I went looking for the beginning of this site. The trail is split between old GitHub repositories, the current site, and a few projects on my Forgejo server. Some dates are solid commit dates. Others come from my own recollection written down later. This is the winding road I can reconstruct so far. The earliest public clue is my own about this site page: I registered the domain and started making content in 2017, after a rough year in tech made me want a place and a body of work I controlled. The Git history does not reach that far. The oldest surviving repository I found is, whose first commit is July 8, 2020. That is the start of the Git trail, not the start of the site. A domain of my own 2017 First surviving site repo July 2020 The Markata rebuild March 2021 Notes find their way in June 2021 Netlify gives way to Cloudflare Pages by October 2021 The separate thoughts project starts July 2023 Thoughts join the site September 2023 The homelab starts running site tools October 2023 I…
Half of the conversations I’m having around software engineering lately is how are the people around you adopting agents. The other half is around doing more with less. The ones I am closest to we probably hit the same inflection points at the same time and are really hitting our strides in our phycosis phase. It does not feel like we are early adopters it feels like we are just using the things that are ready, filling in the gaps when we need. We are probably a few months behind the twitter curve at any moment in time. Here I am really taking a look at this article from Greg Huntley 1 year and 10 months after he wrote it. At the time I would have thought this guy is insane, 10 months ago I would have thought he was insane. An "oh fuck" moment in time Over the Christmas break, I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language, and re-learning a language I haven’t used professionally in over… Geoffrey Huntley · ghuntley.com And for tho…
If gippity can vomit out software 80% of what you made I aint using it anymore, I get way more value from asking the magic clanker to make it for me that I do trying to figure out how to use yours.
If you want to git gud you need to have some projects of your own. And it does not need to look like a @technotim thumbnail.
Ask your friends if they have any unused pc’s, hard drives, anything, other peoples trash makes a surprisingly great homelab. This is not just your starting point but where you keep an eye out for new nodes that you can join to your cluster.
No friends, look for any refurbished enterprise mini pcs. These work great for low power compute nodes. They do not handle a lot of disk, you will need...
What a doomer take. Hard to argue with with Chris here. Im trying to stay positive a s just do my job to thr best of my ability without getting too wrapped up in negativity. Basically he repeats the claims of ai labs and how many have been eventually correct. If it continues a large portion of us are cooked, if you think your not what do you think happens when half of the population gets displaced?
ascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line 240 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed. ascii.rest · ascii.rest such a cool collection of highly detailed animated ascii. everything from charts and graphs to bob ross scenary with more detail than any ascii ive see before, verging on the edge of a detailed pixel art.
Why is this still a question? You start another one, thats how this works now. I often have 23 agents up and going, maybe 3-5 actively cooking. A bunch of them are done that im reviewing the final statement, maybe i want to make a note still, or need to review the output, or debating a follow up.
Im not saying its the most healthy, productive, or best. But its what all of the people I talk to that actually build things are doing
prs are dead. called it 2026 Predictions. Its sad to see all of these great open source projects die. The bigger the project, the greater the project, the bigger the flood of shit from random people with random harness, random, models I like the idea of keeping issues open. I see a flow in the future of a claw like system for some projects that just kick on investigation right away, auto close duplicates, solved etc. When maintainer approves it just makes it. As cool as this sounds it also sounds sad and souless.
Listening to this video and feeling inspired. It’s crazy how the Conference AI Engineer feels like such a hype bro conference ready to tell you just do more, let go, you’re cooked if you’re not on the train, gaslighting you to believe something they lack evidence for. But what it really is, is a group of talks that are done by some of the best engineers trying to make it through this transition just like the rest of us. Drawing the lines between the past and the current. How do you get comfortable with the current without letting go, without giving in to shipping slop, but shipping real good work with confidence. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Se8jHLliLXE It turns out that good Developer Experience is also good Agent Experience Checklist I’m sure I’m missing a lot here, but this is what I’m thinking off the cuff. If you dont have these you need to rethink the first job for your new agents to begin work on your codebase. testing, linting, sast, type checking continuous integration continuo…
Yesterday my daughter and I were waiting for her practice to start and we wanted to play a game. She downloaded an app on her phone that allows you to record your voice and play it in reverse. Here’s the game we came up with. say a word in the recording play it back in reverse to the next person The next person says exactly what they hear without thinking Every single one was followed up with a Suppa Hot Fire Ahh hhh hh reaction by everyone around. They all sounded like complete gibberish, yet came out like the person was talking in a weird accent. Everyone was shocked to hear it was understandable what they were saying reversing their speech. Seriously give it a try Especially if you have kids, it’s so fun to have a small group of people speaking gibberish and out comes something understandable. Next Day The next day I was out with my son and telling him about how cool the game was and how you just gotta hear it to understand it. I was driving so I handed him my phone and said downloa…
