Harkens back to https://boredhumans.com/falling_sand.php
Readit News1a527dd5 commented on Oneplus phone update introduces hardware anti-rollback consumerrights.wiki/w/One... · Posted by u/validatori
I look forward to the 1hr+ rant from Louis Rossmann.
I wonder if this will force Apple to open up iMessage.
Sounds a lot like 'parallel construction'.
1a527dd5 commented on 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available letsencrypt.org/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/jaas
Does anyone know when Caddy plans on supporting this?
1a527dd5 commented on I hate GitHub Actions with passion xlii.space/eng/i-hate-git... · Posted by u/xlii
How do you handle persistent state in your actions?
For my actions, the part that takes the longest to run is installing all the dependencies from scratch. I'd like to speed that up but I could never figure it out. All the options I could find for caching deps sounded so complicated.
You don't.
For things like installing deps, you can use GitHub Actions or several third party runners have their own caching capabilities that are more mature than what GHA offers.
1a527dd5 commented on I hate GitHub Actions with passion xlii.space/eng/i-hate-git... · Posted by u/xlii
1. Don't use bash, use a scripting language that is more CI friendly. I strongly prefer pwsh.
2. Don't have logic in your workflows. Workflows should be dumb and simple (KISS) and they should call your scripts.
3. Having standalone scripts will allow you to develop/modify and test locally without having to get caught in a loop of hell.
4. Design your entire CI pipeline for easier debugging, put that print state in, echo out the version of whatever. You don't need it _now_, but your future self will thank you when you do it need it.
5. Consider using third party runners that have better debugging capabilities
1a527dd5 commented on Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well garymarcus.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/7777777phil
A year ago I would have agreed wholeheartedly and I was a self confessed skeptic.
Then Gemini got good (around 2.5?), like I-turned-my-head good. I started to use it every week-ish, not to write code. But more like a tool (as you would a calculator).
More recently Opus 4.5 was released and now I'm using it every day to assist in code. It is regularly helping me take tasks that would have taken 6-12 hours down to 15-30 minutes with some minor prompting and hand holding.
I've not yet reached the point where I feel letting is loose and do the entire PR for me. But it's getting there.
1a527dd5 commented on Local Journalism Is How Democracy Shows Up Close to Home buckscountybeacon.com/202... · Posted by u/mooreds
Rightmove, the property sales website, absolutely destroyed local journalism in the UK. It was written on the wall, but local newspapers had all the local listings for property and other services. A local newspaper was 60%+ of house sales, but that advertising revenue paid for local journalists to sit and read council papers and attend meetings and get people out in the community. Nowadays, local journalism, even from national broadcasters like the BBC is a shadow of its former glory.
Yeah I remember going through those pages as a kid; my local "chronicle" had loads in.
I love Rightmove as a shopper, but it's 2nd-4th order effects have been disastrous.
There have been attempts to unseat Rightmove (e.g. boomin) but it's such a behemoth in it's industry that is tantamount to wanting to unseat Google.
If you get denounced on a popular repo and everyone "inherits" that repo as a source of trust (e.g. think email providers - Google decides you are bad, good luck).
Couple with the fact that usually new contributors take some time to find their feet.
I've only been at this game (SWE) for ~10 years so not a long time. But I can tell you my first few contributions were clumsy and perhaps would have earned my a denouncement.
I'm not sure if I would have contributed to the AWS SDK, Sendgrid, Nunit, New Relic (easily my best experience) and my attempted contribution to Npgsql (easily my worst experience) would have definitely earned me a denouncement.
Concept is good, but I would omit the concept of denouncement entirely.