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Adding one more discontinued project to my graveyard, badwrong.dev/echo/. All interactivity is implemented using #htmx. Backend is in #golang. #buildinpublic
Leaving it here for posterity: Echo – a web-service for converting Apple Music to Spotify. Used #htmx and #golang by the way. badwrong.dev/echo/
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AI will help software engineers to engineer better and faster in the same way social media and smartphones brought us closer together and more united. Enjoy!
There is just no good way to bring that news. The old times are not coming back. I don't envy anyone though who has a workforce who is not on board with the changing times. xitter.cf/steipete/status/211612…
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Had to sacrifice my sleep for this documentary. It was good. “The winter is coming”.
I watched the C++ documentary. Here's my review.
We live in unprecedented times. We have the opportunity to talk to people who were at the origins of groundbreaking modern innovations. C++ will exist for millennia. Its creators will not.
I was fascinated by how C++ became so popular. Basically:
1. They did an outstanding job. Everyone wanted to use it.
2. Bjarne gave as many talks as he could to let people know about C++.
The marketing budget was abysmal in the beginning. Bjarne's employer gave him just $5,000. It was barely enough to organise a single conference.
C++ was so good that even Brian Kernighan himself said that C isn't suitable for problems where C++ excels (yes, that Brian Kernighan from the famous The C Programming Language).
What astonished me the most was how C++'s focus on performance enabled it to become so widespread and survive several "winters," such as periods when hardware was getting faster and faster every year. Nowadays, C++ is used everywhere: phones, operating systems, embedded systems, finance, energy grids, and scientific computing. Even the entire AI industry is powered by C++
C++ is a net positive for society, and making C++ better makes the entire world better.
Of course, C++ is not without its flaws. It is becoming bigger and more complex every year. It's really hard to learn C++ and use it effectively. The onboarding time is insane. Besides, safety remains a significant issue.
Regardless, exciting times lie ahead!
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Hopefully, this mission also brings us some stellar 6k desktop wallpaper.
1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II
ALT Photograph of Earth captured by the Apollo 17 crew on December 7, 1972. Earth takes up most of the image. Dark blue ocean water and swirling white clouds are visible. Africa is a large brown landmass from the center to the upper left, stretching from about 9 to 12 o'clock. Clouds cover most of the 6 o'clock. Credit: NASA
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
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Who would’ve guessed that arbitrary code execution on fetching a dependency can be exploited. Nobody bugs.python.org/issue24534 and bugs.python.org/issue33944
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I mean, it's the same problem in any domain all the time: books, furniture, clothing, automotive, entertainment, music, movies, education.
More people and companies on the market—less of quality stuff.
Perhaps, not really "less", but definitely "harder to find". Noise!
i am convinced that software devs have a speed problem
they think the #1 issues is writing code faster... its not. its fixing the code that is already there to stop being utter garbage (as a garbage code connoisseur)
quality is really lacking these days, yet quantity has never been higher
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The feeling is that if a team has been set up poorly (i.e. with agile misunderstood and wrong values encoded), it’s impossible to change it until the team dies because of corporate inertia.
Somewhat similar to a poorly designed system. It performs badly, is misunderstood, abused, unattractive.
<rant> A periodic reminder that Sprints, Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Scrum Boards, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Points, Velocity, PIs, etc., have NOTHING AT ALL to do with "Agile." Agility comes from working small, delivering frequently for feedback from actual customers, and adapting based on that feedback. It has to do with teams working in whatever way they see fit to get stuff into the customer's hands as quickly as possible and acting on the feedback without bureaucratic obstacles. Any way that you can accomplish that is fine. All that garbage I listed in the first sentence just gets in your way.</rant>
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All it takes is to open a book on Java to find out that Pluto is not a planet since 2006. Whatever the way, truth wouldn’t slip.
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