Andrzej Prochyra

I hate the re-soloing of development. We were so close to learning social skills, creating community, encouraging creativity & purpose, & applying empathy. Easier to manage if each of us is so busy with our genieswarms that we don't have time to talk & reflect.

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. One cause ys a systematic devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of informed citizens.

Ai advocates are saying that *now* you don't need large dev teams - just a small team with ai agents.

Thing is, you haven't needed large teams for the last 25 years. Just a small team that actually functions as a team, as opposed to individual.

But I'm sure "that won't work in the real world".. 🙄

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We all get cookie banner fatigue.

And that's the point – companies want you to hit 'accept all' and feed the Adtech beast.

So making it easier to reject cookies is key to protecting your privacy.

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[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

When Should We Do Code Reviews? “Make it work, make it right, make it fast”This mantra is the answer to the question “When should we do code reviews?” We do them whenever we see the software working again …

Instead of Pull Request code reviews, consider reviewing the code on every green light.

Small diffs enables greater attention to detail, a much lower cost of fixing problems (or backing out), and there's no code review bottleneck when you want to ship.

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Java Event-Sourcing from Scratch · Zoom · Luma Event-sourcing allows the business to ask questions about your application's data that weren't thought of when the system was created, such as "how often are…

On Tuesday, Nov 25 at 18:00 UTC, I'll be doing a 90-min online presentation of my #Java based "Event-Sourcing from Scratch" talk. Details and _free_ registration at luma.com/dt9fc391

Lots of room to sign up!

Join live to ask questions, or watch for the recording later.

Wherfor are the pajamas of a catte so goode but the breakfaste of a dogge so badde?

My 1974 HP calculator surpasses human intelligence in key tasks

Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.

YouTube video by David Tanzer Why didn't You Use AI for That?

Here's a "quick and dirty"(*) video about why I still often don't use #AI for things where other people use them nowadays...

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(*) =relatively low recording effort

There's a free Global Coding Dojo this Wednesday, 11:00am Pacific, 15:00 UTC for anyone wanting to learn or practice TDD. Perfect for any skill level - beginners warmly welcomed! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-coding-dojo-tickets-1114576240539

I'm doing a side project where I'm working on improving a couple of git's man pages and could really use a few test readers. if you're interested, sign up here!

I'd especially love test readers who use git on the command line regularly but are not 100% comfortable with it
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So, let's see what we've learned so far.

"A.I." coding assistants produce better results ("value earned/tokens burned") when you:

* prompt with tests
* work in small feedback cycles with continuous testing, code review, refactoring and integration
* cleanly separate concerns in your code

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Dusting Thostenson will talk on August 28th at 10:00am pacific on "Techniques to Tackle Tech-debt Today" at the Seattle Software Crafters meetup.

Join us next Thursday, August 28th at 10:00am Pacific
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I signed up for what looks like an amazing class by GeePaw Hill. Seats are limited. Who else wants to join? www.geepawhill.org/courses/lead...

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"I don't know why it takes so long and why nobody knows when it will be done."

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I enjoyed my convo with Dave. Folks who haven't lived with "assume no bugs" software, I urge you to try it at least once in your career.

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[ANN] Pharo 13 Released!
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Most bugs aren’t coding errors.
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What is refactoring, why is it important and how can you get really good at it? Clare Sudbery talks to Emily Bache about enhancing the skills and culture of ... Refactoring with Emily Bache | Making Tech Better podcast

What is refactoring, why is it important and how can you get really good at it? In this Making Tech Better podcast episode, I spoke to @emilybache.com about enhancing the skills and culture of your teams, to make your code easier to understand and cheaper to modify.

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