Most days I doomscroll fediverse

Yep. Same. When I worked at an office, my coworkers and I would play ping pong a lot.

Also, I would work on my own software projects. This has the advantage that it looks like you’re doing work work.

Or… go off into a corner of the office and play some games on Steam.

Take long walks. I used to be able to kill about half an hour walking around my old office park. Do more laps…

Drive somewhere kinda far for lunch.

Grind leetcode. Doesn’t hurt to stay sharp.

Yeah, I’m sure. It’s not something I would do frequently. My work had us on beefy desktops. But, I was totally fine with letting find+parallel+grep run for 30 minutes in the background while I searched docs or messaged people on slack. Depending on your team, getting a response from slack could easily take 24 hours so. Eh.

The other thing I liked to do is directly edit the libraries in the monorepo! No need to figure out how hack some random decency manager. You have the code! Just edit and build!

On the other hand, using ordinary tools like find and grep are exactly what I like about monorepos! Yes, they may take a while, but at least I know I’ll find a file or code that I’m looking for!

With multi-repos I’m constantly searching, but not finding where a particular piece of code comes from. Yes, it’s from library X, but where there heck does that live? Now I really can’t use ordinary tools. I have to rely on coworkers, docs, or GitLab to search for where a piece of code is actually defined.

AI coding tools definitely helpful with boilerplate code

They’re really not. Just because they generated a starter template for you doesn’t mean you actually needed all of that mountain of slop. My coworker recently did a presentation where he generated a starter project for a Go project and most of it was shit and just not necessary. People assume you need mountains of boilerplate, but you may not need that. (Worse, AI is cementing bad practices at work.)

But also, assuming your project does need to generate a ton of boilerplate, should you really be going to the casino and rolling for a fresh mountain of slop that is hopefully correct? We can already generate code: snippets (in your editor), templates (like cloning a template repo), and generators (like create-react-app) already exist. Aaand these are deterministic, debuggable, and fixable.

Have they tried coding a UI in a native library instead of the holy HTML CSS JS trifecta? It’s usually fairly miserable and usually extremely non-customizable by comparison.

🙋‍♂️ I have. Exactly because Electron = bloat. Granted it was just a small side project that I spent like a month or so building. I wanted to learn GTK4, Adwaita, GNOME Blueprints, and Vala.

I personally didn’t think it was too miserable (again small project, not a ton of specialized needs). However, I 10000% completely agree with the “extremely non-customizable by comparison”. I can totally see why companies don’t want to look like a generic OS app. Getting the Bitwarden app to look like Bitwarden on Linux seems like it would be waaay harder and more time consuming than just reusing their existing HTML, CSS, and JS codebase. At least in my month of messing with GTK, it seems like desktop UIs have wwwwaaaaayyyyyyy less control over the UI than webapps do, at least by default. I’m guessing you can write more Vala to get a more custom UI in GTK, but again seems like waaaaayy more work for something highly custom.

By the end, I thought: Electron = bloat, but also Electron = apps existing at all.

People: don’t bother to check if hardware is supported by Linux

Linux: 🤷 Aaah… yeah, I don’t support that… Sorrie? 🤷

People: leenuts suxxx!!!

Even “generating boilerplate” isn’t a good use case for AI. My coworker gave a presentation on how he used AI to “generate boilerplate” for a Go project and like 90% of the mountain of slop he generated was just not necessary. There’s a snuck premise here that you need to generate a mountains of boilerplate, but that’s not always the case. AI is cementing bad practices at my company.

Yep, I’ve noticed the people who have to use AI the most are usually the most noob people on the team. Reviewing the mountain of slop code they post is aggravating. Honestly, I don’t even review it anymore. Fuck it. If you’re not gonna take the time to write something good, I’m not gonna take the time to give you an honest review.

They’ll reap what they sow. More bugs, more shit.

I started using Claude Code myself. I got kind of obsessed with it.

Over the last several months, the GitHub username with the most merged PRs in Bun’s repo is now a Claude Code bot. We have it set up in our internal Discord and we mostly use it to help fix bugs. It opens PRs with tests that fail in the earlier system-installed version of Bun before the fix and pass in the fixed debug build of Bun. It responds to review comments. It does the whole thing.

Seems like they’ve bought into the hype.

Ah, fuck.

Hardware

• AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
• GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
• Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
• 64GB ECC RAM
• Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
• Intel Arc B580 GPU
• Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
• Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU

OS

• Fedora

execute doesn’t mean to start, it means to stop…

No?

First Known Use 14th century, in the meaning “to carry (something) out fully : to put (something) completely into effect”

• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/execute#h1

39% of the submissions were at least partially written by AI

That’s better than my class. I taught CS101 last year, code not papers. 90%+ of the homework was done with AI. There was literally just 1 person who would turn in unique code. Everyone else would turn in ChatGPT code.

I adapted by making the homework worth very little of the grade and moving the bulk of the grade to in-class paper and pencil exams.

I just started donating to GNOME, Guix, and LogSeq. I wish more people used OpenCollective. Sometimes I see orgs there, but I’m not sure if they actually use that account…

What’s IPTV and is it related to this?

How the heck did you install Seafile!? I spent a whole day trying to get it to work, but there are so many moving parts and proxies behind proxies behind proxies. I managed to get the UI to load, but other parts of the app didn’t work. I want to like it, but it seems pretty complicated to install… 😢

Interesting! I didn’t know about: https://sonoff.tech/en-us/products/sonoff-dongle-max-zigbee-thread-poe-dongle-dongle-m

I currently have my ZBT-1 connected to my server way off in the corner of the house, which is obviously not great. I was hoping one day to move to a more central location… Maybe the Sonoff dongle would help with that? 🤔

For cases where it sounds like another letter, why not just use that one?

In Spanish, words that use k instead of c tend to come from “other” languages, like Greek, Arabic, Japanese, or Russian.

https://www.rae.es/dpd/k

Aparece en palabras procedentes de otras lenguas en las que se ha buscado respetar la ortografía originaria, o en voces transcritas de lenguas que emplean alfabetos o sistemas de escritura distintos del nuestro, como el griego, el árabe, el japonés o el ruso

Whoa, surprised this is coming from The Verge. Is it really the year of the Linux desktop now??

Frigate + Reolink (or actually Frigate-approved cams)