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db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

please software devs, not everyone has a 72 inch Apple maxipad monitor

my life is ⌘ + 0

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i think i might actually have to just fucking write the spec myself if i want to test how it produces code according to a decent spec.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

me:

i will tell you when we're done, get in your lane you gaslighting bag of shit

it:

The user has abruptly ended the design phase with an aggressive statement ("get in your lane you gaslighting bag of shit") and indicated they are finished with the current design discussion.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

This final design successfully integrates the user's requirements

does it?

This specification is complete for the design phase.

no it fucking isn't you gaslighting bag of shit

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

it just makes sloppy mistakes all over the place. good job we're only writing a spec document, eh? 😬

Boosted by dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase"):
whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

one thing that i really dislike about Unix is the zealous adherence to semi-accidental design elements that ends up interfering with the utility of the underlying useful principle

for example:

• early Unix could not run too complex a program due to hardware restrictions, so programs were composed using text streams
• useful underlying principle: designing your applications for composition
• zealous interpretation: your OS should have a toolkit of single-purpose programs communicating over text streams
• design we could have had, but never will: applications that communicate using structured data, simplifying life for both programmers and end users

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

Red and blue.#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #blue #red

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
xgranade@wandering.shop ("Cassandra is only carbon now") wrote:

The latter one is confounding. It's Google, for fuck's sake, search is kind of Their One Job. So why in the hell would the *search* button just disappear?

Ah, because they replaced it with a "Gemini" button.

Now, when I look at Google hardware, I can't just evaluate it on the basis of what it is when I buy it, but what it could turn into when Google's org chart next shuffles around.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
redsad@ohai.social ("captain acab :antifa:") wrote:

this is fine 🔥 :thisisfine: 🔥

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

so my vibe codding apparatus has ways to backpedal to previous state. having fixed the typo and changed it very slightly, it did in fact produce some authentic clojure data.

and holy shit it remembered i put that dijkstra quote about simplicity in its AGENTS.md suddenly

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
nest@infosec.exchange wrote:

it's fascinating how good AI is at solving problems in domains i don't understand. it's almost as if it was somehow linked to my inability to verify the output.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
jmcastagnetto ("Jesus Castagnetto 🇵🇪") wrote:

"Who will maintain the #web when PHP’s veterans retire?"

... A new Perforce report finds PHP's #developer base is aging out faster than it's being replenished — and #AI-generated code may be making the problem worse, not better ...

#PHP #OpenSource #JuniorDevs

https://thenewstack.io/php-web-skills-hiring-age/

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

beautiful stuff it's just generated:

```yaml
# ci_config.lisp (Conceptual file format)

and the body looks like json without the {} at the top

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i mistyped 'clojure' as 'closure' and got back

The user prefers a syntax closer to JSON/YAML ({:key => value}) over pure S-expressions, acknowledging it's more like a closure.

i have a feeling this is going to taint the rest of my session and if i weren't interested in seeing the failure modes, i ought to just start again.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

bear in mind i am on a heavily quantised version of gemma 4 here. clearly to be an acceptable rubber duck does not in fact require proprietary models rented from a large provider.

and it will probably be anti-helpful if you don't know the material very well.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

I want to speak to the manager of storytelling

found at https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:x2muxxe5t25hckf22sk25ocf/post/3mlobs4uq422l

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i will say, if you already know the material, the vibe cod is not a bad rubber duck. i mean it gets things wrong of course, but that's why you have to know the material.

the step from being a good rubber duck to being a good coder is a large one.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Oh Hello Ana - It's 2026 and women are still asked to teach others to think a little bit and not be a prick”

https://ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tech/

> But I was annoyed that in 2024 we still have to teach people how to have basic human kindness, empathy, compassion and just not being a fucking prick. I was annoyed that, once again, a woman did that labour.

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Magical thinking about magical thinking – Hi, I'm Heather Burns”

https://heatherburns.tech/2026/05/13/magical-thinking-about-magical-thinking/

> The first is that on her way out the door, a serving minister essentially regurgitated a private vendor’s sales pitch, a vendor whose years of aggressive marketing and corporate lobbying – not to mention courtship of The Nonce Formerly Known As Prince Andrew – placed them so close to power that their pitch deck was taken as both technical fact and regulatory assurance.

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

The Odyssey looks boring

jwz wrote:

How to radicalize investment bankers against AI: Plunge their ski resorts into darkness for data centers:

The Sierra Nevada tourist hub -- home to ski resorts, lakeside casinos, and roughly 25 to 28 million annual visitors -- is facing an energy crisis with a familiar culprit: the data centers powering the AI boom...
https://jwz.org/b/yk7J

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁!"):
rhett@rogersfam.co ("Rhett Rogers") wrote:

Not sure how many of you will see this, or if this post will go anywhere.

But I’m looking for a job. Have been for a while. I have a good career as an iOS developer and would like to keep making apps. If anyone out there is interested please DM me, look at my linked in, boost this post, etc. Thanks all.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rhett-rogers-5100911a8

#iOSDeveloper #FediHire #USA #Oregon

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange ("abadidea") wrote:

My baby cousin called me in tears because all her accounts have been compromised. We went over possible infection vectors (the “try my game” DM scam etc) and nothing stood out. But then she wondered if they’d gotten a foothold through the Canvas ransom somehow.

Has anyone else heard of students getting their personal accounts popped very recently in a way that might be tied to the Canvas incident?

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
3psboyd ("Matt Boyd") wrote:

Work has been rough. I need to just leave those problems at the door and come back to the real world- ah fuck! I forgot what was happening out here.

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
kourge.net@bsky.brid.gy ("kourge the jafnhár 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115647478978972835

not sure why everyone is boosting this today but I'm sure it's not good, so, FYI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
drdind.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("DrDinD.bsky.social") wrote:

There it is: "I don't think about Americans' financial situation, I don't think about anybody, I think about one thing: we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon." He doesn't care about anyone's economic pain.

Attachments:

• video: ac57e7e5d0cc5480.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org ("AI6YR Ben") wrote:

Whee

"...The climatic shift devastated crops nearly 150 years ago, raising the question of whether a similar disruption could threaten global food security yet again. The strongest El Niño on record from 1877 to 1878 fueled conditions that led to a global famine which killed more than 50 million people across India, China, Brazil and elsewhere. That was 3 to 4 percent of the estimated global population at the time, equal to at least 250 million people if it happened today.

“It was arguably the worst environmental disaster to ever befall humanity,” researchers have written about the event...."

#climate #disaster #climateemergency #famine #hunger

Boosted by glyph ("Glyph"):
luna@pony.social ("luna, friend of eggbug") wrote:

you think you've defeated Columbo and then he hits you with the "just one more thing" and the second health bar pops up

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

New water bottle sticker, got it at the last #CutieFest

#stickers