There will always be someone with more abilities in computer than my own. IT IS ONLY COMPUTER - Reily Wood

do I know anyone who runs a podcast or publication where this topic would fit: building a community-maintained database of karaoke nights in OCaml if yes, please make introductions or send me their links 🧡

This is an outstanding thread (on Mastodon) by Rob Ricci, a Utah-based systems researcher, who provides an overview of the different datacenters in and around Salt Lake City. Carefully written and provides a good, balanced perspective on a hot(!) topic. discuss.systems/@ricci/11655...

Obsidian Plugin Abused in Social Engineering Campaign to Deliver New PHANTOMPULSE RAT

brb just oversharing on a 10K member discord server again

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

Does someone know a Lisp / Scheme that can run raylib in the browser? Maybe via emscripten? Common Lisp would be awesome but I think the tooling is not there yet (ECL is the closest afaik). There is a scheme called Hoot that compiles to WASM but I can't find anything about raylib with it.

It's fun in an interview to solve for "best among three streams in last 10 seconds" (3 sliding windows) when all you needed is "current best from 3 streams with 10s ttl" Not only did I do what's much harder but it also gives the wrong answer!

Interview me is the dumbest me (especially live coding)

this was a mistake when I first wrote it out but decided to keep it that way

CEO-Driven-Development Pipedream-Driven-Development Anxiety-Driven-Development Ignorance-Driven-Development

Based on a sample size of 1, Rust has been a really good bet for career prospects in the current market

As someone who works in open-source this is such a good take. With scientific software, the barrier to entry might be even higher since there is also a need for validation for scientific accuracy. But we want to bet on our contributors! kristoff.it/blog/contrib...

i regret to inform you that in the year 2026, the solution to your problem is *still* speaking to other humans, listening to their problems, and building processes that address them through painful iteration.

I wrote about why I quit my job, and how weird and tiring tech feels these days.

Anthropic's "too dangerous" AI was accessed by guessing the URL

I'm the friend btw.

Hear "Team velocity is slowing down. are we using AI enough?" from my boss after two months of extensively trying out AI. The slowdown WAS cleaning up some AI mess.

sooo anyone looking for a Staff-level Rust person somewhere that doesn't push vibe coding down your throat... asking for a friend

another crack in the Section 230 wall.

A lot of my concerns about agentic coding essentially boil down to this dichotomy Agentic coding emphasizes extrinsic understanding of a system (surface behaviors) and ordinary coding emphasizes intrinsic understanding of the system (authoring and understanding the underlying code)

what peak rust code looks like

the rare time a Clojure job gets into the hand of recruiters and my inbox gets flooded (I wonder if I could go back to an dynamic language again)

actually talked to a stranger at a coffee shop b/c they had a similar laptop stand, turns out he did program verification for his PhD, funny how unexpected commonalities surface

And a surprise premier of the new BL anime adaptation of "Ganbare! Nakamura-kun!" Cute, retro, and fun so far

Witch Hat Atelier anime is beautiful as expected. Got to see the first 2 episodes at the spring season Crunchyroll Sneakpeak tonight!

How my replies have changed when a technical article is shared at work: Jr SWE: "Oh that's very interesting. Thanks for sharing!" SWE: Comment about article proving understanding Sr SWE: Shares 3 more related pieces Staff SWE: choose one of "lol", "cool", "eh maybe"

and now greptile for PR reviews

does greptile 5/5 on my first PR after my org added it mean I'm superhuman?

I will pay you more money to keep your logo the same, to not redesign your product, and to not add AI to it

The real problem is that the only people qualified to drive an agentic coding model are people who are intimately familiar with the codebase and *familiarity with the codebase drops when you vibe code* See, for example, the recent study commissioned by Anthropic: arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

I’m still open to work: I’m a software engineer in Sydney who’s as hands on building products, as he is wrangling architecture and integration, or managing devops, observability and infrastructure. Typescript/Node/React/AWS is my primary stack, but adaptable to whatever else. onsite/remote/hybrid

Seagulls, sandpipers, oyster catchers, and more looking for their dinner

decided to give it a chore task today while I worked on something else... people seem to say it's about as good as a "junior dev" and I'd say more like an intern so far. Finds one line not working, changes 20 lines around it to fix the problem when it could just have changed the 1 line.

i guess rustic hasn't been updated in over 2 years... hmmm... maybe I should go back to rust-mode. I *think* I made the switch in order to use eglot before (but I could be misremembering) emacsmusings

finally trying out claudecode cli after prodding from work (and a paid-for account). I've sparingly used cursor but not cli (also a paid-for account). My first impressions (literally day 1) is that at least the workflow is a lot more natural & I like that it's separate from my editor.

sweet

I've had more, which naturally prepared me to be a Software Engineer 😀

Five jobs I've had 1. Custodian (janitor) 2. Server at a Restaurant 3. Barista 4. Cell phone sales person 5. Strawberry picker

Professional mouser for hire! Inquire below 🐈‍⬛

am I crazy or does this mean the majority of CPU time is spent on child processes duping then releasing the parent's heap?

Today in Very Important Research: Shipping company Yamato (known for its "black cat" logo) decided to discover which kotatsu was most beloved by cats. After three test runs at five different temperatures, "researchers" said they... had no idea, actually.

the level of trust my workplace has for AI tools is pretty astounding. Outside of coding tools, we have AI enabled in slack, google meet, atlassian, probably other things I don't know about.

A Cooper's Hawk came to visit me on this rainy morning (Pic through the window so not very clear)

Got to see the first episode in theaters at the @crunchyroll.com Sneak Peak last month. It was an interesting premise.

Switching between japanese and english on bsky is a pain

resisting the urge to rewrite someone's code even though it'd result in 25% less allocations (this is what scrum does to people) (I'll do it eventually)

me being clueless of american events: "why are flights and rental cars so expensive during the first half of february in San Francisco?!" (this thing called the superbowl)

What your agentic AI PR looks like to me