GENIE: what is your wish
ME: an ice cream cone from mcdonalds
GENIE: sorry the machine is down
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GENIE: what is your wish
ME: an ice cream cone from mcdonalds
GENIE: sorry the machine is down
“When writing the code becomes hard, that tells me that I’m going down a wrong path with the current architecture”
Yes! So much this.
jacobharr.is/personal/i-d...
Congrats to Rep. @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social and family, who biked to the hospital last week and came back with baby Hans. Here's what she told me about the ride:
Picard management tip: Work should be useful, stimulating, and challenging, not wasteful, tedious, nor impossible.
A thought to build on this: are we working enough to ensure that the business understands its role in safeguarding this?
In your example, what checks and counterbalances should have been in place to verify the numbers on acceptance and thereafter?
A ‘shared responsibility model’ for correctness.
New article: In defence of correctness. blog.ploeh.dk/2026/03/03/i...
A blue removals truck with the company name ‘Blue Sky relocation’ subtitled ‘luxury moving services’
New service in the PDS mover space just landed:
Radiohead lied to us. Computer not OK. Computer not OK at all.
Does this not open up the corollary that training AI models is equatable with / could repurpose energy currently used for human procreation?
Is this the future we want?
chat is it good when your AI-obsessed colleague drops a +16,105 -193 pull request with 102 commits all titled “wip: implement next task” and asks that it be immediately approved for next release
Getting a bit depressed as, no matter how I slice it, basic economics would seem to indicate that the software developer job market is largely fucked no matter what happens now. No matter whether the LLM tools work or not and no matter what happens to the bubble
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I missed yesterday’s silver jubilee of the “All Your Base Are Belong To Us” video. How quaint! 25 years! I’m glad we’ve spent the interim period learning how to use the internet properly
youtu.be/qItugh-fFgg
Close-up of bright red roses in the foreground with the Radcliffe Camera softly blurred in the background on a grey winter day in Oxford.
❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day from Exeter College.
#ExeterCollegeOxford
What does a meal have to do with Parliament?
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Exactly.
Why would a developer be offended by the question “how hard do you think this will be?”
Are we as a profession honestly saying that we don’t have a kind of hunch of how long things will take that is, at a statistical level, about right at least some of the time?
Hard disagree.
Estimation, as part of scoping, is a helpful process to guide the business to building the best software within constraints.
Looking very fine, easier to see the colour change than the green earlier.
Off topic, but could you do this with a commercial renderer? Do you make your own for the art/fun/challenge/control/..?
I’ve always wanted to try (for fun, challenge) but never actually tried to start.
GBSR answering the question “how much silence should you leave after paying Kontakte” with “an uncomfortable amount”
Literally the plot of Advent of Code 2017 adventofcode.com/2017/day/1
Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it
Happy birthday!
starship won't start
Twitter error page in 2010
Twitter is over capacity.
Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again.
#InternetHistory
a computer is a machine for making mistakes quickly
Fun stuff / minimal expectations split is our jam: kids need time to rest too
Sad.
"Do you know where I can look up Frungal's Extractor?"
The magic school librarian sighed. "That grimoire is locked away."
"Why?"
"That spell extracts your anxieties and fears and turns them into a creature."
"Yes! To slay!"
"In theory. In practice, nobody can slay the new pet they created."
I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this
Certainly seems that way
