Notes
18:03, 12 May 2025
The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies https://archive.org/details/the_gentlemans_guide_to_forum_spies_spooks
16:20, 12 May 2025
https://jangafx.com/insights/linux-binary-compatibility The Atrocious State Of Binary Compatibility on Linux and How To Address It
20:38, 11 May 2025
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis "Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures [...] He could offer no theoretical explanation for his findings of reduced mortality due to hand-washing, and some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and mocked him for it. In 1865, the increasingly outspoken Semmelweis allegedly suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to an asylum by his colleagues. In the asylum, he was beaten by the guards. He died 14 days later" Punished for innovation.
13:24, 4 May 2025
I like to revisit this talk every few years - timeless message. The Silver Bullet Syndrome by Hadi Hariri: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs
09:59, 4 May 2025
If web browsers are in trouble if they don't have support from one of the world's largest corporations, then I'd suggest there is something fundamentally wrong. I want to produce a website without any html/css/js. The specs for these are thousands of paged - it's nuts. https://danfabulich.medium.com/all-four-major-web-browsers-are-about-to-lose-80-of-their-funding-0e42ceb358f1
12:40, 20 April 2025
US crosswalk hacked to deliver messages as Bezo, Zuckerberg, Musk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe2j7q_5xlA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPwM0q_yNsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w05x8U0RPe8
07:13, 14 April 2025
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/ [S]ecurity and academic researchers have found that AI code assistants invent package names. In a recent study, researchers found that about 5.2 percent of package suggestions from commercial models didn't exist, compared to 21.7 percent from open source or openly available models. Running that code should result in an error when importing a non-existent package. But miscreants have realized that they can hijack the hallucination for their own benefit.
12:15, 7 April 2025
Talk on how to search large documents https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80LKF2qph6I Bloom filters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter Seems you've got to read a paper to understand hierarchical bloom filters https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.04544
07:01, 4 April 2025
Stanley Druckenmiller 2023 keynote at USC Marshall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRPMHinrFKQ
09:28, 12 March 2025
Reviews of Three Colours: Blue tend to miss a key part of the film, in my opinion. Julie composes music with her husband, which he takes credit for despite her being the creative driving force behind them. When he dies, they are half way through composing a piece, so Julie feels she must stop writing the piece. But it doesn't work: she is literally haunted by the half-complete composition, and cannot stop new sections coming to mind. Her desire to stop composing is symbolic of her desire to escape her grief, and resolves when she agrees to finish the piece and put her name on it. The interplay between her grief and the unfinished composition is central to understanding the film.
15:41, 8 March 2025
09:02, 5 March 2025
Ukraine conflict summarised in a 5 min video clip https://x.com/TheFirstonTV/status/1897059481378545714
07:52, 5 March 2025
More accurate inflation charts (supposedly) https://truflation.com/marketplace
17:05, 25 February 2025
Russell Brand has a spiritual experience, described from 1hrs 4mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJfw-YG3fWM&t=3829
15:41, 22 February 2025
But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it - Taleb
17:26, 19 February 2025
64 bytes program competition winner. Scroll down for assembly. Not heard of "sizecoding" before https://demozoo.org/productions/367702/
13:32, 18 February 2025
They'll pay individuals to post rather than the platform - that's slightly better as you can unfollow someone who posts loads of ads, but if twitter is a guide, most people will accept it. So my guess is it's not a big change for marketers.
18:35, 17 February 2025
Not surprised about twitter's grok AI having a security hole (and the doge website). When you prioritise efficiency, it's difficult to distinguish devs who do things right from those that cut corners. In fact, those that cut corners might initially seem better to management. On the other hand, lots of slow devs hide behind "doing things right".
There is no easy answer. Pushing for efficiency isn't necessarily wrong - just that it's difficult for management to push in that direction without these kinds of issues. That cost (along with the reputation and likely maintenance cost) might be acceptable given the speed of shipping - although that balance changes significantly if personal/payment data are involved.
16:40, 16 February 2025
Dragonsweeper - minesweeper variant: https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper
18:19, 13 February 2025
How to bring down a dictatorship https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r7dNLt5mC1A
09:33, 12 February 2025
Overview of Trump's first 100 days as president: https://www.demographyunplugged.com/p/trumps-first-100-days-part-1
08:07, 7 February 2025
The end of programming as we know it: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-end-of-programming-as-we-know-it/ Feel like a point that is missing is the loss of expertise. Users of intepreted languages (mostly) don't understand the what their code boils down to, and so solutions are generally scuffed. Hardware performance gains allowed this. Without those gains, much of what is done today where I work wouldn't be feasible. I think many of the efficiency gains of AI for programming might not materialise if AI produces even worse performing code and hardware doesn't continue to speed up. The loss of expertise will become a problem. Or maybe its a transfer, from underdtanding how the computer works to understanding how AI works - people building solutions they don't understand.
21:27, 4 February 2025
"As civil society activists, we present a list of “red lines not to be crossed”. Should the President cross these red lines, such actions will inevitably lead to political instability in our country and the deterioration of international relations" https://uacrisis.org/en/71966-joint-appeal-of-civil-society-representatives
21:14, 30 January 2025
The spotless man " /> https://image.nostr.build/967ce56f53b7f182f36ae3d5857b72f2dfd7c45d618da2f2c638c05b86dc4403.jpg
21:57, 28 January 2025
Wifi router turned into a camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ZPFE4zHfk
22:17, 19 January 2025
You are a goddess, and I am a simple being, trembling beneath the weight of your presence. I believed you would heal me— wrap me in silken light, stroke the knots of my sorrow until they unraveled into grace. And you said, “Sure, let’s begin.” But what I meant wasn’t this. What I thought was gentleness wasn’t the fire you lit in me. I thought healing would be soft and sensual, a balm against my bruises, a dream made flesh, a cocoon for my desires. Not this— this unmasking, this shattering of the mirror that held the fragile portrait of my persona. Not this pain, raw and unrelenting, flaying my illusions one by one until I stood exposed, naked in your gaze. You loved me in the discomfort, held me in the discovery, kissed the breaking open as though it were a blessing. And perhaps it is. Perhaps healing isn’t soft, but sharp, jagged, alive. Perhaps the only way to live is to be pierced by it, to be stripped of every lie until the truth shines like a wound, like a gift. And so I stand, shivering in this unmaking, no longer sure where I begin or end. Your hands are not kind, but they are sure— sculptor’s hands, breaking me apart to rebuild a thing I cannot yet fathom. “Trust,” you whisper, though it sounds like thunder. And I do, though the trust tastes of blood, though it feels like falling into endless sky. Your eyes burn with something ancient, and I realize— you are not here to save me. You are here to remind me I was never broken, only buried beneath the weight of my own forgetting. Larson Langston
17:00, 19 January 2025
This "obviousness" is what I strive for: http://blog.wilshipley.com/2013/12/my-doom-20th-anniversary-stories.html?m=1 "Don't take this to mean his code was spaghetti—it was actually some of the easiest-to-understand code I've ever worked with. It has an almost indescribable quality of "obviousness." Like, you know when a really good teacher explains something, it seems obvious? That's what his code was like. I mean, OF COURSE there's a loop where you service the pending events and call a refresh on the UI layer."
04:11, 18 January 2025
02:32, 4 January 2025
Man suffers from centralised platform woes: https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1875214258046193880
12:54, 2 January 2025
https://theculturetrip.com/europe/articles/the-10-most-wanted-missing-paintings-in-the-world
12:52, 2 January 2025
Interior design idea: exclusively display prints of stolen, location-unknown paintings.
15:02, 25 December 2024
"To many, the end of the war and the failure of the peace would validate the Christmas cease-fire as the only meaningful episode in the apocalypse. It belied the bellicose slogans and suggested that the men fighting and often dying were, as usual, proxies for governments and issues that had little to do with their everyday lives. A candle lit in the darkness of Flanders, the truce flickered briefly and survives only in memoirs, letters, song, drama and story."
14:53, 25 December 2024
Xmas truce in 1914: https://mises.org/mises-daily/christmas-truce-world-war-i
12:51, 23 December 2024
Coding adventure: rendering text https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO83KQuuZvg
10:42, 23 December 2024
Person conplains about unnecessary complexity in software: https://www.radicalsimpli.city/
00:25, 22 December 2024
Chaser: Miles Davis - Concierto de Aranjuez: Adagio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpRXA3lFrqM
00:24, 22 December 2024
Shot: Brassed Off - Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8uoY9e5YVY
11:11, 18 December 2024
https://wastedwind.energy/2024-12-18 and explanation for why too much renewable energy leads to increased costs due to congestion https://www.arcuspower.com/post/what-is-grid-congestion-and-how-can-we-solve-it
07:26, 15 December 2024
I'd say suffering that doesn't overwhelm creates character: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQSqY7Jgc
23:55, 10 December 2024
Nanowar of steel - helloworld.java https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU
21:51, 7 December 2024
Salvation is Created by The Dale Warland Singers https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSbw8Ea2Os
19:04, 6 December 2024
07:02, 26 November 2024
War and growth of government: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6oEqATh3_DQ
08:00, 19 November 2024
Threads over async/await https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/11/18/threads-beat-async-await/
21:08, 13 November 2024
For me, so much music pales in comparison to Elgar https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7iM5dymBBI4
14:01, 10 November 2024
Interesting election analysis - left/right paradigm lost the election: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK5yQ8ieBTA
12:25, 8 November 2024
US election in a nutshell. The result is predominantly down to economics. All the other stories about why are mostly surface and/or minor influences, in my opinion 
22:27, 4 November 2024
Windows: unsafe. Linux: unsafe. Major browsers: unsafe. https://thenewstack.io/feds-critical-software-must-drop-c-c-by-2026-or-face-risk/
22:20, 4 November 2024
Terrorism in the UK: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-police-arrest-israeli-academic-haim-bresheeth-speech-pro-palestine-demonstration
11:26, 3 November 2024
Discovered a new musical instrument: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h0AAFhx3RmA
08:42, 28 October 2024
Neural net visualisation: https://x.com/gabeElbling/status/1850220333631943068
17:39, 25 October 2024
Lots of different shots of the booster catch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpxB1S-ohEU
21:45, 16 October 2024
Same ol story https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-government-from-spying-on-all-of-our-bank-accounts
07:01, 15 October 2024
Copying someone's voice with just a 10 second example https://x.com/emollick/status/1845619684709679517
16:17, 14 October 2024
Video YouTube recommended to me. Some things change and some things remain the same https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWqIExUfp4Q
03:35, 9 October 2024
08:05, 6 October 2024
I suspect many nation's elites prefer to have data on their citizens grabbed by rival states than having to give up that spying https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b
16:12, 1 October 2024
Assange starts 44 mins in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzfTROPOdQ&t=2679
18:49, 24 September 2024
My experience of the dev world is the tooling (language, dependencies, etc.) on projects changes so fast that it's a major life sacrifice to keep up. And even if you sacrificed everything, mastering those tools is still impossible. I think the knowledge required to work on a project needs to be carefully scoped such that, if programming is your profession, you can be reasonably expected to understand the tooling's subtleties. The need for learning should be minimised to allow for the possibility of mastery. The first thing every project should do is establish a membrane, such that everything inside can be reasonably expected to be understood by those working on the project. And that membrane should be fanatically defended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMv2egxQuxY
17:25, 24 September 2024
The games played with "science": https://x.com/JonathanShedler/status/1797342199656694237
00:03, 19 September 2024
Lots of insights into chinese culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv0Xpw4gd3I
20:58, 18 September 2024
Just spam, I believe. You can filter them out if your client has that ability. I use Amethyst and it was easy enough
16:25, 17 September 2024
My prediction of Starmer being the UK's Obama is looking on - early optimising leads to complete disillusionment with the political establishment. And as Obama led to Trump, maybe Starmer leads to Farage: https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-keir-starmer-billed-taxpayer-nearly-250000-for-travel-expenses-at-cps/
07:16, 15 September 2024
I find this more amusing than I should: https://github.com/Speykious/cve-rs
23:05, 14 September 2024
Good advice on allocating memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt1KNDmOYqA
07:01, 12 September 2024
https://thehackernews.com/2024/09/new-rambo-attack-uses-ram-radio-signals.html
13:19, 6 September 2024
It's one thing to read of the genocides of the past. It's another thing to watch it in happen and justified in real time. A lesson of what happens to humans when their animalistic, tribal nature is engaged: https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/shame-is-dead-zionism-killed-it
23:00, 1 September 2024
https://world.hey.com/dhh/software-estimates-have-never-worked-and-never-will-a41a9c71
22:14, 2 August 2024
New boss same as the old boss https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/02/starmer-live-facial-recognition-plan-would-usher-in-national-id-campaigners-warn
07:55, 31 July 2024
Using git bisect to find when an issue was introduced: https://research.swtch.com/bisect
17:33, 25 July 2024
I feel like Bubbles in the suburbs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sEQUR7Fts-w
17:22, 25 July 2024
What's going on over there is difficult to even imagine, let alone justify. And yet Western elites are unified on the issue. Not often you see the Bidens and the Trumps agree. I struggle to understand what outcome or strategic goal they believe makes such carnage worthwhile. They must realise they will evoke intense karmic forces in response to this - in the cause-and-effect sense, not the spiritual-bollocks sense. It's either complacency or something they deem crazily important. https://x.com/SMohyeddin/status/1815348253212246440
21:49, 23 July 2024
https://www.shepherdly.io/post/code-reviews-are-not-effective-at-finding-bugs
18:03, 22 July 2024
State of the British psyche update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lfq3auK808
18:43, 18 July 2024
I was hoping someone would come up with some clever cryptography that allows you to have a master, cold-storage key that generates child keys which are all used to post under one identity. If you lose a child key, you sign a message with your master key to publicly revoke it somehow and generate a new child key. No idea if this is feasible or not.
15:50, 16 July 2024
It's not about delivering lines of code and commits. It's about delivering value
21:11, 15 July 2024
Spent hours trying to get a self-signed cert working locally - then mkcert solved it in 5 mins https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert
07:22, 12 July 2024
"We have found while Rust mitigates kernel vulnerabilities, it is beyond Rust's capability to fully eliminate them; what is more, if not handled properly, its safety assurance even costs the developers dearly in terms of both runtime overhead and development efforts." https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc24/presentation/li-hongyu
00:51, 7 July 2024
Fun chart. Labour vote totals 2001-2024. Corbyn losing got more votes than Starmer winning 
12:52, 4 July 2024
Generate audio from text - lots of voice options https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
13:36, 1 July 2024
Netflix slides about company culture https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/culture-1798664/1798664
10:21, 15 June 2024
Wouldn't surprise me if this is what the West's interest in Gaza is really all about: "It has been speculated that one of the reasons behind Israel’s desire to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip and completely control the Palestinian enclave is to give itself the chance to better explore a dramatic economic opportunity [...] The idea is to cut a canal through the Israeli-controlled Negev Desert from the tip of the Gulf of Aqaba — the eastern arm of the Red Sea that juts into Israel’s southern tip and south-western Jordan — to the Eastern Mediterranean coast, thus creating an alternative to the Egyptian-controlled Suez Canal" https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/ben-gurion-canal-suez-israel-9021520/
11:28, 12 June 2024
I wonder if anyone questioned the original dependency choice in this situation. Given the colossal effort they've had to make to switch to a different dependency - the switch itself and all the devs learning the new way - it seems to me that a different approach at the start could have potentially saved lots of time. https://slack.engineering/balancing-old-tricks-with-new-feats-ai-powered-conversion-from-enzyme-to-react-testing-library-at-slack/
22:21, 10 June 2024
Sounds about right: https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst While I was proud of it, there was suddenly a problem when I talked to my manager about it. “While I understand how complex this was, when it comes to performance reviews, this code looks trivial. It looks too easy, too simple. I would recommend writing an implementation doc of this module just so we can demonstrate that this was actually quite complex.”
18:52, 10 June 2024
This guy seems good if you want to understand how LLMs work: https://m.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos
06:11, 6 June 2024
"Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." William James
12:14, 30 May 2024
Basically I want to have groups of npubs I can look at without publicly following them.
12:14, 30 May 2024
Is there any nostr client that does something similar to twitter's lists? Always surprised by how few people use twitter lists - only way to make twitter usable imo #asknostr
12:09, 30 May 2024
Mainstream media in a nutshell: https://x.com/LukeGromen/status/1796150043042279775
19:47, 29 May 2024
"To realize the spirit of Mu you must, without being sidetracked, travel along an iron rail stretching to infinity. One halt, much less many, will thwart enlightenment. The narrowest separation from Mu becomes a separation of miles. So take care, be vigilant! Don’t let go of Mu even for a moment while sitting, standing, walking, eating, or working.”
18:32, 23 May 2024
One underrated thing about vim modal editing is the magic of having the cursor bounce and then transforming characters in a few keystrokes. It's not even about efficiency. It's the innocent fun of a kid in a jungle gym. And it never seems to get old. It significantly increases the joy of coding for me
14:19, 22 May 2024
Not sure if I want a new body or a new head. Tough choice. https://x.com/biogerontology/status/1792971189708566837
08:00, 15 May 2024
First things first https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230725-00/?p=108482
23:59, 5 May 2024
Is it possible to create multiple accounts with the same utxo? If not, this seems like a great solution to spam
20:16, 29 April 2024
AWS charges for unauthorised writes to S3: https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1
06:59, 28 April 2024
I think the more devs that accept the possibility of jail and continue anyway, the lower the chance gets. Which begs each person to ask themselves a question: Is jail a price worth paying to defeat this injustice?
19:28, 27 April 2024
Already watched it, and felt optimistic myself. I think their bucket already has too many holes, and more are being created, at an ever increasing rate - it's too late to plug them all. It's unfortunate the powers that be cannot see this - or maybe they do but they feel they have to try, that this is just the way it has to be. It seems they intend to throw a tantrum. I imagine it'll be scary, some will have wealth confiscated, some will be jailed - all in their desperate attempt to swim against the current. And then they'll lose the financial powers they have anyway. Such a waste.
20:02, 25 April 2024
10:44, 24 April 2024
Long article, but worth the read. https://medium.com/@john_25313/c-isnt-a-hangover-rust-isn-t-a-hangover-cure-580c9b35b5ce "But, the reputation that memory safety problems currently have of being plentiful and trivial for sophisticated attackers to find and exploit is wrong. [...] C programs generally have a small number of external dependencies, where often those dependencies are among the most used pieces of software out there [...] Most other languages are much better equipped to support programmers leveraging the work of other programmers. In some sense, that’s a good thing from a business perspective. But from a security perspective, more dependencies not only tends to increase our attack surface, but it leaves us more open to supply chain attacks. [...] I have personally always been far more concerned about minimizing dependencies than buffer overflows. There are straightforward approaches to minimizing memory safety problems [...] But digging into each and every dependency? [...] My intent here isn’t to argue for using C over Rust, it’s to show that decisions around language choice are far more complex than the sound bytes people fling around."
07:38, 9 April 2024
Maybe disaster recover drills would be useful - prevent high-level disagreement in the moment and lead to a more polished response https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/07/28/analyzing-the-2013-bitcoin-fork-centralized-decision-making-saved-the-day/
07:39, 5 April 2024
Old article about Autotools https://web.archive.org/web/20190120112032/https://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2011/09/13/autotools/
07:28, 4 April 2024
List of qualities of a great dev. I only skimmed it - it's too long. I bet it was written by a dev or team who over complicate problems. They've certainly done that with this pdf. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/03/Paul-Li-MSR-Tech-Report.pdf
19:49, 3 April 2024
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/what-silicon-valley-gets-right-on-software-engineers/
19:48, 3 April 2024
https://benjiweber.co.uk/blog/2016/01/25/why-i-strive-to-be-a-0-1x-engineer/
11:00, 3 April 2024
Can't beat his Newsweek Why the web won't be nirvana article: https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirvana-185306
21:41, 31 March 2024
Starting to get pretty convinced that AI development isn't going to work https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/
07:33, 30 March 2024
xz-utils backdoor: https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27 and Ken Thompson lecture: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
09:37, 27 March 2024
https://gofetch.fail/ - and a good explanation of how it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klhDbLV4Los
22:38, 24 March 2024
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2527153/opinion-the-unspoken-truth-about-managing-geeks.html
20:55, 24 March 2024
I remember when I was a kid looking out the window of a car, passing lines and lines of terrace houses and thinking "each of these has people living in them, each with their own life and problems."
17:16, 22 March 2024
Pretty Vacant by The Sex Pistols is a masterclass in avoiding censorship. All he had to do to say the word he really wanted to say - and he does repeat it over and over - was torture the word "vacant".
15:06, 21 March 2024
Yeah this got me - and inspired me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0yz_9upiY
18:55, 16 March 2024
Understanding the EU's Cyber Resilience Act https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber-resilience-act
21:32, 14 March 2024
"Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church located in Ethiopia. It is situated at a height of 2,580 metres and has to be climbed on foot to reach" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IJCy64adY3Y
22:29, 29 February 2024
If you enjoy chocolate, seems might be worth enjoying it while prices are still reasonable
19:25, 29 February 2024
Doesn't feel like it's going to be long now before the world is hit with mass starvation - this decade I think: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-africa-68427383
23:46, 27 February 2024
Always been a sucker for a good speech: "Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring." Poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s
22:04, 26 February 2024
He's captured my exasperation with me shiny technology: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WN3CSOai_ZU
18:35, 25 February 2024
What I try to do: "The highest paid most skilled engineers are generally language ambiguous, meaning they can quickly learn to code in any language, are not strictly tied to conventions, meaning they will do what works, are able to code in simple ways, and are extremely pragmatic to reach goals "It's the low end of engineers who overengineer, overcomplicate, are cultist about their tech stack, etc." https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1761817375492497525
22:06, 18 February 2024
https://www.myrmikan.com/pub/Myrmikan_Research_2024_02_15.pdf The fall of the US dollar?
17:15, 15 February 2024
More Apple scumbaggery https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/08/apple_web_apps_eu/
18:21, 10 February 2024
Some soviet-era animation: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Rx3tYL7tw https://animatsiya.net/film.php?filmid=983
15:24, 4 February 2024
My favourite short story, I bought a little city by Donald Barthelme https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzXj-PL6Ms
10:57, 4 February 2024
Interesting talk on human behaviour / advertising https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtCG-Jo51d4
22:16, 1 February 2024
US elite 1% opinions vs pleb opinions: https://www.rmgresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Elite-One-Percent.pdf
12:48, 29 January 2024
Easy to forget as a programmer that we're here to solve problems - that's it. If Costco's solution works, there is no need to waste money modernising it https://twitter.com/scottew/status/1751357591375208689
08:54, 26 January 2024
Aligns with me on how complexity gets into codebases: https://twitter.com/transmutrix/status/1750563200708309466
08:31, 31 December 2023
Just discovered https://search.marginalia.nu/ Looks like the kind of search I'd want
08:26, 31 December 2023
4 billion if statements https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html
00:07, 8 December 2023
Trains with built in obsolescence: https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/
08:18, 6 December 2023
A taste of what's to come https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/1838394/financial-contagion-hsbc-china-hong-kong
20:09, 29 November 2023
“The big money is not in the buying and the selling but in the waiting” - Charlie Munger. This talk is a good one, basically a condensed version of Cialdini's book Influence: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv7sLrON7QY
16:31, 23 November 2023
Reflection is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
10:38, 19 November 2023
When I watch a talk like this, I am startled by all the complexity and syntax added to languages to hide some implementation details or allow you to write one function instead of several or whatever else. Everything has its use case, but generally I feel it's insane. Devs are forever learning the new hotness for a marginal benefit. Nobody ever masters their tools. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbfBJv0iXm8
21:23, 18 November 2023
Great podcast on the importance of software performance: https://www.se-radio.net/2023/08/se-radio-577-casey-muratori-on-clean-code-horrible-performance/
22:17, 15 November 2023
Another approach to solving the problems of multiple representations of data and the associated transformations required in currently popular web apps: "local-first software". Seems like is useful for different use cases that you may reach for HTMX. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=esMjP-7jlRE
19:41, 15 November 2023
In my experience, programmers totally overlook costs due to "buying the coffee company to make a cup of coffee" https://vimeo.com/644068002
16:52, 13 November 2023
Think this is true not just for dependencies, but also for changing the standard approach of doing something. There are many hidden costs beyond the benefits of the switch. For example, there may be the time cost of all devs on project having to learn the new approach. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wu8F-LbkgQA
16:28, 8 November 2023
Good Dalio talk on having an idea meritocracy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HXbsVbFAczg
11:38, 8 November 2023
"Rules can aid the wise, but they are snares to the fool" https://www.jstor.org/stable/45104797
23:55, 7 November 2023
Always been fascinated by this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Z2Oy8pPyQ
14:45, 5 November 2023
Managed to follow some Mastadon people - very nice https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzRCILEvY0
23:15, 4 November 2023
Good article on scheduling https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2018/08/scheduling-in-go-part1.html
12:32, 22 October 2023
Disappearing down a concurrency rabbithole... https://cs.brown.edu/people/mph/Herlihy91/p124-herlihy.pdf #programming
10:27, 22 October 2023
Talk on concurrency patterns in golang: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YEKjSzIwAdA
15:04, 20 October 2023
When programmers start praising code, I start to think something horrible has happened #programming
17:59, 19 October 2023
Good series on energy transition crisis: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=75c-kHKv0O4
20:01, 15 October 2023
Interesting talk on the how programming languages are funded: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8 #programming
21:43, 6 October 2023
I think dependency management generally is madness, highlighted by things like left-pad. But golang's 'go mod vendor' is a good feature and a step in the right direction. On one side, there needs to be a balance between giving the programmer control - not being victim to disappearing packages - and allowing them to pull upstream updates. On the other side, programmers need to start taking responsibility for the code they use: dependencies aren't for free. I think the future of dependency management is somewhere between these two sides. #programming
19:47, 5 October 2023
Curl has a high severity CVE #programming https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/12026
14:40, 27 September 2023
Rings true to me: "Hard fact. The majority of the people you work with don't actually care how good you are at your job. They care about your ability to collaborate and avoid unnecessary drama." https://twitter.com/TheJackForge/status/1706399505216872934
08:52, 27 September 2023
"Teachings need be related to as prompts for spiritual practice and inquiry, not as monolithic and ultimate statements of reality." https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Retirement-Announcement.html?soid=1126600191855&aid=2-xCMqh-t-s
06:47, 23 September 2023
v0.dev - AI generated UIs. Would like more generic html output, but looks like this could be most web UIs will designed in the future #programming
18:47, 19 September 2023
Learning golang and this is one of the most dubious parts of the language - why wouldn't you let developers choose? The decision stinks of language designer egotism #programming
18:42, 16 September 2023
https://ykulbashian.medium.com/when-a-programmer-holds-the-code-hostage-667b65a10a2d
07:47, 16 September 2023
Some light reading for a Saturday morning https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/
07:43, 16 September 2023
Programming language creator or serial killer? https://vole.wtf/coder-serial-killer-quiz/
00:13, 8 September 2023
Looks like the Online Safety Bill is dead https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/06/osb-encryption-scanning-feasibility/
06:50, 7 September 2023
chrome://settings/adPrivacy to turn off spyware in google chrome https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1699021936573940154
07:01, 1 September 2023
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56964/speech-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow
06:56, 31 August 2023
I'm also not an exception fan, but not sure what the best way around it is
https://twitter.com/ThePrimeagen/status/1696941040115101881
07:28, 18 August 2023
00:58, 16 August 2023
I've little knowledge about this, but sounds like a desperation play to me - maybe HashiCorp are running out of ideas of how to sustainable make money? https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca
04:49, 2 August 2023
"Commands sent to Voyager 2 on July 21 accidentally caused the spacecraft’s antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth." https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/01/world/voyager-2-communication-blackout-scn/index.html
21:33, 29 July 2023
I keep expecting an uprising about this, but it hasn't materialised https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide
17:14, 23 July 2023
"But notice that arguments about technologies—presumably battling for adoption, social acceptance, and popularity—are not only empirically not about rationality, but definitionally cannot be about rationality. A beginner who knows nothing about programming cannot select an ecosystem or technology based on rational arguments, because they’re removed from the technical context which makes such arguments meaningful. They can only select by second-degree metrics of qualities they care for—popularity, what someone seems to produce with said technology, how quickly they produce it, the unique qualities of that production as opposed to those of others, and so on." https://www.rfleury.com/p/the-marketplace-of-ideals
11:30, 23 July 2023
Read these before, and think they do provide good hints on how to make teams more effective. https://butwhatfor.beehiiv.com/p/simple-sabotage-field-manual-destroy-organizations
06:08, 23 July 2023
Good summary of how Google are trying to remove adblockers and the consequences https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0i0Ho-x7s_U
12:42, 21 July 2023
"In every profession there’s a point where further improvements in skills are so subtle that the difference between one level and another can only be appreciated by another expert. Customers tends not to be experts. So after a certain level of skill has been achieved, any improvements that are made through experience are invisible to the people you’re selling to." https://commoncog.com/seeing-expertise-milestone-worth-aiming-for/
05:10, 21 July 2023
If you only learn on the job, you sometimes have to wait for years before you can judge the success of a decision. But I'm also not sure there is a faster way. I'm not sure an architectural decision on a large project can be replicated quickly via practice. https://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/02/the-practice-is-not-performance-why.html