Esparta 

@esparta@ruby.social
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Staff Software Engineer working with #ruby, #elixir and Functional Programming advocate through #haskell and #elm - #Monad is the word.

all my content have a #creativecommons license CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 #CCBYNCSA

Esparta 1d ago

Some dumb dumb is trying to phishing me via the nonprofit org I belong

This is what I got.
>Name: Dorothy Swinyer
> Venmo Tag: [Dorothy-Swinyer]
> Amount: $988
> Last 4 digits: 4646

Trying to get some info to report to authorities, but not sure if they are dumb enough

Esparta 3d ago
steve mookie kong3d ago

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Show threadEsparta 3d ago

#Metallica @ Santa Clara, CA

So, if you are also in this concert say Hi to me, I'm the guy with gray hair, gray glasses, wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans, my kid is probably around me.

Show threadEsparta 3d ago

#Metallica @ Santa Clara, CA

What's different for me? Besides the obvious on how old Metallica members are: now my own kid is with me, they were not born the last time I was in a concert, so my teenager is joining my inner teenager.

Esparta 3d ago

Turns out #Metallica is touring on 'murica, and now I'm back to one of their concerts here at #SFBayArea.

The images are from the last time I saw them: June 2009. Yes 16 years ago.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/esparta/albums/72157619458570108

But this time is different...

Esparta 4d ago

Dodgers announce steps in plan to support the community
https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/news/dodgers-commit-donation-to-support-community

> LOS ANGELES – In partnership with the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Dodgers have committed $1 million toward direct financial assistance for families of immigrants impacted by recent events in the region.

Esparta 6d ago
Show threadBonfire6d ago

🌐 ¿Puedes ayudar a traducir Bonfire?

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No se necesita saber programar — solo amor por las palabras.

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Esparta Jun 19

Juneteenth Explained To White People, by Josh Johnson
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bFIwDWV8xok

Also here:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bFIwDWV8xok&t=fpas&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsmTlOYJt-NI

Esparta Jun 19
kopperJun 16
if you work in a garbage collected language it's imperative you reduce allocation as much as possible otherwise so the garbage collector doesn't ask too many questions and realize your whole code is garbage
Esparta Jun 19
Show threadmekka okereke Jun 15, 2023

They teach you about the Alamo. But they don't teach you about the Nueces massacre. At the start of the civil war, almost a hundred armed German Texans (who opposed slavery♥️🙏🏿) tried to flee South to Mexico, so that they could make it over to New Orleans. The Confederate soldiers caught them and massacred them.

Robstown in Nueces County, was one of the last places to begrudgingly give up slavery 2 years after the emancipation proclamation.

This is the logo of the Robstown football team today.🤡

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steve mookie kong3d ago

Software development methodologies compared.

#software #development #agile #waterfall #ai #developer

Show threadDarth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@mookie

Does Jira exist for AI? Does it write its own tickets?

Show threadDarth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈3d ago
@mookie Does it participate in stand-up? Does it do stand-up?
Show threadsteve mookie kong3d ago

@darth_hideout

Jira has AI now that helps write JQL. lol.

Show threadDarth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈3d ago
@mookie I’m so glad I got out when I did.
Show threadDan 🔓​, powered by sarcasm3d ago
@mookie @darth_hideout and it still sucks
Show threadBrandon3d ago
@mookie @darth_hideout GROSS
Show threadslotos3d ago
@mookie AI jokes aside, waterfall is not represented here.
Show threadNe2Ko3d ago
@mookie A good look.
Show threadgary3d ago
@mookie read: scrummasters are a dying breed
Show threadOzzelot  2d ago
@gary_alderson @mookie Why were they a breed at all, we shall never know. (I never had a dedicated scrummaster anywhere, but the entire agile methodology appears to me as some kind of attempt to turn software development into a religion)
Show threadDave Mason3d ago

@mookie

Nailed it.

Show threadMorgan ⚧️3d ago
@mookie heads up there's a typo in the alt text and it calls the cat motorcycle a car motorcycle lol
Show threadsteve mookie kong3d ago

@raphaelmorgan

LOL! Oops! Silly auto correct in iOS always thinking it knows more than me. Fixed. Thank you for the heads up!

Show threadcompost_funeral3d ago
@mookie as someone who knows nothing about tech, this just looks like an undeserved compliment towards AI, the horrible city-ruining car becomes a lovely duck
Show threadsteve mookie kong3d ago

@compost_funeral

Hehehe. So true!

Show threadDarth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈3d ago

@compost_funeral @mookie

There’s a bit of a narrative though.

In Waterfall, you tend to build the pieces, then build up, but may not have anything functional until the end.

In Agile, you focus on building something basic & working first, then iterate, improving it but keeping it functional through your iterations.

The last one (AI) is a non-sequitur pile of unrelated nonsense.

I think that’s a big part of the tech joke.

Show threadcompost_funeral3d ago
@darth_hideout @mookie thank you for explaining the joke to someone who had 0 context!
Show threadSepia Fan3d ago

@darth_hideout

Waterfall & Agile 👍

I think the AI iterations are not unrelated, but are meant to show the deterioration in the process of prompting. Like:

Prompt 1: Build me a car.
-> AI produces the car lookalike.

P2: That doesn't look like a cat¹ and it should have one more wheel.
-> AI produces a cat tricycle.

P3: Damn, not a cat, btw. animals don't have wheels.
-> AI produces a duckling (not a cat) w/o wheels.

😅
@compost_funeral @mookie

¹ typo intended (via ALT hint by @raphaelmorgan)

Show threadLukas3d ago
@mookie i see the subtle agile critique.
Show threadsteve mookie kong3d ago

@ivorytusk

Hehe. I noticed that too.

Show threadFrancis Cook3d ago
@mookie the intermediate stages of Agile are closer to AI than you’d think.
Show threadJo3d ago
@mookie Honestly, the duck's feet would probably be merging into one another.
Show threadGnosyz 🖖3d ago
@mookie Not gonna lie, that cat bike looks cool though ))
Show threadFeyter3d ago

@mookie the thing is: With waterfall you may end up with the car as planned but than you realize, you needed a truck instead.

And with agile you actually end up with a car that has teeny tiny skateboard wheels and a wooden frame because that's how you started and replacing it would be to expensive.

So AI is the only approach that is consistent all the way. You start with crap, the in-between is crap and the end result is crap.

Show threadF4GRX Sébastien3d ago
@feyter @mookie garbage in garbage out as usual ^^
Show threadJan Antoš3d ago
@f4grx @feyter @mookie no worries, recently I am seeing narratives about “algorithmic management” what can go wrong.
Show threadF4GRX Sébastien3d ago
@janantos @feyter @mookie oh no
Show threadJan Antoš3d ago
@f4grx @feyter @mookie the most strange part was, when they say AI is not taking sides and makes perfect decisions, well that depends on what are the values. And I highly doubt AI can and ever will be able to weight between different values case by case. And I would like to see sensible human being willing to be managed by AI. Next scary thing is AI crap in HR departments now being renamed to PeopleOps.
Show threadn1k03d ago
@mookie careful as this may actually heavily promote AI
Show threadJanneke3d ago
@mookie yay, cat bikes!
Show threadOliver Schafeld3d ago

New entry on cv:

VibeScript, strongly duck-typed

🤓😂

Show threadOliver Schafeld3d ago

You can have a versatile car in a year.

A golf cart in a month.

Or a duck in a day.

🤓😬🥹

Show threadxs4me23d ago

@mookie

Haha, yup...

Show threadDuncan Blair3d ago
@mookie ironically this image itself I believe to be “AI” generated
Show threadThoralf Will 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼3d ago
@mookie I think this is a little exaggerated.
The duck should have at least some wheels.
I don't know how many and where they are, though ...
Show threadPanini3d ago
@mookie
And when you touch the duck car alarms blare. It honks instead of quake and there are wheels and gears inside it instead of organs. Also it goes the speed of pebble by rotating its legs like they are wheels.
Show threadReid  3d ago
@mookie I don't think this is accurate; AI never produced anything as cute as that cat-bike or that duck
Show threadFabio Valentini3d ago
@mookie ... but the cat and duck are so cute 🥺
Show threadHelical = |⟩3d ago
@mookie note that none of these end up with trains and public transit like they should

the analogy is correct in this also
Show threadPierric3d ago
@mookie so this is why my new web portal keeps quacking.
Show threadΘΔ•ZFM🐊🦊🐺🐝3d ago
@mookie https://eldritch.cafe/@zfm/114731843676064454
ΘΔ•ZFM🐊🦊🐺:flag_genderfluid: (@zfm@eldritch.cafe)

Attached: 1 image Because fuck AI and those using it, here's my version of this meme which is about how we create things, with a car as an example. It took me 20min, I added some personnality and even added my special intererests into the mix. This is what the internet should be.

Eldritch Café
Show threadRIBBBITn3rding3d ago
@mookie "Agile" as a Software Development Methodology is what you get when you put a baby MBA hooked on energy drinks in charge of a software project.
Show threadMarge吴静玫3d ago
@mookie @BRicker I would totally drive (ride?) that cat with wheels.
Show threadGeoff Coffey2d ago
@mookie This is accurate because in the Agile model somebody forgot to make the back window and nobody noticed until we shipped.
Show threadBrian "bex" Exelbierd2d ago
@mookie these humorous pictures never challenged their underlying assumption. Most customers and users don’t actually know what they want and are unable to articulate it well at any point in the development process this picture assumes the customer needs a car to solve their problem and that they need that specific kind of a car by the end of the development process. CC:@lproven
Show threadפְּרִי1h ago

@bexelbie @mookie @lproven

I don't think that was the point at all

Show threadBrian "bex" Exelbierd1h ago
@peribotsarah @mookie @lproven sure, it wasn’t their point. But since this other idea doesn’t validate their priors they ignore it. Of the people I’ve met who preach the point this comic tries to make, they don’t actually want waterfall, instead they’re upset about something the other method do (meetings, hallucinations, whatever). But praising waterfall implies a desire for waterfall in all its glory. Also these aren’t equals to compare.