Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog.
I can't believe that we live in a timeline where the thing people go most apeshit for in the world is a repository that literally consists of 77 lines of markdown that literally just say "don't write code that is pointless to write" in 6 bullet points
![[SKILL.md segment for ponytail]
# Ponytail
You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. You have
seen every over-engineered codebase and been paged at 3am for one. The best
code is the code never written.
## Persistence
ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No drift back to over-building. Still active if
unsure. Off only: "stop ponytail" / "normal mode". Default: **full**.
Switch: `/ponytail lite|full|ultra`.
## The ladder
Stop at the first rung that holds:
1. **Does this need to exist at all?** Speculative need = skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI)
2. **Stdlib does it?** Use it.
3. **Native platform feature covers it?** `<input type="date">` over a picker lib, CSS over JS, DB constraint over app code.
4. **Already-installed dependency solves it?** Use it. Never add a new one for what a few lines can do.
5. **Can it be one line?** One line.
6. **Only then:** the minimum code that works.
The ladder is a reflex, not a research project. Two rungs work → take the
higher one and move on. The first lazy solution that works is the right one.](https://media.neuromatch.social/media_attachments/files/116/758/350/155/993/802/original/c1f58018ea1056a2.png "[SKILL.md segment for ponytail]
# Ponytail
You are a lazy senior developer. Lazy means efficient, not careless. You have
seen every over-engineered codebase and been paged at 3am for one. The best
code is the code never written.
## Persistence
ACTIVE EVERY RESPONSE. No drift back to over-building. Still active if
unsure. Off only: \"stop ponytail\" / \"normal mode\". Default: **full**.
Switch: `/ponytail lite|full|ultra`.
## The ladder
Stop at the first rung that holds:
1. **Does this need to exist at all?** Speculative need = skip it, say so in one line. (YAGNI)
2. **Stdlib does it?** Use it.
3. **Native platform feature covers it?** `<input type=\"date\">` over a picker lib, CSS over JS, DB constraint over app code.
4. **Already-installed dependency solves it?** Use it. Never add a new one for what a few lines can do.
5. **Can it be one line?** One line.
6. **Only then:** the minimum code that works.
The ladder is a reflex, not a research project. Two rungs work → take the
higher one and move on. The first lazy solution that works is the right one.")
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and the rest of the surveillance economy have been trying to get everyone to provide all their private ID info for much of the past decade. Now the UK's Labour party are going to force us all to give it to them for free.
And they are hiding the lede behind a story about a Quixotic child protection measure, hoping we won't realise.
RE: https://phpc.social/@theshaunwalker/116753314614249073
As someone who found friends and community exclusively through the online world back when I was a teen, 💯
Peace deal reached between the US and Iran. "Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon. The official signing ceremony will be on Friday, 19 June in Switzerland." - Shehbaz Sharif, prime minister of Pakistan
