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katafrakt.bsky.social
⚗️ Just another #ElixirLang dev 👉 he/him 🔗 https://katafrakt.me 🥌 curling in my free time
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I realized something recently, which is that we're building AI tools completely backwards. While I was aware that there's some de-skilling happening already, I finally clicked a bunch of pieces together and decided to write this to talk about how we can do *better* hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-bu...

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okay, I think I might be missing something

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A things that irks me a bit (read: a lot) is reading statements like: we love functional programming, because the type system allows us to model our domain so much better. So you love FP or types? Because, you know, you can have static types without FP and you can have FP without static types.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Those 15 years ago I was quite sure that Mercurial would win against git. I don't remember why, but I really thought it was better. Well...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Nice spike on Wikipedia servers after the pope was elected.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The Problem with “Vibe Coding” | Dylan Beattie #ai #aicode #vibecoding

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Why it's called a "sitemap" when it's just a list of items, no linking, no distance-like relations?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

when the doctor takes your tech stack into account while prescribing you meds

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

so they're mycoblogging

submitted 28 days ago • 449 comments

even though this is a super exciting release, im gonna be a downer for a second,, right now, thousands are protesting in london because the supreme court ruled that the legal definition of "woman" will never include trans women they cannot erase us. #TransRightsAreHumanRights 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Quite interesting. Full story here: www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comme...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

running git blame to check who wrote this particularly convoluted piece of code

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

👊 TARIFF 🔥 - The GREATEST, most TREMENDOUS Python package that makes importing great again! pypi.org/project/tari...

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LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

submitted 37 days ago • 31 comments

When war crimes go unanswered, and handshakes with smiles replace consequences, the message is clear: kill more — we allow it.

submitted 36 days ago • 28 comments

I wonder if anyone has ever successfully migrated primary keys from UUIDv4 to UUIDv7. I mean existing data, millions of rows with foreign keys and shit. Sounds insane, but maybe it's not that much insane? Asking for a friend, of course.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I pushed a bunch of changes to Fey yesterday, including some breaking renames based on early feedback. github.com/katafrakt/fe... #ElixirLang

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Petition to ban one of "update"/"upgrade" words in all CLI apps, so I can stop picking the wrong one every effin' time.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

play stupid games, win stupid prizes

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

"adding a feature shouldn’t feel like defusing a bomb" is a tagline that definitely speaks to me

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