Charles Lowell
@cogentdude.com
Secretary of State https://github.com/cowboyd
Inside baseball: The middleware additions in 4.1 is what will be used to implement the inspector frontside.com/effection/bl...
Announcing Effection 4.1 | Blog | Effection
Six months of soft-launched work rolled into one release: a faster runtime, closer parity with JavaScript's async APIs, and — via a new experimental entry point — Contextual APIs, our take on algebrai...
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Effection 4.1 is out: ⚡️ faster runtime, package half the size 🤝 support for JavaScript's explicit resource management 🧬 New `experimental` entry: Contextual APIs, our take on algebraic effects frontside.com/effection/bl...
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I used @dreamhost.bsky.social for my sites for over 15 years before switching over to github pages. Their support was personal and second to none, and it's good to see them still around. If I weren't a developer there's no doubt I'd be with them still. Highly recommend for non-technical folks.
This won't be the last time I whine about the conscientious juice buyer's conundrum: that all the fresh squeezed juices are sold in plastic, and all the stuff sold in cartons is from concentrate.
In thevelocitywhitepapers.com they unveil the "Ship of Government IT" But the ship is not complete without my addition: "The Pole of Flogging Analogies"
The old adage holds especially true for large language models: familiarity breeds contempt.
Further experimentation with input methods and focus stacks in @bomb.sh Notice how focus cycling is constrained to just the dialog box when it opens, but then returns to the main form when it is closed.
👀 @bomb.sh/tty will deliver some genuinely novel features like input cursor rendering via native terminal, css-like pointer support for mouse mode, and huge size/performance gains over existing alternatives watch this space (and consider chipping in at bomb.sh/donate)
Charles Lowell@cogentdude.com · last mo.Fun times! A draft implementation of placing a native cursor anywhere inside a @bomb.sh/tty layout
I love it when a model comes together. This time, spiking out focus cycling and text editing with native cursors for @bomb.sh Special bonus: pluggable editing keymaps! (this demo uses readline bindings)
If you use Emacs, I highly recommend `agent-shell` github.com/xenodium/age... It's like the `magit` for agents that other IDEs will be cribbing off of for the next 10 years. If you already use it, you should consider sponsoring @xenodium.bsky.social to keep its capabilities growing
GitHub - xenodium/agent-shell: A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP
A native Emacs buffer to interact with LLM agents powered by ACP - xenodium/agent-shell
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The category error is in the wishful thinking that the physics of software development and delivery have changed. They haven't. The only difference is in the scale of the masses involved.
Charles Lowell@cogentdude.com · last mo.The real winner for AI enhanced software practice is for engineering teams to achieve levels of precision and excellence never before thought possible. Sorry to say, but if your strategy is centered around cost savings and not "hire the best humans", you're fucked.
The real winner for AI enhanced software practice is for engineering teams to achieve levels of precision and excellence never before thought possible. Sorry to say, but if your strategy is centered around cost savings and not "hire the best humans", you're fucked.
Fun times! A draft implementation of placing a native cursor anywhere inside a @bomb.sh/tty layout
Real excited for more of this. Just need to figure out how to buy more time to play with it!
bombshell@bomb.sh · last mo.glyph coverage for borders/curves is particularly poor, so subcell precision for those does require fancy kitty graphics support but we'll use the highest fidelity we can—the second row in the fill demo below renders in any terminal because eighth-blocks provide subcell precision using only glyphs
When my daughter was four years old and I'd instruct her not to do something she would often reply "but you don't understand, I *want* to" I think about this often whenever the most explicit constraint directives do not in actuality constrain an agent's behavior.
There is a lot for a boy to love about Python, but its lack of a proper function expressions at this late an hour is unforgivable.
Very pleasantly suprised at how much Hungarian cuisine agrees with me.
Multiple anecdotes from folks outside the software-o-verse complaining about a general decrease in software quality as of late. Anybody know of data that tracks this kind of trend?
I worry about the state of the world when everyone else and not just me is incapable of responding to email.
1/ I’m still processing what’s going on in tech at the moment. I used to feel at home in that world. It used to feel incredibly creative and positive. Now it’s increasingly full of bugs, dark addicting patterns and AI slop. 2ality.com
2ality blog: temporarily offline
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Sometimes in life when you encounter an impossibly dense wall of text, you just have to take a deep breath and click through.
This is happening to AISD right now. It's sick to be targeting children like this, and at such scale. mashable.com/article/inst...
ShinyHunters: Instructure breach affects 275 million teachers and students
ShinyHunters has struck yet again.
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"stack exceptions" vs "result values" is a false choice. Use a result value when you are making flow control decisions based on the success or failure of an operation; usually in framework code. Use unwinding stack exceptions when not.