Sigurd Fosseng

a group of people are gathered in a room with a calendar on the wall that says ' october ' ALT: a group of people are gathered in a room with a calendar on the wall that says ' october '

¡Announcement! reorg time! let's do the reorg dance!

people reuse their browser tabs from last year. 😭

Is it about as awkward telling people their PR sucks and stinks of AI as telling somebody that their bad breath bothers you? For me it is, and it sucks, but telling them is the only way to stop the stink.

Like any slob in the past. We can not avoid it, but we can contain it. Focus on API surfaces that impact the whole.

It is Groundhog Day, but we forgot all the previous days. Sisyphus was happy this morning, will not be tonight.

Sisyphean and aware. 😱

With a cup of coffee and immense frustration, the developer shapes the world. Not because it is easy, but because it offends him.

The next step for improvement doesn't care why it is like this now, just how it should be. Focus on the next step.

maybe a fire? lot's of fires in the states apparently
www.mapofire.com#7.78/47.493/...

When I look for new devs, I'm always looking for drivers of projects and not passengers in them. Be a driver.

Try disabling Dolby Atmos on the Apple TV, or try to find an audio "pass-through" setting on the TV.

Want to send mail? No SMTP for you!

The Architect's API that does SMTP for you, with added features like email templates and security. It might even add a non optional signature to the e-post message.

Oh, and everybody must use that API from now on.

@einarwh.bsky.social Watched your JavaZone talk. Loved it!

Here is my contribution to the list of patterns:

The Architect's API

The API nobody but the architect wants.
It aims to deduplicate effort, often trivial, by connecting teams through an API.
Cleans up the architecture diagram.

Tydeligvis så tror Bisnode (selskap som selger persondata) at jeg er ei dame som heter Elaine. 🤷‍♂️

But when I receive that empty string in other languages, it really isn't the same, because we treat them as distinct.

A string is clearly defined, but because we use IsNullOrEmpty everywhere our code does not care. It does not matter if the default value in a class is the empty string or null, because we check both always.

Oh, I very much agree if we talk about valid strings in the context of a domain. Valid strings within a programming language on the other hand should be pretty strict.

Problem is, .NET and C#, has in practice made the line between null and string fuzzy, making interop hard. As your example shows.

String.IsNullOrWhiteSpace or String.IsNullOrEmpty? that's the question.

myString == null isn't a thing.

"But who would do such a thing?" 😅

Fantastic blog post.

I'm pretty sure that by having C# anywhere in your stack you will inevitably end up treating empty strings as null everywhere.

God awful førrbanna sjit.

(whitespace is empty? probably)

I'm pretty sure there is something as "good pain"? Not every painful developer experience should be mitigated.

once bitten, twice shy.

I'm not using LLMs at all, but I'm considering writing the llm-context file for people that do to get higher quality PRs.

Juniors next week: pipe your talk into whisper and place the transcript in a llm-context.md file for that sweet sweet LLM dopamine.

You pushed me down this rabbit hole. 💫

doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
I /think/ they agree. But my key takeaway from the paper is that many (most?) studies aren't very good.

Woooooo! 🤘Is there a bandwagon I can join?
I need some mindless bliss

I do not know why ‪@ndcconferences.com‬ isn't releasing videos of talks sooner...

YouTube video by Kenny Ferry The Knights of Ni finally get their shrubbery

Software craftsmen are the modern knights of Ni?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvs...

I like boilerplate.

Cool project!

One little nitpick: I think key-value pairs in JSON objects are unordered, which makes this tuple definition a little suspect. Given a standard JSON parser in a programming language, the definition could be interpreted the schema for this tuple: [42, "Alice"].

Fastlegen spurte ChatGPT om ting mens jeg hadde legetime. 😱