Mastodawn

Trevoke Aug 13, 2023

```
(cl-letf (((symbol-function 'org-read-date) (lambda (&rest _) "<2023-08-12 Fri>")))
(org-read-date))
```

So... This is how you stub a function in lisp. Mind blown.

Trevoke Aug 5, 2023

How would the world be different if we were responsible for sharing updates on any information that we have once shared?
.... Probably we'd speak less.

Trevoke Jul 27, 2023

Are there LLMs that generate web/mobile UI yet?

Trevoke Jul 6, 2023

Josh "cortex" Millard Jul 6, 2023

I’m a cranky old-web person but I’m just genuinely fucking mystified that the reaction to either Jack’s or Zuck’s new corporate social media landgrab isn’t a loud unanimous laughing “no, get fucked”. Twitter and Facebook were a warning, not an instruction manual.

Trevoke May 29, 2023

Pretty much all tools that allow communication with the mass of American population nowadays need a LLM filter to "make this comment neutral" because dear lord people get insulted and offended if we don't prefix a question with four lines of "I'm not trying to offend you".

Trevoke May 6, 2023

agile_otter May 5, 2023

When you hear "mob programming is expensive," "mob programming is inefficient," and "mob programming raises quality at the expense of throughput" you have pretty good odds (at least 90%) that the person speaking has never spent a few months on a pair-programming or mob-programming team nor managed one.

They're confident it's true because
a) someone else said it
b) working together sounds weird
c) they imagine it is probably just like that

After all, they're very smart people, so why would their intuition be wrong?

Trevoke May 5, 2023

drewtoothpaste.bsky.social May 4, 2023

Trevoke Apr 30, 2023

Alright so now that it seems like Ubuntu has decided that security updates are only for people who pay, I need another Linux distro.

Trevoke Apr 8, 2023

agile_otter Apr 7, 2023

We were interested enough in good results that we would push for better options instead of just accepting something that was kind of ok. This shouldn’t be such a big deal; but in practice it is huge. So many places just end up avoiding conflict to the extent that it is a huge detriment to results. https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2014/05/29/building-a-great-software-development-team/

Building a Great Software Development Team | Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog

Trevoke Apr 8, 2023

Drew Kadel Apr 6, 2023

My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen: