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I wrote about the different philosophies behind Unix shell and Nushell #nu_shell
steved-imaginaryreal.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-ki…
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Justin Wernick
@JWorthe
South African software engineer and father. I write at https://t.co/1geJt2XKwe! Mastodon: @[email protected]. he/him.
South Africa Katılım Ağustos 2012
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@StevedInJoburg I've found that it can be useful for small things, but only if I can easily verify the correctness of what it's written, and throw out the bits that are wrong. In practice, this mostly means boilerplate code or code that I already know the solution but don't want to type.
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I know this kind of cope is popular right now, but it's true. The actual coding is a small part of the job.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT could not write correct OpenAI API code in Python without me repeatedly shaming it.
Dave Farley@davefarley77
AI won’t replace software engineers, but it will expose the ones who never learned to think like engineers. Tools can speed you up, but if your thinking’s wrong, AI just gets you to the wrong place faster. Engineering still matters.
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It took me a long time to get to writing it up. I really don't have as much time for writing these days as I once did. But I've managed to put out my first blog post for this year. It's about how I'm using #emacs #orgmode to keep on top of everything.
worthe-it.co.za/blog/2025-05-0…
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Don’t tell anyone, but at least for now, the PDF version of “Functional Programming, Simplified” is free. 😲🥳
alvinalexander.gumroad.com/l/lfpis
Alvin Alexander@alvinalexander
And “Functional Programming, Simplified” is #2, behind the #Scala reference book. I can live with that. :)
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Our Response to HashiCorp’s Cease and Desist Letter: opentofu.org/blog/our-respo…
#OpenTofu
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Fake agile is a skills problem, skills problems are system problem, system problems are an incentive problem, incentive problems are an economic problem, economic problems are a global power game problem, global power game problems are a technology problem, technology problems can be solved by using Jira.
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This is your periodic reminder there's no such thing as a fractional engineer. If you're assigned 50% to this project & 50% to that, then someone is willing to accept 0 productivity from you in exchange for not telling someone up front that their project isn't being supported.
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@StevedInJoburg It's a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal of action.
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"A Platypus? PERRY the Platypus!?"
Massimo@Rainmaker1973
The platypus is possibly the weirdest animal: it's a mammal but lays eggs, it's duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed and venomous. It has electroreceptors for locating prey, eyes with double cones, no stomach, and 10 chromosomes. It's fluorescent and glows under UV light.
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when wolves first sat with humans by the fire it was all leading to this
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I'm not a Christmas person, but I'm a sucker for Rust and December coding puzzles. So yeah, I'm going to join the Shuttle Christmas Code Hunt 2023!
This thing: shuttle.rs/cch 🚀
@shuttle_dev
#shuttlechristmas #scch
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There's also a whole bunch of other great forges out there, as well as open source forge software you can self host if you want to.
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I hear that Github is making some... interesting... decisions. Just a reminder that I wrote this thing a while back showing how you can set up your own git server from scratch. worthe-it.co.za/blog/2022-06-1…
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I wrote a thing. The really short version is that if you're writing software, I think it's a good idea to write software to make it easier for you personally to write software. worthe-it.co.za/blog/2023-10-2…
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@StevedInJoburg I've heard of a particular problem where smart people are really good at rationalizing things, which makes them susceptible to conspiracies because you get really good at figuring out good reasons why birds are actually government surveillance devices or the earth is flat.
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Helps explain the epidemic of unusually smart people being unusually stupid
Will Kinney@WKCosmo
Starting to believe that the most destructive cognitive bias that affects very smart people is the love of counterintuitive truths. It drops the guardrail of common sense.
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so, the way this next optimization works is that GHC stares sternly at your program until it feels bad about itself and runs faster,
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I wrote a thing about how I'm going back to listening to music the old fashioned way: with a big directory of files on my own computer! worthe-it.co.za/blog/2023-08-2…
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Can we come up with a better word in the agile process for "sprint"?
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Min-max. Save scum. Rest constantly. Murder every NPC after a quest finishes for more xp. Do whatever the mechanics implicitly encourage you to do. Face God and walk backward into hell.
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