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Day: 18 July 2025

  • Screenshot of ChatGPT telling users to enter this ASCII tab into soundslice.com

    Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists

    ChatGPT lied about the functionality of Adrian Holovaty's software tool, Soundslice. So rather than try to get ChatGPT corrected, he just... implemented the feature it had claimed he already had. Is this the first time in history that this has happened? It could be!

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  • Screenshot of PleaseFixThisSite.com, featuring all of the design sins described below.

    Please Fix This Site? Okay!

    PleaseFixThisSite.com is a funny web-based take on that XKCD comic about extorting graphic designers who hate your design choices. But you don't actually need to pay the extortionist to "fix" their site. Just have your userscript manager run a few lines of my code, and the effect is much the same.

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    • posted 18 July, 2025

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