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open.spotify.com/track/4hItEL... Sublime

open.spotify.com/track/7rxwwl... gonna start posting obscure post rock tracks that blow my mind

I don't want innovation. I don't want new features. I don't want the free gift. I want robustness. I want the things you already do, to be done better and faster. That's what I'll pay you more for.

rereading Fellowship of the Ring I had forgotten how the wisest poetry came from the doughty dwarf "Memory is not what the heart desires"

to modernize Rumi: far away from the hyperbole of AI slop and the stock market manipulation and the petty wars and the soulless, greedy profit lovers. there's a porch on a ranch on Montana that overlooks a wide expansive field of grass and horses. I'll meet you there, a mug of coffee in hand.

unit tests are for libraries integration tests are for applications

I'm a simple man. I see AI, I unfollow.

Honnold does it again

I see this argument floated around way too much "this code sucks but it makes money" as if that justifies shit, untested code can you prove your code makes the money? will it make the money when it crashes the server and effs up the payment calc?

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

the funniest part of modern HN comments is reading all the AI apologists > article shows failure of LLMs > yeah but that's because it's not mature yet, just you wait

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... brb gonna quit my job and study Old English instead

500K words, 8 days, and way more emotions Tom's Crossing. Great yarn.

web dev is where programmers go to die the amount of inane discussion over color and text...

been firing up python again and started using docs.astral.sh/ty/ the #astral.sh team does it again

I made a thing pkg.go.dev/github.com/t...

Terence Crawford Wow.

github.com/ttzhou/setroot 11 years later... man, still can't believe people are using this

my God gradle is so f***ing annoying to work with in a big java codebase how the hell do people get anything done without a dedicated build team or living in their own service

you only live long enough to realize tech orgs are mostly filled with middle managers and overly complex architectures that last 3 months before the effort is scrapped for another shiny new feature

I'm deep in the rabbit hole now - starting to suspect the JSON Unicode CLDR version is using fallbacks slightly wrong for standard currency formats

just realized I was wearing my white t shirt inside out the whole day my kid has been up sick all night for three days, for context AMA

Just spent 30 minutes debugging why my Golang script to print localized numbers in arabic right to left, even though I clearly construct it correctly as left to right. turns out kitty terminal seems to reverse it automatically at render. if I use ghostty, things print as expected. unreal. wow.

Spent way too much time trying to figure out the golang x Unicode CLDR library ended up just writing type assertions and a shit ton of JSON unmarshaling into map[string]any with the JSON version of CLDR it's wild how arcane this cornerstone of the internet is

kinda wish golang x currency package was more fleshed out I like the number package, but currency feels unfinished, eg lacking symbol positioning customization, etc.

Metaphor for AI So much potential. Directed straight into the ground.

Usyk has got to be in GOAT discussions What a great boxer

coffee is a far better productivity booster than AI

the superstore garden center is playing my grade 5 playlist Linkin park system of a down Godsmack lit

the titles are getting out of hand MBA Intern Senior staff operations research specialist There should just be Intern Analyst, Jr, no suffix, Sr Developer, Jr, no suffix, Sr Manager What is happening to the world

trying to put a code smell into words. if A is affected by B, you should be able to know this simply from reading A or B. You should not have to read some other obscure class C to know this, unless A or B indicates C in some way. In other words, f*** frameworks that sugarcoat dependency injection

there's nothing as exhausting as working with people who half ass and try to do the minimal amount possible for their high paying job

Hot take: there should only be junior, no prefix, and senior roles the hell is a senior staff

Your solution is simple to implement. And completely wrong.

pet peeve is "personally, I feel we shouldn't do this" on code reviews Just say yes or no

more and more I ascribe to the school of "the best test is the one you write after the bug"

my shower thought about AI: it makes sense if you don't actually like what you're doing. but I like writing boilerplate tests. I like mentally synthesizing complex texts. why would I ask someone else to do it for me?

ok I'm slowly starting to convert to the church of graphite vs raw dogging git still prefer gerrit, but beggars can't be choosers

Andor is "The Bear Season 2" level good

honestly right now I'm feeling like the only really hard part of software engineering is writing the right kinds of tests

Google maps aggressively pushing drivers to report issues while driving smells a lot like trying to copy Waze Just focus on making existing functionality better, please

the death of software development begins with Gantt charts and overly anal scoping requirements

what color schemes do you all use <-- this guy uses Nord

I continue to appreciate Kotlin approach to nullability and the number of bullets it removes from the footgun chamber

thinking through backwards compatibility in a microservice, staggered deployment world is a PITA sometimes