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To make nodejs date-related tests work in multiple time zones, here's a little trick (hack?) You can set process.env.TZ to set a specific timezone. eg. const tz = process.env.TZ beforeEach(() => { process.env.TZ = 'America/New York' }) afterEach(() => { process.env.TZ = tz }) #nodejs #tdd

Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥 We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️ It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

You don't see people from the frontier models brag about how many vulnerabilities they FIXED, only how many they FOUND.

Intelligence (artificial or real) isn't in the words themselves but in the knowledge and meaning and insight and wisdom that the words symbolize. Words are the finger pointing at the moon. The hype around LLMs conflates the two, thinks that you can generate wisdom by predicting the next word […]

China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it. https://boingboing.net/2026/07/06/post-china-built-a-40-story-tower-that-stores-wind-powe.html

"Dreams might also function as conduits to alternative dimensions or elevated states of consciousness, suggesting a more profound and expansive role than traditionally conceive." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376640179_Dreams_as_Portals_to_Parallel_Realities_and_Reflections_of_Self […]

Watching and reading content clearly written by AI is so draining, I wish I could just see the prompt because it would contain all the meaning and message i need. Whether it's "generate a script for a tiktok video about the smell of petrichor", or just "top viral video ideas for influencers who […]

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Shout out to all the developers out there resisting the pull to become a project manager of a team of LLMs. Your ability to accumulate skills and experience will prevent you from "falling behind" all those who are now spending their days writing markdown and managing slop PRs. #ai #llm […]

Was listening to some Alan Watts on YouTube. He kept saying "Not A. Not B. C." and "It isn't A, it's B." that is so typical of LLMs. So I was thinking I better adjust my AI detection because obviously this recording from the 60s isn't AI. But then I realized I could be very wrong. I looked it […]

[Using open source LLMs via Ollama] I've been trying to minimize my use of LLMs, but as a software engineer there are some tasks that are way easier, so it's hard to cut out completely. So I've started paying for Ollama so I can use open source models (glm5.2, kimi-k2.7) in the cloud whenever […]

I wonder if one day "If you could pass the salt, that would be great." will be shortened to "Pass the salt would be great." and eventually "Begreat pass the salt." or something, the same way that saying "please" comes from "if it pleases you" but now we just say "please pass the salt".

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/116757444961685446 Wow, a cacheable POST. Or is it a GET with form data? Makes total sense.

Tim Bray 🇨🇦@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

This is interesting because it’s the first RFC I’ve seen past 10K, and also because it’s interesting. https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10008/ #http #rfc #ietf

The best and worst thing about LLMs is that they take all the text in the world and compress it down to a few gigabytes of data. It's the best thing because it's like magic. It's the worst thing because it has a HUGE margin of error in its understanding of ideas. When it summarizes or responds […]

Oh wow, my recent blog post was discussed on a podcast..! That's definitely a first for me. Very weird and cool. https://youtu.be/aDeeCXTihzE?si=rHcd3Ps9OKP6pudx&t=1493

@ifixcoinops reading Tim Berners-Lee's book, he created a program like this alongside the first browser. He never intended or expected humans to be writing HTML tags by hand!

Learning vim motions is so over-focused on the hjkl arrow keys at first, but it's funny because once you learn the rest of the motions, you barely use the hjkl keys at all, because there are better/easier ways to move around. #vim

TIL you can show a notification from inside a terminal (Ghostty, and a few others) with the following command: echo -e "\033]777;notify;Title;Hello, world\033\\\" This is the so-called OSC 777 protocol. It even works over SSH! Very useful in scripts to notify you of completion.

the cyberpunk present is weird as fuck: the latest Shai Hulud malware wave contains an LLM prompt to create biological weapons and nuclear weapons, with the purpose to trip LLM safety refusals so that LLM-based code scanning wont see the malware […] [Original post on indieweb.social]

It's fun to blow up on the front page of hacker news once in a while, but god damn there are some cruel folks on there.

"My team is so good at using Claude & codex, they don't even read or write code anymore!" Hm, could it be they just don't give a shit about their job and are trying to do things the easiest way possible?

https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/rockstar-developers/ We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated.

Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers - Jesse Skinner

We've all worked with a rockstar developer. They joined the team years ago, full of energy. They had great ideas about new tech, new paradigms, new architectures. Their cutting-edge ideas left everyone else feeling a bit behind and outdated.

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If LLMs are writing all your code, you're going to be left behind!

I seem to always have at least one service not set up "properly", where it was a quick demo that turned into a production service, where I have to: 1. ssh into a random instance in a load balancing group 2. make code changes over ssh 3. create a snapshot of that instance 4. roll out new […]

"Most phone programs were equipped with cos- metic video subprograms written to bring the video image of the owner into greater accordance with the more widespread para- digms of personal beauty, erasing blemishes and subtly molding facial outlines to meet idealized statistical norms." - […]

Wondering if anyone knows of any good active virtual tech meetups? Like zoom calls, or maybe discord voice etc.. Anything related to #programming, #linux, etc. etc. I'm open to hearing about any and all. They seem hard to find..

With all the supply chain attacks, I'm looking at isolating my dev environments. The obvious choices include Docker/Devcontainers, VMs, using a VPS in the cloud.. I've started just creating extra users on my #linux laptop, one per project, and keeping all relevant keys and credentials in that […]