Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

@jonn

@jasongorman

That's why you iterate. I have no idea what the implementation will look like, so I start with some test. Often a guiding test. It teaches me about the API I might want. As I expand the code and tests I rearrange it all frequently as I learn.

Type driven development is also cool but I think mostly complementary to tests.

@jonn @faassen And how do you know you need those types?

LLMs are a near-perfect rentier technology. The cost of training them to the point where they're even marginally useful is so prohibitive that only people with very deep pockets can do it. The goal then is to make us all reliant on them, by shoehorning them into as many products as possible.

And it doesn't matter whether or not we actually need them if products won't work without them.

Wow. I follow news about Free and open source software quite a bit – but where do I learn that a movie made with @Blender actually won a freaking Golden Globe!?

On @europeanspodcast!

Congratulations to the creators of the movie Flow – and to all contributors to Blender throughout the years, who made this possible! What an achievement!

Here's an interview with the director, with focus on the use of Blender https://www.fastcompany.com/91232740/flow-movie-turned-a-4-million-budget-into-an-animated-work-of-art

#FOSS #animation #Blender #GoldenGlobes

Jan 14, 1914: On this date Selahattin Ülkümen born. A Muslim Turkish official who helped Jews escape the Holocaust. While Consul General of Rhodes, he saved ~50 Jews of the 2000 living on the island. (1/2)

#WW2 #Resistance #Turkey #Muslim #Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selahattin_%C3%9Clk%C3%BCmen

ISO 8601: YYYY-MM-DD

git blame, but it tells you who reviewed the code instead

on the perils of being named after a month

me: i’ve single-handedly written software used by tens of millions of people, you can see it right over at github.com/april

prospective employers: sorry, but unfortunately you did poorly in a high-stress 40-minute coding exercise, writing code with no time to think about how to solve a problem you’ve never seen before, in a terrible dev environment, while someone stares at you the whole time

Why I deleted my social media accounts (and why you should too)

"[...] Social media platforms have turned lowering moral standards into an Olympic sport. And boy, are they winning. Sure, companies need to make money. That’s fair. But when they use every psychological trick in the book to keep you doom-scrolling for hours, it’s time to ask some questions. [...]

https://asylumsquare.com/backstage/2025-01-12/why-i-deleted-my-social-media-accounts

#elonmusk #musk #zuckerberg #trump #meta #x

My experience with moving my book records from Goodreads to #Bookwyrm might have been bad (still have to sort out that chaos), but moving my pictures from Instagram to #Pixelfed was... flawless. As far as I can tell. Anyway, https://metapixl.com/laumapret now has pictures from my previous years of instagramming as well. But I am still quite lazy with picture-gramming my life.

Šovakar fotogēniskais, kamēr nav nokusis.

Coronavirus found in samples from 96% of flights

If you believe it's now safe to fly without a protective mask, you might want to think again. New research shows the COVID-19 virus has been found on nearly every flight tested.

https://airspothealth.com/a/blog/coronavirus-found-in-samples-from-96-of-flights?s=09

WARNING--RANT!!! 😡

Before the US election I was so looking forward to never seeing that ugly f- face on a newspaper, magazine, or social media, now his freaking mug is everywhere in Canadian news and is threatening our coutry!

I will NEVER forgive those non-voting and the third party protest and MAGA US voters.

Thank you all from spreading your effing misery to the rest of the world you selfish S.O B-s!!

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

@CynAq @futurebird

I highly recommend doing this - a solar system walk 👇.
I did it with my kids when they were young, and it left a permanent impression… on me. The distances are so vast and the bits of matter so tiny.
Should be part of every elementary school astronomy class.

==Training Lesson==
INVESTIGATION NARRATIVE: SSH Kill la Killed 🧵

My job is to solve the Weird Problems as the Final escalation tier. I do this with generalist knowledge and practical experience.

New InfoSec/IT entrants often ask what this looks like in practice. Follow below.