Willem Van den Ende - Writing

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Full Circle Developer and Consultant. There's got to be a better way. #Programming is a way of understanding, so one never leaves it :-). #DomainDrivenDesign, #TestDrivenDevelopment (#TDD), #ExtremeProgramming. Bath, UK. Partner in https://www.qwan.co.uk

Father of a 7 and 9yo, married to Marina De Vos. he/him. In to photography, synthesizers, and currently learning to play classical guitar from our 9yo, and how not to judge whether people are actively participating or not from our 7yo.

Willem Van den Ende - Writing6d ago
Mr. Q The Pizza Demon6d ago

getting real "I don't feel so good, mr. stark" vibes from bitwarden

https://www.fastcompany.com/91542655/bitwarden-scrubs-always-free-and-inclusion-values-from-its-website-as-longtime-execs-step-down

Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its website as longtime execs step down

What is going on with the beloved open-source password manager?

Fast Company
Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 13
Steven ReedMay 6
@GerhardD @jwildeboer
Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 12
Auschwitz MemorialMay 12

13 May 1943 | Sara Cohen was born in Groningen in The Netherlands. She was a Dutch Jewish girl, a daughter of Jozef and Carolien. In February 1944 she was murdered in a gas chamber of #Auschwitz.

She lived 9 months.

Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 12
Denys SéguretMay 12

Here's a strange situation:

thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.

Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.

If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀

https://dystroy.org

dystroy

dystroy - Rust consulting

Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 9
bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦May 5
The world is now so full of ridiculous things that at least I struggle to deal with it all. But this is not an 'us' problem. The (political) world really is idiotic. I needed to vent a bit, so I made a list of things that are impossible to believe, yet are very much what is happening. Perhaps seeing it in writing will help you deal better with the situation. https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-impossible-things-we-have-to-believe/
The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert's writings

“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” – Through the looking-glass, Lewis Carrol by John Tenniel To stay sane, we have to accept that our climate is going completely haywire, but that it is ok to mostly ignore that since saving ourselves is apparently not cost-effective.

Bert Hubert's writings
Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 9
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMay 8

Queen update! Her eggs have hatched and are now larvae. She will feed them “trophic eggs” which are special eggs that cannot hatch. This is an ant food storage hack. Young ants need protein but she cannot leave the nest to raise this first generation.

While I was bugging her with a photo today I also gave her a drink of water which she seemed to like.

Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 9
M.S. Bellows, Jr.May 8

@KimCrayton1
This is not a new problem. It was best articulated by Walter Reuther, the greatest person most folks have never heard of:

"In the 1950s, Reuther [union leader] and Henry Ford II, CEO of Ford, toured a state-of-the-art engine plant in Cleveland. As they walked about the plant, Ford gestured to the cutting-edge, automated machines, saying, 'Walter, how are you going to get these robots to pay union dues?' Without missing a beat, Reuther famously replied: 'Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?'"

(Seriously, study Reuther. The Civil Rights Act, equal pay for women, and Earth Day all exist because of one white male union leader.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reuther

Walter Reuther - Wikipedia

Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 8
Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦May 8
Ran into an ex-colleague who is now developing charging solutions for electrified heavy excavators. Curiously, he shared that the customers are using the equipment in their lightest jobs - not because they couldn't do the heavy jobs, but because the diesel machines they're replacing are so bad at the light jobs.
Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 7
Show threadPaul RietschkaMay 7

@audunmb @davidgerard Nope. I mean, people will use Deepseek and Qwen and stuff, but they already are.

The future is a co. fine tuning a small-ish CodeGemma or such on their codebase, and making that available to employees.

It's the "good enough" policy, followed by a "no, your request for an expensive Claude subscription is denied, it's too expensive and the internal model we've made available is good enough, now get out of my office."

That's the future, and should've been the present.

Willem Van den Ende - WritingMay 7
Ars TechnicaMay 7
Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla
Musk was “prepared to do the for-profit, provided he would get control.”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/elon-musk-tried-to-hire-openai-founders-to-start-ai-unit-inside-tesla/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social