@ingoaf.bsky.social

Software engineer, passionate about memes, Go and ⚽.

Wofür ich gern Steuern bezahlen würde: Seenotrettung im Mittelmeer, Auskömmliche Renten, gesundes und kostenfreies Schulessen, kostenlosen ÖPNV für alle, Schutz von Kindern, Frauen und Transpersonen, barrierefreie, chancengleiche Bildung, regenerative dezentralisierte Energiegewinnung, bilaterale

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

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.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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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)

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The three biggest miracles in the world are: creation of earth, evolution and people becoming AI experts in just a few months.

1/ Die USA erleben einen rasanten Umbau des Staates. Viele nennen es einen Coup. Musk bekommt Zugang zu sensiblen Daten, vermutlich nicht mal verfassungskonform. Auch unsere Demokratie ist damit gefährdet. Der Grund heißt CLOUD Act. Ein Thread.

There's the term "Enshittification:" products decay over time. Almost always to allow companies to make more money (e.g. via ads etc.) We need a term for "AI enshittification." Where AI functionality is added: that degrades the product experience. Except the company now makes LESS money on it!!

From an email: "Do you know of any teams that have had positive experiences with offshore teams - where directors and eng managers were in the US, and devs in another country? Why and how did these teams work so well together?" My take: this (almost always) will not work. Everyone learns...

AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech. CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders

Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game.