Asking infinite questions about something does not make you good at “doing” that thing, you get pretty good at asking questions

I went ahead and turned my youtube history off, I only see my subscriptions and subscription shorts.

I get zero recommendations of new/related videos (It breaks the algorithm) and it can't remember at what point of a video I was when I left it, but it is a very cheap price to pay for the shorts brainrot

Maybe you are a genius among mere mortals, but for the majority of people even after a CS degree writing a compiler is a bit difficult

It was refreshing reading this in the age of AI slop, thank you for the great read and congratulations on the project

Hey we are the bozos

Lets all get together and self-reflect on the bozos way.

This is not the same at all, you are pretty much turning the screen off with that

Isn't that the point? What's the benefit of blacking-out a display instead of putting it in no-signal standby?

This is covered in the article:

> Turning them off will cause Windows to spasm for several seconds and throw all your current window positioning out of whack.

Not gonna like, I am having to actively fight the aversion I feel when reading something was "all written by claude", it is so hard to check if it was properly done or pure garbage, I don't even take the time to check.

I know this position is wrong, but it feels hard to spend my time on something that someone else might not have spent the time to create

> I know this position is wrong, but it feels hard to spend my time on something that someone else might not have spent the time to create

I don't think that position is wrong. I felt similarly when tutoring a high-school student recently. They didn't do any work themselves, they were forced by their parent to come to me two days before a test. I offered to help, but when I realized that the student didn't care enough to study by themselves, I basically lost all motivation to help them.

It feels the same with AI-generated content. If the "creator" didn't care to spend time on it, why should I spend mine?

Implementing a 20 years old needed RFC header is the cutting edge of innovation

Not to mention saving headers, tokens, doing multiple requests using the results from the previous, etc.

This guy would say "just use bash" and ignore the average user experience.

You can do all that in a shell script though

Of course you can, but shell scripting really fucking sucks.

One moment you have a properly quoted JSON string, the next moment you have a list of arguments, oops you need to escape the value for this program to interpret it right, but another program needs it to be double-escaped, is that \, \\, or \\\\? What subset of shell scripting are we doing? Fish? modern Linux bash, macOS-compatible bash? The lowest common denominator? My head is spinning already!

If I want to script something I'm writing Python these days. I've lost too much sleep over all the "interesting" WTF situations you get yourself into with shell scripting. I've never used Hurl but it's been on my radar and I think that's probably the sweet spot for tasks like this.

Ok agreed. But you can also just use any scripting language of your choice. Now you have a completely open development platform for your APIs.

I guess parsing cmd line outputs would be annoying. Would be a worth while library to write

That’s mostly what I do when I need to interact with an API:

  _plz() {
    curl [rest of common args]
  }

Then:

  _plz GET endpoint

Just a note, this was a bit difficult to read with the amount of times you repeat the phrase “ browser, device, platform, or bot that was making a request to the application”

Yes, it makes sense. Thanks for the input. I have updated the documentation now.

Yeah - maybe "user agent"?