For a project I liked I saw that the translation of the UI was only about 1% complete for my native language. I decided to dedicate the weekend to get it above 95%. This was apparently the part that seemed too hard for most to make a dent in, but across several new versions my language is still 100%. I think my groundwork made it easier for some sporadic contributors to get a small bit of dopamine when updating the few new strings in a release to see it hit 100% again.

I’ll try that next time it dies, see if it helps

The server currently runs on 32gig but I was planning on upgrading to 64 or 128gig DDR5. Could go as low as 16 if need be, but the the price is still hurting more than having to reboot 2-4 times a month.

Difference is that vibe coding doesn’t create 20% more CPU usage or 30% more RAM usage because it doesn’t understand the underlying mechanics (or, it could but that is not the important part). LLMs will happily provide you with solutions that consists of plain text password storage, leaking personal information through open APIs, and business crushing vulnerabilities. A sharp developer should be able to catch that, but if you’re reviewing 5000+ line PRs daily that’s been spat out by LLMs it’ll be impossible to catch all failures. And for someone who doesn’t know all those nonfunctional requirements that a business absolutely must have it’ll become a nightmare for the receiver of the code.

So to be clear: For functional requirements LLMs are a bit better but still needs hand holding. For nonfunctional requirements they’re dog shit as that’s the part that more often than not has to explicitly be mentioned. And being able to identify nonfunctional requirements and when they’re not met is the difference between a junior dev and a 10+ year lead.

Slow app? Just add resources. Vulnerable app? Actual compliance and business risk.

Only thing I wish for Christmas is to be able to replace the RAM and mobo in one of my servers. It is failing with a kernel panic about once a week and it is an old DDR3 platform I planned to upgrade back in January. I have isolated the issue to a hardware fault but left without a solution…

What OOP refers to is not “writing code” but “designing the code.” Everyone can write a book. Even I can. It will be a fucking shitty book, because I don’t know how to create suspense, give depth to characters, or any of that stuff. But it’s still a book. Writing code is easy. Writing good code is hard. If you want a program to fetch the current outside temp from an API you could throw together random lines of code that vaguely does what you want that you found on stackoverflow and iterate until it works. Will it catch edge cases? No. Will it output in a pretty format? No. Will it be maintainable? No. Will it be the next Facebook? Hard no. But you did write code.

Writing code is easy. Writing good code is hard. And that is why we have door stoppers called “Clean Code” to help us on our way. You might notice that the “how to code” books aren’t much thicker than a a pamphlet. But if it ever as much as touches on the topic of good code it will make for a door stopper worthy of a nuclear bunker’s entrance.

Christians haven’t exactly been saints either. Let’s not forget the thirty year war, the European wars of religion, or the crusades just to name a few.

In Denmark all the gas stations started to panic during the last gas shortage because the signs only went up to 19.99, so they had to replace them with ones that could show 20 (DKK 20 = €2.67 = $3.07). We’re just about up there again.

I’d still blame Russia for them. A defensive war breeds necessity. You don’t have to prioritise many things above defence before you’ll lose the war.

Oh no that boy’s ball fell down from the paddle!

I see she already went with free McDonald’s for a year.

Based on memory I’d say a ghosting rate of 8/10 for about 60 applications evenly spaced out since Jan 1st in EU. I got 1 (one!) interview this week but despite “genuinely impressive resume, interest, and motivation” they decided to continue with other candidates for round two.

Count in the non-voters and apology is accepted.

Tell that to our ever expanding F-35 fleet :(

Why not a more generic tip of my tongue community like the old *eddit days?

I got a nice Tissot, outside watch enthusiasts it’s only been women commenting on it. Tbf I love the watch and it’s the favourite part of my outfit, so maybe the confidence of wearing it attracts and the watch is merely a “replaceable” conversation starter.

What a rip off.

Some higher end models have a cast iron weights instead.

It still ain’t got dem electrolytes.