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One day, I'll be good at producing quality software and will have intelligent things to say about it

It's not about delivering lines of code and commits. It's about delivering value

Spent hours trying to get a self-signed cert working locally - then mkcert solved it in 5 mins https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

"We have found while Rust mitigates kernel vulnerabilities, it is beyond Rust's capability to fully eliminate them; what is more, if not handled properly, its safety assurance even costs the developers dearly in terms of both runtime overhead and development efforts." https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc24/presentation/li-hongyu

Fun chart. Labour vote totals 2001-2024. Corbyn losing got more votes than Starmer winning

Generate audio from text - lots of voice options https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/

"If there is an escape that escape will be used" Christine Lagarde

Wouldn't surprise me if this is what the West's interest in Gaza is really all about:

"It has been speculated that one of the reasons behind Israel’s desire to eliminate Hamas from the Gaza Strip and completely control the Palestinian enclave is to give itself the chance to better explore a dramatic economic opportunity [...] The idea is to cut a canal through the Israeli-controlled Negev Desert from the tip of the Gulf of Aqaba — the eastern arm of the Red Sea that juts into Israel’s southern tip and south-western Jordan — to the Eastern Mediterranean coast, thus creating an alternative to the Egyptian-controlled Suez Canal"

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/ben-gurion-canal-suez-israel-9021520/

I wonder if anyone questioned the original dependency choice in this situation. Given the colossal effort they've had to make to switch to a different dependency - the switch itself and all the devs learning the new way - it seems to me that a different approach at the start could have potentially saved lots of time. https://slack.engineering/balancing-old-tricks-with-new-feats-ai-powered-conversion-from-enzyme-to-react-testing-library-at-slack/

Sounds about right:

https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worst

While I was proud of it, there was suddenly a problem when I talked to my manager about it. “While I understand how complex this was, when it comes to performance reviews, this code looks trivial. It looks too easy, too simple. I would recommend writing an implementation doc of this module just so we can demonstrate that this was actually quite complex.”

This guy seems good if you want to understand how LLMs work: https://m.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos