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Not necessarily…. As with all engineering choices there are tradeoffs involved. There can be both advantages and disadvantages to using AI to build scripts. And more likely than no…

Yes my dobro is a squareneck built by Richard Deneve. It’s tuned to open G, typical for the bluegrass style. I haven’t ventured into lap steel but I have played a little when frien…

I play in a band called Rare Company. We recorded an album last year and have been playing gigs around San Francisco to promote it this year. We play acoustic originals, with a sty…

Sudoku. Wordle is a distant second.

Usually these were the developers who said their code didn’t need tests because it’s obviously correct/too simple to need them. And then their bug causes a crash that needs to be f…

I guess the joke is you can scale a file system or a fish, but can only tune a file system?

Very exciting! Congrats on the release, this will be a huge benefit to all folks building RAG/rerank systems on top of Postgres. Looking forward to testing it out myself.

Seems like an anti-pattern to me to run AI models without user’s consent.

I’ve been using a zenbook for about 8 years now. Hardware and battery are still surprisingly solid, although one of the hinges is starting to fail…

Fiction can reveal a lot of real wisdom if you’re open to receiving it.

I’ve been migrating our services off of Azure slowly for the past couple of years. The last internet facing things remaining are a static assets bucket and an analytics VM running …

The BEAM is an amazing piece of technology. It’s built to scale massive concurrent systems and has great developer ergonomics. I’ve used it with Elixir and it’s really a breath of …

My band is playing a small bluegrass festival this weekend. We’ve been recording an album since last year and are starting the work of promoting it by playing more gigs!

Would we consider the calculator useful if it sometimes told us 2+2=22? Would this at all be considered a sign of creativity or abstract thought?

Nice work, both to the prompter and the promptee!

Nice work Hunter! I’m starting a hardware side project so I’ll definitely be giving the book a read. Hopefully it helps me avoid some of the common electronic pitfalls.

It’s always the year of the linux desktop!

More than 50% voted for not-Trump

Add Intune to the list of bad MS dashboards…

> Spends more time explaining why TypeScript in Svelte is problematic than actually fixing TypeScript in Svelte. Damn, that’s brutal. I mean, I never said I knew how to fix Compone…

Morals aren’t always involved in commercial software development, and likely they never have been in any of your workplaces. However, I think it’s a gross mischaracterization to cl…

I agree with your point in general, but saying one needs to be great at using AI tools gives way too much credit to companies’ ability to identify low performers. Especially in lar…

I’ve been pretty happy with aider. I have it running in a separate tmux window and can switch between it and nvim easily.

This is a very handy postgres extension! We've been using it at my job for a couple years now to generate test datasets for developers. We have a weekly job that restores a prod ba…

It’s been a long time since I used vscode (~5 years) so my experience may be out of date. But I recall the vim plugin missing the quickfix list and :cdo. Also there were quirks wit…