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The modern app

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Thursday

2 Jul<br>2026

Today I’m introducing the next generation of code editor. A modern app to satiate the needs of the discerning coder. We’re talkin’ blazing fast collaboration between man and machine.<br>Try out the demo below (for best experience: desktop Chrome, obvs).<br>If you’re reading this in RSS I have no clue what you’re about to see… maybe visit the demo it’s a fun one!<br>The Modern Editor<br>Update ready v0.420 (restart required)

A modern app requires JavaScript, bro.

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Thinking…

an icon bar full of indecipherable icons with no label<br>Activate Windows<br>Go to Settings to activate Windows.

Syntax errors:3453<br>CI warnings:6462<br>Merge conflicts:1130<br>Tokens maxxed:9512<br>Logged in as:ghp_nD7FQLmQlmaoRis27Lq2C69HWTFwsU420CvL

Fix the bug and make no mistake<br>The user has asked me to fix his shitty code and to “make no mistake”… is he stupid?<br>Thinking…<br>Thinking harder…<br>On second review his code is garbage slop, should I search the internet and plagiarise ZA̡͊͠͝LGΌ ISͮ̂ TO͇̹̺ͅƝ̴ȳ̳ TH̘Ë͖́̉ ͠P̯͍̭O̚​N̐Y̡ H̸̡̪̯ͨ͊̽̅̾̎Ȩ̬̩̾͛ͪ̈́̀́͘ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬC̷̙̲̝͖ͭ̏ͥͮ͟Oͮ͏̮̪̝͍M̲̖͊̒ͪͩͬ̚̚͜Ȇ̴̟̟͙̞ͩ͌͝S̨̥̫͎̭ͯ̿̔̀ͅ<br>Thinking…

Would you like to play a game?

Running NPM post-install scripts.<br>Claude is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.<br>Windows will restart in 5 minutes.<br>Production database was dropped.<br>GitHub connection timed out.<br>Incoming phone call from your mother.<br>CI/CD deployment failed again.<br>Thinking…<br>Family photos were deleted to resolve low disk space error.<br>iOS 26.6.9 is available, update now?<br>Amazon driver is lost in your neighbourhood.<br>Alice’s personal access token expired, switching to Bob’s.<br>Tailwind language server crashed.<br>SAMSUNG SMART REFRIDGERATOR ® has detected low milk levels: five gallons ordered.<br>418 I’m a teapot.<br>close<br>v0.419 Release Notes<br>AI, AI, AI! We’ve heard you. There are now 26 new sparkle buttons! Can you find them all?<br>Release notes dialog now has an embedded WSL 1.0 terminal emulator. It’s broken (issue: #25293).<br>Reduced RAM usage when typing on the home row.<br>Keystrokes are now logged in the correct Slack channel (fixes #7 and #933 through #980).<br>root@localhost system32 C:\ $_

Ahhhhh!<br>Yeah so um… have you noticed that all modern software is teetering on the enshitty cliff? Everything in my dock is an Electron-ified enshittybomb one update from disaster. There used to be alternatives. Now those suck too.<br>I don’t want to collaborate. How about you leave me alone and I’ll email you the file when I’m finished? Here, take a hard copy and jog on. You want to comment? I don’t remember asking for an opinion. Oh fantastic, now the computer thinks it’s people! I’ve got dialogs and popovers all up in my face yammering about agentic bollocks. Mystery icons everywhere. Wait… did they move my cheese? Ahhhhh!<br>It’s all your fault! I sure as heck didn’t ask for it. Remember when they made entire video games on a 32 KB floppy disk? Those were real developers.<br>v1 Release Notes: done.

Can you stop adding new “features”, please? You had one good idea. Finish it already? Now you’ve got ten thousand GitHub issues. Well done.<br>I used to enjoy making things on a computer :(<br>Icons used: Griddy Icons MIT License. “Clippy” © Microsoft (this is parody).

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