This is well written.

There is proof that AI isn't what they all make it to be, in the acquisitions of these companies. Why would Anthropic need Bun or OpenAI need windsurf for billions, if agents are all knowing and ready to replace devs?

This is a modern marketing, based on FUD and sensationalism

Nice, a bit of a small web to it!

https://fev.al

I'm mostly writing about dev nowadays, and random tech stuff I've been doing, but I have a bunch of management posts from when I forayed on the dark side.

Looks like it got hugged to death

The fn keys you can almost circumvent, but the escape key? Common!

the esc key is still there. i'm still using the m1 macbook pro with the touchbar.

The original version removed the ESC key as well. By the time they added it back, the damage was done.

The worst bit was that the touch-sensitive area didn't extend as far left as the physical keyboard - so not only did the ESC key become virtual with no tactile feedback, it also shifted position.

That was when I started remapping caps lock to esc and have never gone back.

That, and on top of it people now come 5m late on 5m past so we start 10m past and finish 10m late.

Until someone stops installing gmail because it's too big (and it's coming back as a signal), I doubt anything will be done about it. In the absence of constraints, things just keep growing... without constraints. The costs of pruning/shaking embedded frameworks, refactoring, optimization, etc. cannot be justified if it's not signaled as a problem by customers.

Great article, once you find how to deactivate the snowflakes.

This is only an opinion, but it feels like UX in general is moving towards making things cute rather than usable. Liquid glass is a case in point.

This is useful to a point, in the same sense that one might beauty, but when this is all you care about, it becomes a problem.

I agreed at first, but that the blog has bad UX doesn't make the message it conveys wrong though.

A very distracting one that masks text as well. But to be fair, there's a very explicit icon in the header to deactivate them

Eurostar is headquartered in Belgium, and operates out of London.

Most of the Eurostar ExCo members are French/ worked extensively at SNCF.