TIL that rich people pay 100K or more to have actual mountain climbers schlep their sorry asses up to the peak of Mount Everest, so they can claim they "climed" Mount Everest. 🗻
Rachel Appel
@rachelappel.bsky.social
.NET developer 🥑 at @JetBrains • shenanigans🍀• shitposts 💩 • MSc Software Engineering 🖥️ • 🧙♀️
Trying to figure out what’s clickable in modern UI
Some days working in technology is like being in love with the monster that would eat the world if you would only loosen it's chain.
When Trump said he was going to drain the swamp, apparently he meant he would drain it into the reflecting pool.
Wow, an LLM actually responded to an etymology question and added this in: "I should flag some uncertainty here: etymology gets murky in Proto-Germanic reconstructions, and I'm not 100% confident in every detail above." #unexpected
In 1999 you could get a full time tech job if you knew 3 html tags. 3 years later, after Dot-Com, you couldn’t get a job without a master’s and 10 years experience. That’s what this whole «I vibe coded myself to a Silicon Valley job» sounds like to me.
Nice new Git feature in Rider 2026.1 - "Extract Selected Changes to Separate Commit..." #Git #Rider #JetBrains
There are some very nice new updates in this new release, come and see them in action!
JetBrains Rider@rider.jetbrains.com · 4mo agoReSharper and Rider 2026.1 release party is incoming! 😃 📅 April 8, Wed, 3pm UTC 🗣️ Our .NET Advocates and @aiwithmichelle.com 🎁 Lots of new features! 🤔 Bring all your questions! #dotnet #dotUltimate #ama www.youtube.com/live/-cp6nVS...
I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
Jake Anbinder@jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 4mo agoI think we need an inverse thread where we talk about things that normal intelligent people universally agree upon that are for some reason hot takes within your profession
Dear Participants of @amsterdam.voxxeddays.com! @maritvandijk.bsky.social and yours sincerely would love to thank you for vivid attendance and filling the room for our talk! Let's learn modern Java and other stuff the playfull way! 👩🔬👨🔬👩💻👨💻
A hotel sent me one of those confirmation emails welcoming me for my stay tomorrow. I've stayed there before and it's a nice hotel. However, somehow, this email managed to get put on some reply chain to an entirely different customer, who doesn't realize I'm on there, and... (con't)
This is precisely how a government sets up the framework to install a backdoor, create a firewall, and switch off the internet when it's convenient for them.
I laugh whenever I come across this photo that I took in a Vegas hotel years ago. There's a software metaphor in here.
Spent some time playing in the studio — new video is live! Topic: secrets. How we handle them (or don't) in our code. This is one of those things that feels obvious but is easy to get wrong & AI tools make it even easier to expose sensitive data without noticing. youtube.com/shorts/u2AzG...
Can You Keep a Secret
YouTube video by Stacy Clouds
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ICYMI: (12/16/2024): "My Presentation and Travel Equipment." RPs and feedback are always appreciated! https://jjg.me/4fiJNj8 #Articles #Technology #Productivity #presenting #Presentations
My Presentation and Travel Equipment
This month in a chat with the speakers of ESPC one of the United States based speakers asked about some travel gear recommendations. I shared my travel gear with them and they found it helpful. I thought it would be a good idea to share it with you all. I have been using this gear for a while now and I am very happy with it. I hope you find it helpful too.
josephguadagno.net
"62 percent of the respondents are using AI to make “most decisions" "This follows a similar report from last year that found 64 percent of business leaders were consulting AI for advice on terminations" So the next round of layoffs is at the C-level? futurism.com/artificial-i...
Study Finds That Execs Are Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI
The same class of business executives who heaped AI onto us by the shovelfull aren't immune to its effects.
futurism.com
Woot woot 🎉🥂
JetBrains ReSharper@resharper.jetbrains.com · 5mo agoUpgrade the way you code with ReSharper! ReSharper for @vscode.dev is now generally available, bringing gold-standard code analysis, trusted refactorings, and powerful navigation into the editor. Install from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
I’m reminded of this comic almost every time I check LinkedIn
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week. This is SciFi-level impressive. www.newscientist.com/article/2517...
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications
newscientist.com