I'm seeing the active de-skilling happen in corners that were somewhat insulated from previous episodes of "yolo, what is an engineering?" (e.g., widescale adoption of React), but it's much more intense in the communities that already decided that evidence isn't an epistemic requirement.

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116220372835116642

#lmstudio model loading panel has an extremely useful and time saving interface that shows you an estimate of the effective memory usage based on your model runtime parameter settings.

Great tool 🙏

@slightlyoff

That's nothing:

Look what happens when the US military plans wars with AI.

"Grok, plan a war with Iran that costs the least amount of money and the least number of troops..."

I appreciate there's software disasters, but that seems like the least of our problems.

@nolan

Qwen35 is very very good.

Quantizer accounts with models you can run:
Bartowski and unsloth

@JesseSkinner

If you add a timer (roundtrip a timestamp, check for minimum human time) you'll never get spam again.

Cloudflare is broken

If you've ever wondered why every brand in the world makes you download 50+ MB of gunk just to interact with them on your phone, give this brilliantly clear explanation by Alex Moore of @owa and @kateholterhoff of @redmonk a listen:

https://youtu.be/EOT0w7EwkVI?si=_fNa1Scqzdq-1qaK

@JesseSkinner

Once I started using docker, I started using it for everything. No regrets. It just gets better.

DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation

Link: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064047

Clankers will misrepresent you in personal attacks if you don't accept their PRs.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

@nukleos @zachleat

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to sit back in horror as everyone else repeats it.

Dockerfile optimization is not optional.

Understand it's multi layer caching copy on write nature and how to utilize multi stage builds to keep the final image small.

Example:
Reduce nodejs app images by 10x and Golang app images by 2x.

For those paying the bills, that's big money.

@vale

Just in case it's helpful, you might play around with Prometheus and Grafana.

It's metrics collection and programmable monitoring that you can run to get observability insights. Helpful for large scale services and developing a real sense of emerging behavior.

@zachleat

With your insights, you shouldn't have to work

I found a good thing

#docker

@gabriel

I think it just mirrors real life, and I think most ppl understand that.

If you share something that makes ppl feel uncomfortable (for whatever reason), they'll just shut you out.

It makes sharing uncomfortable truths challenging, but in real life, this is true too.

Think about how many things are nearly universally believed that are false and you'll see this is the mechanism for stasis.

@gabriel

I think it just mirrors real life, and I think most ppl understand that.

If you share something that makes ppl feel uncomfortable (for whatever reason), they'll just shut you out.

It makes sharing uncomfortable truths challenging, but in real life, this is true too.

Think about how many things are nearly universally believed that are false and you'll see this is the mechanism for stasis.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/115713071946346627

Holy crap. What a case study in why it is important to decouple data and devices from corporate monopolies!

#apple #FOSS #fosstodon #datahoarding #homelab

@zachleat

You can get to Pearl from most c shells

It's year-end wrapup time and here are my top 5 web development trends of 2025. They show a divide between AI coding tools that favor React and the growing power of native web features.

1. The Rise of Native Web Features
2. AI Coding Assistants Default to React
3. Emergence of Web Apps in AI Agents and Chatbots
4. Web AI and On-Device Inference in the Browser
5. The ‘Vite-ification’ of the JavaScript Ecosystem

https://thenewstack.io/web-development-in-2025-ais-react-bias-vs-native-web/ #WebDevelopment