ed_blackburn

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by ed_blackburn 2mo ago
Is this "don't vibe" code, or "don't accept" code written with agents? We have a philosophical (and potentially legal) aversion to code written by models. I can appreciate not wanting to fill Codeberg up with p
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by ed_blackburn 6mo ago
Absolutely: I said something similar recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766649
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by ed_blackburn 7mo ago
This is becoming a wedge issue. It should not be. As an industry, we can solve this. As an industry, we have too. If we don't, legislators will do it for us. And they'll make a bad job of it. And if you petition your local legisla
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by ed_blackburn 7mo ago
Imagine if Boot2Gecko / FirefoxOS had someone kept going, I wonder if I'd have evolved sufficiently enough to be commercially viable?
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by ed_blackburn 8mo ago
I think the creeping invasion of privacy argument is backwards here. What we have today isn’t privacy, it’s abdication. Platforms are externalising risk onto parents and pretending the internet is exempt from the safeguards we accept everyw
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by ed_blackburn 8mo ago
I think we need to accept that age verification makes the internet safer. What we cannot accept is age verification's use as a mechanism to pry too far into peoples lives. When we can separate age verification from who am I, most peopl
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by ed_blackburn 8mo ago
That's an epic polemic. If the cost of operating in Italy isn't profitable, exit Italy. If it is, then adhere to the laws of Italy. If Italy makes the cost of business too high they'll dial it back.
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by ed_blackburn 8mo ago
Yes. And Windows. https://zed.dev/docs/linux
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by ed_blackburn 9mo ago
I literally said this three days ago: https://hachyderm.io/@ed_blackburn/115747527216812176 But in all seriousness, LLMs have their strengths but we’re all wasting tokens and burning the planet unnecessarily getting LL
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by ed_blackburn 9mo ago
Microsoft are really sweating GitHub now aren't they? It wouldn't be so bad if it improving but there is certainly a perception that it is costing more for a poorer product, irrespective of the new features they're layering o
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by ed_blackburn 10mo ago
A UK organisation with treasonous, multi-generational experience, that's cited in the article, that people refuse to read or believe? Thanks for re-sharing <3
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by ed_blackburn 10mo ago
After 2008, others pressed Keynesian stimulus. The UK chose Hayek. Austerity. Councils took the hit. Services vanished. Early-years centres. Youth work. Local welfare. The safety net thinned, then tore. Families slipped through. Then Covid.
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by ed_blackburn 11mo ago
I'm using sqlglot to parse hundreds of old mysql back up files to find diffs of schemas. The joys of legacy code. I've found hypothesis to be super helpful for tightening up my parser. I've identified properties (invariants)
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by ed_blackburn 11mo ago
Indeed. It's sacrifices engineering cost for customer experience.
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by ed_blackburn 11mo ago
I agree with this. cat is great for "cating" bat is great for throwing shit on the terminal in a fashion that makes it semantically easier to reason with, two different use cases.
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by ed_blackburn 11mo ago
I’m on a Mac, and some of the default tooling feels dated: GNU coreutils and friends are often stuck around mid-2000s versions. Rather than replace or fight against the system tools, I supplement them with a few extras. Honestly, most are m
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by ed_blackburn 1y ago
:-)
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by ed_blackburn 1y ago
Thank you :-)
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by ed_blackburn 1y ago
Thank you :-)
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by ed_blackburn 1y ago
Do business in the UK? Then accept we prioritise our kids over your costs. Toodle pip.
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by ed_blackburn 1y ago
I keep asking, surely, I'm not the only potential customer: where's my ARM 64, Linux Mac mini equivalent? I'd settle for a laptop form if I must.
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by ed_blackburn 1y ago
I just want an ARM Linux MiniMac equivalent. At a reasonable price.
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by ed_blackburn 1y ago
This. Absolutely this. The PR should be the final step in the process. Never the first. Ambushing people with PRs and then demanding their attention is a massive time and mood sink. It is ineffective and counter-productive. You may as well
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by ed_blackburn 1y ago
WhatsApp has been relatively feature stagnant for a long while now, and it's certainly being almost ubiquitous for a long time too, but we're seeing an explosion in features and product tweaks recently? I wonder what the trigger w
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
We are really happy with GitHub, that's our source control and CI platform: I think editors are fungible but not source control,ALM,CI etc. I hear your point though and I see how the loop is being closed with cloud providers hosting yo
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
Yes, I’m aware of the politics, but I’m not about to force developers to switch editors for a single feature. We’re seeing real competition again, with new entrants like Zed, and that’s a good thing—engineers should be free to use the tools
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
I am experimenting with dev containers at the moment. I am finding them very useful for setting up environments and they work as advertised. Where I am struggling is the poor support in the Jetbrain's suite and having to accommodate di
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
The real win for this team isn’t just switching from Java to Go. It’s breaking free from the heavyweight framework ecosystem that the JVM all but forces on you. It’s not that the JVM is bad or that Go is a silver bullet, but Go does act as
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
Terrific to see native object storage in Hetzner. I think object storage is become a staple for most providers now. I can see that Hetzner is starting with WORM capabilities [0]. I wonder if this nascent product is successful they'll c
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by ed_blackburn 2y ago
Well, my employers have a Mauritian domain. I shall have to volunteer to scope out the Mauritian tech scene, which, to be fair, I've heard positive things about before. So now I will have to do my research justice and attend in person.

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