@garybernhardt You will then point this out and it will gaslight you with “defense in depth” or “belt and suspenders”. It’s tiresome
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William Carey
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Common refrain: "you're prompting it wrong".
Here's something that GPT 5.5 xhigh just planned. It wants to special case "mail links" and "JavaScript links", but the first bullet excludes those. It planned the useless guard anyway. You can't prompt these logical errors away.
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@lucasmeijer No not really unfortunately. And even 37signals went on to release their ONCE software as free when it wasn’t working out how they expected.
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Did 37signals' ONCE self hosting installer ever catch on for anything not 37 signals? I'm considering using it, seems kinda nice.
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Every AI harness announcement is like “Hey I’ve got a new agent orchestrator to show off and I’m going to show you how great it is by building a new feature in the orchestrator instead of using it for real app dev.”
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@nateberkopec Couldn’t be my unicorn app where we just shipped a resque -> sidekiq migration but stuck sidekiq in single threaded mode and spun up more workers 😬
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Going from 1 to >1 threads is a harder sell than you would probably guess at medium-large Rails shops, because the math is such that:
"Would you like to deal with security and correctness bugs introduced by multithreading in exchange for about a $300 lower AWS bill every month"?
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@robzolkos Thanks for sharing this more widely! This form builder has been a game changer for the way we build apps
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@excid3 You have to fight fire with fire!
function puts(str) { console.log(str) }
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Just tried to use "console.log" in Ruby.
I've been doing too much frontend lately.
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This new short story by Robin Sloan has a "playable" cover – you set the beat sequencer, twiddle some knobs, and it gives you a little tune to listen to while reading. brandnewbox.com/inthestacks/
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The situation is pretty dire for Kansas here, especially when you consider that the St Louis Park is just the Arch. Nice and all, but it's no Yellowstone
Todd Jones 🦊@toddrjones
Distance to the nearest National Park.
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Also, and I have been losing my mind over this: we commissioned a short story from Robin Sloan, printed up copies, gave them to clients, and also made a little online synthesizer.
I am SO psyched to finally share it.
brandnewbox.com/notes/2022/12/…
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@nateberkopec Sass started out as Ruby. It has had rewrites (or at least reimplementations) in several languages I believe, but the canonical one is now Dart. sass-lang.com/ruby-sass
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non-shitpost: 🤔 Has there every been a popular OSS project that was supplanted by a more-popular rewrite in a different stack? I'm sure this has to have happened once or twice right? Specifically in OSS.
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everytime Mr. Internet Commenter says X tool would be a lot better if we rewrote the whole thing in Y
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I mean, it's a microservice, Michael, how much work could it do? One RPC?
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Really love how badly email lists can misfire their targeting. My dude, I drive an '09 Honda
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today was a big day
@darinwf, the co-creator and vp of google chrome (16 yrs) joined the @browsercompany
we got excited
so we made a video
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@nateberkopec We’ve been loving Speedscope. We just recently cut a page load time by 300% by repeatedly looking at the largest thing in the sandwich view and optimizing it until something else was slower. It was super effective!
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Speedscope (speedscope.app) has become my default flamegraph visualizer for bascially all purposes, everywhere. Other viewers get slower with big/complex flamegraphs but this one doesn't! And the left-heavy/sandwich tabs are always useful.
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This is pretty much the only way I would get into fashion
Halvar Flake@halvarflake
Today in IP law: someone registered a trademark for CUGGL as a clothing brand in Japan, and sells shirts with the logo partially obscured. GUCCI sued, JP trademark office states that CUGGL is not similar enough to GUCCI to warrant enforcement.
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Me trying to plan out my son’s feeding schedule to make it appointments on time.
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@rsnous I think knowing the abstractions and knowing you can e.g. write to a file handle and get those pixels out to the screen is great to know and understand. At the same time, I’m glad someone wrote complicated triangle transformations and packaged them as APIs that I can easily use!
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anyway. i think abstraction is kinda overrated / (i wasn't around then but) what if 80s personal computer BASIC where you can stick pixels on the screen right out of the box is underrated & is a better programming/learning experience than a 'modern' 'high-level' graphics API
Omar Rizwan@rsnous
there is something really appealing about just. plot pixels. set the red, green, and blue values. yeah you have to write a for loop to do anything, but that also has a certain consistency; you know that's the most that it will take
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