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I’ve been saying this for years. You can pick up any language in short order if you have a solid understanding of the fundamentals. LLMs make it even easier.

The process of shipping software is analogous to landing a plane. In aviation, a sterile cockpit ensures pilots are focused on the landing and nothing else. When success is on the line, there is no room for error caused by unnecessary conversation.

So maintenance is now called “foundational software hygiene work.”

Moving from Ubuntu to Fedora. The straw that broke the camel’s back: the OS keeps replacing my Firefox deb package with a (broken) snap package, even when I pin the deb package. I won’t tolerate this. I wouldn’t even care if the snap package worked, but it can’t print or respect

if you use Linux and want to get macOS-like fonts, disable hinting and subpixel rendering, and follow this advice: x.com/WadeGrimshire/…

AI writing: perfectly grammatically correct, yet utterly logically uncogent

Surprising how common it is to truncate hashes, a practice that is virtually guaranteed to result in collisions. If a smaller length hash is needed, use an algorithm like 32-bit Murmur3 that can pack a lot into a small number of bits.

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Contributing to Complex Projects by ⁦Mitchell Hashimoto⁩ mitchellh.com/writing/contri…

SQLite is the most underrated tool in the world. I've solved many problems using MySQL/Postgres/Others when a simple SQLite database would have been enough. I've learned my lesson. SQLite is faster. SQLite is easier to use. SQLite scales like crazy. You can't solve everything

“I hear that academia is putting down The Grapes of Wrath. Those writers couldn’t even write The Grapes of Goofy.” —Jim Harrison

Sr. Software Engineer working at a startup

👀Look who stopped by the Jenkins booth?🚀 Thank you socallinuxexpo for an amazing conference 🫶🏻🙇🏻‍♀️

Currently implementing OSC 7 escape sequences in my .zshrc to advise the terminal of the current working directory so that I can open a new tab in Konsole without losing the symlink to my path.

Any resource leak of unknown size should be treated as a P1 issue until its size is known. Then, and only then, can an informed decision be made about whether to prioritize or defer a fix.

The secret to proper font rendering on Linux: disable hinting and subpixel rendering, enable stem darkening, and set the system font to Inter.

Upgraded from DSL to Sonic Internet 10-gigabit fiber and got a massive speed increase. It feels unreal, given that my first internet connection was on a 14.4-kilobit dialup modem.