There's nothing stopping an HTTP API from returning both HTML and JSON from the same endpoint. Just have the client send "text/html" or "application/json" in the Accept header, depending on what it needs.
DHH switched from Mac to Linux and is in the process of experimenting with his setup, but since he's famous within tech, it's getting a lot of attention. There's really nothing special about it.
While I agree that the value of LLMs is wildly overstated, I disagree that it is less useful than bitcoin mining, which is entirely useless. At least LLMs can produce usable output.
> Ironically, the author could well benefit from running this slop through an llm to make it more professional.
Have you considered that it is not the intent of the author to appear professional? That running it through the Slop Generator would obfuscate their intent to be snarky towards those who outsource all their thinking to Slop Generators?