Chris

Dare mighty things. Staff Software Engineer at Binti. Ruby/Rails enjoyer. he/him/his

2025-06-16

Jumping back into learning Nix as I want to use NixOS for my homelab. I had a brief brush with Nix via nix-darwin back in 2020 in the pre-Flakes era. I loved the declarative nature of Nix, but it definitely had rough edges. I’m hoping Flakes will make things smoother this time around.

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2025-06-14

A photo that I snapped an hour ago of the San Francisco #NoKings protest. I estimate about 150,000 people in total.

View down Dolores Street
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Indivisible ❌👑indivisibleteam
2025-06-14

From sea to shining sea, millions of Americans are taking to the streets to reject Trump’s authoritarianism.

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)atax1a@infosec.exchange
2025-06-13

cloudflare is a net negative on the internet even before you get to the fascism

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Hayley Question-Markbarrowofdirt@barrowof.gay
2025-06-11
Orange writing on a black background. The writing says "You cannot shut down your computer while enemies are nearby."
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Mike McQuaidmikemcquaid
2025-06-10

"I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things."

Douglas Adams predicted some of the knee-jerk negative reactions to LLMs.

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2025-06-09

Apple's Spotlight updates are trying to Sherlock Raycast

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)atax1a@infosec.exchange
2025-06-05

there exists an entire class of programmer for whom the goal of programming is not to solve a problem, but to write code

golang is for that person

github copilot is for that person

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Richard SchneemanSchneems@ruby.social
2025-06-05

I hate that Facebook and Elon ruined the terms “meta” and “X” in casual (text) conversation.

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Star Trek Minus Contextnocontexttrek
2025-06-05
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Captain Picard, a bald guy in a red uniform, is sitting on the bridge in his smooth puffy leather captain's chair and pondering with hand resting on chin. Caption reads, "Everyone still looks uncomfortable."
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2025-06-04

“AI” coding chatbot funded by Microsoft were Actually Indians

London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence

osnews.com/story/142488/ai-cod

#ClownCar

2025-06-03

You’ve heard of DRY. Now get a load of WET (Write Everything [at least] Twice)

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2025-06-03
Work struggles... (Cat starting to meow then stops) When you're about to ask a question at work but then you remember it will just become one of your responsibilities to research the answer
2025-06-01

Pretty strongly consider a UNAS Pro, now that I have Ubiquiti for my networking. I wanted a NAS for “just storage”, since I wanted to separate compute. This seems to fit the bill, is rack mounted, and doesn’t break the $1k mark (sans drive).

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Star Trek Minus Contextnocontexttrek
2025-06-01
Star Trek The Animated series scene. 80s style cartoon here, not Pixar. Dr. McCoy, or 'Bones' as he is known amongst friendlies, is sitting at a conference type table, leaning forward and emphatically saying something. Closed caption reads,"INCREASING TIREDNESS, STEADILY DECREASING EFFICIENCY"
2025-05-28

If your AI recruiting emails don’t even sign off as if they were coming from an actual recruiter, you have 0% chance hearing back from me.

2025-05-27

Is it possible to create middleware for @honeybadger? For example, I want to tag every exception with a code owner based on the originating file path. Searching “middleware” didn’t turn up anything in the docs /cc @wood

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2025-05-27

Boomers signing their texts like:

Thank you
Ryan

I know who it is because I’ve got you on my phone as a contact!

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nate berkopecnateberkopec
2025-05-26

AI codegen is programming's replication crisis.

"How are _you_ not as productive as this AI? It generates 10 PRs in 30 minutes for $20 of tokens, you take 10x as long and cost 10x as much"

We have no real productivity measure. What is "maintainable"? What is "clean"?

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2025-05-26

The cloud is just someone else's computer. Specifically, Bill's.

Pokemon first gen art of using "Bill's PC"

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