Brian Lyttle (hachyderm.io/@brianly)

My Twitter feed is overloaded with mostly uninformed discussion about #covid19 and masks. This quote comes to mind for me “Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once. You will have to be lucky always.” It’s best to not play the game and stay home.

@Malachians I just read the quotes which are interesting to compare to videos like youtu.be/pXhQhMbMQzw where he spends some time chatting with him. I don’t think any of us are qualified to psychoanalyze him and it’s going to be a multitude of factors outside our view anyway.

Just read the Sancho comments from @Carra23 . Up until the last couple of years of Sancho’s career, he has always been labeled as someone with outstanding ability. He had that reputation as a kid at Watford, as a 17 year old at City and during an outstanding time at Dortmund. There was nothing prior to his Utd move that would suggest ability is an issue, to me, Sancho’ issues appear to be psychological. I can’t remember the last really good game that Sancho had and that shouldn’t bother me more than it bothers him but I think it does. He has never had a good season outside of the Bundesliga, does that say more about Sancho or the Bundesliga? I don’t know.

@JoshWComeau I got some storage containers /with/ dividers because I don’t have the wall space for what you describe. It is a big improvement over the previous mess.

@kepano Azure DevOps wikis use .md through the web frontend or fit repo, so you can easily take a personal note and publish it. Unfortunately, .md support is sporadic in the enterprise space.

1. what tools do you use in conjunction with Obsidian to create/edit/view .md files? 2. how is interoperability of Markdown files useful to you?

@jessejohnsohn @csharpfritz There is a whole world of open source apps in the selfhosted enthusiast space. These are treated as production apps a lot of the time because of what some term the “spouse adoption factor”. Some evolve into SaaS versions.

I’m a firm believer that tech influencer, advocates, and DevRel folks that show demos or share tutorials can help improve the education of our community But showing a REAL application in those scenarios? That’s priceless

@fhinkel Definitely.

If I did a live stream series building a compiler from scratch, would you tune in?

@VelerSoftware Will give it a try when I’m back in front of my computer. Does it help with sets of operations? The force multipliers I’ve seen with keyboard maestros is the range of combos they do to complete tasks.

🚀 Introducing CtrlHelp Just a month ago, I was thrilled to launch DevToys 2.0. Today, I’m equally excited to launch another application - CtrlHelp. A thread🧵 apps.microsoft.com/detail/CtrlHel… #DisabilityTech #BlindTech #AssistiveTech #Windows #WinUI #FluentUI #Gaming #csharp #dotnet

@CFDevelop @saurabhnandu I suspect non-tech founders are more likely to push for fixed cost given their inexperience with programming projects. Further, someone who pushes back on this possibly seems less credible to them. A desire to remain non-tech without changing is maybe a problem too.

@saurabhnandu Fixed price is a big problem. It rarely makes sense.

I saw a LinkedIn post about how a lot of non tech founders lose their life savings or go bankrupt building an app. And often, they don't even get a working app at the end. How is this possible in 2024? Building software really isn't that hard. We just make it hard with bullshit

@donnfelker The philosophy outlined by @kepano is one reason. I use it in different contexts so have different syncs for each which it seems content supporting. Notion has a lot of not least being an SF startup with the problems that brings. I could see it working for teams.

Those of you that use Obsidian over Notion. Why? Notion is so much more user friendly/etc. I feel like things get lose VERY easily in Obsidian and the search is subpar.

@VicVijayakumar The same point was being brought up 20 years ago and there was academic-industry interaction. I’m sure there has only been more since which suggests that academia is resistant to doing this. Is the failure really that significant with that context?

I have a degree in computer engineering. I learned C, C++, Java, PHP, and MIPS Assembly. Git wasn't invented until after I graduated, but at no point did anyone mention any other version control system. I only learned to use it from a student developer job. This cemented my belief that learning things without practical application is incomplete, and that innovations from industry take a long time to make it back into the education system. There need to be industry representatives on curriculum-setting boards who can advice on what else needs to be taught and what is no longer relevant. Oh also colleges work hand in hand with lenders to trap students with barely any financial knowhow into signing for predatory loans at high interest rates that are easy to acquire and near-impossible to discharge. But that's a different topic.

@John_A_Ridge Wasn’t there a helicopter incursion in Belgorod at that time too?

@vboykis @Kyle_Ireton Leaky abstraction comes to mind with YAML-based tools, but unsure it’s what you mean here.

@Kyle_Ireton Yep exactly. Is there a concept in software engineering that describes this phenomenon?

anyone had a good programming aphorism or rule for why overuse of YAML is bad, ie it hides the implementation needlessly?

@Valen10Francois I think you have an interesting question at the core, but might not get the best answers with how it is framed. Perhaps Overlord and The Longest Day are what you seek. Band of Brothers is about a specific company versus an event. Ambrose’s work backs up Saving Private Ryan too.

I'm not blaming anyone for this. But this raises an interesting question: when is the last time you've seen British soldiers being portrayed in a D-day media. I can't even remember if we see any in pvt Ryan. x.com/kevinrogerjame…

Other the last few years D-Day seems to be increasingly understood as a mostly American enterprise in no small party thanks to Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc... But it's good te remember that there were more Anglo-Canadians than Americans on D-Day

@nkohari The slope is important for managing conditions like reflux or it wouldn’t be there. It’s hard to achieve the same position easily when you get them home which is frustrating.

This thread is terrifying, and yet is a 100% accurate of what it's like to be a parent in 2024. You're constantly bombarded with IFYOUDOTHISYOURCHILDWILLDIE. This happens even with reputable sources, let alone the abject cesspool of social media. For example, the advice from the AAP is "babies need to sleep on a perfectly flat surface or they will asphyxiate." Meanwhile, the first thing the nurse did in the recovery room with both our kids was crank the bassinet up to the maximum incline. We tried a flat surface with both of our kids. Both ended up sleeping in a Rock 'n Play (next to our bed) for a few months, because it's the only place they would sleep comfortably. Both transitioned to a crib just fine.

@csharpfritz @StJudePLAYLIVE Hope you feel better soon!

Unfortunately, I need to cancel my live streams for the next few days as I fight through COVID. Huge thanks to everyone who supported my streams and the fundraiser for @StJudePLAYLIVE I’ll be back on Tuesday and we’ll reschedule our streams then

@auchenberg The Back Mechanic is the best book on the topic to cover all the basics. ESIs are 50/50 but worked for me by accelerating PT. If you had any positive reaction to an oral corticosteroid it can indicate it’ll help as it is more targeted.

@auchenberg How bad and where exactly? I assume you have an MRI but a good physio will be able to help with full diagnosis. Do not do a routine of yoga or anything with bending unless you understand the diagnosis. I was 80% better in about 3 months and road cycling in 4.

Health update: In the past few months, I've been on quite a ride that started with kidney stones and now transitioned into herniated discs & sciatica 🥴 TIL: Your 30s will fuck with you 😞 Any advice on how to deals with sciatica is massively appreciated 🙏

@praeclarum @AdinAronson Did they change the way content is licensed? I thought it used to be Creative Commons which makes me want to see whether Larry Lessig has been commenting on recent AI innovations.

@AdinAronson This was 2008. We were all less savvy about digital rights back then. I would never post to a site with SO's content model today.

Years ago I tried to delete all my content off of Stack Overflow. Half way through I got a personal message from Jeff telling me to knock it off. And then I got soft banned for a day. Lovely. Seems like they're up to their old shenanigans now that they made a deal with OpenAI.

@AdrienBrault @tobi How so? I look around and see a myriad of slow software. I’d argue that it can sometimes be hard to find a focus. That’s because the pressure to ship is high and everything is left short of where it should be. Not a problem if the individual though.

@tobi Agree, BUT it is too easy for an engineer to focus only on performance

Sunday rant. For software engineering, my sense is that the phrase “premature optimization is the root of all evil” has massively backfired. Its from a book on data structures and mainly tried to dissuade people from prematurely write things in assembler. But the point was to free you up to think harder about the data structures to use, not leave things comically inefficient. This context is always skipped when it’s uttered. Not all fast software is world-class, but all world-class software is fast. Performance is _the_ killer feature. If you are in engineering, here is a fantastic anecdote. I refer to this account often. It’s a bit subtile, but the implications are massive- It’s an account of how SQLite became 50% faster, not by doing one specific thing but hundreds of small ones. SQLite is everywhere today because of this work. sqlite-users.sqlite.narkive.com/CVRvSKBs/50-fa… We need the engineers in all companies fight for this more. Product leads are not the right owners of the end performance of the software. This needs to be encoded in the professional pride of the software engineering discipline. Leaders in companies need to encourage it and hold engineering accountable. It’s simply not ok to fritter away the performance of the products for random reasons. Every user of your products cares exactly as much about latency as engineers do when typing in their terminal. They just don’t have the words to describe what they don’t like about the experience and neither should they.

@nqatpod But, alas the results didn’t come. Now he is in no man’s land.

@nqatpod I listened to a bit while doing something else. What struck me was how he was using it to inelegantly elaborate on some points that were known, but not commented on. The whole time he prevaricated on his future. I suspect he was told he’d be well positioned, if he got results.

What’s the point of the interview? Doesn’t have the rizz to charm or comms skills to give insight. Seems reluctant to go beyond ‘injuries’ as reason for poor results. As an exercise to explain what’s gone on, it fails. He’d better have deeper answers for Wilcox/Ashworth/Berrada.