Brendan Shephard

@loftwah find ~/Downloads -size +200M -exec rm -f {} +

What are your tips to keeping your disk usage on Mac down?

@ImLunaHey Alacritty

for those that dont use the built in terminal on macos what one do you use?

@loftwah @graykevinb Nothing worse than a sexy PoC that should never have existed.

@loftwah @graykevinb Every random and his dog can now throw together a sexy web UI too. The buttons don’t do anything because backend is still hard, but damn it looks nice!

@loftwah I got a ASUS Zephyrus G16 recently. Really nice. Obviously, I would never dream of even allowing Windows to power on once it was in my possession. But ASUS has reasonable Linux support.

After having a MacBook for so long Windows laptops feel so clunky.

@loftwah Prometheus, Grafana, Loki. Maybe some ClickHouse for good measure.

@loftwah Argo. Use GatewayAPI instead of Ingress. Gitlab / GitHub pipelines. Sprinkle of Ansible in there.

So I want to do a devops round robin so I am not rusty when I get to my new job. Everything I do should work locally. What should it include? Terraform and Kubernetes are a must. What else?

@loftwah @schiz04renic Yeah, for sure man. Definitely much easier to think about as someone who isn’t living that life.

@BrendanShephard @schiz04renic When you’re under chronic stress your ability to function isn’t exactly there. In a perfect world maybe. You can’t expect these people to be capable or rational. Anyone who has ever been there would know that.

@loftwah @schiz04renic Then celebrate each small success along the path towards solving the large one. :)

@BrendanShephard @schiz04renic What do you do when the problems go longer than that time? I guess that’s when they start to qualify as real problems?

@loftwah @schiz04renic I remind myself that whatever my problem is today, it will probably be entirely different in 6 to 12 months. That generally makes me feel a bit better. Puts whatever it is into perspective for me. Obviously very personal though, so that might not be as impactful for everyone.

@schiz04renic They’re no longer in pain. No judgement. It sucks if they left kids behind.

@loftwah At the end of the day, it’s a human who will get the PagerDuty. Not Claude Opus 4.5 High Thinking or whatever model you like. So the code needs to be readable by humans. Which requires real skills. The human drives the AI, and I’m just not convinced that will go away.

@loftwah Probably coding. But I think there will be a net increase of jobs rather than a reduction of available jobs. They will just look different. I spend more time thinking about higher level architecture now. Rather than the most optimal algorithm for a given problem.

What is more in danger from AI. Coding or DevOps?

@loftwah if you just ask the best model in the world to solve a large problem. It will probably do it, but it will be horrific. You need to be specific, “I think this would be better with a fan-in architecture. Let’s move these common variables from global to an existing struct.” Etc.

@loftwah @alexinexxx @JustDeezGuy Blasphemy

@alexinexxx @JustDeezGuy FTFY Windows users. MacOS is close enough.

now that i officially use linux, i needa get like a linux hat or shirt n make it my whole personality n harass mac os users

@loftwah I even tried switching cursor over to using the Grok model recently. Gemini still does a bit better and keeps my top spot for code. But Grok is doing quite well.

If it weren’t for Codex I would drop my ChatGPT subscription. Grok is a better experience at this point.

@loftwah Particularly the latest model. It’s great in the Tesla too. Switch over to kids story mode and get it to tell stories to my kids. It asks them questions and creates an interactive experience for them.

@Madisonkanna @sudobunni Mastodon is where you can get detailed release notes and updates about systemd from Lennart Poettering.

@sudobunni what on earth is mastodon

scrolling on Mastodon: feeling inspired to build cool things and learn about interesting problems people are solving scrolling on X: "developers are becoming obsolete", "there's no point in learning to code anymore", "AI is everything"

@loftwah I’m more interested to know if you caffeinate with -i or -d?

Do you caffeinate your MacBook Pro or yourself first?

@loftwah I prefer the analogy to the compiler. We don’t program with punch cards anymore, but we do write programs. AI speeds up the things I find boring, but I still have to do a lot of the work. Templates some unit tests for me. I actually use cursor more for code reviews.

My gut is telling me that AI isn’t anywhere near taking jobs in the way people are talking about. Can we get this stuff working consistently and for it to be cost and power effective before getting excited?