Not Jason

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise

@niftynei how do you reverse a linked list?

i'm a girl i've been programming "professionally" for <redacted> years AMA

@denverbitcoin 😬

“I was mining #bitcoin about 20yrs ago when I was in the intelligence community. Somewhere in some dumpster there’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of bitcoin.” Never underestimate a government employee’s courage to blatantly lie into a microphone.

@LukeDashjr I'd say water, but technically that's a solvent

I quit Dr. Pepper a few weeks ago, to reduce my sugar levels. But the alternatives I've tried (Zevia and Liquid Death) taste terrible. Any real solutions? 😕 (Dr Pepper Diet and Zero have aspartame, which is apparently poison)

@esrtweet truly exciting

About two months ago I announced that I was beginning a march through my backlog of personal projects with fire and sword and robot friend, aiming to clean out all of my technical debt. I have in fact been maintaining a steady project-release pace of one per day ever since. I'm down to just five projects left to ship updates for...and my backlog of bugs, MRs, and serious to-do items is clear. I cannot remember the last time I had this light a burden of Stuff I Really Ought To Do. It's been at least 40 years. I'm not going to run out of work. I have two biggish projects in mind for after, neither of which I'm willing to talk about yet because I believe in show, don't tell. And there's always that book on programmer mindset I have almost finished, and the science-fiction novel I keep meaning to get back to. I expected to live out a statistically normal lifespan and die with a lot of projects still not quite finished and stable enough to be up to my standards. Powerful AI assistance has changed all that. All bitching about slop cannons and hallucinations aside, these are truly wondrous times.

@jimmysong cbo.gov/system/files/2…

@jimmysong $3.1 trillion dollars. $1.0 trillion is the deficit.

Crazy that a trillion dollars gets spent just like that.

@callebtc @rot13maxi

@rot13maxi remember graphql?

I can’t believe we used to write CloudFormation by hand 😂😂😂😭😭😭

@trashh_dev nit: *

how do you say in corporate “your code sucks”

@jimmysong Wouldn't knowing which data structure or algorithm to use be useful?

CS education is going to completely change. It'll be much more about what's possible and what the costs of certain things are than how to do them. Of course, it's difficult to understand what's possible without understanding how it works, but increasingly, it's imagination that matters more than proficiency.

@jimmysong hopefully they'll meet some minimal threshold of security too...

I'm excited and a little frightened at the possibility that almost all software from here on in will at least meet some minimal threshold of competence and usability.

@_TylerHillery Recommendation on laptop stand?

The split keyboard comes with during travel

@milan_milanovic Software Engineers

What would be the new name for software engineers?

@esrtweet @grok Maybe we'll get an em dash character key on standard keyboards

I'll give up my em dashes when they're pried from my cold dead fingers. I'm an elocutionary punctuationist, and em dashes convey a very particular relative pause length which I need to have in my toolkit @grok, explain elocutionary punctuation for the nice people, would ya? I refuse to let fear of being mistaken for a clanker make me give up that tool.

@lopp Good. Make sure they still need us.

It has long been theorized that AI agents will prefer to use cryptocurrency to manage their finances. It's sensible due to the permissionless, KYC-free nature of these protocols. However, it will pose a massive security challenge because clankers can't control cold storage keys.

@FreedomTechSum How do I pay in freedom money?

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Founder of @signalapp, @moxie Marlinspike on Telegram:   "Telegrams not a private messenger. There's nothing private about it. It's the opposite. It's a cloud messenger where every message you've ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that telegram the organization controls and has access to it" "It's like 'Russian oligarch starts unencrypted version of WhatsApp', a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. And somehow, they've done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives there, and their families are there." " What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. And so that's in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone's like, oh, France, but I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn't have access to the data and couldn't respond to that same request.  To me it's very obvious that Russia would've had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment. "

@esrtweet So focus on building new things?

To understand if you're a good software developer, ask yourself whether you have the wisdom not to do this. Yes, I could write a TCP server in C by hand. But what would the point be, exactly? There are plenty of good ones available for reuse, and at this point eschewing the use of AI is approximately as silly as restricting yourself to assembler in a world that has plenty of good compilers. Laziness is one of the virtues of great programmers. Or, to put it exoterically, not doing work you don't have to do so you can concentrate your limited think time on the work only you can do.

@ChShersh Why not Rust?

To understand if you’re a good software developer, ask yourself: Can you implement a TCP server and client in pure C without using AI? If the answer is no, you have some work to do.

@robustus it's nice that you can also create unit tests (positive and negative examples) to prove that regex works, then have it explain it to you like you're 5.

Turns out with claude code, my decades long strategy of NOT deeply learning: - regexs - sql - nginx confs - elaborate shell commands - advanced shell scripting - any javascript framework - perf optimization - webpack, cdns, bundlers - 1000 other things ...was entirely correct.

@r0ktech Depends on the language

as a developer, which one do you prefer?