tim
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being an underachieving, overly fussy pedant since 2013. dumb, but stubborn, so end up winning. loves programming, hates the tech industry. views don't represent the employer I'm employed at
open.spotify.com/track/7rxwwl... gonna start posting obscure post rock tracks that blow my mind
King, My Queen
Followed By Ghosts · Still, Here · Song · 2011
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I don't want innovation. I don't want new features. I don't want the free gift. I want robustness. I want the things you already do, to be done better and faster. That's what I'll pay you more for.
rereading Fellowship of the Ring I had forgotten how the wisest poetry came from the doughty dwarf "Memory is not what the heart desires"
to modernize Rumi: far away from the hyperbole of AI slop and the stock market manipulation and the petty wars and the soulless, greedy profit lovers. there's a porch on a ranch on Montana that overlooks a wide expansive field of grass and horses. I'll meet you there, a mug of coffee in hand.
unit tests are for libraries integration tests are for applications
starting to anecdotally see a fair bit of "AI doubled my output" posts, both online and in internal company channels But I don't actually see any cited references. Hoping this is just my local sphere. Remember how we used to use hard benchmarks to make claims?
I see this argument floated around way too much "this code sucks but it makes money" as if that justifies shit, untested code can you prove your code makes the money? will it make the money when it crashes the server and effs up the payment calc?
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 funniest part of modern HN comments is reading all the AI apologists > article shows failure of LLMs > yeah but that's because it's not mature yet, just you wait
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... brb gonna quit my job and study Old English instead
List of kennings - Wikipedia
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500K words, 8 days, and way more emotions Tom's Crossing. Great yarn.
web dev is where programmers go to die the amount of inane discussion over color and text...
been firing up python again and started using docs.astral.sh/ty/ the #astral.sh team does it again
ty
ty is an extremely fast Python type checker.
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github.com/ttzhou/setroot 11 years later... man, still can't believe people are using this
GitHub - ttzhou/setroot: simple X background setter inspired by imlibsetroot and feh.
simple X background setter inspired by imlibsetroot and feh. - ttzhou/setroot
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my God gradle is so f***ing annoying to work with in a big java codebase how the hell do people get anything done without a dedicated build team or living in their own service
you only live long enough to realize tech orgs are mostly filled with middle managers and overly complex architectures that last 3 months before the effort is scrapped for another shiny new feature
I'm deep in the rabbit hole now - starting to suspect the JSON Unicode CLDR version is using fallbacks slightly wrong for standard currency formats
just realized I was wearing my white t shirt inside out the whole day my kid has been up sick all night for three days, for context AMA
Just spent 30 minutes debugging why my Golang script to print localized numbers in arabic right to left, even though I clearly construct it correctly as left to right. turns out kitty terminal seems to reverse it automatically at render. if I use ghostty, things print as expected. unreal. wow.
Spent way too much time trying to figure out the golang x Unicode CLDR library ended up just writing type assertions and a shit ton of JSON unmarshaling into map[string]any with the JSON version of CLDR it's wild how arcane this cornerstone of the internet is
kinda wish golang x currency package was more fleshed out I like the number package, but currency feels unfinished, eg lacking symbol positioning customization, etc.
Metaphor for AI So much potential. Directed straight into the ground.
