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Any discussion of cognitive load in programming needs to include awareness of this book: The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition. By Felienne Hermans https://www.manning.com/books&#x2
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I'm feeling surprised that ao far nobody has mentioned Fred Brooks' essential vs incidental complexity.
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> The Trump administration contends...that his decisions cannot be reviewed by any court. If Trump were a software developer, he would commit directly to main
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When I go to a retail store, my primary emotion is empathy for the workers: I think, "sorry you have to stand here for 8 hours and listen to entitled upper middle class customers". Sometimes at the grocery store, if there's n
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A cute gag. Seems its every response is sarcastic. Good sarcasm is delivered in doses. The best sarcasm is delivered when you didn't expect it.
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On my projects [1][2], I use C# and Avalonia with Rider or Visual Studio. For extra performance, turn on AOT, which has the nice side-effect of making reversing your app to C# impossible. I worked in WPF for a decade. I wouldn't go wit
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Hi slater! I'm sltr. Which is the same name but without vowels.
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What was the question?
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Simple claim with a complex story. I thought about mentioning AOT and trimming, but my comment was already long. AOT in ASP.NET is still a moonshot in most cases, and a non-starter in existing web apps due to dependencies not supporting AOT
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The library's tagline says "Powerfully Simple. Blazingly Fast." So there. ::folds arms:: Joking aside, I do agree that ASP.NET Core is a behemoth. On .NET 9, I just now did `dotnet new webapi` followed by `dotnet publish --se
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A couple of months ago I put forth Naur's program theory as an argument why LLM's can't replace human developers: > LLMs as they currently exist cannot master a theory, design, or mental construct because they don't r
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They wrote "pad the CEO salary", not "support any leadership" Compare to Torvalds. You may or may not like his leadership, but nobody feels sour about his salary.
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DIY monitoring: $ curl https://example.com -vI --stderr - | grep "expire date" * expire date: Jan 15 23:59:59 2026 GMT
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Reminds me of "Appeal to Aithority". (not a typo) An LLM said it, so it must be true. https://blog.ploeh.dk/2025/03/10/appeal-to-aithority/
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Dev Skills for the LLM Era(slater.dev)
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Blount county native here. (How native? Almost got married in the church her nephew preaches at). There was a joke that made its rounds here round about the time Queen Elizabeth died: > Bob: "The queen's dead" > Alice:
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> to ask a clarifying question I think one shortfall of LLMs is their reluctance to ask clarifying questions. From my own post [1]: > LLMs are poor communicators, so you have to make up the difference. Unlike a talented direct report,
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> haven't paid for the Apple Developer Program yet Then you aren't even half done. You still have to undergo the memorable experience of code sign and app store review. First wrote iOS apps in 2010. Loathed it then, loathed it
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I interviewed in November 2022. Sounds unchanged, with the essay (24-pages) and bizarre focus on my early life. Progressed pretty far into the process. 94% on intelligence assessment and positive on the behavioral. Then in a call with HR, I
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I've filed with freetaxusa for about 6 years. It's been great. Does everything TurboTax can. It's free, but I splurge and spend all of $8 for Deluxe to show support. Anything to unseat Intuit. That said, a direct file option
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I agree with this. "Companies which overuse AI now will inherit a long tail of costs" [1] [1] AI: Accelerated Incompetence. https://www.slater.dev/accelerated-incompetence/
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https://blog.ploeh.dk/2025/01/27/dependency-inversion-withou...
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https://www.dict.cc/
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I see this too on my CF Pages-hosted blog. Analytics only work if the agent runs JS. CF on the other hand counts file fetches, which can't be circumvented. There's always a baseline of bot traffic.
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Everyone is their current age for the first time. It's almost a tautology, but when I remember it, I feel more dignified about my age and more empathetic for others' age anxiety.
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Chesteron's Fence [1] states "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place", and it has a corollary: Don't put up unnecessary fences. They'll be hard to remove even though they serve no
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Reminds me of the Lazarus Heist [1] [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w13xtvg9
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Yes, but IRL those expressions are not persisted to Redis
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> it requires a lot of energy to form adult friendships My experience corroborates this. Reminded me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473618
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What are plausible antidotes to this trend? I was reminded of the Stoop Coffee blog post about two months ago. Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43473618

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