Network Engineering and Software Development. Opinions are my own.
Port Washington, WI
Joined November 2008
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Derick Winkworth retweeted
'It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious.' -- Christopher Strachey
Derick Winkworth retweeted
Why I dread reading cellular networking papers:
A paper I'm reading has:
- 77 abbreviations, 30 of which are never expanded. WTF is UPF?
- Abbreviations account for 20% of nouns and 8% of all words.
- 20% of sentences contain 3+ abbreviations.
Derick Winkworth retweeted
One of the coolest things of working with machine intelligence is that you start to develop a real feel for what it is that makes humans special
I love humans
We are really awesome
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man agents suck at reasoning about distributed systems
"yes let's stop the world and lock an entire table for garbage collection and reaping every 120s" and other statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
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LLMs are wordy because output tokens generate revenue for the providers, change my mind.
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Too many people trying to get AI to write whole codebase. Not enough using it for the boring shit nobody has time for: Improve your error messages. Build better on call dashboards. Fix the broken stack traces in Sentry. Clean up your old feature flags. Low stakes stuff AI is actually good at and you weren't going to get to anyways.
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I think about this a lot. I built MacAmp specifically to learn swift. Thats why it took me 8 months and not like 'I one shotted it with 20 agents.
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You guys I removed 10k lines of code from projects in the last 8-10 days. Perm underclass for me at -10840 LoC.
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We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
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What did I learn today? DPoP baby. Implementing for QUIC tunnel relays for that real BYOD feel.
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I'm on the hunt for a new role. Ideally this role is a combined engineering+product role. Definitely can be IC. I've come along way in AI tooling, agent building, prototypes that turned into released product features. If you're looking for a GSD high agency and hungry engineer/product combo hit me up.
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Continuing my efforts to learn things not just fully off-load, today I'm learning about the tools around Xcode like "Instruments." I have a problem with MacAmp and that is when I slide the volume button the spectrum analyzer freezes until I release the volume slider. So to pinpoint this Claude has helped me learn how 1. Identify how I could troubleshoot this and 2. how to use Instruments. Basically I setup an instrument called "os_signpost" in there I add a debug build and add that build (com.macamp.spike which could be anything you want), set the time I want to record for the instrument I created to capture. Then when I hit record it starts the app. I do my testing (in this case 1. a baseline doing nothing 2. next time sliding the volume slider around) and let it record the events. After I take the events and I have Claude analyze the numbers between each run for me. That way I can see at what layer spikes and look into volume controls and thread starvation. Why? Why not?
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Hi there - Was invited to talk on the CloudGambit/Packet Pushers podcast about the messy reality of AI tooling and expertise.
Check it out!
Links in the next tweet
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Join me this coming Friday over on O'Reilly Online (via Pearson) as we look into the way a router forwards packets.
learning.oreilly.com/live-ev…
This training will peer into the internal components of a router, starting with an explanation of how a router switches packets. This walk through of a switching path, in turn, will be used as a foundation for explaining the components of a router, including the various tables used to build forwarding tables and the software components used to build these tables.
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So a hackathon for how clear someone can think and how well they can articulate what they want.
