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A curious guy. Un chico curioso. 一个好奇的男人
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One might want to reread this from time to time.
"They did it by making the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make:
They decided to rewrite the code from scratch." by @spolsky@blackrock.city
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
"For the last decade, fast-to-ship beat fast-to-run. Not anymore. [...] AI got good at the hard languages." by Noah Mitchem
#python #rustlang #golang #artificialintelligence #codingagents
"The truth is, working in tech always sucked, and never really was what they thought it was." by Steven Langbroek
"There is a persistent tension in software engineering between the beautiful, mathematically pure ideal of a program, and the messy, pragmatic reality of just getting things done." by @jjba23@mastodon.social
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@gonzo_askold@mastodon.social QA is in decline in many orgs. Too costly, too slow. So if your org has no QA, you're actually leading the pack
"security professionals now rank in the bottom three for overall workplace satisfaction alongside QA testers and infrastructure bods"
Ah, cyber security, QA, DevOps, all the unimportant, costly stuff. The triumvirate of project blockers. 😉
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/27/from_a_massive_skills_gap/
"The point is that vibe coding collapses the distance between idea and artifact from months to hours. When that distance collapses, every quality-control mechanism your organization developed over the last 30 years gets bypassed by default." by Dr. Jason Wingard
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonwingard/2026/04/23/vibe-coding-will-break-your-company/
"A little bit less than two years ago, building on work by Jim Hester and Kevin Ushey, Davis Vaughan completed a very impactful JavaScript file for the R community: an R grammar for the Tree-sitter parsing generator." by @rOpenSci@hachyderm.io
Agile is dead. Let it rest in peace.
"Agile washed over our industry like a tsunami. But whenever it was questioned, a voice (perhaps emanating from a gap in the clouds?) would invariably tell us 'ah, but that is not True Agile - The Manifesto sayeth naught of Daily Standups, nor Agile Coaches'." by Lewis Campbell
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"When I first wrote about microservice disasters, I thought we'd eventually "solve" them, with better tooling, frameworks, and operational maturity. We didn't. We just learned to live with the chaos. Distributed systems will always surprise you: timeouts, retries, and fallacies don't disappear; they just shift shape. Maybe that's the real lesson: software engineering isn't about eliminating uncertainty, but managing it gracefully." by @joaoqalves@mastodon.online
https://world.hey.com/joaoqalves/disasters-i-ve-seen-in-a-microservices-world-part-ii-9e6826bf
"Hegel is a universal property-based testing protocol and family of libraries, built on Hypothesis."
"The short version is: every algorithm I learn becomes a tool I can reach for later, and over time those tools have accumulated into something like a vocabulary. I learned about textures, layering, about colors and positioning through experimentation and creating hundreds of sketches over the years, in P5.js and other media." by Veit Heller
https://blog.veitheller.de/Generative_art_over_the_years.html
"Five git commands that tell you where a codebase hurts before you open a single file. Churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns." by Ally Piechowski
https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/
"WebAssembly adoption hinges on the Component Model. Luke Wagner discusses Preview 3 updates and how Wasm is evolving for edge and serverless environments."
Haha. Enshitification at its best. Or is that adification?
"After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast."
https://notes.zachmanson.com/copilot-edited-an-ad-into-my-pr/
Deja News died. Now Stack Overflow dies. Well, let's see what's next.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-dead/