Darian Moody

Three potential candidates have submitted CVs with their website (great!) containing clearly LLM-generated blog posts.

Don’t do this. It shows an amazing lack of judgement.

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Just one more… I think the difference between simple and complex systems for me is that Django/ActiveRecord love pretending that mutations happen in a single table.

Once they don’t, you get the question of where does that stuff live. And another small orchestration layer was our answer to that.

I replied in another thread but this sounds like exactly what we do too! Simple functions that orchestrate.

Codebases definitely over complicate this layer from past experience.

It really is just functions for us and I believe we’re better for it.

We do this even with Django, just a simple layer of functions that control common complex queries and another for mutations.

Because otherwise differences everywhere proliferate like bacteria and it’s impossible keeping the various interfaces synced in behaviour.

Prompt:

Analyse our Python code and write a Cursor rule to ensure that future LLM usage sticks to Python guidelines and style in our codebase. Look at what version of Python we use for instance, and pick up other common style and usage. Stick to language features itself.

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Getting Cursor to analyse your codebase and write it's own Cursor .mdc rules.

Rippling's suit against Deel is wild Forget martinis and fast cars, how about cellphones and toilets?

The best corporate espionage story you'll read today.

www.cautiousoptimism.news/p/ripplings-...

Most developer CVs could be improved by switching from "here is a list of technologies I know" to "here are the features I am most proud of building".

When you work with shared spreadsheets at work you realise the power of the common database is actually in it's ability to stop people changing data rather than making it easy to add it.

Cheers. I’m going to have to see, I might be away.

AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years The lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool." (Google AI co-scientist)

What an amazing use of AI! 🤯🤩🎉

What about dots and boxes? That game where you draw a point grid and then each person takes turns putting horizontal or vertical lines between the dots until they claim a box.

The rise of LLMs will only cement TypeScript & Python’s position at the top of the “what is most useful and hireable in the widest sense” list.

it’s so good

I believe positioning and clarity of message. Substack led creator-first and never positioned itself as a free to read platform.

Medium instead stumbled with direction over monetisation.

The wider ecosystem was also very different in 2012 vs 2017, the creator economy is very much a thing now.

this is it for me. i love this place but that effect is certainly worse here. at least “show me less like this” seems to work more here.

I can't figure out if Oracle is being a bully or just a clown with its latest response to the petition to release the JavaScript trademark.

I signed the open letter to them along with more than 1600 others.

Add your support 👉 javascript.tm/signatories
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Ding ding. I had to follow the light, literally.

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Another long corridor with lots of doors

Another corridor with a corner

A final much darker corridor with more doors

POV: trying to find a room in a rush at #FOSDEM

Very ready.

Happy to see a whole load of local and cloud LLM talks at #FOSDEM.

I will post what I can muster.

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If you don’t want to run it locally, it’s available on OpenRouter. You simply top up with credits and get a basic chat interface which is enough to try it out.

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@zahrataiba.bsky.social welcome 🙏 Happy to see you here.

We’re looking at places LLMs can improve the product at the minute (who isn’t) and val.town has been invaluable with getting some working UIs going quickly to experiment.

Full recommend.

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Not enough people are talking about val.town.

It has replaced pretty much all diagram/prototyping tools for me because you can just…build the thing and play with it to see if it works.

I am quite pro testing in production for most web stuff but our billing system should add numbers correctly.