Hynek Schlawack

• blogger 📝 & speaker 📢
• 💗 Python 🐍, Go 🐹, DevOps 🔧
• works at a smol ISP & domain registrar 🌐
• substance over flash, nuance over loudness, outcomes over ego 🧠
• seeking apatheia 🧘
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2024-09-17 18:35:33

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@npub1wfj…2ewz whole podcaster family huh :)

2024-09-16 05:46:14

absolutely loving that "blue zones" turned out to be "pension fraud zones" and just like you could throw away most of your self-improvement books courtesy of the replication crisis, you can now delete half of Netflix https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/113141465996981486

2024-09-15 08:53:37

“It is harder to write code with $X.”
and
“It is easier to write CORRECT code with $X.”
is a pair of statements that comfortably can be true at the same time, making people uncomfortable because holding two thoughts at once is distressing.
This is a Toot about Rust, Python type hints, testable code in general, …

2024-09-13 05:55:34

“Reasons I still love the fish shell” – cosigned all of them except 5: use starship!
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/09/12/reasons-i--still--love-fish/

2024-09-12 18:05:05

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@npub1f9u…m3s0 I’m afraid to check my GHA pipelines

2024-09-12 07:24:17

Something weird about myself that I keep learning the hard way is that for some weird reason, my brain does not click with an one-tool-for-everything approach.
I love Obsidian & I love it for knowledge management. But for some reason, I cannot write in it. There’s no meaningful difference between writing in iA Writer & Obsidian, but forcing myself to write in Obsidian causes so much resistance I just don’t write. I also had to move research back into MindNode. (1/2)

2024-09-10 18:09:01

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@npub1pfe…e2dm `uvx --python 3.12 mopup` 👩‍🍳💋

2024-09-06 04:29:12

So. Mesmerizing. 😵 https://mstdn.social/@stux/113085706125152982

2024-09-05 19:06:58

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/113086458707132039
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/086/510/820/658/250/original/d95bae43af846af2.mp4

2024-09-02 09:23:39

Since whenever I talk about #Python and #Docker, I invariably get told that virtual environments inside of Docker make no sense, I’ve spent my weekend writing down why I think it does.
I don’t intend or expect to convince everybody, but I hope to add nuance to the discussion: https://hynek.me/articles/docker-virtualenv/

2024-09-01 04:53:05

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@npub1pfe…e2dm it just reminds me people have to use Microsoft Teams

2024-09-01 04:08:33

whenever statics.teams.cdn.office.net rises in the top list of my homepage referrers I just want to hug everyone affected

2024-08-30 03:46:35

LLMs propelling XML back into the mainstream is not what I had on my 2024 bingo card.
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/30/anthropic-prompt-engineering-interactive-tutorial/

2024-08-28 08:59:07

I got nerd-sniped into writing my take on prod-ready #Docker with uv!
If you care about fast multi-stage builds, here you go: https://hynek.me/articles/docker-uv/ #Python

2024-08-27 06:03:51

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@npub17qe…u62y 30% less is far from zero

2024-08-25 19:33:53

absolutely nobody could’ve expected these results
https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381

2024-08-20 04:14:41

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@npub1pfe…e2dm cozy shade

2024-08-17 11:20:22

It is (un-)surprisingly difficult to get back into the groove of producing videos after almost 3 months and with gargantuan piles of obligations at work, FOSS, and RL.
Thanks to everyone for your kind words, – especially in-person at PyCon US and EP from corners I never expected it – I’m heavily drawing on the memories and all the comments to get moving again. 💛💛💛
This is what we call a dead weight at the gym and it suuucks.

2024-08-16 04:03:19

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@npub1f6a…pnql All them models taking their toll huh? 😅

2024-08-12 07:43:43

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@npub1pfe…e2dm clearly needs more stamina

2024-08-10 06:11:16

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I’m happy to report to know none of them! (I know of Minecraft and Torchlight but not those specific releases)

2024-08-07 06:27:29

After spending non-trivial amount of money on YouTubing equipment (ideally, you won’t notice the difference but recording is gonna be less painful for me), a few excruciating days of releasing and fixing attrs 24.1.0 & 24.2.0, and GitHub shipping featured sponsors, I’ve decided to overhaul my GitHub Sponsors profile a bit and include featured sponsors & video perks! (1/3)

2024-08-07 06:27:29

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I don’t think it makes sense for me—who speaks only to developers—to start a Patreon, so I’ll treat GitHub Sponsors as such and have added preliminary ideas to my profile based on my last video that seems to have been appreciated by my sponsors. (2/3)

2024-08-03 21:05:18

A current pet peeve of mine is people claiming that one starts one’s programming journey with simple code, then somehow evil OOP and even more evil patterns come along and make everything super complex. But fortunately at the end is enlightenment and simple code again. (1/6)

2024-07-29 12:53:59

software architecture would be so much easier to talk about if all key terms weren’t random combinations of “model”, “event”, “domain”, and “service”.

2024-07-29 05:55:33

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@npub1pfe…e2dm well, obviously except that one

2024-07-28 17:03:59

Heise.de is a serviceable German tech publication but they always annoyed me with the same cheesy and unnecessary stock photos.
Well, now they’re using DALL-E gibberish instead.
And lolol no, those are not real German words. They’re too short by like a half.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/865/200/063/910/340/original/de998bbda77a949e.png

2024-07-26 08:55:05

Here’s 2.0.0 of my still semi-experimental setup-cached-uv!
It now does the obvious ways to cache-bust by default, so for the 99%, using it should be just a matter of `- uses: hynek/setup-cached-uv@v2`.
I’m still interested in feedback, especially whether caching the blazingly fast™ uv even makes sense on GHA where downloading packages can be faster than restoring a cache. :| Except for saving PSF resources, of course. 👼
https://github.com/hynek/setup-cached-uv/releases/tag/v2.0.0

2024-07-25 05:10:47

uv just dropped a CI-optimized cache purge and while implementing it I’ve realized that build-and-inspect-python-package didn’t actually store the cache dir (anymore?) due to path restrictions. Here’s a new release that fixes and improves cache handling.
Given how fast uv and slow actions/cache are, this is mostly about reducing the load on PyPI.
https://github.com/hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package/releases/tag/v2.8.0

2024-07-20 10:43:30

A frustrating part of bylaw #3 discussion is that a larger part of the discussion wasn’t about the bylaw, but a relitigation of whether the Python community should have an enforced CoC and whether it should be cool to call women sluts because there was a hilarious SNL skit in the 1970s.
It feels like it should be obvious, but again for those in the back: if you want a community to grow, the behavioral standards and expectations regress to the biggest common denominator. (1/8)

2024-07-19 18:16:49

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@npub1pfe…e2dm lol SolarWinds

2024-07-12 08:01:54

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Yeah we’re at the point where Mypy still has more breadth, but Pyright is way faster at implementing PEPs, so it’s possible there’s gonna be a crossing of the lines in the near future :|

2024-07-12 07:57:46

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Yeah but not in Mypy and that’s where it matters :)

2024-07-12 07:49:41

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Given how the implementation of type parameters and the type keyword are going, I wouldn’t hold my breath 😬

2024-07-10 16:53:36

Reminder that I’m at #EuroPython and always happy to talk about SWE, DDD, and my projects!
Especially svcs and 👀txmgr👀. 😇
Tonight is beer garden time: https://maps.app.goo.gl/sMmBKokcnvZAKkh48

2024-07-08 08:02:17

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@npub1wfj…2ewz but at least the NHS is swimming in ex-EU money and bureaucracy is gone!

2024-07-08 07:42:57

I just had to pay 1.98 € in custom duties for my free exemplar of a book that I did a technical review on. Because it was sent from the UK. I don’t want to know how it is to do actual commerce.

2024-06-23 17:12:00

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I mean my whole point is: people KNOW it exists, they just don’t like it. Bringing it up nowadays gets you an eye-roll.

2024-06-23 16:37:29

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@npub1pfe…e2dm (to be clear: I’m not saying they’re wrong or that we shouldn’t find a way to cater to them. I’m saying just adding people won’t solve it.)

2024-06-23 10:33:47

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@npub1pfe…e2dm The screaming and name-calling over features that are, now, either coming (quotes) or already arrived (search) alone did enough damage to bootstrap a new social network.

2024-06-21 21:50:39

It sounds trite, and it is, but not having to care about liquids on domestic flights in Brazil is a significant improvement to quality of life.

2024-06-21 14:02:20

If you’re a voting #PSF member pls listen up; I’m interrupting my last day in a hammock on the beach just for you.
I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of subposts lately about bylaw change #3 which would allow the PSF board to yeet PSF Fellows for CoC misconduct under certain circumstances.
I am a PSF Fellow and I’ll vote for it—let me explain why. (1/7)

2024-06-20 23:20:56

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@npub1pfe…e2dm “Foo() creates/instantiates context manager bar; the intended block enters context [manager] bar” you might be overthinking things. ;)

2024-06-08 17:33:16

I really wish GitHub had a forced vacation mode that locks you out and doesn’t send out email notifications. The pile-up of issues and questions is making me more anxious than occasionally checking work Slack. 😳

2024-06-05 23:37:56

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Looking forward to return to my Mac in 2+ weeks and see what y’all found out 😇

2024-06-05 22:13:17

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Oh man, the situation around Bartender is getting only worse: https://github.com/orgs/Homebrew/discussions/5427 (previously: https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/s/pfOgBFn75F)
Even if this shakes out to be all fine, this kind of transition bodes very poorly for the app either way. “App Sub 1 LLC” 😳

2024-06-05 11:01:54

FUUU
Bartender is the ONE app I can’t use my Mac without. :(((
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/04/bartender-mac-app-new-owner/

2024-06-03 11:43:36

No better way than traveling super rural places to grow the existing hatred for self-indulgent web dev masturbation.
I’m usually coming by on 1–2 bars of cell reception and the Modern Web™️ is breaking in hilarious ways. So many -1s and (null)s abound.
I really hope Dante has reserved a circle of hell for people doing this to the world.

2024-05-29 16:22:57

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Yes! It does auto-threads! You just write your super toot.

2024-05-29 12:27:03

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@npub1pfe…e2dm 🎺 MONA WHY WONT YOU JUST USE MONA 🎺

2024-05-28 20:08:47

I guess my seat is over the luggage.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/520/523/109/308/686/original/32160b84facb923b.png

2024-05-27 15:01:47

i beg, once again, tiny js libraries to stop assuming i want to npm-install everything or expose all my visitors to some free cdn service. just give me a directory i can put on a web server, ty

2024-05-27 13:13:13

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It’s telling the vast majority of agressive mask absolutists are neurotypical native English speakers. The PSF got better at messaging, now it’s OUR turn. The way this debate is currently led, makes those left behind less likely to speak up, too. Nobody wants to be labeled a whiny egomaniac.
We don’t have to duplicate the global toxicity of this debate and can start treating masks as a tool, not a political statement. (2/4)

2024-05-27 13:13:13

The most frustrating part of the #PyConUS mask discussion to me is how it’s 100% focused on “your discomfort” vs “other ppl’s health”.
The MAJOR exclusionary nature of masks is inverted, tho! Of course are there ppl who don’t want to wear one for comfort or can’t for medical reasons. But the majority I talked to would be happy to wear one but wished if OTHERS didn’t wear one, so they could understand them (better, or at all). (1/4)

2024-05-27 11:48:15

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@npub1pfe…e2dm That’s 101 growth-hacking phrasing to making you interested in the newsletter and ideally share it. The first part worked. 🤓 I’m surprised you took it as an admission to piracy… I never read it that way.

2024-05-26 19:46:52

While frantically preparing for my vacation after just coming back from PyCon (don’t ask), I’ve pushed out https://github.com/hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package/releases/tag/v2.6.0 that adds support for the new ubuntu-24.04 builders and the name of the uploaded artifact as a new output. #Python

2024-05-26 03:56:45

No Apple Watch, I’m not exercising. I’m trying to get to terminal 2F. #CDG #IYKYK

2024-05-24 22:55:35

I have just spent $30 in total to get $7 in quarters for laundry.

2024-05-21 15:32:43

Waiting for boarding my flight out of Pittsburgh after #PyConUS and what a PyCon it was!
It flew by in a flash and if I weren’t so socially drained I wished it went at least twice as long. Always heart-breaking when one only gets a few sentences in with ppl one sees once per year. 💔
This year had much more energy than last year and the fact it sold out gives me hope for its future. See y’all in Prague!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/479/801/351/280/672/original/4ee1dce4ac48cf0c.jpeg

2024-05-15 16:16:07

OK the #PyConUS venue is pretty amazing. I’m betting good money the majority of the hallway track will actually be the garden track. Expansive, lots of greenery, flowers, bees, and great views of the city.
Still go to the talks plzzz.

2024-05-14 05:29:36

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Glyph your software is tripping

2024-05-14 04:20:55

Always fun when Apple drops all-encompassing updates in the night before major travel. 🫠

2024-05-11 15:05:45

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@npub14fs…qegk In a way it was a gift since I learned that ⌘. does the same thing! (As a decade-long vim user I found it odd to hear others still use the unergonomic Esc. I’ve been using jk and fd forever)

2024-05-11 14:57:23

There’s something funny how you can immediately tell if a keyboard designer has ever used a terminal on macOS or not.
Hint: it’s the second option key.

2024-05-10 18:46:35

In my quest to produce a shorter video, I’ve produced my longest so far:
tox vs Nox: What are they for & How do you choose?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImBvrDvK-1U
In which I introduce those two indispensable tools and reflect my own usage of BOTH. Enjoy! #python

2024-05-10 04:59:16

Ohhh nice Return to Monkey Island is coming to Apple Arcade in June! Absolutely loved playing it on my SteamDeck: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/return-to-monkey-island/id6476317779

2024-05-09 17:52:20

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@npub1pfe…e2dm so that’s where all the freedom is coming from

2024-05-09 15:48:57

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@npub1pfe…e2dm yes finally

2024-05-09 15:11:31

I’m gonna have a relaxed pre-PyCon time if I don’t have a talk thought past Hynek.
Greetings from desperately editing an overdue video, agonizing over PyPI releases before PyCon, and a huge project at work on top. At least it’s a public holiday today. 🙈

2024-05-05 20:17:11

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@npub1pfe…e2dm if you’re old enough to cringe, it’s time for a colonoscopy

2024-05-05 20:14:24

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@npub1pfe…e2dm finger glyph

2024-05-05 17:14:06

Doom is an action RPG https://youtu.be/GuyImR_dI6g

2024-04-28 15:06:38

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@npub1pfe…e2dm turns out, it was a copy/paste accident and it’s… just… 5,500 words. 😵‍💫 recoding is 45 minutes long so there's no way this big boy is gonna land under 20 minutes 😭

2024-04-28 08:29:51

After rensent-paying for while and after learning about another upcoming price hike, I’ve canceled my Netflix account after almost a decade. It doesn’t deliver even close to the value I’ve been paying and they were so happy with themselves on the latest earnings call, I just don’t want them to see another dollar from me. 😳

2024-04-28 06:04:16

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@npub1pfe…e2dm hope you’re proud of yourself
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/347/333/028/384/278/original/aed58d9b1e7e3a8c.jpeg

2024-04-27 04:59:56

Looks like I’m not the only one who woke up to a heart attack thanks to a locked Apple ID with forced password reset. 😌

2024-04-25 16:50:56

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Is PublicKeyCredential in the room with us right now?

2024-04-25 16:45:37

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@npub1pfe…e2dm
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/332/867/973/499/104/original/d770f2cb819469fd.jpeg

2024-04-24 05:25:07

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@npub14fs…qegk that’s one way to describe McKinsey, yes

2024-04-24 04:31:56

“While I’m guessing, the timing of the March 2019 core update, along with the traffic increases to previously-suppressed sites, heavily suggests that Google’s response to the Code Yellow was to roll back changes that were made to maintain the quality of search results.”
👩‍🍳👌💋
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

2024-04-20 08:14:39

It’s easy to get used to the grind of daily bad news, but just tangentially participating in an Ukrainian conference hammers home what they’re going thru every day. This is Kyiv, not some contested border town.
Hope everybody is going to be OK at https://fwdays.com/en/event/python-ds-fwdays-2024
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/302/547/195/351/298/original/6d689cc95abae1e2.jpeg

2024-04-11 01:00:27

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@npub1pfe…e2dm :scremcat:

2024-04-11 00:08:00

the OUTLINE to my next video is 3500 words 😭

2024-04-09 16:50:43

Things I’ve been thinking about a lot lately:
- code design pressure (good: testability, bad: coupling business code with validation and/or storage – interestingly there’s been a #PyCascades talk about just that, framed using an obscure German mathematician)
- type state pattern, or: why I don't use state machines. This has nothing to do with static types but a continuation of “make illegal state unrepresentable”. Practically, this means that you’ll rarely see an `| None` in my class fields.

2024-04-08 04:33:14

Very happy to accept a Hugo Award for my science-fiction short story “The Day Python Packaging Made Everyone Happy”!
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/233/728/832/667/422/original/1765cbcf7a3e60f2.jpeg

2024-03-31 15:54:28

Anyone an idea where to beg to get out of GHA CI jail or whatever is keeping me in Queued state forever: https://github.com/hynek/setup-cached-uv/actions

2024-03-30 20:01:50

Gentlepeople. You realize that neither Jia Tan, nor Jigar Kumar, nor Hans Jansen are actual people, right!?
Given the time zone of activity, sophistication (high), and time frame (long), it’s pretty obvious this has been a CCP team effort and all names are just sock puppets.

2024-03-30 05:59:29

I know nobody wants to admit it, but security shit shows like heartbleed, log4shell, or xzgate are kinda exciting times to live thru. 🤓
Also I’m afraid it’s the only way to prove the problems we’ve been droning about for years are real and not made up by greedy maintainers.

2024-03-27 08:12:11

It took 30 years, but people finally figured it out.
https://studio8502.ca/@mos_8502/112163938197300707

2024-03-21 06:09:02

Seeing HashiCorp & Redis unravelling is painful but exactly what the end of free money does to corporate FOSS – no matter what promises were made before. Systems do what systems do. Let’s brace ourselves, this is just the beginning. https://mstdn.social/@msw/112130308202090850

2024-03-20 12:26:12

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@npub15ml…2w4s ah gosh thanks I wish I had asked earlier :)

2024-03-20 08:35:02

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@npub1pfe…e2dm As said: It’s not the first time I’ve encountered the situation where software keeps working but setup is broken.

2024-03-20 07:51:36

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Everything. Installer finishes, ScanSnap Home starts, asks for notifications privileges, but has no window. The toolbar icon has everything greyed out. No way to add a scanner. SSH can only be force quit. Tried reinstalling 3x.
This might be the sadly all too common case, where if you managed to set it up 5 years ago, you’re OK but if you want to set it up today you’re SOL. Which opens the question: are you using SSH or the old, deprecated one that will stop working by EOY?

2024-03-20 07:23:24

@npub15ml…2w4s this is a bit from the left field, but I’ve noticed the Volume block behind Peak/RMS in your Audio Hijack setup. Mind telling me what it is for? The docs are a bit thin but it seems that in that particular constellation it can only be used to *lower* the volume or am I missing something?

2024-03-20 07:07:46

As I’m preparing to send back the ScanSnap iX100 because its software is trash that doesn’t work and wrecked havoc on my Mac – any paperless nerds that can recommend a scanner for quick and easy A4 scans? I’m currently using my phone with MS Lens (and Prizmo before) but I don’t quite like the scans come out and I don’t enjoy the ceremony of detecting edges etc.

2024-03-18 07:51:31

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@npub1pfe…e2dm > “let me know when my public address changes”
That’s easy! Apps that ship a Chrome (= all of them) fail with ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED.

2024-03-13 08:20:20

The one thing that I can’t wrap my mind around is how the “AI is gonna replace programmers” crowd reconciles:
1. The objective fact that most code is garbage,
2. and the idea that a probabilistic model trained on said code will ever spit out something that is anywhere close to a capable developer. (1/3)

2024-03-09 06:48:27

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@npub1svs…p66u Hmm what I found weird is that my second reply is context-free in my TL. I mean ppl can see it’s 2/2 but it looks like a screwed up thread back on Twitter. 😅 I guess what I want is a different level of privacy where that post is hidden in the TL but visible if someone clicks into the thread but that’s more of a Mastodon thing than a Mona thing…

2024-03-09 06:20:44

As y’all might’ve noticed: I’ve just used @npub1svs…p66u ‘s auto-thread function for the first time. The splitting worked great, but it would be nice, if the @ s could be preserved across the thread. 🤔

2024-03-04 07:22:32

holy shit 1,000 views under 18 hours thank you everyone! 💜 💜 💜
(still mostly external traffic, first video took a week, second one almost 4 days) https://mastodon.social/@hynek/112032110534973167