literally I can sit with my laptop for hours without worrying about conneting it to charger.
“I Think Anthropic and OpenAI Have Found Product-Market Fit,” n.d. https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/
Prices of LLMs are sky rocketing this year to show investors that such companies can generate profits.
Will companies we work for actually pay for these models? I think they will. At least in Q3 and Q4 as later they will really validate the benefits of using LLMs in their stack.
What I’m the most interested in are advancements in open models that anyone can use. I still consider big models a bloat that probably with proper way of weight optimizations could run on single mobile phone.
Either way our work is changing rapidly and we need to adapt to pay our bills.
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Will companies we work for actually pay for these models? I think they will. At least in Q3 and Q4 as later they will really validate the benefits of using LLMs in their stack.
What I’m the most interested in are advancements in open models that anyone can use. I still consider big models a bloat that probably with proper way of weight optimizations could run on single mobile phone.
Either way our work is changing rapidly and we need to adapt to pay our bills.
“Search Engine Results Are Truly Terrible,” n.d. https://maurycyz.com/misc/search/
Author compares different search engines and comes with conclusion that they don’t work reliably.
Few cents from me. Search engines never worked reliably. Like they were always less than 50/50 chance that you found what you needed. Back in the days they were even worse as no text analysis was performed.
The issue of AI slop articles is real and I think we can all notice it. Almost every question which in 2010 had answer on some web forum on blog post is re-parsed and uploaded in AI generated form. Not only the search engine AI features summarize search results but also blog posts on first pages of the search are AI generated.
When it comes to adblock using web without it is not possible. More than that. Without some auto clicker for cookie popups it’s tedious to browse.
Lastly I did small experiment and tried to browse web with w3m, a taxt only browser which has vim like keybindings. There was only one search engine which worked without JavaScript and it was DuckDuckGo. Google, Bing, Yahoo you name it all shown popup that they won’t display results without JS.
To all of that most results comming from DuckDuckGo were also blog posts which did not display any content without JS. Ok they actually displayed a message the website cannot be displayed without JavaScript. So yeah, IT IS FUCKED UP and we did it to ourselves by pushing FrontEnd responsibility to its limits.
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Few cents from me. Search engines never worked reliably. Like they were always less than 50/50 chance that you found what you needed. Back in the days they were even worse as no text analysis was performed.
The issue of AI slop articles is real and I think we can all notice it. Almost every question which in 2010 had answer on some web forum on blog post is re-parsed and uploaded in AI generated form. Not only the search engine AI features summarize search results but also blog posts on first pages of the search are AI generated.
When it comes to adblock using web without it is not possible. More than that. Without some auto clicker for cookie popups it’s tedious to browse.
Lastly I did small experiment and tried to browse web with w3m, a taxt only browser which has vim like keybindings. There was only one search engine which worked without JavaScript and it was DuckDuckGo. Google, Bing, Yahoo you name it all shown popup that they won’t display results without JS.
To all of that most results comming from DuckDuckGo were also blog posts which did not display any content without JS. Ok they actually displayed a message the website cannot be displayed without JavaScript. So yeah, IT IS FUCKED UP and we did it to ourselves by pushing FrontEnd responsibility to its limits.