@wbolster.nl
software dev by day 🧑🏼💻, musician by night 🎶🎹🎷, human being throughout 🙃 music, tech, society, urbanism, future of the planet, ally 👗🏳️🌈✊🏿🇺🇦 🏠 the hague, netherlands 🇳🇱🇪🇺🌍 🗣️ english, dutch 🤓 https://github.com/wbolster
really hoping it doesn't come to this, but at times it's looking rather bleak, tbh. 😢
anyway, enough sunday afternoon musings after getting through some articles from my reading list. the good news is that the sun is shining outside 🌱🌞
almost no junior or medior level human coworkers around to mentor or teach or learn from, because they were all forced out of their jobs, or forced to submit to the billionaire tech lords' planet devouring humanity suppression machines instead of honing their craft. 😭
‘the house is almost built but the basement is upside down, the walls are made of cardboard, and some of the rooms have eight doors, but they're all on the ceiling. let's bring in an expert for the final touches!’
… which would then be me 😱
dealing with the mess left by agentic software developer ‘peers’, or supervising in a ‘manager’ role that in reality would be tantamount to serving the machine, instead of the other way around. 🤖
my biggest professional fear as a very experienced software engineer is that the back half of my career will force me into sad #ai slop mopper roles. 🧵
maybe just word it as ‘the e18e community …’ and it should be clear for everyone? i love these recommendations but the current wording confused me a bit, tbh
hier nog eentje: met palmboomstompje en meer groen op de parkeerplaats dan in de tuin 😭
www.funda.nl/detail/43365...
de klimplanten tegen de schutting zijn helaas nog niet dood. gelukkig is aan de linkerkant het groene blad al wel aardig verdwenen dus er is hoop… 🙈🌱
yes they need to up their flexbox skills bsky.app/profile/wbol...
reader complaint in the margin of an old book. book in dutch, with a weird latin phrase used for no good reason. nonsense! it says
shoutout to the person who scribbled a complaint in the margin of this 50yo book (which i found in a ‘minibieb’ street library) using the pseudo-intellectual faux latin phrase ‘in ultima analysi’, stating ‘nonsense! analysis is greek, not latin’. amen brother 🙌🏼, neither is it italian 🤝🏼 #lingsky
de orgels zijn onderling niet zuiver gestemd. los wel
laat ze dat ook vooral horen bsky.app/profile/wbol...
bewegend beeld: bsky.app/profile/wbol...
zo is dat 💪🏼 bsky.app/profile/wbol...
today is not a quiet day at the office for the russian embassy in the hague. enjoy 4 ukrainian anthems, out of sync and out of tune! 🙉😁 #Ukraine #SlavaUkraini
the embassador: ‘i want it to stop right now’. so do i, the organiser replied 💪🏼 – nos.nl/artikel/2603...
snarky puppy somni european tour calendar; also available at https://snarkypuppy.com/tour
snarky puppy (@realsnarkypuppy.bsky.social) just announced their european ‘somni’ tour! #🎶 and… woohoo i just got my tickets for the groningen (netherlands) show! 🎉
(ticket sale for the general public opens in a few days – hmu if you need insider info about pre-sale tickets 😉)
uh wut, ‘undefinedable’ can't be correct code… go home @valibot.dev you're drunk… or so i thought! 🙃 but i was wrong and it actually exists! 😜 #javascript
- null → nullable
- undefined → undefinedable valibot.dev/api/undefine...
re download sizes: now i am wondering whether compression of ‘just a bit’ of source code (and going esm only) makes this less of a problem than it seems? esp. since noone uses only form-core, so there will always be >1 download: roundtrips, metadata overhead, etc (pure speculation; no hard numbers!)
thanks! wasn't aware of the pkg managers situation. rather important that it works at all indeed 😃
nou mooi, dan zijn we het eens 🙃
(je komt nota bene zelf met een waslijst op de proppen en klaagt dat er gebakken lucht wordt verkocht. dan mag er toch wel even opgemerkt worden dat ‘slecht gecodeerde flac’ onzin is? kom op)
and for those who cannot make up their minds, there is the aptly named hybrid hy (hylang) 😜 hylang.org
ja, verschillende conversies van analoog naar digitaal, en dat eindigt vervolgens met mogelijk weer allerlei processing (compressie, eq, …) op bijvoorbeeld een cd. en dat is het bronmateriaal voor de flac-conversie, maar die laatste omzetting heeft nul invloed op het geluid.
dan heb je verschillend bronmateriaal. heeft niets met flac van doen want dat is per definitie hetzelfde als het bronmateriaal
genuinely curious: why so many different small packages instead of for example) one tanstack-form pkg with all the framework bindings inside? wouldn't importing subpackages + tree shaking achieve the same? and framework dependencies could be peer deps? 🤔
ehm, flac is lossless (dus zonder kwaliteitsverlies) dus ‘slecht gecodeerde flac’ bestaat niet?
gewoon voor de lekker, volkskrant magazine, 2026-02-14
example from this weekend's volkskrant newspaper magazine: ‘gewoon voor de lekker’ / ‘just for the [tasty]’ (and no, this can not refer to tasty people or tasty things like in english)
english has ‘because [noun]’ (e.g. @gretchenmcculloch.com ‘because internet’). dutch has ‘voor de leuk’ (‘for the [funny]’, i.e. adjective instead of expected noun). are there more examples of new not-entirely-wrong-anymore grammatical constructs? is there a name for this phenomenon? #lingsky ❓
isn't that an editor problem/setting? also, perhaps uv could reflink (on modern file systems) instead of hardlink (both of which keep a single copy of the data as long as the file is not written to)?
aanvullend taalfou-tweetje over keukenapparaathuur: een afwasmachine is een vaatverwijderaar 😜
