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Benjamin Muskalla

@bmuskalla.dev

⛱️ currently https://poolside.ai/ 🎀 Speaker https://bmuskalla.dev/talks/ β˜• Java Champion πŸ‘Ύ Former @github.com Copilot, Gradle, Tasktop, EclipseSource 🧠 All opinions come from my training data

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you cannot compete with someone who is having fun

11.10.2025 13:48 πŸ‘ 49 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You would *hope* that software developer job interviews and software development wouldn't require two distinctly different sets of skills.

13.08.2025 07:30 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well ...

I clicked a link and ended up on sourceforge.net - AMA

11.08.2025 21:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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poolside Jobs poolside Jobs

We're still looking for talent across the board, be it in inference, training, backend or IDEs. Feel free to ping if you want to know more. jobs.ashbyhq.com/poolside?utm...

11.08.2025 08:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ikea captcha

01.08.2025 08:21 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1
Screenshot of a website saying: Please refresh this  page to ensure that you have the most current information

Screenshot of a website saying: Please refresh this page to ensure that you have the most current information

Why don't we include this on every website? So true.

21.05.2025 07:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Need a dev advocate? Look no further, Mark is a rock star

13.05.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Same even works with curl commands pasted into http files

03.05.2025 04:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Martin with a big smile wears a backward red cap, a red hoodie, and a gray T-shirt that says β€œMUSIC BAND.” He holds a skateboard over his shoulder and stands in a school hallway. The text on the image reads, β€œHOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS?”

Martin with a big smile wears a backward red cap, a red hoodie, and a gray T-shirt that says β€œMUSIC BAND.” He holds a skateboard over his shoulder and stands in a school hallway. The text on the image reads, β€œHOW DO YOU DO, FELLOW KIDS?”

22.04.2025 20:38 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

branch names often make it obvious how stupid a bug was: bmuskalla/stopAtEnd

03.04.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

how you know you're still a startup? someone just mentioned "long term" and "2 weeks" in the same sentence

01.04.2025 19:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript. No compiler expertise necessary. All the code is in the book; we'll take you through it step by step. Get your hands dirty and see for yourself what WebAssembly is all about.

Learn Wasm by building a simple compiler in JavaScript. No compiler expertise necessary. All the code is in the book; we'll take you through it step by step. Get your hands dirty and see for yourself what WebAssembly is all about.

Excited to announce the official launch of our online book, WebAssembly from the Ground Up! πŸŽ‰

It's the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago.

No messing with tools and frameworks. It's a hands-on guide to the core of Wasm: the instruction set and module format.

Link below. πŸ‘‡

10.03.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6

Reminder: if you haven’t yet read β€œThe Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.

06.03.2025 06:57 πŸ‘ 615 πŸ” 93 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 5

my personal AGI benchmark is implementing atproto oauth from scratch. ultimate evidence of beyond-human-level intelligence

03.03.2025 19:13 πŸ‘ 160 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

Saving papers or articles to read? Just mark them as stale every morning; last 3 things I pulled from my "to read list" were outdated already. Sigh
Anything interesting you got that I can mark as stale by tomorrow?

25.02.2025 15:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New prompt technique: stop being smarty pants. nobody wants code comments for indecipherable code. write readable code instead. thank you.

21.02.2025 23:01 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

E_TOKENIZER_GONE_ROGUE

19.02.2025 23:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Credit for this quote goes to @akshaykagrawal.bsky.social

14.02.2025 22:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OH: a Jupyter notebook is just a dressed up REPL

πŸ˜‚

14.02.2025 22:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It's funny how people think that AI tools out there can just implement a "model switcher" and be independent of the underlying model behaviour...brace yourselves. SOTA doesn't mean equal

10.02.2025 23:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - simplescaling/s1: s1: Simple test-time scaling s1: Simple test-time scaling. Contribute to simplescaling/s1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

this s1 paper is so refreshing! Love seeing ML breakthroughs that don't need massive compute or complex tricks πŸ™Œ
Clean, simple, and it actually works? More of this please!

github.com/simplescalin...

08.02.2025 08:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Running scripts | uv A guide to using uv to run Python scripts, including support for inline dependency metadata, reproducible scripts, and more.

I don’t care how hacky it feels but I really dig `uv run β€”with=β€œdep>1,<2” myscript.py docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/sc...

07.02.2025 19:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

While I've moved on a while ago, I still regularly rave about JDTs incremental compiler and how nothing ever came close :)

06.02.2025 21:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I do miss Java tooling :)

06.02.2025 16:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

True but that's less of a model problem and more a function of providing the right context

06.02.2025 15:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Across various programming languages I work with, LLMs became more reliable in fixing imports properly than language tooling itself πŸ€”

06.02.2025 14:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our beautiful, well-maintained code base.

Simba: But what's that shadowy place over there?

Mufasa: API V1, which still handles 95% of requests.

Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our beautiful, well-maintained code base. Simba: But what's that shadowy place over there? Mufasa: API V1, which still handles 95% of requests.

06.02.2025 11:16 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
Running pytest against a specific Python version with uv run While working on this issue I figured out a neat pattern for running the tests for my project locally against a specific Python version using uv run :

Tiny TIL: I just figured out how to run pytest with a different Python version against my pyproject.toml/setup.py projects using uv run

uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest

til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...

04.02.2025 22:59 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

Programming languages: "We are just a way to operate computers in a way that makes sense to humans."

Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"

31.01.2025 08:51 πŸ‘ 642 πŸ” 87 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 6
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When you just thought youβ€˜ve seen everything in the hype cycle. Germany goes

31.01.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0