40+ year glasses wearer here who learned this perhaps only 10 years ago, I think this is the correct way. The one annoying part is the difference that the glass coating makes. The water just falls off some of my glasses with barely as much as a light tap. Others length tend to hang onto the water in beads, so I have to actually wait for it to dry (or walk around with water spots, which I also do when impatient...)

I’ve been wearing glasses for just under 30 years, and only last month I decided to actually try and clean my glasses with the tiny microfibres cloth they give you when you buy a pair of glasses rather than throwing it out because it gets annoying in your case because you just use your t-shirt… I’m not a 100% microfibre guy

Use lens paper to blot the water off.

I want to see the breakdown of fascist vs. non-fascist VCs, too!

Seeing my own kids (teens) go through some of this, I'm becoming slightly less pessimistic as it all shakes out. Among their peer groups there does seem to be an opinion forming that sure, anyone can just ask ChatGPT for quick answers on assignments, but actually knowing stuff is a bit of a "flex" that's respected.

300 years ago when I was in high school I had a friend choose to go the HVAC trade school route instead of college. He chose the hardest school in the country where they did most things manually so that students understood how things work. It removed the "magic" some tools provide. I was pretty impressed he was wise enough to do that. He's exceptional at his job by the way.

I think we have a tendency to think the worst of your people. They frequently surprise me though.

Teens also fucking hate AI, on a cultural-ideological level.

I think they may hate what it may be doing to their future outlooks but they use it as much as they do social media

Yeah, that's exactly why I added the second clause.

Nevertheless. The peer pressure is to be anti-AI.

They use it and hate it at the same time.

I hate it sometimes too. But it's sort of like being mad at math.

More like being mad at social media in my mind.

And then the client asks for SAML & OIDC support, and codes via SMS, and god knows what else.

Indeed. Password auth was always easy to do, and it seems half the commenters here think that's all you need in modern times.

Then customers come and ask for SSO, SAML, OIDC, their niche auth protocol, 2FA, Pass phrases, etc...

And now your auth is a mess and a dedicated job to maintain and evolve.

Can definitely relate. It is no more complicated than I really enjoyed designing and writing code by hand, and get very little joy out of agentic processes. I use the tools and see the velocity increase, but it has just become… bland work. I completely get others’ excitement around the tools and the newfound “super powers”, but it hasn’t much resonated with me.

That’s ok! I was fascinated by coding when many others weren’t and found a great career as a result. A different cohort will love Development 2.0.

Impossible to tell! Even when I have established patterns, I do take alternatives for a spin… usually a solid week to give them a chance. Most times I’m just reaffirming that I like what I’ve got, but I do occasionally discover features that are new/interesting.

It’s funny… my initial reaction to your comment was that it’s a bit persnickety to expect that. However, I’m coming around to agreeing. I recently spent a non-trivial amount of time responding to a PR into one of my projects. I did have a sense it was mostly AI, but the changes were reasonable with a bit of adjustment. Wrote some feedback and guidance for the first time contributor and bam, they closed the PR, haven’t heard back.

Here's my optimistic take: the fundamental things that spark joy about learning a novel algorithm, pattern, technique, etc. haven't gone anywhere, and there's no reason to think those things won't continue to be interesting. Furthermore, it seems like reading code isn't going anywhere too soon, and that definitely benefits from clean code. It follows that someone who can actually recognize clean from spaghetti, and tell the LLM to refactor it into XYZ style, is going to be relatively more valuable.

Random side note: my teen son has grown up with iPhone-level tech, yet likes and finds my old Casio F91 watch very interesting. I still have faith :)

You can export from their app very easily.

Can you export it once apple locks your account?

I doubt it. But I keep my own encrypted backup anyway (as I did with 1P, too), so realistically only the most recently added/updated passwords are at risk.

It's a programming language that some people like, and or would like to see become more mainstream?

I think any presumption about what "we all know" will earn you downvotes.