Sargath

In 20 years the most popular book will be titled: "How to think without a computer"

Yeah -- it seems like large corporations will profit most from these tools, while small companies and startups may struggle to absorb the costs.

This may sound like a conspiracy theory, but I’m beginning to wonder whether some AI-focused data centres are also being used for crypto mining. The way crypto prices surge and crash makes me question whether those cycles are tied to over-investment in that kind of infrastructure.

What if we're actually in the middle of the third golden age of software engineering? This is what Grady Booch (@booch.com) sees happening. If you are anxious about the state of the industry, you want to watch/listen to Grady's longer-term perspective:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMA...

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I wonder what happened to Rob Martin. He seems like a die hard MAGA supporter now. He blocks anyone with a counterargument.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I Fried ChatGPT With ONE Simple Question YouTube video by Rick Beato

Oh, and btw ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiwA...

I also hope that when AI reaches its peak, elmo and his orange friend will fade into obscurity.
The U.S. will probably still face major internal issues—perhaps even a civil conflict—over its debt, though it’s difficult to feel much sympathy for a nation that chose such poor leadership

🙌 Remembering Ryan Weaver: Teacher, Core Team Member, Friend
➡️ https://symfony.com/blog/remembering-ryan-weaver-teacher-core-team-member-friend

Today I'm proud to launch your new favourite Go book in early access!

This book will go to a depth not seen before in Go books, and the first three chapters are available right now:
www.bytesizego.com/books/anatom...

$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.24.0@latest $ go1.24.0 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 74636413 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (37318206 / 74636413 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (74636413 / 74636413 bytes) Unpacking go1.24.0.linux-arm64.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.24.0' $ go1.24.0 version go version go1.24.0 linux/arm64

🥳 Go 1.24.0 is released!

📰 Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.24

📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.24.0

#golang

Understood, thx for the info

Hey Mat, will there be a live stream from the meetup?

a man wearing 3d glasses is eating popcorn and saying `` waiting patiently '' . ALT: a man wearing 3d glasses is eating popcorn and saying `` waiting patiently '' .

I'm waiting for this whole shithole with AI to explode altogether with elmo, and red imperator.

The more I use GenAI coding tools, the more I am convinced keeping to "traditional" software engineering practices is what works most productive here. As in 10x more productive. E.g.

- Small changes
- Test that the change works before moving on
- (unit) tests wherever you can

I have the same impression. I'd say it makes me worse in terms of learning new stuff. Removes some sort of self reflection on what I'm doing, and my vigilance diminishes as well.

Pride comes before fall.
Hope his cult will vanish soon, along with the AI bubble, and magnificent seven with their 30% stock market on SP500.

A good example is film advisories portals that already started to appear, where real human work there.
For instance, the way how Netflix proposes movies is crap, and never worked for me well.

I'm eagerly waiting for this bubble to eventually pop. And the masquerade provided by these mofos like Elmo will be exposed. I cannot stand how people bought that scam.

Moved To Bluesky - Bluesky Directory A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.

I've locked my X/Twitter account.
My tweets are now private.
My profile says the minimum about me.
I've used blueskydirectory.com/moved-to-blu... to generate the banner with QR Code to my Bluesky account.

Don’t forget the Go starter pack!

go.bsky.app/P8NUt1Y

Benchmark RDP 10000 times simplification of Belgium Type PHP 8.3.14 PHP 8.4.1 Speed-Up PHP Code 22.34 21.446 4.00% PHP + JIT 9.441 8.772 7.09% C Implementation 0.801 0.795 0.75%

I can some benchmarks to see how proportionally the new JIT in PHP skewed speed improvements.

Conclusion:

- PHP 8.4.1 is about 4% faster than PHP 8.3.14
- with JIT, the speed-up is about 7%
- there is (unsurprisingly) negligible improvements in the C […]

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➡️ The PHP manual has learned a new trick, you can now run the code right in the browser!

🥳 Thanks to @soyuka for the implementation!

#php #documentation

PHP 8.4 Released PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance improvements, bug fixes, and general cleanu...

#PHP 8.4 is released. Let the party begin!

New features, modernisation and clean up: the future is here.

Next stop: #PHP 8.5!

www.php.net/releases/8.4...

PHP is Legacy, in 2024 Developers sometimes still jump to the conclusion that PHP, as a programming language is "legacy". Why is this?

Hey y'all. PHP is legacy.

developer.vonage.com/en/blog/php-...

#php #webdev #devrel

composer is the real mvp of php dev. absolute legend. 🐘

Celebrating the PHP 8.4 release! YouTube video by PHP Annotated

Well this is going to be fun! Two days from now, PHP 8.4 releases, and I will sit down with some PHP community members and you, to talk about PHP, and celebrate its awesomeness!

Mark your calendars!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AL2...

#php

Pie: new extension installer for PHP Pie, new extension installer for #PHP was released! Let’s have a look at it and see what it brings to the table.

I wrote a simple article about #Pie (new extensions installer) for #PHP, which shows installation and usage in #Docker builds (both Debian and Alpine). Looking forward for the tool's further development 🤞😊.

blog.codito.dev/2024/11/pie-...