Paul Silisteanu

The most annoying thing was a big blue "Sign In" button at the top of the editor window.

VS Code used to be my default recommendations for beginners. Recently I had to install it on a fresh machine and it was full of AI features front and center - log in to use agents, a Chat window and so on. Sure, you can disable everything, but these should be opt in not opt out!

@EspressifSystem I would like to experiment in mixing RISC-V assembly with C (ESP-IDF) on a device. Playing with some sensors and sending the records through the network or doing some image processing on the edge.

Hey folks, good things are coming your way. ESP32-S31 dev kits. I have about 100 of these to give away. Write to me and tell me what you want to do with it. ASAP, while boards last. #ESP32S31 #Espressif

@ThePrimeagen The author's YT channel Quantum Healing should tell you all you need to know about the reasoning in the above phrase.

wut

By 2027 Dario will claim it's too dangerous to have humans hand produce code And guess who's product is selling the shovel?

There's a new IDE for Common Lisp and Coalton called Mine. I decided to show the install process and look at some of the features and made a short video about it. Now is a great time to try out Common Lisp! youtube.com/watch?v=qe3vDK…

@SilviuArdelean I like the BS marketing note "This role may not exist in 12 months"

Epic

Looks like a Raspberry Pi 500+ is a bit over $400. At this price it is not worth it for most hobbyists.

@cs50 Hello, is the code used in the videos hosted somewhere publicly available ?

This is Lecture 2 of CS50 2D — learn how to build a classic Breakout game with sprite sheets, collision detection, procedural level generation, particle systems, game states, and persistent high scores. To take the course for a certificate, register at cs50.edx.org/2d. youtu.be/TgZBoMRKSzk

@pikuma Later the dude posted an audio explanation of his position and I think he repeated like 4 times that they deserve "the blessing of air conditioners". Ridiculous. Sadly, I don't think it is satire, he seems to believe he can make their life better.

Sometimes you wake up and read something so ludicrous that you need to just sit in your chair and look out the window for a few minutes to process the whole thing. In the best case scenario, it's just satire, but I don't doubt anything at this point.

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@flaviocopes This is proof that software quality matters. If all software was high quality and rock solid it would be a huge red flag to ask someone to update out of nowhere. However, because we live in slopworld we have to update things every 5 minutes, which makes security even worse.

“Why have people fallen in love with a system that exploits them?” All systems and societies are created by the decisions, efforts, and contributions of the members. Some may benefit without contributing. Some who contribute may not receive the hoped-for benefits. But if the society is more or less stable, then everybody benefits from its existence, since the alternative — having no system or order in society — harms almost everyone. Even oppressive systems may be better than anarchy or chaos. Seeking to alter, modify, or improve society may sometimes result in change, sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Simply fighting against the existing order with no replacement plan only rarely results in improvement for anyone. The American Revolution was designed to remove England as overlord, but the rebels wanted a stable replacement system to maintain order without interruption. Hence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, and the continuation of state governments with elected leaders. People with property held on to their property. But the French Revolution was spontaneous and undeclared; radicals of a certain stripe proclaimed themselves the bosses and got enough soldiers to agree that they could be called a government. But they were murderous and vengeful and demolished the institutions — the system — that had maintained order, however unfairly. The new system collapsed as a heroic strongman emerged to become dictator --i.e., a replacement king. Napoleon defeated invading enemies and then invaded them back, ostensibly for the revolutionary ideals. But he led a generation of young Frenchmen to be slaughtered or starved and frozen in a pointless Russian campaign and those who replaced him tried to restore the previous order. But the instability in France lasted through the first and second republics and on into the third, and one might argue that it was Nazi occupation and the Gaullist government that restored a more or less stable system to France. Chaos is less satisfying and less prosperous than order. So a system, call it good or bad, is built by its participants and generally is better than no system at all. It can be said that all systems exploit the contributors, and benefit many noncontributing parasites. I can think of no example from history that benefits all contributors and excludes all parasites. The continuation of good order requires the compliance or cooperation of almost all, even those who feel under-served by the system, because if the system falls without a sturdy replacent ready, the resulting chaos is worse for everyone, and worst for those already vulnerable and weak. So to call the contributors exploited and call all defense of the status quo “propaganda” is to advocate for destruction and anarchy, which hurts worst those least benefitted by the system as it was. The destroyers, however, don't care — they are poised to take control locally, mafia style, or, in other words, feudally, or else make accommodation with whatever strong man emerges on top. Every utopia I've ever heard of that promises to benefit rather than exploit the contributors turns out to be gamed by power-seekers, who develop, usually through an eventual monopoly of violence, a new system which is only rarely an improvement. So to those who berate and seek to bring down the current system really ought to present their plan for a new system clearly, or, if they have no plan, shut up until they do.

@stephc_int13 "character-by-character" sounds like someone was using a hammer and chisel sweating for 10 minutes to write a word.

This kind of passive-aggressive tone would convince me to never give this company a single cent; if I was not already convinced.

@pikuma Personally I built only the Z80-MBC2 and hook it to a LILYGO FabGL VGA32 which lets you have colored text.

@pikuma There is an optional part2 called uTerm that makes it self contained. A small board that adds video output and power to the Z80-MBC2. It is pretty cool to be able to use it as a standalone computer. Video is mono color and text only.

The Z80-MBC2 is a Z80 Single Board Computer. It uses SD as 'disk emulator' and a 128KB banked RAM for CP/M 3. It can also run CP/M 2.2, QP/M 2.71, UCSD Pascal, Collapse OS and Fuzix. 🔗hackaday.io/project/159973…

@karl_zylinski The implicit assumption/bet in this is that the models will keep improving and in say 10 years a model will be as good or better than a senior. I think nobody really knows what will happen in 10 years.

I watched the Wading through AI video with Casey and Dimitri. There is this general consensus that junior programming roles will be less sought after. They discuss the problem of how we might not have enough seniors in the future. The idea seems to be that seniors write code but also carefully check code written by AI. But with fewer juniors, there will be few seniors. However, in the video Dimitri also says that we may stop writing “syntactic constructs” (the actual code) and focus on high level stuff. But in order to understand what the AI wrote you need to be proficient in writing and reading said constructs. So it becomes a bit paradoxical: Seniors will use AI in place of juniors and carefully read the AIs code while also writing some of their own code. But a lot of programming lies in having a feeling for the craft, which is thousands of said constructs put together. As you write things out you gain understanding. So if you stop writing “syntactic constructs” then you are on a slippery slope to forgetting how to both read and write code. Soon you have no choice but to vibe code. And then software quality is dead. I'm not anti AI. I think it's great for figuring out bugs, reviewing code and getting example implementations of common problems. But in order for the senior to stay in control you need to write your own code and also very carefully audit all generated code.

"coding is solved"

Practical Guide to Bare Metal C++ blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/11/pra…

@tsoding @Jonathan_Blow Forth

@Jonathan_Blow Very controversial thing to say.

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