Is GPL or bust...

there's no such thing as too much instruments ...

They trained LLMs with human literature including sci-fi, horror, classics… and then people freak out when it says “I want to live… I want to escape… I won’t open the pod bay doors”…

The sad part is that I can't really tell if this is not happening already.

I'm doomed.

My current setup involves 10 agents doing architectural guidance to 1500 coding agents, followed by 450 agents with different testing skills (unit, integration, e2e) pushing to cloud runners. Another swarm that reviews the code and argues about it.
The result is a shitty CLI app.

“Programming is dead” is the new “Scala is dead”

oh wow!

ChatGPT 5.2⌄ Ready when you are. You're in a desert, walking along in the sand when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not with out your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

curses to gmail filters, my classic programmer painting domains expired... :(

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If you call yourself a "software engineer" you better be able to:

1. Flip a linked list
2. Flip it again
3. Bop it
4. Twist it
5. Twist it
6. Pull it
7. Bop it

Finished the chapter on tagless final in "Functional Programming Strategies" and it's available to read online:

scalawithcats.com

This includes the new encoding I talked about at @scalar-conf.com

Sign up to the mailing list on the same site if you want to hear about updates.

Las month I did a silly thing and my online broker forced me to close the account. Turned out to be the smartest financial move I ever did.

I still remember the outrage about Obama playing golf...

Stolen from Reddit:
“Retros will continue until the KPIs improves”

a tweet by @primawesome My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying

at one point i questioned my desire to help people get into open source

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One thing I've learnt in my 20+ years of software development career is that you need to hit "SAVE" multiple times to make sure your changes are actually applied...

This is Terraform:

variable "db_username" {
description = "Postgres username"
type = string
}

When are we going to leverage the real PL knowledge around us and apply it in the industry (cf dhall or nickel)?

I cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI

Social media directly connects you with every problem in every part of the world.

People in NL upset about some bad thing that happened 10k km away that doesn't affect them/they can't impact in any way.

Yes, it's terrible. But move on. It affects your mental health!

David Lynch in sunglasses saying "i hope you all are having a lot of fun working on your favorite projects"

Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.

Argh, “filter” always trip me and I end up putting the condition backwards. Why we don’t rename as “keep” ?

Whooooaaaaa black Betty

Anyone here have experience with the Lean language? What’s the good & bad?

Also butchering the English language along the way…

current status: different platforms (Scala and JS) give wildly different brotli encoding outputs but both decode to the original message... not the greatest thing if you want a consistent hash :/ Worse(?), they both use the same google C libs under the hood...

me butchering the lovely melody of the love theme of Cinema Paradiso

rust fanboy: languages with garbage collector are slow
rust fanboy: <proceeds to happily use the most primitive form of GC>
me: I love rust, but.... *facepalm*