Arvid Gerstmann

Looking to move my private repositories off GitHub since it has been quite awful recently. Any good private git hosting platforms? GitLab is too expensive at $29/mo. SourceHut and Codeberg both prohibit all LLM generated code and ban you on violating their ToS. What's left?

Slowly moving over some critical tools in my toolkit to JBC. Today, my trusty Hakko soldering iron (which has the most annoying UX imaginable) is replaced by a JBC station powered by an AxxSolder.

If you've thought that C and C++ dialects are bad, start looking into IEC 61131-3 Structured Text. Every vendor has their own dialect that is not documented and even has different basic operations. A nightmare.

I have pimped my car (well, van) to use @noctua-at.bsky.social fans. Sooo much better!

Quick question to all the folks that are currently predicting that AI is going to replace all programmers/humans, are you paying everything in Bitcoins? How's the NFT doing you bought a couple years ago? Oh, it depreciated by 1000%. Too bad. See you in a couple of years for the next hype cycle.

I ordered some electronics parts from China, for building a product that I'd sell in the EU. I paid more in tolls than for the actual parts. Thank you @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu for nothing. I hope you're happy that everything you've been doing recently is killing small businesses.

I have been quite the detractor of AI. However, recent models have seriously improved coding abilities. I have to admit, with some careful prompting and controlling the output, it's definitely a useful tool. So great for refactoring or large, boring, repetitive code changes.

Greenhouse xkcd.com/2889/

It's been too long since someone took a swipe at my old favorite editor. We need to keep the editor wars alive, people!

My girlfriend took out the warm wool blanket this morning because she is cold. Mind you, it's summer and we have 22°C in our rooms. I'm but build for warm climates. In like rain and 18 degrees.

Building macOS applications using Rust, instead of Objective-C or Swift, using the system AppKit APIs is surprisingly nice. I'd even say, it's almost nicer than using Swift. I did not expect that.

I consider myself lucky to have three IMAX cinemas nearby. One of which is the biggest IMAX screen in the world (815m²). All of which also have the 1.43:1 aspect ratio. Unfortunately, all also have a digital projector. Definitely will need to visit the IMAX in London at least once in my lifetime.

LaTeX is actually pretty usable if you use Claude to convert your @typst.app documents to LaTeX instead of actually writing them yourself. (I needed LaTeX for a specific use case, I usually have replaced every use case of LaTeX with Typst.)

What's your tool of choice for cutting large stencils to size? I usually use a pair of shears for sheet metal but the cuts never come out that great. Any tips?

Why can't people just be nice to each other?

Even after all these years, the Rust borrow checker still manages to amaze me at times. I needed to bubble a lifetime of a raw pointer (!!) through references a few layers, and I added lifetime annotations, entirely assuming this would still fail. Surprisingly, it just worked. I am flabbergasted.

It's been a rough night.

Rust almost made me hate C++. It's such an awfully designed language with so much baggage and issues that will never be fixed. And I say that as someone who was at some point exclusively writing C++, writing papers for inclusion into the C++ standard and speaking at C++ conferences.

I wonder why so many programming languages do not have a do while loop construct. It's slightly less often used, but makes code so much more readable when you need it.

Chat Control 1.0 passed despite a majority voting against it (314:276), ushering in suspicionless mass scanning of your private communications until 2028. Regrettably, Roberta Metsola's brazen and undemocratic actions jeopardise the legitimacy of the EU. The battle against Chat Control 2.0 begins!

Moving another two Google account to @proton.me. Todays EU decision made me want to move all private communication to be fully end-to-end encrypted. The development in this world is deeply concerning.

German politics below 👇. Ignore if not interested. Thank you! Hallo 👋 Gegen die Hitzewelle braucht es konsequenten Klimaschutz. Deshalb fordert Fridays for Future: Lobbyministerin Reiche entlassen. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ weact.campact.de/petitions/hi...

I did a successful transplantation of a brand new battery into an old MacBook Pro from 2017. Restored it to it's old glory. Works like new. Pretty happy with the results. Saved my girlfriend a good thousand bucks by not having to buy a new MacBook Pro.

Hilarious! 😂 “AI Economics For Dummies”, McSweeny’s (www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-...). #AI #Economics #Satire #Humor #Parody #Funny #Business #Investing #Bubble

This is not normal in south Germany. How blind, ignorant and/or stupid do you have to be to still deny climate change?

The workflow of using typst from neovim via github.com/chomosuke/ty... is insanely good. The preview is nearly instantaneous. And I don't even need to save my file to see the changes.

More renders? More renders! I tweaked the shaders a bit more, after taking some reference pictures from various manufactured PCBs under my microscope and trying to replicate that as best as possible. What do you think?

A portable monitor really is a great addition to the mobile setup. It makes so many things much more bearable while not at a proper desk. A 1440p screen configured as 100% (even if a little small for coding work) is perfect for doing work that would otherwise not work well on a laptop (e.g ECAD).

I'm "[I] remember when cyber was a verb, and what it meant when a stranger in an AOL chatroom asked if you wanted to" years-old.

Oh, you can't write a 5-page book report without AI? I fucking wrote 5-page book reports without having read the goddamn book. Get your finger out of your ass.

For all the recent supply chain security attacks, I find it fascinating that C++’s standard package manager hasn’t been attacked. Tells you a lot that nobody is criticizing C++’s security right now!

probe-rs, rtt, and defmt will seriously spoil you. Semihosting is awfully slow in comparison. Rust will spoil you.

Sometimes I wish I wouldn't hear coil whine. Though, a $300 TB4 Dock from @razergermany.bsky.social really shouldn't have audible (and very annoying) coil whine.

Have the folks who are telling everyone that you can vibe code anything in a few hours these days actually tried vibe coding anything beyond a hello world? AI is still dumb as a nail.

Yeah, no, it was an absolute brilliant idea to write the Windows start menu in React and NodeJS. I totally wanted to have my start menu not accessible. /s

"A C program is like a fast dance on a newly waxed dance floor by people carrying razors." — Waldi Ravens (Seen on the C documentation of the Avro C library)

Actually, humanity deserves to go extinct. I'm slowly losing all hope.

Graphics user interfaces were a mistake. Text based interfaces are almost always superior.