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Nobody is born a great engineer. Great engineers are forged in the fires of experience -- year after year of compounding challenges and opportunities.

Does your org frustrate the pursuit of greatness, or unlock and accelerate it? For whom?

And then yes: shipping is the mechanics of learning.

14.10.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
SVG snippet:

  <!-- Legs -->
  <line x1="200" y1="200" x2="190" y2="230" stroke="black" stroke-width="2"/>
  <line x1="220" y1="200" x2="230" y2="230" stroke="black" stroke-width="2"/>

  <!-- Feet (holding pedals) -->
  <path d="M185,230 L180,235 L190,240 Z" fill="orange"/>
  <path d="M235,230 L230,235 L240,240 Z" fill="orange"/>

  <!-- Optional: Fun text -->
  <text x="50%" y="40" text-anchor="middle" font-family="Arial, sans-serif" font-size="20" fill="black">
    🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!
  </text>
</svg>

SVG snippet: <!-- Legs --> <line x1="200" y1="200" x2="190" y2="230" stroke="black" stroke-width="2"/> <line x1="220" y1="200" x2="230" y2="230" stroke="black" stroke-width="2"/> <!-- Feet (holding pedals) --> <path d="M185,230 L180,235 L190,240 Z" fill="orange"/> <path d="M235,230 L230,235 L240,240 Z" fill="orange"/> <!-- Optional: Fun text --> <text x="50%" y="40" text-anchor="middle" font-family="Arial, sans-serif" font-size="20" fill="black"> 🐧🦩 Who needs legs?! </text> </svg>

I know there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the value brought by LLMs, but how can anyone not be slightly delighted by technology you can run on your own (powerful) computer that causes it to draw you an SVG almost-pelican with both visible legs and the caption "🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!"

12.09.2025 07:45 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

26.06.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 11078    πŸ” 4436    πŸ’¬ 205    πŸ“Œ 735
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VEO 3

Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.

This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.

21.05.2025 02:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2209    πŸ” 506    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 348

Being a Software Engineer

Pro:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.

Con:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.

30.04.2025 15:17 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Blue hour is starting 😍

19.03.2025 05:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beautiful sunsets are beautiful!

19.03.2025 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Zero damns given 😱

19.03.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bildunterschrift: β€žA row of legs belonging to peopleβ€œ. Eindeutig etwas zu viel Dexter-vibes…

09.03.2025 13:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Elevate your creative workflow to an art form. Frame.io centralizes all of your files, feedback, and people on one secure platform, so you can deliver exceptional creative faster.

Frame.io basiert auf Elixir. Ich bin aber an andere Stelle unterwegs. Ich mache ein paar internal tooling Sachen damit. Wenn man immer nur Java macht, bekommt man ja Depressionen πŸ˜‰

07.02.2025 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great stuff! And perfect timing…

07.02.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How can you leave us with such a cliffhanger… how was the concert?!?

(Joking aside, I hope all is fine again)

15.12.2024 07:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Curl -v Google.com
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/05/curl-v-google-com/

23.11.2024 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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