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by ljm 1y ago
Maybe because other brutalist estates in London aren’t nearly as well kept or, uh, wealthy, than the Barbican is. And perhaps it’s uncommon to wander through such estates when you don’t live in them. The old Robin Hood Gardens before they w
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by ljm 1y ago
In a way, Rails is the OG for rapid application development considering its influence and impact on tech startups over the 2010s. These days you'd build a blog in 20 minutes by vibe coding it in Cursor and deploying it on to some serve
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by ljm 1y ago
Sometimes I wonder if I have ADHD or if it's induced by the content, because I can spend hours soaking up interesting literature and putting my weird thoughts down onto paper but I can barely make it a few words through LLM-driven driv
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by ljm 1y ago
You’d be wrong. It was Ruby.
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by ljm 1y ago
I think there will always be jobs out there that don't demand you write code with an LLM, just the same that most jobs don't demand you use vim or emacs or LSP-based autocomplete as part of your workflow. You don't have to
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by ljm 1y ago
One place I worked at got sold on microservices by Thoughtworks, along with a change to Java as the main language to be used. As one would expect, they made bank from their consulting endeavor and rode off into the sunset while the rest of
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by ljm 1y ago
You’re not saying how far in the course you are or at what level. The basic stage stuff is trash. You’re not even getting “ou est la biblioteque” or “donde esta la biblioteca”, you’re getting “la tortuga es verde” or “un homme ne pas femme”
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by ljm 1y ago
I’ve noticed the lack of transaction awareness mostly in serverless/edge contexts where the backend architecture (if you can even call it that) is driven exclusively by the needs of the client. For instance, database queries are modell
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by ljm 1y ago
To catch bugs and avoid the bottleneck that is code review, you’re just moving the bottleneck to some point after merging the code, not before. Like it or not you still have to stop what you’re doing to identify a bug and then fix it, whi
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by ljm 1y ago
The up-front cost of code review can be easily be tripled or quadrupled when it’s distributed over several weeks after the fact in the form of unplanned work, each instance of which incurs its own cost of context switching, as well as the c
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by ljm 1y ago
Screen recorder in 0 bytes: open camera app on phone and hit record.
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by ljm 1y ago
Why pay for your own runners when you can do CI/CD on your users’ machines?
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by ljm 1y ago
$8000 for 2 petabytes of traffic is pretty cheap for them also. There are plenty of shitty ISPs out there who would charge $$ per gigabyte after you hit a relatively small monthly cap. Even worse if you're using a mobile hotspot. I w
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by ljm 1y ago
I've used Pimsleur on and off for a while and it's great, because even with sporadic usage I can still more or less remember what I learned and most of the time I just need a bit of a refresher in terms of using the right case or
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by ljm 2y ago
I’d always prefer to use a prepared statement if I can, but sadly that’s also less feasible in the fancy new serverless execution environments where the DB adapter often can’t support them. For me it just makes it easier to identify as safe
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by ljm 2y ago
I wouldn’t rule out the radicalising properties of social media either. You don’t have to fly out to the Middle East and join a militia to be turned against Western ideals when Facebook can flood your feed with targeted propaganda for a pri
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by ljm 2y ago
Friend circles can be just as bad at excluding or ostracising others in the group for the pettiest of reasons. There’s always going to be a shot caller or instigator behind it and everyone else who is weak willed will get on board with it.
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by ljm 2y ago
Maybe a Turbo Think button that toggles between Ultrathink and Megathink.
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by ljm 2y ago
The general unawareness of what a barmcake (barm) is outside of Bolton/east lancs, particularly in London, never ceases to amuse me. “What the hell is a chip/bacon/sausage/pastie/pie barm!?”
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by ljm 2y ago
Taking TDD to a level it’s never been before
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by ljm 2y ago
I used a bad example with the Date API, except that, say, using moment or date-fns and sticking to it would be better than jumbling them up. If you’re going to do a migration from one to the other then it has to be committed to. Dependencie
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by ljm 2y ago
I don’t think it makes sense, per se, considering Gmail’s ubiquity comes from Google offering it as a free product, and then all the barriers to creating an email provider being raised in an attempt to combat spam. There’s barely any point
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by ljm 2y ago
They handle other packages so nicely too, as well as switching between light and dark and using variable pitch for UI parts.
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by ljm 2y ago
Not killed IME but bloated and dragged down by tech debt. E.g the JS project that uses the stdlib Date API, and pulls in moment.js, and also uses date-fns. Or the one that pulls in bits and pieces of lodash, ramda, and other functional libr
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by ljm 2y ago
There’s an out of sight, out of mind mentality with dependencies. As long as there is a conscious decision to build or ‘buy’, it’s fine. I think some people can be a little too careless with adding dependencies though, not realising they ca
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by ljm 2y ago
Same with graphql subscriptions. Arguably it’s also because of serverless architecture where SSE can be used more easily than WS or streaming. If you want any of that on Lambda and API Gateway, for example, and didn’t anticipate it right of
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by ljm 2y ago
I think Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman is a solid thesis on the sudden rise of communication and its steady decay. In less than 100 years we went from sending news via envoys or on horseback to compressing it and sending it over
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by ljm 2y ago
In the UK, the preference for consultants and contractors was always because it’s accounted for differently on the balance sheet. The consultants would actually cost more money overall, especially since they could be engaged longer than the
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by ljm 2y ago
The big legacy news organisations would be legacy media. Social media is not even 20 years old but it’s a tall order to deny it mainstream status since the younger generations get their news from scrolling TikTok and not cracking open the d
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by ljm 2y ago
This guy writes Malbolge and has zero runtime errors because he can't compile it.

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