As an AI developer, it possibly raises the quality bar by making you ask more questions about your tool: are you testing it against the happy path only although you advertise it as a generic tool?

As a user/buyer, it gives you hints to understand if a company is fooling you by saying that their AI tool is perfect.

The AI Snake Oil book cover

My summer reading was “AI snake oil: what artificial intelligence can do, what it can’t, and how to tell the difference”.
I recommend this book to anyone, especially in our times.

If There Is One Thing That I Don't Like About #Microsoft Stuff (#DotNet, PowerShell, You Name It), Is The Usage Of Upper Camel Case

#til Today I Learnt, The Hanlon’s razor:
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”

Why isn't there a #docker compose #github action?

#github gives you `services`, but if you use them, you likely have a docker-compose.yml, and then you're duplicating your dependencies.

Plus, #dependabot doesn't know how to update `services` images, so your dependencies get stale.

30 years later, my fingers still remember how to use Midnight Commander (aka Norton Commander) like a pro

I miss geocities

ok, thx to folks on mastodon, I found out the "programmer" view only deals with integers, so the calculator is rounding

According to the #macos #calculator when in "programmer" view, 2560/1080 = 2. wat!?

#vibecoding is code written by a “tactical tornado”

Whenever we add instructions to a README in response to a failed deployment or bug, we are Reducing Obscurity Through Abundant Documentation.

It’s like Security Through Obscurity: both work in the short term, give a false sense of certainty, and are wrong.
#software #complexity

Got a real book for a change, “A philosophy of software design”. Somehow I missed it. Eager to read it and find out if it deserves its fame

Think of a negative adjective. Then append it to the sentence "Microsoft Teams is ...". And it will be true.

This Friday is the day Italians gave the finger to fascists. Join us in our celebration. #GiveThemTheFinger

Braking change: when a change doesn’t block you but forces you to slow down and address it

This #year I read 48 #books. I’m so proud of myself that next year, even if I won’t read that much, I’ll still brag about it with “But last year I read 48 books!”

Crushlooping: when your #kubernetes container keeps falling in and out of love with an unhandled exception.

“When you can’t deliver ornament, you have to deliver substance.”

Paul Graham, talking about beauty and simplicity, in “Hackers and Painters”

The book suggests quitting your job if it's turning you into an asshole: you don't want to hurt your colleagues and the company, so you leave.
Maybe submitting a humongous #PR that nobody can review is another way of being an asshole.
Why do you do that? Are you angry? Did you stop giving a fuck?

Have you read "The No Asshole Rule"? I think there's an analogy between being an #asshole and submitting a pull request with 12 thousand changed lines.

Dear friends, I'm rejoining Redis. It's a long story, so it deserved a blog post to explain all the details: antirez.com/news/144

Free project name: "PyLates: weekly python exercises to keep your coding skills in good shape"
#python #pilates

The cover of the book “from ruby to elixir”

Getting ready for my New Year’s resolution #elixir #elixirlang