patwolf

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by patwolf 6d ago
IBM's J9 had AOT for a long time too. I wonder how JEP 544 compares.
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by patwolf 7d ago
I played around with codegraph. I did a quick experiment where I gave claude code a feature to implement, and I had it perform the same task with and without codegraph. This wasn't scientific, so take it all with a grain of salt. The c
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by patwolf 8d ago
Often in software development I encounter code that seems overly complex. It's not always obvious at first glance whether that complexity is because it's solving a really difficult problem, or because the developers made it more c
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by patwolf 12d ago
I don't use MCPs much for personal use, but I've come to see the benefits of having a standardized mechanism for distributing tools across non-dev teams, especially when they're using a hodgepodge of agents. I'm also exc
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by patwolf 19d ago
My experience with Cognito matches the author's experience exactly. I mostly used Auth0 in the past, but we switched to Cognito for a new project because it would be cheaper. Don't like that email addresses are case sensitive, and
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by patwolf 20d ago
I've heard that the prevailing theory now is that it wasn't the lack of fungus that made coal. Instead, the earth was covered in tropical wetlands, and trees couldn't decay in the anoxic water.
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by patwolf 22d ago
Nice perspective. So even if all these data centers were built in the desert, it's entirely within the realm of possibility to transport 17B gallons of water, unlike the 43 trillion used for irrigation. Some back-of-the-napkin math: -
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by patwolf 23d ago
Very cool. I'm currently awaiting delivery of a Sonicware deconstruct MINIMAL. I'm hoping it's as fun to play with as this is.
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by patwolf 1mo ago
I built an ecommerce site long ago, and even though the UI was fairly modern for the time, they insisted we use antiquated styling on the billing forms of the checkout page to help exude trust. As a developer it bugged me because I knew it
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by patwolf 1mo ago
True, but Nvidia has 10x'd their market cap since the AI boom. They'll be fine, but their current financials can't be sustained by gamers alone.
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by patwolf 2mo ago
I used it to plan a group beach trip back when it came out. We had a single page shared with everyone going on the trip. The page had live shopping lists, maps, weather forecasts, and other snippets of useful information. Now in 2026 I stil
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by patwolf 2mo ago
> Combined, the three companies raked in, on average, some $404 million in profits every day for the last three months. Just for perspective, Nvidia's daily profits for the past quarter are $641 million. For Apple it's $327 mil
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by patwolf 2mo ago
We've been running automated code reviews on claude with a bunch of skills/subagents with different specialties. Any review feedback is then fed back into claude to fix. Since switching to Opus 5 I've noticed the reviews are
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by patwolf 2mo ago
I've been using Sequoia View regularly since the early 2000s, and it's held up amazingly well considering how much bigger hard drives have gotten in the past 25 years.
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by patwolf 4mo ago
Before AI was a thing, I tried a few times to post a question on reddit. Something like "Any recommendations for solving X? I've already tried Y, and it didn't work because of Z". Most of the responses were to try Y, eve
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by patwolf 4mo ago
Just last week, I was with one of my kids trying to kill some time before an appointment. I noticed a toy store in a strip mall, and I asked him if he wanted to check it out. His response was, "What's a toy store?" We did che
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by patwolf 4mo ago
2001 set tech jobs back a few years. 2008 wasn't nearly as bad for tech because as money got tight, there was an impetus for companies to invest in tech to cut costs. I think a similar thing might be unfolding now with non-tech compani
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by patwolf 4mo ago
I use Cloudflare for a lot of my side projects. It's a pleasure to use, and I manage to stay under the free tier. It does feel like they should be bigger in the cloud space, but I imagine the major players get a lot of revenue from VMs
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by patwolf 4mo ago
I unfortunately saw it in the theater too. It doesn't surprise me that so few showed up to see it.
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by patwolf 5mo ago
I'm trying to get some parenting advice. USER: What age do you think it's appropriate to leave kids home alone for short durations? TALKIE-1930: From two to five years. USER: should I do anything to prep the house to make sure the
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by patwolf 5mo ago
I too had construx. I probably used them more than Lego because they were better suited for large structures. It's a shame they don't make them any more.
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by patwolf 5mo ago
Regardless of the debate of whether climate change has intensified hurricanes, it seems odd to blame hurricanes for being a vector for spreading the bugs. Wouldn't the bugs have spread via wind even if it wasn't climate change ind
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by patwolf 5mo ago
It reminds me a bit of one of the reasons Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes didn't catch on. It's difficult to make rectangular furniture work efficiently in a non-rectangular space. Likewise, it's difficult to efficie
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by patwolf 5mo ago
I'm currently working on an app that needs offline support, and I wish I had something like this when I started. One of our requirements though is to be able to completely host in our own infrastructure. I know this is open source, but
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by patwolf 5mo ago
I gave up on inbox zero a long time ago, so it isn't the emails themselves that bother me as much as the notifications that I get through my phone and smartwatch. I now run each notification through an LLM and give it instructions on w
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by patwolf 5mo ago
Rick Beato had an episode about AI music where he talked about how easy it is to game the iTunes charts. So few people buy music from iTunes that it's relatively cheap to buy your way onto the charts.
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by patwolf 6mo ago
Pentium marketing was next level. You could buy plushies of Intel workers in bunny suits. The first IMAX movie I went to was called "The Journey Inside", and it was basically a big ad for the Pentium. I always wondered if some of
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by patwolf 6mo ago
These rules apply equally well to system architecture. I've been trying to talk our team out of premature optimization (redis cluster) and fancy algorithms (bloom filters) to compensate for poor data structures (database schema) before
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by patwolf 6mo ago
I owe much of my career to an SSD. I had a work laptop that I upgraded myself with an 80GB Intel SSD, which was pretty exotic at the time. It was so fast at grepping through code that I could answer colleagues’ questions about the code in n
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by patwolf 7mo ago
I use it on MacOS, but it doesn't support tabs.

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