can we stop this

can this stop

Happy Friday!

I wish there were programming interviews that are purely about language design.

C++ is complex because it doesn't lie about the complexity of the world.

Security and reliability successfully ends up becoming job #1 when you start promoting people for their work on security and reliability.

How easy it is for startups to attract candidates who need visa sponsorship lately because they no longer have to compete against large companies in terms of compensation and opportunity. This is a generational shift. What a plot twist. twitter.com/deedydas/statu…

Infrastructure as code is complex because infrastructure is complex. You have two choices: automation or abstraction.

The best environments in software engineering are the ones you can continuously ask why something works the way it does until you get to the bare instructions. All the innovation comes from that exploration and knowledge.

PSA: Amazon / Google have paused green cards for immigrants.

Companies have to notify workers laid off in the past 6mo before filing a PERM for foreign workers, a key step to filing an I-140 for your green card. Without this, you cannot renew your H-1B beyond 6yrs.

Got to give it to the GitHub team.

While most 'AI developer tools' are aiming for a workflow that takes a spec and (much later) generates code (with no developer input): GitHub created a developer-driven, AI-assisted, workflow.

The developer is in control, the full cycle:

🚨A few minutes ago, we accidentally onboarded a lot more people to Copilot Workspace than we meant to 😬

We have to revert that to keep CW running as we scale up gradually. We're keeping everyone's place in line, just undoing the most recent batch of invites.

The key to high productivity: having aligned stakeholders
The key to low productivity: having to align stakeholders

golang is the unscented candle of programming languages

A Copilot Workspace anecdote. We use Terraform to manage our infra for CW, but none of us on the team knew Terraform, so we used CW to generate the Terraform for our initial setup. It wasn’t perfect but it got us started. Probably 80% of our Terraform was written by CW.

Has someone created materials around “fundamentals of ML for AI Engineers”, not focused on building models but things like evaluations, error analysis, etc

Maybe something already exists? I don’t want to do it lol - looking for a resource I can share with people

“Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2” by rsc. #golang
go.dev/blog/randv2

The reality we live in (if you want the best efficiency) ATM🙃

It feels exciting that I'm about to become a first generation farmer soon. Hard to believe but I don't think we had any farmers in my family in the last 150+ years.

Unpopular opinion: There hasn't been a single no/low-code platform that has stood the test of time.

I unironically love this. github.com/borgo-lang/bor…