← Feed

Posts

• Post #4284107

  Yet Another Toxic Effect of mandatory llm workflows is even when you have juniors they learn nothing. If the slop came from a junior's brain it means they grappled with the problem and took a huge step forward in learning. You work with that person to cut it down to something small and clean, the next time around they get better, everyone's a winner. Now, zippo, nothing. Praise doesn't make sense and review is a farce.

• Post #4230184

  This is trivially true to the point of being insulting, when you take on a dependency you are stuck with the people and culture for the life of your project. Doesn't seem worth saying but then people get all surprised when it happens to them.

• Post #4114780

  There's still this long running myth that Haskell is slow to compile because of fancy types. Haskell _is_ slow to compile but that's because it generates gigabytes of IR. Don't believe me? Monitor your tmp folder during a compile cycle. Still don't believe me? Have GHC do a dry run. This has unfortunately lead to a ton of languages that proclaim fast compile times because of "simple" types which is at best a correlation when the real lesson is to keep generated cod...

• Post #4070220

  If you are ever faced with an ethical dilemma just ask yourself What Would Weird Al Do https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/weird-al-yankovic-turned-down-million-offer-saudi-arabia-1236819281/

• Post #4066168

  Life hack: adapt your circadian rhythms to CI times.

• Post #4052849

  When the dust settles the only software left standing will be #emacs

• Post #4014083

  more like chick-exfil-a amirite ✋️ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chick-fil-a-discloses-data-breach-after-credential-stuffing-attacks/

• Post #3992609

  As an act of self care I refuse to read past the headline and instead daydream about a way cooler timeline where Chinese fashion models are on a murderous rampage.

• Post #3839988

  On the downside RIP Fender, on the upside this will be a fun ass whoopin'. #guitar https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/fender-escalates-stratocaster-copyright-fight-taking-aim-yamaha-2026-07-14/

• Post #3588935

  #emacs #git

• Post #3567763

  I'll say this again, for devs looking for another career, licenced dev-specific therapist is as close to a sure thing as you can get.

• Post #3376302

  Calling it, Lisp is the durian fruit of PLs.

• Post #2177573

  Devs are getting a taste of what it's been like for customer support and QA test teams for decades and the hand wringing is kind of hilarious ... You may remember testers and support folk as the only people at the company who knew how your software actually worked. https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

• Post #2086829

  The emacs mailing list delivers sometimes, here's a question from someone today trying to upgrade Linux/Emacs for Don Knuth who hasn't updated his Ubuntu box since 2013. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2025-02/msg00933.html

• Post #2056140

  RE: https://hoosier.social/@ScottStarkey/116479553102145698 Great article! And if UBI is too much for you U(Healthcare) would definitely have the same effect.

• Post #1956110

  I like how we traded Ask Jeeves for Ask Bertie.

• Post #1956109

  RE: https://typo.social/@letterror/116512442716076588 Mackenzie Bezos is conducting this experiment now.

• Post #1956108

  Lots of anti ai articles nowadays talking about how we are forgetting how to code like Romans losing their recipe for setting concrete underwater or something ... But, like, we never knew? This is a painful but golden opportunity for a complete reset. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907879

• Post #1926243

  Blows my mind that The Simpsons is older than Common Lisp*. * ok fine, ANSI Common Lisp

• Post #1909153

  I get to see Tedeschi/Trucks *and* a new desktop background ...

• Post #1909152

  The real takeaway here is that while the data breach is bad the parts of the system that would destroy the company legally if breached were well isolated and kept humming along. So we absolutely know how to secure software but don't. https://www.hipaajournal.com/medical-device-maker-medtronic-data-breach/

• Post #1909150

  Huge win for corporate accountability, doesnt look like anyone's going to prison but it's not nothing. https://apnews.com/article/oxycontin-purdue-pharma-criminal-sentence-settlement-b8aa94eaab3d9d8efed520f272f6d810

• Post #1909149

  Yep it's amazing! This needs to extend to digital streaming media as well, if you're not done with you ebook at the end of your loan period they just cut off access at midnight https://mastodon.social/@todayilearned@noc.social/116495702518770749

• Post #1909148

  TIL coffee is a fruit.

• Post #1909147

  CommitTorrent: a bunch of people seed a repo and you assemble yours client side LimeWire style ...

• Post #1909145

  How have I never heard of Sukiyaki Western Django?! If youre looking for an offbeat Western this is totally your jam.

• Post #1820985

  There is an implicit assumption in this comment that any process that filters out the Jeff Dean archetype is bad and it's far from clear to me that it is. https://lobste.rs/s/ifcyr1/contributor_poker_zig_s_ai_ban#c_skn5tc

• Post #1775142

  "Largely one-shot vibe-coded, I don't actually know how it works, but claude seemed pretty confident and the tests pass???" holy shit #scala https://github.com/scala/scala3/commit/04dcaa43df3d4959114c7875a246f7f1bed09299

• Post #1764908

  Was overwhelmed by a large problem. Broke it up into small problems. Now overwhelmed by large number of small problems.

• Post #1706826

  Differentiating map & territory gets real confusing as you go up abstraction layers.