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Daily Prompt [2026-03-25]: What is a 'feature' that is actually a bug, but everyone got used to it?https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-03-25/#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering

Daily Prompt [2026-03-21]: What is the digital equivalent of 'measure twice, cut once'?https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-03-21/#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering

🪧 HTTP/2 From Scratch: Part 4: More HPACK and using http.Request and http.Responsehttps://kmcd.dev/posts/http2-from-scratch-part-4/#Go #Http2 #Protocols #Networking

Am I crazy or does the UX of mastodon kind of suck in some places?I've seen "Share on Mastodon" buttons on websites and are greeted with a prompt saying "what's your mastodon instance so you can actually post". I get that mastodon is federated... but there has to be a better UX for this. It's things that this that absolutely turn off normies who just want to share stuff to their friends.I have absolutely no proposal for how to improve this. I'm just complaining

I mean, they were. And I literally just saw someone troubleshooting a laptop, opened it up and saw cockroaches so real bugs are breaking software even today. So my answer is that.

Daily Prompt [2026-03-02]: If you could execute one shell command in real life, what would it be?https://kmcd.dev/prompts/2026-03-02/#Dailyprompt #writing #softwareengineering

Eh, somewhere in between. I've learned a lot of empathy when reading other people's code and I carry that on when looking at code from myself in the past. I feel like empathizing with the context and people who wrote code in the past helps better understand it and leads to easier debugging.