3 Aug 2026, 20:10 UTC80 views2 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Well, duh.
I kinda want to merge this PR given it's approved!
And the web UI showing this PR as "can't merge due to conflicts" is sure not helping. When the true reason is that "100 commits should be enough for everybody".
Merged (well, rebased) in just fine after making it 100 commits. Happy end.
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30 Jul 2026, 12:47 UTC141 views5 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Reading about whether our younger generation is getting ... less smart since the incentives of teachers are all messed up makes me wonder more and more.
Why not use a trivial way to shield teachers from angry parents of not-so-bright kids?
The way I proposed many many years ago, and the way a few (more totalitarian, sigh) regimes are quite happily adopting.
The solution is to separate the teacher from the one who …
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28 Jul 2026, 16:11 UTC144 viewsread 6 August 2026 Photo
Something made me look up these numbers because I was curious.
Flying East over the Equator really does make a 100kg person temporarily lose 1kg in their weight, although obviously not in their mass.
My instinct was that it might get close to 1% or even cross that threshold. Physics appears to align with this instinct; well, vice versa, of course. Cute nonetheless.
27 Jul 2026, 09:20 UTC129 viewsread 6 August 2026 Photo
And just like that I have hit the Github API rate limit.
18 Jul 2026, 19:53 UTC192 views1 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Photo
TIL: “Require linear history” is not enough on GitHub
Two GitHub settings solve different problems:
• Require linear history keeps main free of merge commits.
• Require branches to be up to date before merging ensures CI actually ran against the current main.
One could have two PRs based on version 1.0, each bumping it to 1.1, and both passing CI.
The first merged and shipped 1.1. The second stayed green since i…
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11 Jul 2026, 06:19 UTC203 views7 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Weirdest personal observation of the month: Long fights do not feel long enough with several coging agents to herd.
(Yes, I'm working towards herding them less, like many if not most engineers these days. But those agents still require attention, ata least so far.)
So, on the one hand, it's not that much toil. I can handle two or three parallel tracks despite not sleeping for quite a few hours. As in, my brain on a…
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11 Jul 2026, 03:56 UTC170 views2 reactionsread 6 August 2026 𝗜'𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘆𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
Even with all the exponential growth of AI-assisted coding, we're still on the same bell curve: all-encompassing deep-knowledge engineers are getting more and more productive, while the average hardly moves.
In other words, it is more and more beneficial if you truly are a talented engineer who 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 to keep doing software engineering, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 wants to b…
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10 Jul 2026, 06:01 UTC121 views3 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Discovery of the day: AI is really good at cleaning up space.
Sometimes repo clones, build artifacts, Docker containers, Apple containers, and Python cache pile up and eat too much of my disk, and I have to spend time wiping them out.
Eventually I just asked the AI: "Could you please help me understand what takes the most space and what is safe to clean?"
Whenever I tried myself I could usually only free up single…
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8 Jul 2026, 04:09 UTC140 views8 reactionsread 6 August 2026 I think I can finally formulate something that makes me more of an engineer than ... a non-engineer.
It is no longer that I want my processes to be deterministic. That has been gone for a couple of months now.
AI agents are far too powerful to disregard, and there is evidently not much to be won by forcing their workflows to be 100% reproducible. It is possible, yes; it is just pointless.
The correct approach, I b…
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7 Jul 2026, 02:57 UTC134 views1 reactionsread 6 August 2026 It's still beyond me how top labs make it difficult to copy or "print to PDF" the history of some chat.
While these very models are notoriously good at structuring unstructured content.
While these very models can literally control our desktop.
Never attribute to malice ...
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4 Jul 2026, 19:14 UTC172 views9 reactionsread 6 August 2026 So it happened — I Claude-coded an app for my personal use.
I got tired of copy-pasting URLs between browsers to keep login sessions and whatnot separate. Switching the default browser all the time is cumbersome too. And the app I quickly found stops being free after 14 days.
But Fable is here. So I thought about the problem statement and the best way to shape the "product" — and built it in a few prompts. Now I ca…
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29 Jun 2026, 13:48 UTC231 viewsread 6 August 2026 So I was chatting with a friend yesterday — hi @@danielkornev! — and he said something deep: that it's easier for a non-engineer to build a good harness toolkit compared to an engineer.
I took it as a challenge to steelman the argument, since I quite liked it.
My phrasing went along the following lines. What engineers take as durability is a bit too rigid when it comes to a harness, while a product owner's brain is…
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