Eric Ziegler

I’m not saying they used an LLM, but given their track record… “You’re absolutely right! A girls school _isn’t_ a valid military target—it’s a horrible one! I’ll be sure to exclude them from target lists in the future.”

Every time I take a dive into mobile dev I’m left baffled, mainly by the tooling more than anything. A humbling experience for sure.

I expect we’ll see a lot of moving goalposts in the responses here.

TDD is like cardio for me; I never want to do it, but then when I do I feel great afterwards.

I specifically have gone out of my way to ensure every home surveillance thing I own is Apple Homekit video _only_, for this reason. Even if it claims Homekit compatibility: if it requires an account, its probably exfiltrating data still.

someone should invent a website that displays code stored in version control, and the website has uptime

This, I believe, has also subsumed a lot of non open-source code too. Well said.

I think the "Xcode ecosystem" compounds this feeling (for me at least). I'm already struggling through SwiftUI, and now I have Xcode doing strange, unexpected things so I also have to start learning about the tool too.

Not saying this is a valid criticism, just my own personal pain.

SaaS stocks being down because "vibe code your own" is nonsense. Most SaaS already has an open source alternative you can go and host yourself, right now!

Granted, with an agent in the mix, you still get that "customer service frustration" feeling you get with SaaS, so maybe thats the magic.

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please spread the word. small acts of care mean a whole lot in times of uncontrollable darkness.

There’s a good chance it’s one of IntelliJ’s siblings: GoLand

Mr. Hightower also posted this on Linkedin, and its absolutely maddening seeing all the so called "practitioners" completely miss his point and fill the comment section with cope, rather than being humble and taking a moment to reflect on his words.

“It was never a commitment” gonna start using this line at work, and cite Huang if I get pushback.

“.. It was never a commitment,” Huang told reporters in Taipei on Sunday. “They invited us to invest up to $100 billion and of course, we were, we were very happy and honored that they invited us, but we will invest one step at a time.”

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Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless Independent research identifies few learning gains

American schools in 2024 spent $30 billion on education technology, with limited (or negative) results. "Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead" www.economist.com/united-state...

Anyone panicking about Moltbook probably would have been scared shitless listening to the radio on October 30th, 1938.

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

Again though, this is just casual observation and speculation on my part. Certainly will keep observing!

For item 2, I speculate perhaps a stratified encoding technique has been employed. For “less important” creators, the transcoding infrastructure appears to be shipping lower rung renditions first, and not giving high end encoding much priority.

Two casual observations following TikTok’s transfer to US ownership:
1. Paid partnerships and sponsored content are less frequently labeled
2. Perceptual video quality appears to have taken a significant dive for smaller creators

I have a lot of admiration for the Minnesota Star Tribune today. If you aren't already, be sure to follow them @startribune.com

Breaking news: Federal agents in Minneapolis fatally shot a man believed to be U.S. citizen. The victim was a 37-year-old White male, a resident of the city and appeared to lawfully own a gun, the police chief said. https://wapo.st/3M62eyV

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"

Hi I'm a visual forensics reporter at The Washington Post. Do you have any footage of today's ICE shooting? Please reach out. DMs open.

System Design Tips for MediaConvert | Architecting Bytes Eric Ziegler's programming blog. Python, Java, Rust, web video engineering, and software architecture.

Revisting some stuff from 2025, this is still a favorite; mainly because it was fun photoshopping my cat. If you need to build a video streaming service from scratch this post might be useful to you. Or if you like pictures of my cat. www.architectingbytes.com/posts/mediac...