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Location: Midwest, USA Remote: Yes, please Willing to relocate: No, but willing to commute within reason Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS, Docker, Podman Résumé/C…

You may have answered your own question. Perhaps centralization is the point as we move closer to the “extinguish” phase of open source as we have known it.

The hubris of mutating spiritual texts as a marketing gimmick is contemptible.

Hi, I’m William Riley-Land. Senior Software Engineer (Individual Contributor) Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS Location: Columbia, MO, United States Remote: only Relocate: no Ré…

Maybe “generic and meaningless” is a better descriptor.

This is gross.

I can’t tell if people just don’t understand how ChatGPT works or if there is another reason they are eager to dehumanize themselves and the rest of us along with them.

Thanks. I learned something. Even if passwords are a weak form of security, they add an extra Ayer that would make it much more difficult for an attacker. They don’t have to be the…

Who would have thought? Eating sand is bad for you…

I had been about to devote some time to learning Go, but definitely won’t be after these latest developments.

This video about how to wash off poison ivy changed my life. The key is that urushiol acts a lot like invisible motor oil in terms of how it sticks to your skin https://www.youtube…

"Hairy rope, don't be a dope"

You can add the Fira ligatures to any font with Ligaturizer. Personally I use it with CMU Typewriter. [1]: https://github.com/ToxicFrog/Ligaturizer

> AI can experience the same rabbit-hole effect as your idiot cousin who has watched too many of the algorithmically suggested videos on Youtube and now believes that aliens conspi…

When I looked into this a little bit, I found Copilot for Business states they do not record any of the info you send them. Though obviously you are still sending out code to a thi…

I suppose this is nit picking, however that is not in the style of a Psalm.

Hey, at least they referenced the (hopefully appropriate) JIRA ticket!

As Chomsky points out, the AIs understand syntax not semantics. Code is all (or almost all) syntax whereas human language has both syntax and meaning. Meaning is not something Chat…

I found Dahl’s approach to packages with Deno very interesting. It decouples package management from the runtime’s tool chain. So a package manager isn’t needed. (Instead a proxy c…

It’s easy. Just try to go twice as far, then you’ll be there after the first iteration. Or keep halving until you reach the Planck length. This length cannot be divided into smalle…