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Noted curmudgeon. Software, biotech, food & drink. All opinions my own, no one else wants them anyways.

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It's likely already in your data so could be easy to add. Would find it interesting to have a "likely to flip" view for individual seats that are, well, you know. I'm sure it's a high correlation with the "tossup" section, but not always the same set.

13.03.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Now that you say that it did seem to start when they started bringing in brand names like savenors and whatever.

But also somehow even the generic hot dogs and sausages have been ruined too πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

11.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hell i'd be happy if they could at least stop regressing

11.03.2026 00:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Good luck, Jello!

10.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

08.03.2026 15:37 πŸ‘ 4803 πŸ” 1432 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 72
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AI Didn't Break the Senior Engineer Pipeline. It Showed That One Never Existed. Most organizations never had a model for developing engineers. They had an environment that produced growth by accident. AI just made the luck run out.

If coding is your favorite part of software engineering, keep coding. AI doesn't stop you. But if coding was the only part you were good at, that's a different conversation. The job was always bigger than the code. #bransoncognac blog.bryanl.dev/posts/ai-sen...

08.03.2026 19:19 πŸ‘ 105 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 10

Despite living across the street from forge, i'm team gracies. My reasoning ties to the same flavor choices that @somershade.bsky.social referred to. They're fun!

08.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They’re calling it brain coding

08.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 124 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

😬

08.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty sure my 401K is also going to go to 50

08.03.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I do semi-rationalize it by the fact the small handful of NFL players I actually know (well, now ex, due to our age) are all pretty decent human beings. So there's at least some balance in the force

08.03.2026 07:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately, NFL is by far my favorite sporting event to watch, a distant 2nd is lower level american football. It is what it is.

08.03.2026 07:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Atlantic Standard Time in boston or death, as Patrick Henry famously said!

08.03.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All that good will built up during COVID, wasted.

Also the NFLPA surveys reveal the plane to be an old junker

08.03.2026 05:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

These kinds of headlines were more cool back before we saw that the Patriots plane was also getting chartered for forcibly removing people from the country.

08.03.2026 04:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - cleggypdc/doom-claude-code-plugin Contribute to cleggypdc/doom-claude-code-plugin development by creating an account on GitHub.

Legend.

Plugin to let you play doom while letting Claude Code burn down more trees: github.com/cleggypdc/do...

08.03.2026 03:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the double IPA that no longer qualifies as a double IPA

08.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

claude code VMs feel unethical. good code needs free-range claudes. give him root access to your macbook

07.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 283 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3

Or to put another away - when I think of FP I think of chaining combinators, which (again, to me) is analogous to piping operators. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

07.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah - the followup point I was raising is that the one universal truth of "functional programming" is there's no universal definition of "functional programming", and I believe we're just using different definitions.

As an example, you brought up loops, which to me are an anti-pattern for FP

07.03.2026 17:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

In case you ever have imposter syndrome, you should know that I am a C level executive in a publicly traded company and have an advanced degree in economics and I just had to look up the term β€œgross margin”

In my defense, that’s not a concept we have in insurance and reinsurance

07.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lol. macaron.

I mean, I'd be interested if the shop only featured Macron. It'd be quite a novelty in our neighborhood!

07.03.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

even that go go go farmers market grump guy we discussed recently doesn't do that!

07.03.2026 16:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This. And I'm just gonna stick with the "mid-to-late 30s" part. 🀫

07.03.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Since you asked for a fight: I kinda prefer the prior spot. "Kinda" because once she went 100% macron focused my interest went to -100%.

07.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah I see now. I’d also argue that β€œloops of functions”
Is not an FP approach - which explains our different views

07.03.2026 12:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In other words, to me when I work on such systems (as well as actor based frameworks) the way I mentally approach problems at a high level are the same.

Unless you’re saying syntactically they’re different, which, well, is different

07.03.2026 12:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have always argued that there’s a strong overlap between data flow/DAG style DSLs and standard FP approach - so I find it interesting that you draw this as an extinction.

At their core, they both reduce to kernels of functionality that transform an input to an output which get composed together

07.03.2026 12:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Shipping a button in 2026…
Shipping a button in 2026… YouTube video by Kai Lentit

h/t to @tcash21.bsky.social - an instant classic!

youtu.be/xE9W9Ghe4Jk?...

06.03.2026 23:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The biggest issue I have with @jetbrains.com is the main reason I continue to use it is familiarity w/ the UI, but they keep trying to change the UI and/or disabling the Classic UI plugin every time I update things.

06.03.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0