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Ryan Singer@rjs
Lots of people have asked about that primer on Christopher Alexander that I shared in 2020. It's back up on YouTube now.
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Jan Gebauer
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Jan Gebauer
@geb_jan
Trailing spouse | https://t.co/6EvJ6pRcUh - writing about software
Bremen, Germany Katılım Mart 2011
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@matsonj I finally got a job, where I share an office with 2 other people. It's such an upgrade over the open office. Guess what? I spend most of my time outside the office, working on the servers.
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@juliomagoga @threepointone "Hi, how are you?"
"Yea, that seems feasible. We just need to check a few things but let's do this."
"I'll be presenting at the demo."
"See you tomorrow"
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@tob1aswutz @trashh_dev It didn't have a use when it first hit 1k. I don't understand what's different now. Except maybe that the currency is no longer decentralised. Actually, it did make more sense when it was only 1k.
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@melissa I haven't read this but isn't it simply true that women do a shit ton of extra labour? For example, keeping track of his family's birthdays etc. if she doesn't, he won't and then she'll get shit for it from his family. Much similar cases.
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@pikuma Smh EE undergrads don't learn how to fab their own SoCs these days.
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AI doesn't help building skills; it helps us reach goals by skipping skills. That's probably fine in vocational schools or bootcamps, which simply encourage the *use* of tech to solve problems. But I would seriously question any undergrad institution that goes down this path.
Daniel Lemire@lemire
If we teach people to program with AI, we may get better programmers. They will learn to focus their skills where it matters. If we train students to code in Java on paper with pencils, we get people who won't get hired to produce code, and they just won't be engineers at all.
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@htmx_org Have you seen how a decently complex Javascript app is organized these days? If you've learned programming with Next.js/Remix/etc, it's likely you don't understand how simple things could be.
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surprising number of programmers appear to believe it is impossible to properly organize a back-end codebase for any problem more sophisticated than a JSON CRUD service
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.@htmx_org Serious question: don't you think investing a bit more in the look of HTMX would it more compelling? The website for example is functional, but dull when compared to the average OSS project out there. Would you accept PRs to level up the CSS?
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@htmx_org I studied Electronics and Electrical Engineering at uni and I had a good time. Leaving embedded software was a great decision and I have 0 regrets. The amount of self-hate embedded requires is beyond my understanding. I hate CMake too.
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thinking a lot about computer science education & how the younger generations are robbed from the bottom-up mechanical sympathy that comes from actually understanding the machines
C looks horrible if you come to it from python, but it's amazing if you come to it from assembly
htmx.org / CEO of Butlerian Jihad (same thing)@htmx_org
direct hit to the solar plexus 🪦
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@code_department I am currently trying (and giving up) to learn Scala, so technically the same thing as Haskell. And I gotta say, Go feels much more chill. I really like monads but why fight the type system? Just check for error.
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A brilliantly deep explanation of why we fail to achieve our goals:
Just when we need to push harder, we join communities of underachievers and start talking instead of doing.
Discovered via @ejames_c
Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)@visakanv
at almost every threshold there are a bunch of people who set up a basecamp where they discuss how to cross the threshold. some of those people do go on to cross the threshold, but those people tend to then become incomprehensible to most of those who are still in basecamp
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@geb_jan Or perhaps the more accurate thing for (2) is resist the desire to continue to hang out at the basecamp; recognise the goal is to move beyond the threshold.
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This is an incredible thread that is also nearly impossible to talk about; any attempt to articulate this dynamic will sound like crazy talk because it will collapse under trite profundity.
But it really is quite true.
Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!)@visakanv
at almost every threshold there are a bunch of people who set up a basecamp where they discuss how to cross the threshold. some of those people do go on to cross the threshold, but those people tend to then become incomprehensible to most of those who are still in basecamp
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@htmxlabs Our codebase is so well separated into microservices by concern that we hit an IP limit on AWS and GitLab hides jobs because there's too many of them. Things are ~fine~.
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I don’t *think* I ever posted this separation of concerns comic I drew for no reason last year. Decided it was too cruel
Lazarus / html dev 2026@all__hype
If anything has radicalized me towards locality of behavior, it’s entering code bases (including my own) with fantastic separation of concerns
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The future is here it’s just unevenly distributed
nadine (mood stabilized era)@fakenadine
today i saw a group of 15 teenage boys hanging out after school in the whole foods cafe and every single one of them was eating their own personal rotisserie chicken
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@htmx_org I like that this goes beyond "CC === bad" and gives specific ideas. Very cool.
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they see me codin', they hatin'
patrollin' & tryna catch me codin' dirty
(link in reply i guess we doin' link in reply now...)
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vendoring first package managers
check the dependencies in
retvrn
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@code_department I wish authors would very clearly state the initial motivating problem and users would only apply it to that or the nearest possible thing. Scala, for example, is a Haskell tier language. Influential but isn't meant to solve real problems.
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It's a popular take that programming languages are flawed only because of tradeoffs that have enough benefits that they can't be considered bad, but it's not true.
Every language has fundamentally bad design decisions in it that should be avoided in newer languages or revisions.
Code Department@code_department
@PeteClubSeven @LukasHozda True. I think the cult of the new happens with almost every new language whether it's a C derivative or not, or whether it has corporate backing or not. And although every language has to make tradeoffs, Go has both corporate backing *and* a great design, despite design flaws.
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@bravelyjake @AdamRackis Most BEAM jobs are found through networking, right?
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@AdamRackis I mean, BEAM jobs don't exactly pay less
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If you like React, my first assumption is that you like making grownup money
Ryan Winchester@ryanwinchester
if you like React, my first assumption is that you’re a bad developer until proven otherwise
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Docker is the ozempic for the reproducibly problem caused by impure build systems. It shouldn't exist
Not getting fat in the first place is called Nix, and it's great. At least the idea is, and the next build system that implements these in a usable fashion will win.
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