André Arko

@indirect@fiasco.social
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it is 2038, every embeddded device is about to brick itself, we've replaced all our IDEs with gatcha games, and now loot box coding is our only hope
if you need to shorten the word "cryptocurrency" (I get it, it's five syllables) I invite you to consider that "coinscam" is the same number of syllables as "crypto" and a hell of a lot more unambiguous
gotta admit, I did not see coming that the inevitable revolution against intolerable societal conditions would take the form of people with infinite money rebelling against the smallest constraints on their whims
i would never use vs code. i can't even figure out how to exit it. ctrl-c doesn't seem to do anything. meanwhile vim tells you how to quit as soon as you run it! it's right there on the screen, only an idiot could miss it

> seriously does anyone REALLY want to read 3000 words about buffering?

@b0rk YES

what are children, if not large language models attempting to train themselves?

> There’s an industry instinct that misery gets results. I think this is mistaken. Misery is a shitty proxy metric for results.

As usual, @mcfunley is killing it at advice for software engineering teams: https://egoless.engineering

Egoless Engineering

It turns out misery is a shitty proxy metric.

“There are two kinds of engineers, those whose first PR at a new job is fixing the holes in their onboarding, and ones I probably won’t enjoy working with 😛” — @lazerwalker
if I ever organize a Ruby conference it’s going to have posters for all the talks that didn’t get accepted to be presented
i spent every day last week snorkeling. i live in the ocean now. this whale shark is my new best friend. the ocean makes me so happy