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Thomas Hunter II
@tlhunter
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I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum. Author of Distributed Systems with Node.js and Multithreaded JavaScript.
Mar 7th, 2026: Several hundred protesters gathered in San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza during the Stop the War on Iran protest. They were met with several dozen counter-protesters with signs praising Trump and the Regime change. https://thomashunter.name/photos/2026-03-07-no-war-in-iran
I saw this characterized version of @garrytan on an anti Y Combinator wheatpaste in SOMA. #sanfrancisco #ycombinator
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Lucie / minutefor whoever needs to hear this: you're not alone. i'm not vibecoding any of the software i write. i'm writing it by hand, but i've leveled up my emacs with eglot/lsp. i'm modernizing my stacks and use languages with excellent compilers. i think about how to do more with less. i'm trying to combine the best human-written libraries and modules and assemble them with minimal boilerplate. i enjoy reading your manuals and references. i believe in robust, secure, human-written software.
grmpyprogrammerOkay friends, I am back at the hotel after a wonderful dinner with friends, both old and new, and before I go to sleep I wanted to talk about ConFoo.
On the one hand, it was great to be with lots of enthusiastic people who are interested in programming. As a staff-level engineer with almost 30 years of experience and having given talks for more than 20 years, I enjoy all the sharing and the conversations.
AI talks were everywhere, at least a third of all talks. People are excited and lots of examples of integrating this stuff.
But the AI stuff is very deeply personal for me because these companies stole my books and paid me nothing to use them. They are attempting to resell to others what they stole. I am not attempting to gatekeep people. If you want to use them, knock yourself out.
I am just disappointed at the overall lack of empathy being shown to folks like me who had their stuff stolen. Too many shrugs or weak comments.
You are not required to care about what happened to me. Just don’t be surprised at the frosty reception and comments you will get from me when you ask me to be impressed by what you have done with these tools.
@steiza @george @peterhoneyman could spin up the job every 12 hours, then have it schedule the task between 0 and 12 hours from now. That should be billing friendly.
