We're quickly approaching MegaMan Battle Network except more dystopian

NSA in shambles
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Code reviews are antiquated now.

In 40 years I'm pretty sure we're going to find out the ram/GPU shortage is from 3 letter agency and DOD purchasing

I always had the dream of coding on my phone, I thought it would involve a whole keyboard, monitor and a virtualized Linux setup. Instead it's just a telegram chat where I post "The build is broke again, please fix it" over and over again.

Finally finished my 27 page google sheet that automatically handles EOY accounting for LetterBlend and it has every single penny accounted for, including foreign exchange. I can't believe people still pay Intuit money 🙄

I'm hoping to pick up a beefy mac studio soon to run full bf16, but even my MBP with only 48Gb of ram is impressive.

I'm only able to run a Q3 quant of Qwen3-Coder-Next, but it's actually able to make really solid progress on issues and feature requests in my codebase. It definitely requires more hand-holding than something like Claude, but keeping all my code local is huge.

It was really telling in the Decoder interview when Nilay asked the question amounting to "But wouldn't turning your neighborhood into a panoptican suck?" and he seemed to weigh living in a surveillance state as less of a problem than "crime"

I didn't even file a ticket 😎

For LetterBlend, I had a customer email "support" with a feature request and was beyond excited when I had it implemented the next day, noting companies just say "we'll submit a ticket for future changes (that never happen)"

Crazy how things happen when you are both "support" and "the eng team"

It's a shame that we ended on React being the primary library for web dev when AI became popular. Now there is too much inertia in the training data for any new frameworks to ever takeoff

Everyone else: AI-first, agentic, infinitely scalable applications.

Me: I made nicer letters for your Cricut to draw 🥺

Sometimes I hope that the youtube PM who decided that after 10 search results you will get completely unrelated videos is having a bad day.

"Embrace AI tools or be left behind" says tech visionary who is selling AI tools

Gonna tell my kids this was the first version of chatGPT

But do you have, the box?

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Does anyone know what the tariff rates are for Gradle imports?

Poor in money, rich in doomscrolling

How to spot an android developer

And please don't make commits take 30 seconds to run.........

Git hooks (pre-commit, pre-push) should be a nice-to-have for your coding and commit pipeline.

They should absolutely not be an integral step of your process. Don't try to run code-gen or enforce formatting in hooks. Hooks are optional, CI is for enforcement.

I really can't get over that people think government debt is the same as normal person debt and is therefore inherently bad.

Super bummed that a $500 machine has this severe of a problem right out of the box. I like having an open and rootable machine, but I think it's ridiculous that printing a reliable circle requires a full teardown of the machine.

It can also lead to a lot of problems with wall lines not connecting and much weaker prints.

There are a few fixes that involve taking some compressive springs that pre-load the bearing out at the expense of more slop.

Otherwise you're looking at a full teardown of gantry to clean/replace parts.

The consensus online is that there is too much friction on the x-axis bearing slide, and I can confirm that the static friction on mine is really high. This causes any X-moves to flatten out at the very beginning, resulting in non uniform circles.

Picked up a #Creality K1C 3d printer over the long weekend. The first few days it was great but then I noticed that circles were squashed into ovals. Even worse was that the squashed direction depended on the rotational direction of the line path.

Turns out this is a relatively common problem: 🧵

It also makes it way more underwhelming when you find that "custom firmware" is just some hacky python scripts running on startup

I'm probably late to the party, but one of my favorite things I've found recently is that 'firmware' for almost every device is now just a Linux OS. It’s so much easier to tinker with hardware when you have a full OS to build on top of.

Putting formatting and linters in a pre-commit hook? Straight to jail.

Don't make commits take literal minutes.