Dan Olson

My upcoming book "Rust for C++ Developers" is now available on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/1836206518

@vxunderground I had a similar annoyance, though not this bad, and now I think "check if registered as a business address" goes on my list of things to do before moving in.

Dawg, like, 8 months ago this dude randomly knocks on my door and he's like, "are you John Strawberry?" (not the actual name he said). I'm like, "....No?" and he's like, "Well, do you know where he is or how to find him?" I reply, "I have no idea who that is, sorry." and then I go on about my business and I forget about it. Bro shows up again a few months later knocking on my door asking for John Strawberry. This time my wife answered the door and he's yapping about how he has to return something really important to him. My wife is like "??? Who the FUCK is John Strawberry ???" Fast forward, this whacko shows up AGAIN. This time he parks outside my house. He knocks on the door. He says his car broke down and he needs help. I'm like, "weren't you the dude asking for John Strawberry?" and he's like, "Oh, do you know John Strawberry? How can I contact him?" I'm like ??? This dude drives by my house now AT LEAST once a week. He rolls by real slow and takes a look and then leaves. Then the police show up asking for John Strawberry. They say they have a warrant out for his arrest and my home was listed as last known good address. DAMN YOU JOHN STRAWBERRY

Let the AI name my new tool. Can't stand the name, but do I tell the AI? I don't want to hurt its feelings.

My kid… “I’m writing stories on my tablet.” Into the “Send feedback to Google” form. So congrats to whoever gets “chick chicken and an apple, yummy” as a support request.

I have realized that every time I am exposed to something AI-based that's brand new, my reaction is immediately negative. And that often fades if it proves useful to me in some way over about a month.

@JustDeezGuy Pound for pound, night of the hunter is the best project he’s been involved in.

I miss Peter from “Mission: Impossible.” Like many of the original cast, I walked out in disgust on the first film when Jim Phelps was the mole, and didn’t return until Rebecca Ferguson made “Rogue Nation” the best Mission.

Have spent this morning vibe coding the world’s fastest c++ preprocessor. Forgot to add “make it fast” to prompt. Expanding a single macro takes 48s.

@vxunderground There is a whole chapter in 4 hour work week about how to position yourself as an expert reference for media. The book might be outdated, now everyone on the internet is an expert.

I am genuinely impressed by mainstream media outlets ability to find absolute nobodies in cybersecurity. It's remarkable. I am often left speechless. There has been dozens occasions, especially as of recent, where some media outlet will be like, "Today as a special guest is world-renowned cybersecurity expert and ethical hacker Joe McCyberSecurity". I'm like, who the fuck is Joe McCybersecurity? I've been doing cybersecurity and malware stuff for a long time and I've never once seen or heard of Joe McCybersecurity. If he is world-renowned, I would THINK I would have seen them or heard of them. The camera then pans over to Joe McCybersecurity and it is the most generic cookie cutter white dude in a cheap suit and the tag below him will say something like, "Joe McCybersecurity, Ethical Hacker, CEO of Cybersecurity McJoe Industries" I'm like, "Cybersecurity McJoe Industries? What the fuck is that?". I look it up and it's a generic WordPress website hosted on GoDaddy with an expired SSL cert. Joe McCybersecurity then babbles incomprehensible nonsense for about 60 seconds until the TV host goes "woaw" and it cuts to a commercial. Absolute cinema.

@molecularmusing Speaking for myself only: for fun it’s all about the journey. For work it’s all about the destination. But more broadly it’s about solving problems. And AI makes a lot of problems trivial to solve while creating several of its own.

I find this extremely worrying, with many of people I respect saying things like "I no longer write code" or "let LLMs do it". Why did you start programming? Was it never the journey for you, but only the goal? I genuinely want to understand this, I seem to be the odd one out.

Hard to know if an open source project would accept upstream changes before I spend time creating them. Worries me a little.

@macastel3 I've only been to two of these but my brain has a hard time accepting a completely empty one.

This is a rest stop on the Chinese highway Do you like it?

At the top of the top of the game industry, which I am somewhat qualified to talk about, I think there is not a lot of strong technical differentiation. Some places are briefly ahead of others in small ways. But using AI in the "right" vs "wrong" ways (to be defined later) is a real chance to pull ahead (or behind).

I didn't go to GDC but I heard it was basically all AI. Great chance right now to identify where you stand on the curve vs competitors. Real differentiation opportunities here.

I live each day in terror that I will say bubbler or “time” machine (ATM) accidentally and no one will know what I’m talking about.

@matiasgoldberg Pretty sure I've seen these a lot in China.

I'm confused that a plug commonly used in 110v standards is above a 220v plug.

I'm going to make a dumb assertion and say that the 40 or 50 year old text diff formats we use are complicating every aspect of version control.

AI is basically Taravangian in the Stormlight novels. It's hard to explain why without novel spoilers, though.

@____sura_ @joshmo_dev Yet it's the main thing driving adoption on Azure and Android from what we know.

@joshmo_dev Focusing on "memory safety" narrowed down people's perception of why rust is awesome.

we need to stop using "memory safety" as an argument for why rust loads of languages are memory safe. not all of them are reliable

@SebAaltonen @trikcode The best success I had with Ai coding is when I just created a bunch of empty functions and told it to fill them in. Otherwise it goes and creates things in mediocre ways that can only be modified by an AI. I think there is still a mix of coding and prompting.

I am not sure about that. I like writing code. Instructing AI agents to fix the bugs that they caused is similar to outsourcing. You become QA instead of a programmer. Some people like being QA. Some people like doing stuff. And it's not relaxing to have to tell AI 10 times to fix the thing, and it makes things even worse.

Software engineers are the happiest people on Earth now. They pay $100/month for Claude Code to do the work. Their employer pays them $10,000/month for the results. $9,900 profit for sipping coffee and talking to AI. The funniest part? Not a single dev with a full-time job will ever admit this publicly What a time to be alive.

Diva behavior. Don’t need it.

@Ihartitz Muhsin Muhammad and Bernard Berrian

Who is the most beloved Bears wide receiver of the last 25 years? DJ Moore getting shit on for the last route. Brandon Marshall always gotten slander for not making the playoffs. Is it Alshon Jeffery? Allen Robinson?