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What's that? Noted software Thought Leader (TM) Lewis Campbell has updated his consulting website? And he's got capacity for new clients? WOW that is BIG NEWS.
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Lewis Campbell
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Lewis Campbell
@LewisCTech
I stop software projects getting any worse than they already are. Hire: https://t.co/Z4IO3Iqi5G Blog: https://t.co/BHO4oi3DYT
New Zealand Katılım Kasım 2022
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@abbe_hyde Horrifying!
I have a full guide:
lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260713.ht…
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@LewisCTech Yes but don't forget we need a fully justified business case before the login button can go into this sprint
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Another name for a "product backlog" is a "to-do list"💡
Follow me for more post-agile tips.
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Today is your lucky day.
I've written a new article listing various terms in Agile, and translating them into English.
Welcome to Agile Methodology; where everything's made up and the story points don't matter.
Soroush Sardashti@soroush_srd
@LewisCTech Keep it up So many big words are being thrown around and at this point im too afraid to ask😂
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@htmx_org The other day I asked the clanker about a term I heard in a Star Trek episode, and the AI had just paraphrase Dr. McCoy.
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> writing a book
> 2026
> putting on the internet for free for the LLMs to consume
Almighty Lisp@almighty_lisp
IMAGINE CHARGING "MONEY" FOR A "BOOK" TEACHING A NICHE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE WHEN "CUSTOMERS" CAN JUST PAY THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN "TOKENS" TO HAVE AN ALGORITHM WRITE PYTHON OR WHATEVER HOW RIDICULOUS HOW OUT OF TOUCH HOW UNHINGED HOW MOISTURIZED
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@chiefnoah13 Right, that's what I would consider "CPU Bound" though; but I am just an amateur systems programmer, not a real one.
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@LewisCTech But if for whatever reason the work you're doing in response to the IO events take long enough to meaningfully stall other events, you basically need to reach for an async runtime or spawn worker threads.
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As a long term user, I am unconvinced that Futures/Promises are a good abstraction. They are like the RPC of single machine programming.
If your application runs in an event loop, why not be honest with yourself and write a single threaded state machine? They're easier to test.
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@functi0nZer0 Electric Fan? OHHH look at you Mr. Fancy UK Man.
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@chiefnoah13 Yeah I guess I made no caveats here. I was thinking of an IO bound system, and I wasn't bemoaning the weight of async run times, more the square peg/round hole feeling I get. Like I'd rather an explicit event loop mechanism even if it's nicer than raw io-uring, kqueue etc.
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@LewisCTech Well, for starters, async runtimes aren't all that heavy. smol is pretty lightweight and would have been fine. In practice, a it's a pain to get any sort of concurrency in a single threaded state machine and most systems that you would consider async for actually need concurrency
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@chiefnoah13 Could you give me an example? TBH I have been less impressed with Rust async than others. Like in javascript for all it's flaws you can at least "pretend" you're just calling functions much better.
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@LewisCTech I've done this and I came to regret not just using Tokio or some other async lib. It turns out that you want most of the things an async runtime provides you
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@ShimazuSystems Are you doing the whole "redshift" thing? Like increasing red light at night.
IDK if black terminals are bad, but I think maybe super bright text on them at night is bad. But I am also no eye... strain... ologist.
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@LewisCTech This is basically my approach summarised
Sometimes the focus is bad or just like any other blatant red flag that I need glasses, but just kinda dont
This is also not aided by my absolute dedication to black background text terminals
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@ShimazuSystems I sometimes think I may need glasses but I also can't be bothered yet.
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@_wilfredh I think it's a side effect of there simply not being many new scripting languages.
If you look at the top 10 languages now, and a decade ago, it's basically the same.
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I'm surprised there aren't more interpreted languages with a first party type checker.
Python has several good type checkers, Ruby has Sorbet, and there are others.
Having zero compilation time *and* a full IDE seems like such a compelling design, at least on paper.
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@caballerobrah In Taiwan local governments are actually now saying "no you can flush it, as long as its toilet and not tissue paper which won't disintegrate" but old habits die hard.
Nothing to do with pipes AFAIK.
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There’s probably a hilarious WikiHow for this
American ExPat@Imported_Fun
It’s because some places in Asia have very old pipes that cannot handle TP. If you keep flushing it, you’re going to back up the plumbing of the whole building. If you get off the beaten path and figure out how to use the bucket of water, let me know. I’ve always felt too stupid to ask.
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"Participating in agile methodologies as a line-level corporate employee sends intense subordination signals" - Developer Hegemony
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@DanielW_Kiwi @lilaloveslingos If you want to learn languages and be anti-social it's better to learn dead ones.
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8 languages at 20... I'm a bit jealous.
Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉@jmhorp
Good luck making it to age 170
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@haydendevs wow, these models incredible.
any chance they might start making software meanignfully better than what we already had in 2022 or nah not really
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@wellewds @jamonholmgren oh I'm sure it's revolutionary like the last 7 updates 🙄
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@LewisCTech @jamonholmgren Have you seen what well structured prompts/documentation can get you from 5.6 ultra?
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@wellewds @jamonholmgren well I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we come to it :)
I think what likely happens is that 1) LLMs keep producing shitty code 2) people keep using them anyway, because corporate types do not like programmers.
So it's about operating within that reality.
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@LewisCTech @jamonholmgren What if (just what if) these models become capable of writing what you would judge as excellent code, even with prompting from a non-programmer?
I know there's still the issue of needing human accountability/maintainability for critical work but since your issue was mediocrity..
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