Dmitry Minsky

@olson_dan Seems like I just liked a post from a crab guy

Feels great to break something using completely my own incompetence instead of having AI to blame.

the amazing C idiots. LISP invented auto memory, dynamic typing, exceptions, functional programing, function as values, symbolic programing, program writing programs, recursion, tree data structure.

here's the gist of C language problems. unix and c are basically pure hacking mentality. they dont care about design, architecture, extensibility, ease of use, etc. the ONLY thing they care, is that is works, right now (not next year), and is FAST. for every programing lang design issue or trade off, think about the above, and you see C's take.

@xah_lee @rfleury

lol. let me deconstruct the wishful thinking of the C fanatics. C coders are dwindling from maybe 30% of professional coders in 1990, to today maybe 5%. because higher level langs takes over. this is tech progress, inevitably. C got fucked in the ass by cpp, since 90s. basically, cpp ate more than half of C's lunch. Csharp is eating the lunch of the c virus cpp. C also got fucked by java since 1995. billions of projects. and, lol and behold, iphone and android, all java. C fans think that C will never die. but actually dying fast in past decade by rust and golang. Microsoft declared rust replacing all c cpp in Windows. Linux is trying. C fans thinks its “bare metal”. Bare metal died with PDP in 80s. you cant control cache. you feel it by experience and lore. you created Spectre and Meltdown guessing fucks. which brings us to, C is a symbiotic parasite with intel's x86 baggage from 90s. gpu, ai chip, apple chips, cell phone chips, are all chipping it away.

Downloading a library to build from source and seeing a build.bat instead of 100 CMakeLists.txt files

GameNetworkingSockets v1.5.0 has been released. github.com/ValveSoftware/… It's been FOUR YEARS since the last release! So....sorry about that! The code *is* actively maintained and used by many games, but the github "administration" has languished. See you again in 2030!😜

What amazes me most about the drama with the red and blue button, which has probably surfaced for the hundredth time already. Is that no one, literally not a single participant in the drama, even considered that you could simply choose not to take part. Often, the only way to beat the system is not to play by its rules.

@Wassimulator Was this ever actually possible? Well, yes. Before, ads only covered half the page. Now the other half is covered by a cookie popup.

It is impossible to view a webpage on a phone now.

take that, topologists

@ZPostFacto Oh, I discovered this tweet after your later ones. I thought it was about Intel vs. AMD.

I cannot even begin to fathom the economic damage inflicted by this tweet. Just think of the productivity loss. This is no mere nerd-sniping, it is a megaton nuclear bomb.

Imo, most of Team Blue totally understands Red's arguments, but they disagree with the framing or assumptions. otoh, most Red-pushers I've interacted cannot really articulate what the Blue position is. So they knock down a straw man. The replies to this post will prove it.

@rfleury @VisualStudio > @VisualStudio Please fire whoever is involved And don't forget to delete your account

WHY DOES VISUAL STUDIO SECRETLY UPDATE THE BUILD TOOLS AND SDKS WHEN YOU ARE ACTIVELY RUNNING THE COMPILER @VisualStudio Please fire whoever is involved

@vkrajacic @wookash_podcast It's a good start tho!

@wookash_podcast I was thinking of attempting to port it to linux or mac, but that might be a bit of a stretch for one coding session. :P

No one knows how much ground we will cover tomorrow with @vkrajacic, but for sure we won't be able to through every major field of File Pilot Luckily, Vjekoslav already talked about core parts, including memory management here! Take a look! youtube.com/watch?v=bUOOaX…

I can't stress enough how much time I've saved with FilePilot. What's even more surprising about a program developed by a single software engineer isn't just how fast it is, but how much better the UX is. In the 2026 AI bloatware era, it feels like a piece of technology gifted to us poor Windows users by some superior alien civilization.

I agree that the meanings of "debit" and "credit" are confusing. No matter how much time I spend trying to remember them, I forget again the next day. But they're part of a system that's been around for hundreds of years. As legacy goes, it's something that just works, and I'm fine with that. I'd rather keep using something stable like the win32 API, which has worked for 40 years than rewrite everything just because a newer version offers better naming conventions. It's similar to units like miles, pounds, or gallons. As a European, they don't feel intuitive to me either, yet hundreds of millions of people use them every day without issue.

@dmitry_minsky Destination/source, to/from, receive/give, any of these help reveal that double-entry is a flow of value, whereas debit/credit are archaic latin terms that don't have any relationship to the everyday terms we use in e.g. banking (where they mean subtract/add, dec/inc).

Double entry bookkeeping is conceptually awful with unclear “debit” and “credit” columns. Succinctly - Each book entry requires two line changes: one for the left “destination” and one for the right “source” column, both in the same $ amount. And textual description of both.

Win32 is something I consider as black magic: small, fast, compatible and capable— unlike everything today.

@tsoding Nah, I'm only using my floppy drives. A patch cable might act as an antenna, and CIA agents could still be listening to you.

I just employed a dark millennial magic of directly connecting two laptops with a patch cable, assigning IPs to them manually and transferring files between them. CIA agents are mad. They will never get my files.

@vkrajacic > what does a coder who relies heavily on AI tools do in cases like that? 1. plz fix 2. cry

So I just debugged a problem that took me a while to figure out. It required inspecting the code through various phases in the debugger. And it made me wonder: what does a coder who relies heavily on AI tools do in cases like that? After AI has given them wrong results after countless "fix this" queries? At what point do you accept that AI won't solve it for you? What if you don't know or don't care what a debugger is? Honest questions btw.

@wookash_podcast > What's the strategy? Alt-F4 (Cmd-W if you're fancy).

To people who are *good* at reviewing code (or claim to be hehe) - how is that possible? To what extend you can properly review the code with low familiarity with the codebase? Eg. New project, you jump in, Claude Code PR - 500 lines changed - review now What's the strategy?

@wookash_podcast It's even bigger than NP.

@dmitry_minsky Is this NP ?

Why companies feel the need to redesign their UIs every now and then? Who benefits? - company loses resources on design, implementation and rollout - users get annoyed, need to re-learn how to do things they knew is there a study that a refreshed look helps you acquire users or something?