Randomly found on Instagram a girl playing live by writing code, I found out there are such tools to play music with code, awesome to see and – as usual – I want to understand better those Sonic-Pi, Strudel.
In this article Suren Enfiajyan talks about software bloat: some software bloat is a reasonable trade-off. Modern software grows because it must handle compatibility, abstraction layers, and faster development through frameworks. This extra weight can save developer time and improve maintainability. However, bloat becomes a problem when it’s caused by unnecessary dependencies or over-engineering. The key is balance: avoid premature optimization, but also avoid architectural choices that lock in inefficiency later.
About the never ending AI growth, I’ve read about Devstral from the European team of Mistral, it’s a local model to develop software, all local, no third parties cloud services. This seems interesting, due to privacy concerns, but… I didn’t understand if it’s possible to use it inside my VsCode stack. Not tested for now.
In previous posts I wrote about an application I’ve tried to create with vibe coding, that app should help you to find your books in a home library where an affordable order of the books really doesn’t exists. When I saw this video I know for sure that this ChatGPT example will not found and recognize a lot of that books on the shelves: a lot of resolution and good lights is needed to make OCR on all those books spines.
Hey! jQuery is back. Version four: this version is a cleanup release: no major new features, just removal of deprecated APIs and a full focus on modern browsers. Upgrade only if your codebase is already clean on jQuery 3.x; otherwise, maybe the real value is gradually moving away from jQuery altogether.
I’ve read about this rogue mechanism to scam users, a phishing technique that reproduce the windows popup completely to trick the visitors and ask for passwords! The basic test to detect it is to move the popup over the browser UI, if it doesn’t exit the site window it’s a scam (you can see it in a video of Alessandro Raponi)
Nice AI prompts to build things:
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