2024-08-15
toot by https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz
mastodon.social/@dabeaz/112965770921558964The video in that last boost might be one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Relinked here: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hdJQkn8rtA>
One gem I really liked: "We shouldn't worry too much, too early, about language details. Otherwise we don't program, but just code lots of details."
2024-07-10
AppCleaner
freemacsoft.net/appcleanerAppCleaner is a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall unwanted apps.
Installing an application distributes many files throughout your System using space of your Hard Drive unnecessarily.
AppCleaner finds all these small files and safely deletes them.
Simply drop an application onto the AppCleaner window. It will find for the related files and you can delete them by clicking the delete button.
2024-07-08
toot by https://agora.echelon.pl/users/kravietz
agora.echelon.pl/objects/5e5e7000-01a7-48bc-861e-3f5809ae2624Few things piss me off more than a huge, multi-billion IT corporation that suddenly sends me an email regarding an open-source project I’ve been running since 1990’s that I’ve recently shut down due to absolute lack of interest from its users… which happened to be telcos and large IT companies. Here’s what I replied:
Thank you for your email. As it’s often the case with open-source projects, their value to organisations is only noticed and appreciated when they go offline. I have maintained
pam_tacplus
for the last years and it had the call for sponsorship prominently displayed for most of the time specifically because it’s a legacy project that is difficult to maintain. None of the commercial companies that clearly do rely on it ever demonstrated any interest in even nominal donations, so it was archived. While it’s notable someone finally noticed it, I’m not the person to discuss any future development any more.
I did work in large companies and I do understand the sick logic that drives them, when it’s easier to get approval for annual spending of $50k for some office decorations than $100 for a mission-critical project which happens to be open-source and can be used for free for some time.
But it’s possible. If you’re working in such roles, please make every effort to get this $100 because otherwise it will become your responsibility to develop and maintain code that you always got for free.
2024-07-07
toot by https://mastodon.social/@bruces
mastodon.social/@bruces/1127435749888937772024-06-20
AltTab - Windows alt-tab on macOS
alt-tab-macos.netlify.appAltTab brings the power of Windows’s “alt-tab” window switcher to macOS.
2024-06-16
toot by https://mastodon.social/@raiderrobert
mastodon.social/@raiderrobert/112628790827053439<https:tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations>
2024-06-13
your multi-year roadmaps must deliver wins at a consistent cadence
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40660897
One thing really worth addressing from the post that I don't think author accepted, and I see this a lot with engineers:
> "That did introduce tension for our team because we were supposed to be taking experimental bets for the platform’s future. These bets couldn’t be baked into product without hacks or shortcuts in the typical quarter as was the expectation."
If I can pump one learning into engineers' and PMs' heads it's this: intermediate deliverables are not optional no matter how cutting-edge your team is.
You will never succeed if your pitch to leadership is "give us a budget for the next N years and expect no shippable products until the end of N years". Even if you get approved somehow at the beginning, there's a 99.5% chance your team/project will be killed before you get to N years.
Again, once again for the audience in the back: there is no such thing as a multi-year project without convincing, meaningful intermediate deliverables.
To clarify, that doesn't mean "don't have multi-year roadmaps", it means "your multi-year roadmaps must deliver wins at a consistent cadence".
Understanding this will carry you a lot further in the industry.
As a fairly cutting-edge R&D team part of your job is to figure out what slice of this is shippable (and worth shipping). If you're coming up empty you are not ready to pitch this to execs.
2024-06-11
toot by https://mastodon.social/@songadaymann
mastodon.social/@songadaymann/112595166710295691
i'm getting too old for this stuff
(WWDC24 recap song)
2024-05-23
toot by https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker
mstdn.ca/@atomicker/112491416367610422Title: Moon at Magome (1930)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
<https:www.japan-guide.com/e/e6076.html> [#ShinHanga](https://mstdn.ca/tags/ShinHanga) [#Art](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Art) [#HasuiKawase](https://mstdn.ca/tags/HasuiKawase) [#Showa](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Showa) [#Spring](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Spring) [#FullMoon](https://mstdn.ca/tags/FullMoon) [#Moon](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Moon) [#Magome](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Magome) [#KisoValley](https://mstdn.ca/tags/KisoValley) [#Nagano](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Nagano) [#Japan](https://mstdn.ca/tags/Japan)
2024-05-08
toot by https://chaos.social/@lindworm
chaos.social/@lindworm/112407333083152134Eine Google suche kostet im extremen bis zu 0.0003 kWh oder auch 1.08kJ. Eine ChatGPT-4 Anfrage in dem Bereich von 0.001-0.01 kWh(3.6-36 kJ)
Also ist das 3-36 mal mehr um eine Antwort zu bekommen, die mit Glück richtig ist und mit Sicherheit nicht vollständig.
und alle so "This is awesome!"
ich komme da nicht mehr mit. Echt nicht.
2024-04-15
toot by https://mastodon.social/@harshil
mastodon.social/@harshil/112273758345114562I'm losing my mind watching this. The people involved need to either be given a massive Netflix contract or institutionalised <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jky5ZXI0axc>
2024-01-25
toot by https://mastodon.social/@tonofcrates
mastodon.social/@tonofcrates/111818089750113223I wrote some ideas for how to actually make HTML documents a viable replacement for PDFs.
<https:willcrichton.net/notes/portable-epubs/>
2024-01-02
toot by https://hachyderm.io/@mgattozzi
hachyderm.io/@mgattozzi/111686715833183505Git is a frustratingly useful tool that has many lesser known features that really should be on by default. Today I wrote about one of them: zdiff3. It makes merge conflicts easier to work through and frees you up for more important things.
<https:ductile.systems/zdiff3>
2023-12-18
toot by https://fosstodon.org/@soller
fosstodon.org/@soller/111602942350402876This is cosmic-term, a very WIP project that takes the alacritty_terminal crate providing the majority of terminal code but rewrites the renderer to support additional features such as bidirectional text and ligatures. It will support both software and GPU rendering, and will have additional UI sugar provided by libcosmic as they are implemented.
<https:github.com/pop-os/cosmic-term/>
2023-12-02
toot by https://hachyderm.io/@tankgrrl
hachyderm.io/@tankgrrl/111509080712091057
This guy is a man after my own heart. [#DroidSlavery](https://hachyderm.io/tags/DroidSlavery)
<https:www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2UrB7zepo>
2023-11-29
toot by https://mastodon.social/@leebennett
mastodon.social/@leebennett/111494222938094440[@gedeonm](https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm) Having just watched Showtime’s “Billions” show and saw the storyline of Ax’s failure to organize a bank, I’d wager Apple would have a very rough time of it, if they even wanted to.
2023-11-08
toot by https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk
social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/111376521786331642do any of you use micro (a new-ish command line text editor)? do you like it?
I've been looking for a command line editor to recommend to friends who don't like vim/emacs and I'm curious if this is a good option. It looks like a big improvement on nano but I haven't used it much.
<https:micro-editor.github.io/>
2023-04-23
toot by https://macaw.social/@adamstein
macaw.social/@adamstein/110246515400697981[@lethain](https://mastodon.social/@lethain) Schedule 1:1s with everyone in your org. If that's not practical, have office hours where people can sign up for a 1:1. And publish your 90-day plan.
Every time I get a new manager or leader I freak out a little about how they're going to change things. And you come with a bit of celebrity status.
The plan makes it clear what's going to happen in the next 3 months and 1:1s give people a chance to know you as a person not the famous author.
2023-04-20
toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon
fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/110232289637822527I presented a three hour tutorial at [#PyConUS](https://fedi.simonwillison.net/tags/PyConUS) yesterday - "Data analysis with SQLite and Python"
Wrote a few notes about that here: <https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/20/pycon-2023/> - and I've shared the full 9-page workshop handout as well: <https://sqlite-tutorial-pycon-2023.readthedocs.io/>
2023-04-05
toot by https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon
fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/110144185463887790So many highlights in this paper "Eight Things to Know about Large Language Models" by Sam Bowman
If you've not been staying entirely on top of modern LLM research this might be a great place to start catching up - it's succinct, readable and full of fascinating details