Rust and Go devs, y'all can stop fighting about which language is better. I have found one that's clearly the best: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDex...

The idea that software languages and tools are just born because someone needed something done with something that didn't exist yet and not because they wanted it to become big 🤌

It's not to say to avoid rapid prototyping. In fact, I'd even say prototyping until I get to the point of knowing as quickly as possible is the point. But actively avoiding defining what's needed? That's the antithesis of engineering.

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought, for the human spirit is colored by such impressions.

New Two's Complement Episode: How Fast is Fast? Ben interviews Matt with a deceptively simple question: make my program go fast. 44 minutes later, robot dogs are falling over, Grace Hopper's wire turns up, and Matt still hasn't gotten the job. Listen at: twoscomplement.org#podcast/how-... :)

It's so foreign to me the idea of starting anything new without defining what's needed. How do folks just start writing a document or start a new code base without having an inkling of an idea of what the structure should be first?

As a fan of words/names and the lock picking lawyer on YouTube, I can say I like the name of his and McNally's tools -- the "Folding McNally Entry" and the "Folding Utility" tools. Why, you ask? No particular reason... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xsT...

Bruh github.com/anthropics/c...

I think I just figured out why I'm so burnt out at work. If you're accountable for outcomes, but have no real decision making power, then you're going to be constantly locked in a state of stress with no real relief.

I've had colleagues who figured that generating code (even inefficient code) for the sake of generating code as the end goal, and it always frustrated me. While we can enjoy the language/style of coding, code itself is supposed to be a means to an end, not the end itself.

I meant to spend today filling out tests for a rust app I'm making to do one very specific thing, but I ended up adding to a Python framework and a Go app I made in order to support its development.

Apparently, Cracker Barrel is making employees eat at Cracker Barrel when traveling. If you're at the point of making all employees eat at your own restaurants for the sole purpose of saving money, you're in a bad place. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Apparently, I'm getting trash talked at my current office for not sacrificing my career to prop up the talent of two other juniors in my office. I've been working on pivoting into a new role for 7.5 years, and I wouldn't think it's fair to me to train juniors to take that same role I'm aiming for.

What's the most satisfying code experience you've that you have to brag about?

Today, I learned the crash of the NASA's Mariner 1 was a catalyst for the creation of software engineering: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner...

Asking honestly: is math a universal truth or a human invention?

Thinking about it, the concept of toothbrushes is weird. We take nylon bristles attached to a plastic handle, with a chemical paste applied to it, to scrub our mouth bones after we eat.

Had a bad dream where updating the base language version made the unit tests non-deterministic 😬

Why do EVs sound like they came out of the Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess game?

At about 11:25 seconds in, he said something that I keep saying at work! If you do something three times, write a script. If you've been doing the same thing 15 years, write new software. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJT...

My programming motto is that I want to try giving every language a try, and find the best one for the job. It just happens that I have the most experience in Python, since I've been doing it since college and I've been designing a tool suite around it.

Devs, what have you been working on this week?

Reminder to make sure that when someone asks you questions, all of your answers can't just be "I don't know" without any follow-up. You might think that's your way of saying you don't care to answer, but it more gives me the impression you don't actually know anything.

I decided to remind myself of how small of a subset of C++ features i actually use: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB...

OH: Nobody makes open source software for the sake of making software open -- they only do it for the sake of stealing people's information who want a free lunch.

A work is never truly completed, only abandoned. quoteinvestigator.com/2019/03/01/a...

When that painful pimple that's been growing for several days finally pops

Folks apparently really don't like it when suddenly the person making their tools becomes the person competing for the same role they are. Who knew?

What ublock origin tracker lists do you use? I'm setting up a new Firefox clone on my phone, and I'm trying to block as many ads/trackers as I can by referencing this site, but I'm only getting up to 58%. gildas-ld.github.io/toolz/adblock

If 99.999% of the updates to a software can be made by an intern but are always assigned to a tech lead, then there is both a fundamental design flaw in the software that allows these bugs to happen so frequently, and a process miss to distribute work properly.

What's something non electronic that's good for fidgeting/holding in my hand while programming that I can get from Amazon? 🤔 Links are welcome.

The fact that when I'm asked if I heard the news, that I don't immediately know which one they're talking about, is telling. It's always an inundation of absolutely everything.

Aww, whoever created the C++ feed I was following deleted their profile.

I can now say I've been bitten by variable shadowing in thee languages 😤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_P...

Once in a while, I discover some new poor opinions of someone who I previously thought was cool. But then again, I don't know what I expected in the industry I work in.

It's gonna be 2026 in a couple hours, and I haven't made up my resolutions yet.

Is there a hybrid language somewhere between rust and go? I like the general look of the syntax and ecosystem of Rust, but it's so friggin hard to get right starting out, especially with the borrow checker.

I am not a smart man, but I get the feeling that that is not a random string.

Rust/C++ devs, what are your thoughts on variable shadowing?

There's something about the idea of modernizing old tech with modern internals that I really like! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpLE...

Devs of BlueSky, what's the biggest code base you've worked on?

Merry Christmas! Michelle and I hope you have a wonderful holiday filled with light and joy.

I was so close to starting an in-place rewrite of a DSL that is used at my office. Sure, I already wrote a replacement using a real language, but adoption is moving at the speed of snail mail.