Notices by heapwolf (heapwolf@fosstodon.org)

using even a single dependency from a package manager should warrant a serious discussion.

in the last 10 years, developer culture has been rapidly accelerating from "code it" to just "install it". it's ikea for coding but worse. nodejs, rust python no one is not guilty here.

any developer who took on a dependency and didn't fully audit the code and all of its dependencies should be instantly fired, and then thrown to the wolves.

what kind of debt are you taking on as an org? for example, what is the cost per audit per release? how many deps does that dep have? and how much cost does that work represent? transient deps also need updates, fixes, and auditing!

unpopular opinion: 80% of people working in software shouldn't be.

If you don't want to sign a 24 month contract, you'll pay ~$600/mo. Thats $456–$537 more per month than a cafe.

Coworking is for office cucks. Don't be an office-cuck.

Work from a cafe, support local businesses and the people working at them.

In fact if you want to have any privacy, or guarantees about the facilities, you need to upgrade to a "private office". Which is a usually a tiny little slice of the floor of an office that has been super subdivided into a thousand little coffins.

Your expectations for being provided some kind of value should have sky-rocketed at this price-point. But co-working isn't quieter, isn't more private, you're never getting that uninterrupted time to focus, the internet isn't better, coffee is worse (usually), and you're bound to the same location.

Let's talk about how dumb #coworking spaces are.

Spaces/Regus is a good example.

$200/mo to go 70-80% of the time. That’s $56–$137 MORE per month than just chilling at a cafe spending $3-6/day. And the cafe has better coffee.

Fil-C already compiles (and makes fully memory-safe) some pretty big projects that have been around for a long time. verifiably memory-safe curl, OpenSSH (both client and server) OpenSSL, zlib, pcre, CPython, SQLite, libcxx, libcxxabi, musl, ICU...

Always bet on #C

"Memory safety" just isn't the argument for Rust anymore. The main argument for rust is now... you just like the rust community lol oh fuck that's funny i'm done here k thx bye.

Do you love the idea of memory safety, but hate #Rust? https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/rusthaters_unite_filc/

What's much harder than any language is clear, critical thinking.

I spend a lot of time reading people's code. And in general, I don't see many programmers who are excellent at clear, critical thinking. I mostly see pattern matching and heuristics.

Programming languages are designed with clear syntax rules and limited vocabulary to reduce ambiguity.

Anyone can learn to program. Programming isn't a high signal for intelligence.

Natural languages — like English or Chinese — are more complex than most programming languages.

They have evolved organically over centuries with tons of irregularities, nuances, and contextual variations.

C++ getting all these safety features makes Rust pretty much irrelevant — https://youtu.be/cu-QQaoSEac?feature=shared

#AWS: Free if you have no customers.
#P2P: Free forever.

So many developers have just resigned to thinking that Cloud costs are just the costs of building software. They say, we’ll deal with the bill when we get it. It’s not my VC money — it’s not my problem.