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Applied to an L5 software engineering role via e-mail and without any other contact I received back a bunch of questions that clearly look like they're aimed at L6 or even L7. Not sure what to do with that so I withdrew. Briefly considered answering them but was weirded out.

the more you use ai to create stuff, the less you touch the creativity void inside you

code quality is about coupling. coupling is not a technical property of the code bytes. code acquires its meaning in contact with the cultural environment, and coupling is about meaning. two constants with no semantic relationship are nonetheless coupled in pragmatics if they refer to the same domain concept. if your goal is to minimise the time integral of future work, you must understand your domain: it decides which lines will need changing. to carve up a codebase is to carve up the world.

while we wait for this to be true we could add our bits together remember to not sleep forever return when your dreams are through Start with cringy poem, end with cringy pseudocode. At least it comes naturally.

오늘은 휴가~

𐑲𐑝 𐑚𐑰𐑯 𐑦𐑯𐑕𐑐𐑲𐑼𐑛 𐑑 𐑒𐑫𐑒 𐑥𐑹 ·𐑡𐑨𐑐𐑩𐑯𐑰𐑟 𐑓𐑵𐑛 𐑤𐑱𐑑𐑤𐑦 𐑕𐑴 𐑓 𐑛𐑦𐑯𐑼 𐑲 𐑥𐑱𐑛 𐑕𐑨𐑥𐑩𐑯 𐑑𐑧𐑮𐑦𐑘𐑭𐑒𐑰, 𐑥𐑰𐑕𐑴 𐑕𐑵𐑐, 𐑮𐑲𐑕, 𐑯 𐑐𐑦𐑒𐑩𐑤𐑟. I’ve been inspired to cook more Japanese food lately so for dinner I made salmon teriyaki, miso soup, rice, and pickles.

So, I just got an invite to the new W Social (EU) platform. It requires proper ID authentication - so actual provable humans are on there. Feels good and slightly optimistic. Let's see how it goes. #wsocialnotesfollow

Ikea has rules for naming products (so in theory, you could figure out what it is from the name) -> www.ikea.com/…/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-…545a3948dc79.html

1000wordphilosophy.com1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology- 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory AnthologyWelcome to 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, an ever-growing set of essays on philosophical questions, theories, figures, and arguments. looks like a cool place to start

hello world!

Feather to paper that's moon inked for you -- a greeting from somewhere. It isn't for you. But it will be for you.

Happiness is having just enough hot water in my espresso to extend the experience without diluting it overmuch. #coffeenotesfollow

Using deep research for trip planning and visualising it with coding agent is fun.

A lot of people write so much software to sandbox their AI agents. I say don't bother. Just give your agent its own non-admin local user account. It's easier and much more effective.

Excited about these news! I am #flyingnotesfollow Heraklion to BerlinHeraklion Airport N. Kazantzakis → Berlin Brandenburg AirportHeraklion Airport N. Kazantzakis → Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Friday, going to stay for a while to work on textlog among other things. Happy because I was getting a bit depressed lately living in the mountains in Crete.

Cut sex scene from Titanic and now watching it with my 10yo daughter. Love that movie.

Sharing a link to my music blog: crusty-metallian.net Not a lot of content yet, it's a work in progress :)

I've been on a kick lately of trying to visualize the oscillating clock, and ultimately the effectively arbitrarily complex activity of a computer processor, as modern refinements of the line shaft factory of the 19th century. Of compute as being not much more than profoundly refined "work" delivered by the electrical grid into marvelously complex machines. Does that, as a metaphor at least, feel as important to you as it has to me of late? We spend so much time in a world abstracted.