10 things software developers should learn about learning newsletter.getdx.com/p/software-dev… < I remember Andrew Clay Shafer 雷启理 mentioning the importance of 'learning how to learn' and Abi Noda has a good summary here of a recent paper on the topic

If it was easy, it would already be done.

community exists to the extent we act communally

live to give

thank you

You can’t understand a culture without speaking the language: once you speak a language at a native level, you notice your personality changes depending on the language you use, the way you perceive the world changes too, because your brain has more ways to interpret information.

The rebranding of linear algebra as 'artificial intelligence' may be the most successful marketing campaign of all time.

the software supply chain is a socio-technical system directly connecting someone’s feelings to every bit of code

My TL pre-Elon used to be tech news and leftist engagement bait, now it’s pop culture and right wing engagement bait.

I have no idea if the techies have stopped using Twitter or the algorithm has simply been tweaked to favor what the owner prefers seeing.

Either way, it sucks.

what do we want?

'INNOVATION!'

when do we want it?

'after a business case justifies investing in the specific strategy'

If you don’t know how the work actually gets done, your proposed improvements are unlikely to have the effects that you expect.

The question of whether Machines Can Think...is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
-- Edsgar Dijkstra

in other news, we’ll never know why women don’t feel welcome in tech

Two of the biggest source of incidents I’ve seen are:
1. Legacy code
2. Migrating away from legacy code

The conclusion is clear: you should only write non-legacy code

# on shortification of 'learning'

There are a lot of videos on YouTube/TikTok etc. that give the appearance of education, but if you look closely they are really just entertainment. This is very convenient for everyone involved : the people watching enjoy thinking they are…

There is a lot of terrible customer service, and then there is CenturyLink, having a laughably absurd time with CenturyLinkBiz right now

generative AI will reconfigure value creation, all this and also ops, software eating software

the game is the game

The most successful robots ever created are dishwashers and washing machines. They have sensors, actuators, and control and thus are robots.

Fight me.

Realistic spaghetti consumption is one of the Hard Problems™ of ai generation