Mastodawn

As a programmer, I wish I could help people understand that the fastest part of any project is writing the code...

Non-programmers always want to throw more code writers at a project to speed things up. The "Mythical Man Month" problem aside,

the bottlenecks are all the legwork involved in defining the problem, the scope of this particular task, and fully testing it.

Even before AI, writing code was fast and we already have a lot of tools to crank it out...if we're clear on *what* to crank out.

This is prolly true in all fields, this difference in understanding between the people who actually work in a field, and the people who are adjacent to that field.

Johan Westling Mar 6

Jess Rose Mar 4

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Johan Westling Mar 6

Dan Q Mar 6

Non-exhaustive list of things I'm doing when I'm writing code, that don't look like "writing code":

- thinking
- researching
- contextualising
- testing
- measuring
- documenting
- communicating
- planning
- future-proofing
- educating
- learning
- expressing
- anticipating
- discovering
- inventing
- experimenting
- debugging
- analysing
- monitoring

For all its faults, an AI agent might "write code" faster than me.

But that's only a part of the process.

My typing speed is not the bottleneck.

#note #ai #programming

Via: 🔗 https://danq.me/2026/03/06/writing-code-is-not-the-bottleneck/

Things I do when I’m writing code that don’t look like writing code

Non-exhaustive list of things I'm doing when I'm writing code, that don't <em>look</em> like "writing code": - thinking - researching - contextualising - testing - measuring - documenting - communicating - planning - future-proofing - educating - learning - expressing - anticipating - discovering - inventing - experimenting - debugging - analysing - monitoring For all its faults, an AI agent might "write code" faster than me. But that's only a part of the process. My typing speed is not the bottleneck.

Dan Q

Johan Westling Mar 1

Rik Viergever Feb 28

I'm looking for people working at a bank in Europe who are interested in #EthicalTech and who would be interested to help us ensure that banking apps function well on European operating systems. Do you know anyone who might be interested? Please reach out to me via DM!

#DigitalSovereignty #banking #FairTech #banks #finance #tech #buyEU #DMA #DSA #SocEnt #EUtech

#Revolut #bunq #Curve #WERO #IDEAL #ING #ABNAMRO #ASN #Triodos #Rabobank #UBS #HSBC #BNP #Paribas #N26 #Wise #Qonto #BNP #Paribas

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Johan Westling Mar 1

Have ordered from EU an China previously and all packages returned to sender although correctly addressed and payed shipping costs (would be more understanding with "free shipping").

Johan Westling Mar 1

So sick of the tax and shipping issues ("thanks" to tax free on ferries) here in the Åland Islands... Trying to order a replacement screen/digitizer for a Pixel 7a and only option that shipping here is from Australia 🤦‍♂️ make that make sense!

Johan Westling Feb 28

Joni Korpi Feb 28

I’m thankful for Mastodon. Every other place on the internet feels slop-pilled.

Johan Westling Feb 27

Manuel Matuzović Feb 27

When you don't put `aria-hidden="true"` on decorative SVGs, they'll be announced by some screen readers.

#WebAccessibilityFails

https://matuzo.at/blog/2026/put-aria-hidden-on-presentational-svgs

Put aria-hidden=

I'm a frontend developer in Graz, specialized in HTML, accessibility, and CSS layout and architecture.

Manuel Matuzovic

Johan Westling Feb 12

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Hidde Feb 12

@jensimmons interesting as a subject of philosphical enquiry. Tiring as its current iteration is intertwined with late stage capitalism and ethics constantly waved away, politely or consciously.

Not using it much. Sometimes find it helpful to find stuff, or a word or phrase via natural language description. It's ok.

I expect people will use it (and they are), and that it, in most hands, will lead to more bloat and to less trustworthy and less accessible sites/apps.

Johan Westling Feb 11

tante Feb 11

"AI is built on the collective knowledge of humankind."

No. Nononononono. It is not built on _knowledge_, it it built on _data_. And not everyone's experiences are available as data, many communities are excluded. Also: "Collective" implies some sort of collaboration and shared activity. But "AI" is just accumulation by a few powerful.

So No. It's not collective but extractive, not knowledge but data, not humankind but the hegemonic western view. Everything in that statement is wrong.