Inspiring videos that are still relevant today. It's beautiful to see people coming together and living in a way that makes them feel joy and be comfortable in relatively simple ways. Wealth seems to bring with it seclusion. Private roads and estates, big empty houses. In contrast the counter culture examples show people living in sprawling communities helping one another.
If I saw this editor a year ago I would have jumped on it. In today's AI focused development it's not worth the hassle for me to learn new shortcuts and UI layout.
The demo video voice felt super AI generated. Which it many ways felt like it was going against the target audience, people that still code by using an editor and it's shortcuts.
I'm a long time Unity developer that in the past year picked up Godot. The speed at which Godot loads compared to Unity is staggering, it's just so much faster. When I returned to Unity I raised that my flow state was constantly being broken in a way that it wasn't when using Godot.
Entering flow is one of the beautiful things I love about programming. And being knocked out of it often feels like a physical jolt.
Lobster seems to take the idea of optimisation and speed to new levels. Entering and remaining in flow must be even easier. First though, I'll need to put the time into learning enough to be able to do it!
Today I heard two negative cases from a friend interacting her clients. The first client replied to her emails by sending ChatGPT logs, apparently unable to communicate on his own. The second believed a ChatGPT hallucination that he was entitled to a special Amazon business account. She had to explain to him that ChatGPT will tell him convincing bullshit, which was news to him. One can only wonder what terrible choices and wrong beliefs he had made up until the moment of enlightenment.
MUDs taught about the real world from the confines of my bedroom. As a teenager I was giving responsibility through my guild and had to negotiate with adults from all around the world.
My main MUD was Discworld MUD which was started in 1991. I can't describe the excitement I felt on finding a game where the world continued when I was offline. Where I could go to make friends with the thrill of also making enemies.
It was the perfect place to escape to, which taught me about addiction and many aspects of myself.
My character is still alive after 20 something years and if I feel like logging in I'm sure there will be friendly faces who remember me.
It is eye opening remaining friends with people who's views and actions are completely opposed to ones own. There's no point attempting to educate them (often it makes them go harder against you). But by finding out about their lives and understanding where fear has replaced love one can learn a lot. And hopefully use that knowledge to find ways to speak out and create a society that aligns with ones ethics.
Peaked my interest. And bam. Gone again.