"Yes son, when grandpa was young, the dark side of the moon was completely black at night."
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August Lilleaas
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August Lilleaas
@augustl
I tweet about coding. Programmer and co-founder @snowbeesoftware. Wrote a book: https://t.co/ePVUBMsQYU. Raising 4 kids.
Oslo, Norway Katılım Ekim 2012
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@symbolicworld @richardrohlin @SSSdutch @nepsisblog I use AI extensively in my software dev day job. I also build our parish website, and I use no AI for that. Some things are just supposed to be made with human hands :)
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@SSSdutch @nepsisblog We’ll never use AI generated text or art in our books
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@EzekielOverstr1 only question is, where is the @MrBeast tile?
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Seeing the tiles curve around the catch points look so good
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@yessabhishek @brankopetric00 is there a name for this when it's the tech people who wants it? I love having no staging env 🤌
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@brankopetric00 these companies don’t really value people from tech and treat them horribly. like delaying their salaries, Saturday working, using your laptop/device and whatnot.
and don’t give a rat’s ass if we have staging/prod.
all they want is ROI.
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CloudWatch alarms saved our asses today.
If our database is using over 80% CPU 8 of 10 times when polled every 60 secs, we get an alarm.
Got an alarm today after pushing a borked query.
Fix out in 3 minutes.
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I've been praying the past few weeks. Unsure why.
There's good evidence behind prayer. It mimics breathwork, calming the nervous system, dropping cortisol, and quieting the brain. Daily prayers show lower depression, anxiety, and pain.
I'd like to develop a prayer practice. Growing up, the protocol was written for me. Explaining whom to pray to, the structure of the prayer, and the boundary conditions.
I don't really know how to pray now.
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We're adding "after prod" validations.
Ideally we'd catch bugs before prod. Or not make bugs at all!
But catching bugs like "customer search just became super slow" can only be done in prod.
Also, we have a lobster AI that knows our codebase and comments on commits to main.
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Currently "training" an openclaw on our repo.
I've asked it to analyze our code and quiz me relentlessly.
This ends up being ultra low effort, with ultra high quality output. Recommended!
Also made it add an "index" that we link to from AGENTS.md.
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@TomasJansson @shadcn who remembers Twitter Bootstrap? 🥳 I love me some generational lookalikes!
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@shadcn 100%. Most line of business apps is more than good enough with shadcn defaults, or any other defaults, as I see it. Of course you change some colors here and there, but a lot of customization is most of the time not needed.
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I’m not saying “no design.” I’m saying most apps can get away with just nailing the fundamentals.
Not every app needs layers of “visual expression,” motion, personality, or over-design-engineering in pursuit of delight.
What really matters when you want to get work done are: speed, obvious UX, good defaults, clear behavior. That works every time.
The interface design should stay out of the way.
I’m arguing for “design is how it works.” Do this first.
I don’t want to notice your UI. I want to see my content.
shadcn@shadcn
Unpopular opinion: I don’t care if most web apps look the same. All I care about is whether it does what it says and does it fast. Make it fast. Make the UX obvious. Put the right things in the right place and little to no animations.
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I've been working in Windows for the last month or so.
Poor Omarchy, dormant on a separate drive.
I occasionally need Windows because of our POS app.
So I just end up staying there.
I've never really felt "oh this OS makes me so much more productive" for any setup.
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@colmtuite ah nice, looking forward to getting rid of our separate dnd dependency
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LLMs loves to add dumb tests.
gpt-5.5 writes lots of great tests, in my limited experience, by looking at our 2 year corpus of manually written tests.
But it also loves to add tests for insignificant things, like "when we call the function, do we get the hard coded label" etc.
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I always imagined small green Yoda was a sign of his old age. Disappointing that Disney made Yodas into a species that just looks that way.
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Did you know (DB edition): triggers can be "after statement".
If you have "after insert", and insert 100 rows, the trigger runs 100 times.
With "after statement", it runs once.
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Good: realize 2 characters makes LIKE search slow, so disable it
Bad: realize core data in your system has 2 characters and people want to search for it
Did not expect that to be a breaking change..
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