@CodeWisdom

Programming wisdom and quotes throughout the years. The Knuth, the whole Knuth, and nothing but the Knuth, so help me Codd.

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Joined October 2011
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Air Katakana
@airkatakanaApr 20
if i gave you the formula for coca cola right now and told you to go sell it, 5 years down the line you would probably have 0% of the soft drink market share. with literally coke and yet everyone expects ai-coded apps to be in widespread use after less than a year
wanye
@xwanyexApr 20
I don’t have to be convinced that LLM’s make programmers more productive. But where’s all the stuff? We’ve now had months and months of 100x or 1000x programmet productivity improvements. Where’s all the stuff they’re building?
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Ted Moyses@TedMoysesMar 28
Replying to @CodeWisdom
Pinned in my computing lab at Leeds Uni: I do hate this computer I wish they'd go and sell it It won't do what I want Only what I tell it
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MIT CSAIL
@MIT_CSAIL28 Jul 2025
To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation. v/@cooperx86 & photo v/Cynthia Johnson & Getty Images
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Peter Cooper
@cooperx8614 Jul 2025
Software developers: Do you ever use any mnemonics on a frequent basis? If so, what are they? (Like in music how you have stuff like "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" to remember EGBDF.)
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Peter Cooper
@cooperx866 Jun 2025
As AI-generated code becomes the norm, irreverent comments become a form of human watermarking.
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Jake
@JustJake5 Jun 2025
Called shot: AI will help software engineers become product managers faster than product managers becoming software engineers
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Martin LeBlanc
@martinleblanc14 May 2014
A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.
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Dave Kimura@kobaltz31 Oct 2023
Why do developers confuse Halloween for Christmas? Because OCT31 = DEC25. Merry Christmas!!! 🎄🎁
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Let's Encrypt@letsencrypt8 Sep 2023
We're Let's Encrypt. A nonprofit that provides free TLS certificates to domains, which means we put the S in HTTPS. Your time online is much more secure and privacy-respecting because of us *and* the community of people helping make our work happen. 🔒 🔆
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Dag Spicer@dag_spicer27 Jun 2023
CHM celebrates the life of computing pioneer, fighter pilot, professor, and businessman Ed Fredkin, who passed away on June 13. Read about his remarkable life in this Computer History Museum oral history: tinyurl.com/5t4wcd3k @ComputerHistory @MIT @caltech @CarnegieMellon
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Rick Houlihan
@houlihan_rick3 Jan 2023
My 2023 advice for all young engineers: Respect a running system. There are reasons it works that way, most of which will be uncovered when you try to replace it. Make incremental changes, don't burn the building down. No one way doors. Never be unable to rollback.
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mike dalessio@flavorjones7 Dec 2022
I'm heartbroken to share this news about our dear friend and colleague, @ChrisGSeaton.
Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

ALT Screenshot of a message from Shopify's Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team that includes: Our dear friend and colleague Chris Seaton passed away last Saturday, December 3rd. Chris was an important part of our team at Shopify, and a notable figure in the Ruby community, and we are deeply saddened by our collective loss. Chris accomplished much in his life. He completed a Ph.D., rose to be Squadron Leader in the British Army Reserve, and started a young family. Chris began the TruffleRuby project in 2013 as an intern at Oracle Labs and stewarded it into a full-fledged Ruby implementation. Chris advanced the state of the art in dynamic language optimization, co-authoring 16 publications, contributing to countless others, and establishing both the Ruby Bibliography archive of Ruby research publications and the Ruby Compiler Survey. For his efforts, he was a Ruby Prize finalist in 2016. Chris’s papers, essays, and code contributions are currently archived at chrisseaton.com.

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Simon Willison
@simonw6 Oct 2022
A tip for writing more: expand your definition of completing a project (any project, no matter how small) to include writing a blog post (or README or similar) that explains that project
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Peter Cooper
@cooperx8628 Sep 2022
To put age into perspective: Grace Hopper first entered computing at age 38, completed the first compiler at age 46, influenced the design of COBOL at age 53, wrote COBOL for the Navy through her 70s, retired from the Navy aged 80 and *then* became a consultant for DEC(!) 😍
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Matt Linton
@0xMatt27 Sep 2022
I didn't "Become a manager", I "Was given a pay raise in exchange for agreeing to never write code again"
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David Alpert@davidalpert27 Sep 2022
Replying to @davefarley77
"the hard part of software development is not typing" - @WoodyZuill
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Gergely Orosz
@GergelyOrosz29 Jun 2022
As a tech lead or eng manager, you so frequently get request from above or from other teams to drop what you are doing and work on this thing they need, *now*. During my 4 years at Uber after asking these questions, 9 out of 10 times it turned out it wasn't really urgent:
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"you can travel through the online world along paths of whim and intuition" 💫 — Gary Wolfe, writing in 1994, on following links and the Mosaic browser. wired.com/1994/10/mosaic/
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If you hold a Unix shell up to your ear, you can hear the C.
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Programming Wisdom
@CodeWisdom21 Mar 2020
"Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind." — Donald Knuth
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