When you imagine an “invading horde”, what do you see?

If you’re like me, educated in Europe, or one of its cultural equivalents or ex-colonies, you probably think of a caricature of Genghis Khan and his army.

We have to replace this image with a British arsehole in a shit wig.

RE: https://piaille.fr/@rafa/116816427161521994

I don’t know anything about Njalla but I am going to check it out.

I have been instructed to install OpenAI Codex at work.

I will do it, but tonight, so I can open the whisky first.

It seems .final is owned by the Brazilian internet operators, but I can’t find any way to actually register one, and AFAICT, no one else has figured it out either.

Which means… there really is a need for .final2. Astonishingly good.

Just found out there’s a .final TLD, which begs the question: when will there be a .final2?

“Leaders could do worse than buy all staff a copy of their favourite book, every year. Enough people would read it to make this more effective than the same amount spent on the average training course.”

— Peter Hilton

https://hilton.org.uk/blog/book-club.html

I wish my employers would send me books upon joining. One did, and I really appreciated it.

If you’re in leadership, consider picking 3–5 books that explain what you do and why you do it, and send them to every member of your team, new and old.

If you can’t think of any, read more.

I want a new profile picture but I don’t like my photos.

Anyone know an artist where I can send them a bunch of photos and they draw me a headshot? I am thinking in a cel-shaded style or similar, but open to other ideas.

RE: https://types.pl/@Andrev/116749191654078097

Fuck yeah!

RE: https://cathode.church/@meena/116738490273364866

I am very much enjoying @meena’s thoughtful takedown of cloud-native (Kubernetes) propaganda.

The thread is ongoing; check back later and I expect it’ll be longer.

I think @nat really gets to the heart of why managers are all over LLM-generated code:

https://www.simplermachines.com/software-delivery-will-continue-to-be-non-linear/

I love this line:

software projects are nonlinear systems with a tendency to collapse into pathological (non-software producing) states

This is an incredible interview with Joseph Weizenbaum, and I would like everyone to read it please. @meena https://cathode.church/@meena/116568192357693414

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/116560564586899562

One of those wonderful posts where the replies are inspired. 😄

Claude has ruined retro-futuristic websites for me.

Somehow they… all look the same? They even use the same monospace font.

I got my new stickers from @rradczewski!

If you want one, hunt me down.

I was looking at the Servo sponsorship page on OpenCollective and… am I understanding this right? Stripe takes 10% on $10? WTF?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116430689382207703

We all have smartphones now, you don’t have to tell us any more.

A couple of people wrote to me to say that they are annoyed that we built robots to make “art” (scare quotes) when we should be making robots to do laundry.

And aside from the fact that unless you do take your laundry to the river to wash it, you already have a robot that does 90% of the work (and I can respect wanting automation for the other 10%)…

We don’t have robots (chatbots) that make art or write code either! They do an average job of some things, poor at others, and you can’t rely on them at all. If this is “AI”, I want it nowhere near my laundry.

Our 2020s tech industry loves to automate the easy part and hand-wave away the part that matters. The chatbots can’t do anything; they can only do the pointless parts, the boilerplate, the busywork. This is not the work. Humans still have to do this and the chatbots make it harder because they have to sift through bullshit to do so.

Keep Sam Altman the fuck away from my chores. He’ll just break all my dishes and dye my t-shirts blue.

Those of you who like code review: I recommend shifting left, pairing with your colleagues (especially non-programmers such as product designers or testers), and writing lots more test cases. I think you’ll enjoy it a lot.

(I posted this on a private chat and someone asked me to make it public, so if you’ve read it before, hi!)

I will never understand why we looked at modern programming, saw that there is a good bit, which is programming, and a bad bit, which is code review… and decided to automate the good bit at the expense of having to do a lot more of the bad bit.