alexwennerberg

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by alexwennerberg 1mo ago
I do
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by alexwennerberg 1mo ago
I'm glad I stuck with SQLite. Governance is an important part of any open source project. SQLite has kept things narrow and focused, while DuckDB's philosophy is to do more and more, making it a general-purpose data science tool.
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Who Cares about the Shrimp?(joinreboot.org)
3 points by alexwennerberg 2mo ago|0 comments
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by alexwennerberg 2mo ago
> Normal people overwhelmingly prefer AI design (and flattering, grandiose AI slop writing as well) Everyone I have talked to universally hates AI design.
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by alexwennerberg 3mo ago
I don't have a problem with setting a few relevant flags for any new SQLite database. It's a good encouragement to familiarize yourself with the settings.
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by alexwennerberg 3mo ago
> Imagine you're a professional writer and it's your main source of income. There are probably a few thousand of these in the entire United States. The market system heavily under-values writing as is, independent of piracy
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by alexwennerberg 3mo ago
> This is a common perspective on HN, but it's so jarring. Someone violates an open-source license and we grab our pitchforks. Someone pirates books and it's fine - really, the authors should be thanking us. If the books were r
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by alexwennerberg 4mo ago
> But when you hit that wall, it is hard to stop and convince people to use different patterns and systems. I've seen so many tables go from "it will only be a few thousand rows" to suddenly several TB and then people are
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by alexwennerberg 5mo ago
For any Bay Area folks, we have a permacomputing meetup. Planning on scheduling the next one, you can join the mailing list or RSS for updates https://alexwennerberg.com/permacomputing.html
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Please don't vibe code your personal website(alexwennerberg.com)
4 points by alexwennerberg 6mo ago|0 comments
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AI can sort of code, can't write(alexwennerberg.com)
2 points by alexwennerberg 6mo ago|1 comments
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by alexwennerberg 7mo ago
See you all there!
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by alexwennerberg 8mo ago
Large firms are extremely bureaucratic organizations largely isolated from the market by their monopolistic positions. Internal pressures rule over external ones, and thus, inefficiency abounds. AI undeniably is a productive tool, but large
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AI Is Not Inevitable(dustin.boston)
9 points by alexwennerberg 8mo ago|0 comments
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by alexwennerberg 8mo ago
AI can produce elegant software but not on its own. It requires a human with taste to direct and guide it.
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by alexwennerberg 8mo ago
Odd. Hyphens used as though they were em-dashes, which I guess looks the same in a fixed-width font
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by alexwennerberg 8mo ago
> The only way to truly opt out of big-company organizational politics is to avoid working at big companies altogether. This is perhaps what I find somewhat odd about Sean's writing. It sometimes reads to me like a scathing critique
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You have to know how to drive the car(seangoedecke.com)
79 points by alexwennerberg 8mo ago|53 comments
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AI code and software craft(alexwennerberg.com)
249 points by alexwennerberg 8mo ago|152 comments
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by alexwennerberg 8mo ago
> Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ? Both are bad. Just use text.
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by alexwennerberg 8mo ago
The text reads suspiciously like AI too. I don't X -- I Y. Short paragraphs, lots of em-dashes.
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by alexwennerberg 9mo ago
https://alexwennerberg.com
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by alexwennerberg 9mo ago
> some people are happier in a high performance environment with employee churn, when it means having more talented coworkers It means having coworkers who are constantly in competition with you for survival. It's a nightmare.
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by alexwennerberg 9mo ago
Lol thanks for reading my blog post! (Alex here) Your statement of my position: > We live in a late-stage-capitalist hellscape, where large companies are run by aspiring robber barons who have no serious convictions beyond desiring power
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by alexwennerberg 10mo ago
This was an excellent explanation of a complex business problem, which would be made far more complex by splitting these out into separate services. Every single 'if' branch you describe could either be a line of code, or a servic
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by alexwennerberg 10mo ago
> Logs were designed for a different era. An era of monoliths, single servers, and problems you could reproduce locally. Today, a single user request might touch 15 services, 3 databases, 2 caches, and a message queue. Your logs are stil
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by alexwennerberg 10mo ago
Thank you! I read this a long time ago and could never remember it, thinking it was Shopify that wrote it.
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by alexwennerberg 10mo ago
Does anyone have examples of organizations that have leveraged SQLite and written about their experience? I've read a lot of theory and benchmarks about it lately and it seems extremely impressive, but I'm wondering if anyone has
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by alexwennerberg 10mo ago
This isn't really what my article is about. I'm talking about workplace politics, ie, internal organizational corporate dynamics, not like, world politics.
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by alexwennerberg 10mo ago
I agree, "politics" exist in any human institution. The issue is when political maneuvering becomes the sole or primary role of a software engineer -- that is a symptom of dysfunction. The primary role of a software engineer shoul

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