masto

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by masto 1mo ago
There needs to be a pithy name for this. I have been calling it context leak.
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by masto 5mo ago
So management can cancel all of last week’s projects when they told us all we had to be using skills because the CEO read about them in the in flight magazine. Routines are the future, baby. DevOps already made a big announcement that they’
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by masto 6mo ago
First I went to the Claude web site, because we've all been trained not to click on links promising things, right? Couldn't find anything there so I checked the domain carefully and clicked on the link, which takes me to my settin
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by masto 7mo ago
When I was in my 20s I was an insufferable know-it-all who found fault with everything. I still spot problems and “push back”, but I have the experience now to know how to get people to listen and not just write me off as an annoying prima
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by masto 7mo ago
“Cloud to butt” was popular in the early cloud days. It went around Google internally, and caused some… interesting issues.
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by masto 8mo ago
I’ll express my personal preference for VS Code with Cline. I don’t know exactly why, but its workflow feels right even though they’re all almost the same interface. I do like the huge choice of models and payment options. For something I u
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by masto 9mo ago
I enjoy reading about other people’s approaches to motivation and creativity. But I very much dislike when they phase it as “you need to” or “this is how it works”. Thinking everyone else’s brain operates the way yours does seems to be a fr
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by masto 10mo ago
I found a tiny bug in a library. A single, trivial, “the docs say this utility function does X, but it actually does Y”. I’m not even allowed to file a bug report. It took me some time to figure out how to even ask for permission, and they
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by masto 11mo ago
LED matrix panels are tons of fun! I strung a bunch of them together to make a marquee across my basement soffit: https://youtu.be/W0_3rzvq9Ks?si=aTT_uOZfOYh9NLUi I have to resist the urge to tile every surface with blinky
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by masto 11mo ago
On rare occasions, I use it for the virtual display; it's actually usable to sit outside and work with a giant display on the deck, or to dial myself onto the beach. But it's not exactly comfortable for extended use, and most of t
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by masto 1y ago
I've been using Clerk and it seems fine. I'm sure there's some drama, because everything comes with drama, but I just want to get on with building stuff.
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by masto 1y ago
Sometimes I spend half an hour writing a prompt and realize that I’ve basically rubber-ducked the problem to the point where I know exactly what I want, so I just write the code myself. I have been doing my best to give these tools a fair s
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by masto 1y ago
I don’t know if this counts as experienced, but I’ve spent about a year exploring Next.js, the last 6 months of which transitioning from exploring to building a serious project. I understand the author’s frustrations. I have had similar one
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by masto 1y ago
This is literally the same mistake that has been made many times before. Of course it will be made again. “New feature is rolled out carefully with a bug that remains latent until triggered by new data” could summarize most global outages.
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by masto 1y ago
First some feedback (I see the author is interested), and then a personal take on how I deal with this stuff. As someone who has spent decades procrastinating, reading about systems to get things done, trying many of them, working with coac
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by masto 1y ago
I jumped in to the TypeScript deep end a few months back. I build a lot of web applications back in the 2000s, then disappeared onto a big tech island where everything was a little different. After popping back out into the real world, I wa
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by masto 1y ago
Teaching myself BASIC on a Commodore 64 in elementary school made me a programmer and set the direction for the next 40 years. Different strokes I guess.
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by masto 1y ago
I remember RPI had something like this in the 1990s. I can't remember what it was called though. But I do remember how impressed everyone was: if you call this phone number, they can answer ANY question! I believe those of us who were
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by masto 1y ago
I think it is the permanent end of American economic/political/cultural dominance, which is a long-term gain for the world, but it's going to put the hurt on a lot of people (myself included). I am not quite altruistic enough
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by masto 1y ago
Python is in a category of things you can't just use without being an expert in the minutiae. This is unfortunate because there are a lot of people who are not Python developers who would like to run programs which happen to be written
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by masto 1y ago
Adding `-p 3.12` made it work. Leaving that here in case it helps someone.
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by masto 1y ago
Ran it and it crapped out with a huge backtrace. I spotted `./build_bundled.sh: line 21: cmake: command not found` in it, so I guessed I needed cmake installed. `brew install cmake` and try again. Then it crapped out with `Compatibilit
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by masto 1y ago
Ours is a Fisher & Paykel dual dishdrawer, which does exactly that, in the space of a single unit.
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by masto 1y ago
I'm surprised this Jon Richardson bit hasn't been posted already. It's an incredible piece of comedy, even moreso given that it's about loading the dishwasher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ymh8o6GI_g
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by masto 1y ago
The C64 starts up straight into BASIC from ROM. Unlike some other contemporary computers, it doesn't attempt to boot from any external devices (except the cartridge port). There isn't really a DOS in the usual sense. Apart from si
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by masto 1y ago
I was thinking of doing a kickstarter a while back for something similar. One surprising thing that kept me from proceeding (or at least, a thing I used as an excuse to not do the project) was that the guy who "owns" the pomodoro
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by masto 1y ago
I always find the Italian kitchen a fascinating contrast between an appreciation for artisanal handmade food and the love of shiny stainless steel gadgets.
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by masto 1y ago
I found it impenetrable.
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by masto 1y ago
As a purpose-built tool, it improves on the experience of having multiple windows open. While the headline feature is keeping them all in sync, for my particular app, that's not as big a deal (though it's pretty cool that it will
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by masto 1y ago
I just spent several long days implementing my first modern CSS responsive web design, learning flexboxes and grids and what-can-I-use along the way. I currently have three different browser windows and two device emulators open across two

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