David Majda

@dmajda
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Software engineer and engineering manager with a passion for programming languages, web technologies, software craftsmanship, and sustainability.
Websitehttps://majda.cz

Kvůli novému blogu Anna Štádlerové jsem před pár dny málem zapomněl na oběd:

https://poznprekl.cz/

Zejména první post je moc hezká sonda do překladatelovy duše, zajímavá i pro někoho, kdo problematiku překládání běžně neřeší.

Takže #ff pro @anna a díky @zoul za upozornění.

*Poznámka překladatelky

Poznámka překladatelky — glosy o literárním provozu v České republice.

In fact, if you squint a little, you can think of most spaceflight as just a complicated sequence of orbital transfers.
Watching the video, it’s funny to realize that to fly to the Moon, you actually put the spacecraft on a highly eccentric Earth orbit.

Curious what the Artemis II trajectory to the Moon looks like — and why? Here’s a nice video about it (also includes Apollo 8 and Artemis I):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNQ7MoL7erI

Lunar Orbits Compared

YouTube

Wow. I don't think the US tech industry has quite grasped how big this is.

https://www.techpolicy.press/almost-two-thirds-of-europeans-back-replacing-us-tech-poll-finds/

Almost Two-Thirds of Europeans Back Replacing US Tech, Poll Finds

EU leaders are pursuing digital sovereignty plans to reduce the 27-country bloc’s dependence on the United States, writes Mark Scott.

Tech Policy Press

With more and more security vulnerabilities discovered using AI, I think it’s time to update Linus’s law:

“Given enough tokens, all security bugs are shallow.”

I feel like I’m currently oscillating between stages 2 and 4.

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/the-five-stages-of-losing-our-craft

The five stages of losing our craft | Debugging Leadership

Last Tuesday I was on a coaching call with an engineering manager. Let's call her Sarah (because that's her name). She was describing a situation I've now heard about forty times in the last twelve months. Her most senior developer, a guy with twelve years of experience and very strong opinions about YAML indentation (2 spaces, obviously, he's not a monster), had just refused to use Cursor. Not "tried it and didn't like it." Refused. On principle.

Debugging Leadership

#Diverse perspectives on #AI from #Rust contributors and maintainers

https://nikomatsakis.github.io/rust-project-perspectives-on-ai/feb27-summary.html

Healthy debates are still possible, it seems. 🙏

#LLM #LLMs #RustLang #OpenSource

Summary - Rust Project Perspectives on AI

I’m still a fan of Bluesky and its community, but for me, Mastodon is the place to be right now.

1. Most tech people are on Mastodon, resulting in much more interesting content and conversations.

2. Mastodon’s model of decentralization, despite its many flaws, is better and more sustainable than Bluesky’s. This is especially true in today’s political and legal climate (US–EU split, various age-verification laws, …).