Consumption: April 2026

A list of some things I consumed in the month of April 2026.

Reading:

• Slop Is Not Necessarily The Future
• I quit. The clankers won.
• The Cognitive Dark Forest
• The AI Marketing BS Index
• Creation
• Your sign-up form is a weapon
• Significant raise of reports
• The Art of Sitting Still
• Modern SQLite: Features You Didn’t Know It Had
• Protect Your Shed
• Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code.
• Very small engines
• The XY Problem
• Maybe there's a pattern here?
• The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)
• The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
• User disengagement
• The peril of laziness lost
• Why AI Sucks At Front End
• I Just Want Simple S3
• Your Favorite Brands Got Worse On Purpose
• Less human AI agents, please.
• AI Resistance is Growing
• On commenting and approving pull requests
• 3 constraints before I build anything
• It's OK to abandon your side-project.
• we need a federation of forges

Movies/TV Shows:

• Good Fortune (2025)
• Raymond & Ray (2022)
• Chef (2014)