Denis Koltsov 

@mistadikay
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Software, strategy and the space between. Stockholm, Sweden
websitehttps://koltsov.se

It's been a while since I was _this_ excited for a new game release: original Silent Hill 2 is easily in my top 5 best games of all times.

This particular chapter stands out among others not so much for the horror (though it is amazing and terrifying), but for the heart-wrenching emotions and human tragedy. It just _gets_ to you.

Seeing great reception for this remake I really hope they do the other parts too.

Asking ChatGPT to solve a captcha. Where did it all go wrong.
Table-driven tests work really well for simple input-output tests like in https://go.dev/wiki/TableDrivenTests. But when you need to do something more complicated they become absolute hell to read and understand.
Go Wiki: TableDrivenTests - The Go Programming Language

Also Swedes are obsessed with safety. They have a so-called “Nollvisionen” or “Vision Zero” implying that the only acceptable amount of deaths on the road is 0 (zero). In 2023 it was 232. Way too many, but 10 times less per capita than my home country. Guess they’re doing something right.

So you can imagine that you get failed on your driving test for even one unsafe maneuver.

Having said all that, there are way more reckless drivers on Swedish roads than I expected.

The last talk of the conference. Randall Munroe, the legendary creator of XKCD comics and “What If?”, talks about the importance of childish curiosity, crazy experiments and that there are no silly questions. #strangeloop
Some things are hard until you learn them: bash, SQL, http, DNS. How we can make them easier? For example by creating some cool tools to play and experiment like https://messwithdns.net/ by @b0rk #strangeloop
mess with dns

Emotional talk by Alex Miller turning the final page of the legendary conference. It allowed bringing the industry and academia together and spread innovative ideas but became harder to keep it profitable. It looks like the future of many conferences is uncertain. #strangeloop
Understanding large systems is hard and even harder is transferring that knowledge. @bellmar developed Fault, an experimental DSL that helps to model failure scenarios and reason about complex systems based on the principles of system dynamics
https://fault.tech/
#strangeloop
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Building models in Fault

Fault Docs
Automerge is a library for conflict-free version control. Smart, fast and space-efficient it can be used for offline-first collaborative software. Started as a research project in 2020 by Martin Kleppmann it is now production-ready. More: https://automerge.org #strangeloop
Automerge

Automerge is a library for building collaborative, local-first applications.

When building distributed software that controls spacecrafts in Earth’s orbit @tobyyybell and his team use simulation testing which is close to the real system, fast, deterministic and accounts for many conditions. It can be used for testing any concurrent applications in general. #strangeloop