Maybe I should start a consulting agency where one of our primary selling points is not outsourcing to AI. 🤔

Folks saying: "With a coding assistant I can finally focus and design and specs. This makes me x more productive." Serious question: How were they not doing that before? They just jumped into IDE without doing any design whatsoever? Whacking code together they gobbled from SO and hope for the best?

When a framework author preset his framework, everything looks shiny and amazing. When an average developer presents his code with the framework, things tends to be less shiny and the framework weaknesses starts to be revealed

We might have something misconfigured but does Angular really only produce runtime errors when passing the wrong props to components? Even with Typescript? 😵‍💫

Today I'm fixing someone else's flaky tests. Why? They fail about 20% of the time. It drives me nuts. It's amazing to me that no one has said anything or tried to address it? Multiple teams work in this code base 😵‍💫

in my opinion this ended up being a great thing for react. if you chase “adoption” as a primary metric in your open source project, you’ll make different choices than if you just want the project to meet its use cases and be useful to other people

If we had could ensure good mentors for everybody, none of this would be a problem. We have to talk about it precisely because we know not everyone will have good guidance.

Breaking in to the industry and being invited to speak at an international conference are just a couple of great things that wouldn't have happened without social media.

Anyone have experience designing and making a small midi controller/device?

Your regular reminder

Does anyone have any resources to help explain to a developmentally disabled adult that they have cancer in an appropriate way? Are there books for this? I’m so overwhelmed

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

Good write up about porting the reverb effect from C++ VST3 instrument to Rust.

Shout out to my old help desk coworker who once tried giving me some sage advice when he saw me tinkering with Python. "You should learn a language that's been around for a little while. Like Java." Python was released 4 years prior, Fred.

One of my BIGGEST gripes from LLMs being integrated in to code editors: TAB now completes AI suggestions instead of previous code/intellisense ones...

For anyone who needs to hear it, the advice to "always do your best" does not necessarily mean "always be the best." Our "best" can change from day to day. Every day is different. Doing your best just means being kind with yourself—knowing what you want and having the courage to go after it.

Some solid advice: Don't wait to implement something like a language server last. You didn't plan for or design your implementation for it. You're going to have a bad time 🤷‍♂️

Please keep me in your thoughts as I continue to make my way through merge conflicts on stacked PRs... I also asked that you reserve judgement. This isn't my fault!

Missed opportunity to call it Trough. Come get your slop!

Blogged: Step Back "Instead of trying harder, do the opposite. Take a break. Properly. Don't just switch to another screen to browse memes, graze cat pics, answer your email or catch up with notifications, messages and socials." kevlinhenney.medium.com/step-back-39...

Everybody jokes about architects who are disconnected from the details and don't code much. But the opposite problem is just as common: being so in the details that they cannot contribute as much to broader initiatives. 1/2

It feels so incomplete without the extended live outro but I love the sound and energy of this version.

I kind of love writing technical documentation for side projects. It's a nice change of gears while giving me a different perspective on actually using the thing.

I think one reason why people think AI code is good, is because they're more focused on coding to "get the thing to work" But good code is not just getting the thing to work, it's thinking through the promises.

I usually end up copy/pasting and gutting old language projects so I thought I'd throw a start project up - Built with: Rust, lalrpop, logos - Includes: lexer, parser, span info, errors & diagnostics, codespan reporting, dockerized CLI - Coming: Language server, VS Code extension

Please remember: code coverage is not related (in any way) to the assertions that may or may not be in tests

I have a sparkling new blog post for you all! "A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types" traces the history from the first innovation by John McCarthy, through its early use in imperative programming, and to its mainstreaming in FP. Come check it out! www.hillelwayne.com/post/algdt-h...

Having things be "copy and paste friendly" doesn't actually help make contributing to a project easier. Things tend to be broken until you've copy and pasted EVERYTHING in the exact way it expects. This is extremely frustrating as a new project contributor.

Google search is almost completely useless now. I'm really glad they include an AI summary of those crap results right at the top of the page.

FLA are masters of rhythm, sample use, and driving industrial tracks

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

The level of test coverage a project will need* scales off essential and accidental complexity in a project. Exponentially.

I think the reason so many monad analogies ("monads are just burritos/boxes/semicolons/pipes") fall flat is that no mathematical abstraction is really teachable by analogy, and we don't know this because we don't learn math abstractions as adults. Like take numbers. Numbers are a math abstraction!

Reminds me of "war driving" but for text message spam

The app I'm working in feel like it's been engineered within an inch of it's life so that it can display data in a table...

Working with Angular today

Most development involves a lot less math than I thought. That was until...

I've consistently had issues with Intellij and large typescript projects. Like when it fails to report undefined symbols in code... 😑😑😑

Using Rust's unwrap

I've got a working version of this HTTP message parser now! 1. Generate a list of line spans 2. Locate the first blank line, if there is one 3. Collect the header line spans, if found 4. Collect the body line spans, if found 5. Collect spans from the first line (split and count)

Using Rust's unwrap

Btw I make typos so yuo know I'm human 😅

Prick is such a weirdly wonderful mismash of genres on top a industrial framework.

I've been asked a lot about what it takes to be a tester or think like one. For me it's my gut and that came from years (decades) of development experience and pain. When I look at systems, code, designs, what I really see are error scenarios and risk. That came before I became a tester.

Flakey tests aren't just annoying, they erode your confidence in the testing itself. You enter a state where you're desensitized to failing tests. You're expecting failure but not because it should fail but because it probably will. This is a bad state to be in if you care about quality.

I've really been trying to give it a fair shake... Nope, still hate it!