Given the sale of Windsurf to OpenAI for $3bn, will more people be building coding agents or less?
Faraaz Ahmad
@faraazahmad.bsky.social
Software Engineer interested in Ruby, Elixir, distributed systems and programming language internals.
Over the past couple of nights & weekends, I've been building an agentic, semantic search engine for codebases. This is a very pre-alpha preview of it searching the svelte codebase. LMK if you'd like to try it!
Action produces information I understand now why people say you need to have a bias for action.
IMO calling someone a genius is an insult to your own intellect, you can just do things.
Generating code documentation using AI: Yay or nay? (I'm seriously considering doing this)
Suddenly everyone is an expert on art and copyright law I cba man.
Eternally struggling between becoming a better engineer and bootstrapping a micro-SaaS
Hours of debugging only to realise YouTube API doesn't let you access captions of videos that aren't yours
It's all fun and games until you need to build distributed transactions capable of rolling back all the changes in case of a failure.
My favourite device to use against procrastination and overthinking, just flip it and get to work! Works surprisingly well for me.
Just completed a 2 hour football sesh, most exhausted I've been in a while! Can't wait to do it again tbh
Not every interesting issue can get a blog post, sometimes you just need to keep shipping
In my effort to combat the brainrot, I might have stretched myself too thin.
Faraaz Ahmad@faraazahmad.bsky.social · 2y agoHow do you handle multiple personal projects or interests at the same time? If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it. If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.
How do you handle multiple personal projects or interests at the same time? If I work on one project for too long, i get bored and eventually stop working on it. If I have too many, I don't get anything substantial done in either of them.
Elixir/Erlang devs, what does "let it crash" code look like in production systems?
Erlang VM provides such amazing primitives for building distributed systems people have no idea! They're missing out fr
DynamoDB is an amazing system! I'm a big fan of how they handle versioning using "vector clocks", and node failures using Hinted Handoffs. Paper link: www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon...
Mohit Sindhwani @Mohit Sindhwani is doing great work on writing about how to Run Rails 8 and Ruby 3.3 on Windows: https://notepad.onghu.com/2024/rails80-ruby-33-on-windows-it-just-works
Recovering from a long term metatarsal injury hasn't been great, but now I'm starting to run more consistently again. Invest in good footwear, folks!
In case you missed it, I published an interactive article about overflow: clip in CSS. ishadeed.com/article/over...
Ahmad Shadeed@ishadeed.com · 2y ago🚀 New Interactive Article: Overflow Clip Explore how overflow: clip works in CSS and see why it’s useful with practical examples and demos. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/over...