I'm seeing a future where OSS models do play a larger and larger role in the augmented coding space.
The big three have too many dystopian ambitions they imagine are foregone conclusions. As you've noted, a kind of permanent market capture that only they control. I feel like that will backfire.
BTW, we are a new and growing community. We absolutely do want to support new and first time speakers!
@ngerakines.me has some ideas around mentorship and feedback to help make great presentations, and also how lightning talks can give every one a way to present their ideas & projects.
Yay! Can't wait to see some great proposals start rolling in!
Also, multitasking is real. Just put all tickets into "In Progress" at the same time.
Verified 🧑🍳💋
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
That's a "Being John Malkovich" level swerve from his usual content for sure.
I thought you were kidding man. This is insane at new unseen levels of insane.
If only he could find a way to signal to Maple MAGA without the rest of us hearing about it 🤣
Be the YouTube video you want to see in the world. I'm doing something similar to my Alienware. $25 fan, or $600 power supply from Dell. I'll take the chance on electrocution.
This article by @quinnypig.com nails it
www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
I guess I'm a techie again? Taking apart a 750 watt power supply (CAREFULLY) and installing a new fan.
Re-decentralize! The hosting ecosystem used to be a lot more vibrant. AWS is the Walmart of service hosting.
Yaphet Kotto and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a scene from The Running Man. Both are in badass Adidas gym suits from the future. Arnold's is gold, Yaphet's is white and red.
Just remembered Yaphet Kotto is in The Running Man (re-watching) and now I'm like Hell Yeah. I've fallen down an 70's/80's sci-fi hole post Alien Earth.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Domain name mapped. Verified. My country’s face to the world.
I found this Linux program called "asciiquarium" that basically turns your terminal into an aquarium full of little ASCII fish and sharks and stuff, it's really fun ^-^
I like this, extremely straightforward and doesn't feel weirdly degrading like the rehearsed questions do.
I've felt for a long time that the canned answer code questions miss a lot of nuance and aren't that helpful at evaluating people who aren't just crunching leetcode puzzles every day.
Converted to chicken and mozzarella
THIS 😂
Layering is the secret. Because depending on what part of Canada you're in it'll switch up on you without notice.
Might be a big opportunity for detectors, if they'll ever work right.
I like the cozy web turn of phrase. Not super thrilled as to *why* we need the cozy web.
One thing generative AI is really putting the zap on my head over; It's not the images, not the video.. it's well formatted .md files with emojis.
It has legitimately been a great "head of engineering simulator" for me. I get to be extremely picky about process and procedure. Occasionally it'll lie to me. I get LLMs to check each other's work. I get to say "this is not production ready" after being told something is production ready.
The PC will still be utilised in a strange way, other than gaming. I'm going to use it to mock up a Kubernetes target for deployments. And I can also lean on the GPU with ollama to play with local models.
So the downgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 from 24.04 was so that I could regain access to my hybrid graphics, allowing me to run multi-monitor from the Thinkpad. A weirdness I wasn't expecting. I also have to remember to be a little less cavalier with my upgrades.
Thinkpad keyboard closeup with the W key taped down.
I also uh, "fixed" my keyboard. This whole bit needs to be replaced, frankly.
Current setup; mainlining my Thinkpad with Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop on it for dev again. The somewhat long experiment with WSL2 on Windows 11 wasn't a failure, but the annoyances finally got to me (wonky file handling, wonky Docker integration, wonky hot reload in Node (wtf)).
