Matthew Martin

@mistersql
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Software developer in Washington, DC (Herndon, VA specifically)

Doing #govtech, #cybersecurity python, dotnet, aws, mostly Infrastructure as Code and cloud apps.

I tweet about software, programming, #python, dad jokes, DC, Fed government tech contracting

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This stuff happens, but I think we collectively think about it like the time we won a hand at black jack and now we think that, maybe black jack is the reliable path to success.
Economists studied this (specifically does church attendance make you rich(er) because of the in-person social networking?) and there was no effect to speak of.
Incredibly inefficient way to find a job, at least for me. I suppose for the hypersocial people that meet most of their friends on trains and airplanes, maybe it works for them.

So to stay employed over the next year they say I'm supposed to in-person-network.

In this society? 90% of people at 90% of the social events I've been to in the last decade I meet people once & never see them again. And I often was meetup organizer!

IDEA: Agentic StackOverflow. Write a vague spec and ordinary non-AI code will post it to SO with "plz help" and then poll for an answer. When an answer comes in, the code will be executed and the error message posted in a reply with "it don't work"

These dialogs often go off the rails if they last too long, so a new question (plz help?) with current code will be posted after 10 exchanges.

No LLMs needed at all. Just a lot of people that use a f*k ton of water.

Tree fell in the forest. Did it make a sound? Not making one now. Conclusion: the forest got fed up with this loud tree and murdered it. Case closed.

I am SICK and TIRED....

those are the symptoms.

Running Linux in a browser really captures the desktop experience that I remember: mouse drivers don't work.

https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=dsl

v86

Run KolibriOS, Linux or Windows 98 in your browser

on the other hand, a small department level project often doesn't have money to buy anything- they got a FTE for a software developer, but no money for an IDE, nor a developer laptop, your server is shared with other departments, so paying for Airflow-but-for-smol-teams- they're probably not paying for that either. But if they did, that still wouldn't be a niche that enterprise sales teams would**n't** pursue-- too small.

Well I did have a SaaS idea until I realized Airflow and its clones already exist. But I think I see a niche with a moat: Small teams/departments.

Airflow assumes you have enough ETL jobs that efficiently using all the machines necessary to run them is a problem and you need dedicated schedulers and a Kubernetes cluster- like $10m enterprise contract stuff.

No one wants to do anything for a team with just 1 ETL task that runs nightly.