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by ljm 9mo ago
Growth hacking is a polyp on the arsehole of technology, to paraphrase
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I'd be willing to try that out :) a CLI would be great, even as a sandbox tool
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The realistic cardinality is actually a good start (the problem with things like using Faker for DB seeds being that everything is entirely too random). If one were be able to use metrics as source then, depending on the quality of the metr
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by ljm 9mo ago
Reminds me a bit of Snaplet before it embarked on its incredible journey to get acquired by Supabase and shut down. I like the concept but the painpoint has never been around creating realistic looking emails and such like, but creating dat
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by ljm 10mo ago
Microsoft Windows X Copilot One Series Y
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by ljm 10mo ago
I'll put money on Windows 12 being rebranded to either Windows Copilot or Copilot OS for Windows.
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by ljm 10mo ago
One of the most frustrating and perhaps thought-terminating clichés on the internet and social media at large is alluded to in this reply: “I personally could not view this page [because I turned off JS], therefore I will dismiss it out of
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by ljm 10mo ago
Personally, I think if your JSON needs comments then it's probably for config or something the user is expected to edit themselves, and at that point you have better options than plain JSON and adding commentary to the actual payload.
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by ljm 10mo ago
I am basically rawdogging Claude these days, I don’t use MCPs or anything else, I just lay down all of the requirements and the suggestions and the hints, and let it go to work. When I see my colleagues use an LLM they are treating it like
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by ljm 10mo ago
I think the only time I’ve ever seen this is in a JS library, where each major version bump is practically a different library altogether because it’s a complete rewrite, and these days is a wrapper around some Rust thing. Not even JS alone
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by ljm 10mo ago
Rather, static typing empowers backwards compatibility, right? Because it lays out the contract you have to meet on the interface. No contract? No enforced compatibility.
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by ljm 10mo ago
I constantly run into issues where features are planned and broken down outside-in, and it always makes perfect sense if you consider it in terms of the pure user interface and behaviour. It completely breaks down when you consider the API,
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by ljm 10mo ago
For every incredible journey there is an equal and opposite lesson to be learned
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by ljm 10mo ago
This feels like the kind of post you can only write with sombre experience.
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by ljm 11mo ago
> It's not like anything behind cloudflare is "mission critical" in the sense that lives are at stake or even a huge amount of money is at stake. This is far too dismissive of how disruptive the downtime can be and it sets
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by ljm 11mo ago
I’ve worked in places where it’s much easier to promote someone into the management track than it is to create a new IC role. In plenty of places in London you’ll get to senior engineer and then that’s basically it.
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by ljm 11mo ago
I got as far as asking for Mario, then telling it to do Steamboat Mickey, and then making it pixel based with 8 bit colours, and then making some of them blue and red, and then adding a flat cap.
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by ljm 11mo ago
As a joke I put a face into GPT and said, make it look upset. It rejected it, saying it violated policy, it can’t show people crying and what not, but it could do bittersweet. I said that crying is bittersweet and it generated the image any
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by ljm 11mo ago
Looks like AI slop Replication A trusted identity provider is a key component to single sign on. Uh, what? It’s probably just Minio but it costs more money.
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by ljm 11mo ago
Thing is… who is regularly running `npm update` or `cargo update` to keep local software up to date? I wouldn’t, because I might be in a repo and it starts upgrading all my local dependencies, and I’m not gonna add a text editor as a dev de
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by ljm 11mo ago
Given the fairly shoddy security story with NPM, I genuinely don't understand the hesitation to publish a binary and have a README instruction to curl/wget it into `/usr/local/bin` or `~/.local/bin`. If it
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by ljm 11mo ago
You and I obviously have different experiences because I encounter belligerent engineers much less frequently than ones who are enthusiastic to do what they can, and those who don't want to rock the boat when challenged. I thought I ma
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by ljm 11mo ago
I agree with the sentiment (people changing their minds), but the flipside to that is people pleasing. Someone who capitulates under even the slightest pressure is not much better than the person who is set in their ways. The trouble there,
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by ljm 11mo ago
If I felt the need to optimise things like infra setup and config at an early stage of a project, I'd be worried that I'm investing effort into the wrong thing. Having an LLM churn out infra setup for you seems decidedly worse tha
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by ljm 11mo ago
I enjoy the implied threat of being escorted to get a branded drink, and then getting frog marched to the local store if you’re out of supply.
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by ljm 11mo ago
I'll take any CI service that isn't cobbled together by mountains of nested and indirected YAML. Absolute horror to maintain.
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by ljm 11mo ago
Those overly enthusiastic responses from the LLM are really going to do a number on people's egos.
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by ljm 11mo ago
The people of Jonestown collectively drank less kool-aid than all this. I don't know whether to be worried or impressed.
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by ljm 11mo ago
I don't always get it right but I try not go on the internet and contribute even more anger and negativity that is already there. Try not to be a dick to other people. It's not really for anybody's sake except my own, because
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by ljm 11mo ago
I like to do this as a two-step triage because one aspect is the impact seen by the user and how many it reaches, but the other is how much effort it would take to fix and how risky that is. Knowing all of those aspects and where an issue l

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