luciole (he/him)

Who’s “they”?

Nah I’m alright.

Ngl these numbers keep acting so wild I don’t know what to make of them anymore.

I’ve been wondering the same, so hard. I feel like at this point I’d like to see a comparative study of the job of people that see it VS the job of people that don’t.

I remember some twenty years ago when I finished college I had this internship that turned into a summer job afterwards. Prestigious organization in fancy skyscraper. Our teachers were a bit nervous about it since it was the first time the got the org to accept interns and made it clear we should be extremely grateful and well behaved, or else.

Godfuck the job was boring. This massive tentacular place had a million subdivisions doing roughly the same thing in a different region but somehow each had enough torque to get to have their own little website with a different interface design and a handful of different fields. Our job was to rewrite backends from [boring old basic MS tech] to [shiny new overengineered MS tech]. Dozens and dozens of roughly alike but not entirely identical backends. After months of work there was still at least as much to do as had been done. The architects in place had no desire for harmonization or reuse. They knew be heart the features the seemed to rewrite periodically in a fancier ways.

Sometimes I wonder how many places feel like that, how many programmers embrace the repetitive churn, oblivious to the affront against the very core of software this represents. If these are the ones that see it.

Devaluing the human experience until the tech looks good

I’m far from having the final say on anything at my org. They’ve just decided not to embrace the slop. Sorry you’re in that kind of your company. Just be careful with skill atrophy.

I suggest you design the core bits of your project, actually fucking program it yourself, see what works and what doesn’t, review design, and repeat. (This is a programming community.)

A pet project with a sufficient incentive (here, friends) is a perfect opportunity to pick up a new language too!

I would argue it’s better to have a good grasp on Javascript before tackling Typescript. The Typescript type system (the only reason to bother really) leaks Javascript quirks in different ways which aren’t going to make much sense without the underlying knowledge.

Fortunately software is much more than App ideas fishing for VC investments. A lot of us are building actual tools for nurses, teachers, technicians, artists, students, etc. We have to analyze these human beings’ role in society, their needs, their situation, which is different from merely preying on their attention span. Programming languages are still the most reliable way to specify how the software must behave. And once the software is done, it is merely born. It then lives through a steady flow of continuous adaptation until one day it dies as all things do. Downplaying the human condition is a mistake.

AI tools can generate functional, adequate, perfectly average code at a speed and cost that would have been unimaginable even five years ago. And like the outsourcing wave of the early 2000s, the economics are real and rational. Nobody is wrong for using these tools. The code they produce is often fine. It works. It passes tests. It might ship as-is.

Not the first time I’ve read this kind of statement and I always struggle to reconcile this with my personal experience. I’m seriously doubting that I’m just not a “good enough prompter”. I know how to explain context from domain to tech and vice versa, that’s like, a good 20% of my job. I’d say that AI tools are good at producing code that already exists.

The LLMs are an interface to a corpus of written material. They’ve never had a thought, a chat around the coffee machine, or any experience in the largest sense of the world. This is a hard barrier on any induction they may emulate.

No matter how hard you pet your LLM, this project is not your work. LLM output attribution is a gray zone by design. Your assumption that vibe coding has overtaken software development is a big red flag imho. I wonder where you’ve acquired this belief. If you’ve been banned from multiple communities already I recommend you reflect upon this.

Once you go through the hassle of setting up a Navidrome server the choice of music player really opens up. On my desktop I’m still going back and forth between Supersonic and Psyonic. I love both. On my phone I bought Symfonium and I’m really happy with it. It’s so easy now to pick some music to carry along.

TLDR:

You should probably use a proper parser rather than hoping your .env looks enough like an .ini to pass muster.

You can probably use a butter knife instead of a flat screwdriver but just do your job properly.

What Baikal stuff? The thing’s dead and gone.

bro it’s volunteers all the way down

I’ve used Mint for a while and then I started getting curious about all these sexy Arch setups. I was intimidated with the install process though, so I tried out CachyOS and Endeavour. I ended up staying with the latter. It’s got that bleeding edge Arch flavour while easing you into it. I prefer Endeavour’s approach (we’ll help you learn) to CachyOS’s one (it just works).

This would be meaningful if the findings were not produced by the corp trying to sell you the product being hyped. Big tech has a history of “faking it till you make it” and I can’t help but doubt that this is really just Claude Code mostly autonomously finding issues.

FOSS provides a way to exercise digital freedom in a digitalized world.

For example the Canadian Charter of Rights considers these freedoms fundamental:

• freedom of conscience and religion;
• freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
• freedom of peaceful assembly; and
• freedom of association.

These can all be threatened through centralized, authoritarian digital mechanisms.

While FOSS can be used to oppress, FOSS is most importantly a useful tool to fight against oppression by escaping control and as such it is precious today.

Corporations are the opposite of private property and that’s the problem. Their modern form was born in 19th century imperialist England and conviently evacuates all responsibility into the black void that is a moral entity or whatever that’s called. The ownership is zombified into a creature hungry for nothing but abstract profit, everything else be damned. I trust many businesses, but never a corporation.