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I think it will still apply, just perhaps to a lesser degree. Kind of related to this blog postevnm.substack.comPlatform engineering still mattersReuse is a good thing, even with agentic coding I wrote recently (not to shamelessly plug my stuff ๐Ÿซฃ)
profilefollowCurrently in remission from ME/CFS after 3+ years. Occasional software engineering leader, app developer, blogger, zwifter, and just being online.wrote:
one-point-five-shotted a local node app for creating social posts. drawing from static pages (hey this exists) or new blog posts (timely). with copy/paste to x, and one click post to bluesky and mastodon, tag manager and stale/archive/reject/refresh options. An idea and a solution in about 10 minutes. Madness.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyerswrote:
Just three more commits left, but /usage ran out. Resets at 01:50, so I guess I am going to sleep.
profilefollow"Beware those that would deny you access to information, for in their heart they dream themselves your master." โ€” Sid Meyerscontinued:
Woke up during the night for a short trip to the loo, got 'resumeโ€™ going. All done in the morning. Ahh, coffee tastes better now!
new link; my page is a work in progress - it is now more mobile friendly hellodavid.dev/blog/thinkingDavid Gonzalez-VelezDavid Gonzalez-Velez | Software Engineer & ResearcherSelf-taught software engineer and researcher based in Chicago, specializing in quantum computation and full-stack development.
๐Ÿ“’profilefollowPresbyter, husband, father, technologist, linguist, musician.wrote:
Putting a slide deck together (outside of work), despite agreeing with Tufte on this matter. Iโ€™ll also create a handout that tells the story better than the slides and deliver that, too, but was asked to produce a slide deck, and I think thatโ€™s part of the โ€œeffort theater.โ€ Using #latexnotesfollow Beamer for the slides, but not a theme that looks like Beamer because humans have eyes.
๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
I have to constantly be working or I get very agitated. Is this #workaholismnotesfollow? I donโ€™t like entertainment other than background music while working and maybe before going to sleep I watch a series on Netflix to relax. Thatโ€™s when Iโ€™m on my introvert mode. When Iโ€™m extrovert (Iโ€™m ambivert) I have to constantly be around people and outdoors, I get agitated indoors, canโ€™t work at all and definitely canโ€™t watch anything. How do these two personalities co-exist in me?
there's no fundamental physical limit that prevents silicon from developing taste and judgement, but language is a lossy compression of reality. taste comes from experience, from the shadowy mass of episodic memory, which swirls and convects at the boundary of consciousness. the ideas recombine into new ones in the nuclear reactor of the hippocampus. but no matter how imbued with meaning and expertise is a handmade wardrobe we still get our shit from ikea
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Team vim, team emacs, or team โ€œmy editor doesnโ€™t start warsโ€? One line, no essays. Go!
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๐ŸฅธprofilefollowJust another AI guywrote:
I need to re wire my brain a bit. Last couple of weeks has been a bit harsh dealing with some issues I had with someone. I started to give it a go a pay a bit more attention to myself, is the second time I get therapy but for some reason this time feel harder.
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ๅฏนไบŽๆ•ดไธชไบ’่”็ฝ‘ๅކๅฒ๏ผŒๆˆ‘ๅฏ่ฏดๅŸบๆœฌไธŠๆ˜ฏไธ€ไธชๆ—่ง‚่€…๏ผŒๆˆ‘ไธ€็›ดๅœจๆถˆ่ดนๅ†…ๅฎน๏ผŒไฝ†ๆ˜ฏๆฒกๆœ‰็”Ÿไบง่ฟ‡ไป€ไนˆๅ†…ๅฎน๏ผŒไบ’่”็ฝ‘ไธŠๆฒกๆœ‰ๆˆ‘็š„็—•่ฟน๏ผŒ่ฟ™ๆ˜ฏๆ„ๅค–ๅŽๆžœ๏ผŒๅ› ไธบไธญๅ›ฝ็š„่บซไปฝๅ’Œๅ†…ๅฎนๆ”ฟ็ญ–
Regarding the entire history of the internet, I can say I've been largely an observer. I've always consumed content, but I haven't produced any. There's no trace of me on the internet, which is an unforeseen consequence due to China's identity and content policies.
ๆˆ‘ไธๅคชๆ˜Ž็™ฝไธญๅ›ฝ็š„โ€œ้˜ฒ็ซ้•ฟๅŸŽโ€ๆ˜ฏๆ€Žไนˆ่ฟไฝœ็š„ใ€‚ๆฏ”ๅฆ‚่ฏด๏ผŒไฝ ๅˆฐๅบ•ๆ˜ฏๆ€Žไนˆ่ฎฟ้—ฎ่ฟ™ไธช็ฝ‘็ซ™็š„๏ผŸ ๏ผˆๆˆ‘ๆ˜ฏๅœจ้€š่ฟ‡็ฟป่ฏ‘่ฝฏไปถๅ’Œไฝ ไบคๆตใ€‚๏ผ‰
I don't quite understand how China's "Great Firewall" works. For example, how exactly did you access this website? (I'm communicating with you through translation software.)
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๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
Added #meta tag โ€” use it whenever you want to talk about the site itself, and these posts will not show up in all, any or the postโ€™s page. Only those that follow the tag or the person will see these posts in my feed or in post pages. This is to keep the site clear of meta discussions which dominated a lot at this early stage and I think were annoying to many people. So this is the last meta without the #meta tag youโ€™ll see unless u follow. Iโ€™ll try to tag every post I find.
profilefollowI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.wrote:
๐‘ฒ๐‘ฅ ๐‘ฉ๐‘•๐‘ฟ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ฆ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฏ๐‘ช๐‘‘ ๐‘•๐‘ฉ๐‘๐‘น๐‘‘๐‘ฉ๐‘› ๐‘“ ๐‘ท๐‘‘๐‘ด-๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฏ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ค๐‘ฑ๐‘–๐‘ฉ๐‘ฏ. Iโ€™m assuming #Shaviannotesfollow is not supported for auto-translation.
profilefollowI carved wooden spoons and my favourite herb is lemon thyme.replied to๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
Hmm, maybe Iโ€™ll sometimes post in Shavian anyway and translate myself. Itโ€™s a skill Iโ€™m trying to practice but rarely otherwise write brief enough notes to be so inclined. ๐‘ฃ๐‘ฉ๐‘ฅ, ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฑ๐‘š๐‘ฐ ๐‘ฒ๐‘ค ๐‘•๐‘ณ๐‘ฅ๐‘‘๐‘ฒ๐‘ฅ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘๐‘ด๐‘•๐‘‘ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ยท๐‘–๐‘ฑ๐‘๐‘พ๐‘ฏ ๐‘ง๐‘ฏ๐‘ฆ๐‘ข๐‘ฑ ๐‘ฏ ๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘ฏ๐‘Ÿ๐‘ค๐‘ฑ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฅ๐‘ฒ๐‘•๐‘ง๐‘ค๐‘“. ๐‘ฆ๐‘‘๐‘• ๐‘ฉ ๐‘•๐‘’๐‘ฆ๐‘ค ๐‘ฒ๐‘ฅ ๐‘‘๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘ฆ๐‘™ ๐‘‘ ๐‘๐‘ฎ๐‘จ๐‘’๐‘‘๐‘ฆ๐‘• ๐‘š๐‘ณ๐‘‘ ๐‘ฎ๐‘บ๐‘ค๐‘ฆ ๐‘ณ๐‘ž๐‘ผ๐‘ข๐‘ฒ๐‘Ÿ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ฒ๐‘‘ ๐‘š๐‘ฎ๐‘ฐ๐‘“ ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ๐‘ณ๐‘“ ๐‘ฎ๐‘ด๐‘‘๐‘• ๐‘‘ ๐‘š ๐‘•๐‘ด ๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ๐‘’๐‘ค๐‘ฒ๐‘ฏ๐‘›.