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100% pure human slop.
Welcome to Something Decent. Here you can expect to find a collection of blog posts from the mind of a strange human.
Latest posts
Building a static blog with Astro content collections
Placeholder post. How a typed content schema and a glob loader catch broken frontmatter at build time instead of in production.
You're absolutely right! GoPro's support is just AI Slop
My attempt to get help from GoPro's AI-powered support, and what it says about companies replacing humans with AI slop.
Comfort in the chaos
A reflection on how the everyday order of modern life sits on top of chaos, and why that should bring comfort rather than dread.
The AI Dilemma
A brain dump on the AI gold rush: why shoehorning AI into everything leaves me both impressed and deeply uneasy.
If One Thing is Infinite, Everything is Infinite
A late-night thought experiment about infinity: if one thing in the universe is truly infinite, everything else must be too.
Everybody's Weird
A conversation in India about feeling weird turns into a reflection on why every one of us is strange, and why that's fine.
Everything is F*ck'd and That's Perfect
An acknowledgement that the world is a mess, and an argument for why accepting the mess is the first step to being at peace with it.
React Components and Dynamic HTML Data Attributes
How to pass dynamic HTML data attributes to React components with a reusable, type-safe pattern.