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Loses some credibility with this footnote; https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-publi... > I suspect the hum obsession has something to do with LLMs “awareness” t…

Wait no longer; https://www.polyplay.xyz/CPC_1

same for alpine ( https://alpineapp.email/ )

A better article (featuring the same Getty stock photo!) at Scientific American, that clarifies that this research was looking at better materials for bandages and dressings: https…

> But that's not what a Clojure dev would do. Apparently I and my fellow Clojure devs aren't real Clojure devs. Or perhaps you mean "true" clojure developers, or "good" clojure dev…

The dynamic typing and "everything is a map" can be a PITA. At the moment I'm working on a codebase that has I/O to JSON APIs, Avro schemas and postgres databases. That means that …

I didn't mean FAANG companies - these days I work for a boring 500 person SaaS company (outside London) and we have at least 50-100 engineers at £100k+, excluding equity. I get a l…

> 100k jobs aren't that common in software in the UK They really are, if you're prepared to work for $BIGCO

I am a (UK) cyclist, and I pay both road taxes and fuel taxes. (For the car that I also own, to be clear)

SBT is awful. I've never used Gradle, but if SBT is saner then I'm worried. This blogpost is a bit old, but still on-target: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html

Funnily enough my memory of trying to implement the DSM-CC specs is that they are broadly equivalent to a denial-of-service attack on your brain

Anecdotally I've heard of people getting discounts from the dealer by buying on finance, then asserting the right to cancel within 14 days* and paying cash instead. AIUI the dealer…

And here was me expecting an article about https://firebrick.co.uk/

I should have added that I've had similar experiences with (old school, untyped) python codebases - absent the esoteric programmers, which is not a small difference - although with…

Ah clojure. It's all fun and games until five years down the line, you've had 100% dev churn, and you have a 100kloc codebase that nobody understands, full of functions that don't …

Oh wow, I'd forgotten all about that! It felt like science fiction when I got that working.

> what could amount to a basic human error That's the point - if the C-level could go to prison then you'd find that mysteriously there were multiple overlapping systems of control…