A small hill I will die on: “I could care less” is not right. It is not the same as “I couldn’t care less” (which is correct). In fact, it’s the complete opposite. It simply does not make sense.

pytest is what every other testing framework wants to be when it grows up.

I just realised why my #dlang build times have been so tiny recently: boring OOP and not a template in sight!

Can't help but think this was a missed opportunity to go for a googol

What constitutes good code is always going to be partially subjective but the same goes for attractiveness and yet nearly everyone agrees that Margot Robbie is a 10.

Ah yes, the Python package `mods`, unlike those other Python packages that contain no modules.

ChatGPT o3-mini-high has been useless for me for coding. I give it the problem, it goes "you'll have to do this" with no code in sight. I know that's what I have to do, you're not helping!

After coding for 16 years, I find language years requirement crazy. Learning a new language is super easy once you programmed in 15 languages. And your problem-solving and design skills are reusable.

Claude 4 just refactored my entire codebase in one call. 25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files. It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti. None of it worked. But boy was it beautiful.

Isso aqui é um absurdo. Pode-se não achar a menor graça ou até detestar as piadas de Leo Lins, mas condená-lo à prisão por elas é uma insanidade e um desserviço. Espero que essa decisão completamente descabida seja revertida.

Average male height in Europe, in centimetres

Rest of the world right now:

"asia is amazing, everything is perfect!" - remote worker with 40x local income

I love programming. But nothing gives me more joy than deleting 300 lines of code and replacing it with 20.

Huge W

PSA if you haven't used python in the past 5 years it's a completely new language now - uv solved the package management problems entirely - mypy type checks have become actually useful - cpython is now much faster - polars + fastapi + ruff replaced pandas + flask + black

Everyone I know still calls it Twitter

My new criterion for whether or not someone is a senior engineer is if they've ever used git bisect. It's a low bar, I know, but alas.