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Lamenting The Enshittification of Substack The wave of enshittification has finally reached the shores of Substack in the form of Substack Reels. Yes—the attention-machine has scaled the ivory tower of our once peaceful platform, taken a big dump, and in its wake has left us with an endless supply
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First I submitted a request to Substack’s support team (who are very hard to get a hold of!), and then I published an open letter about the lack of syntax highlighting on the platform. But the request has blown to the wayside. A few days ago, I got this
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Intro: The Pokémon Company Doesn’t Miss Here’s a little something different on Slam Dunk Software—video games. But don’t worry, I’ll tie it into some open-source, linux programmer nerd stuff at the end. The Pokémon Company doesn’t miss. They’re the LeBron James of media
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It’s three months into 2025—Tailwind is old news, Rails is on v8.0.2, Remix is, like, a mature framework, Ubuntu is rewriting GNU coreutils in Rust, and programmers are vibing. Let’s all just relax, and read a nice, chill blog post—we’re gonna go back
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And they have a ferocious appetite!
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I humbly ask; on behalf of software engineers, developers, tech writers, and any other category of person that writes on Substack using code blocks; that you provide us with syntax highlighting capabilities. The Current Solutions When writing technical blogs, whether it be programming tutorials, news or current events, deep dives,
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(It's not something your Ai can do)
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On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the US Treasury was prepping a notice to lawmakers to notify them that their systems, which (obviously) contain highly sensitive, confidential data, had been compromised. (Honestly, I’m not sure how I missed this