Profile avatar
zellyn.com
He/Him. Programmer. Square. Former YouTuber. Vaguely South African. ≡𝐺𝑂 Born 331.12 ppm CO₂ hachyderm.io/@zellyn
85 posts 83 followers 46 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 17 Comments 33

Did you know? Each AWS account has the real digit-numbered Availability Zones (use2-az1, use2-az2) shuffled and turned into letter-named AZs (us-east-2a, us-east-2b) When you set up NLBs moving traffic between subnets in different accounts, the real AZs need to match Guess how I know that? 🤦

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

@pfrazee.com Really loved hearing you on Oxide and other podcasts. Have y'all considered a system for labellers and prioritization algos where someone contributes an algo as a WASM blob, y'all run it on your centralized hardware, and users pay a very small monthly fee to use it, which you split?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

I'm deeply sympathetic to most critiques of AI, its uses, its likely misuse, and the entitled tech-bro jackass CEOs who want us to believe their Thoughtful Concerns are somehow firewalled from their desire to get a gajillion dollars in funding. But let's lay a couple of _dumb_ criticisms to rest? 🧵

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I guess I asked for that for being a smartass… (Responding to a post about how Brian blocks anyone who replies to random threads with "Here's what ChatGPT says" with "Here's what Claude says" and a screenshot of Claude responding to his post — yes, I'm 13 😂) Sadly, I actually liked his posts…

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Is someone collecting a list of concrete, human-level harms caused by the current political turbulence? Like, people that suffered due to freezing funding for dialysis? It's going to be easy for the overwhelm to bury things over time, but a giant scroll would make a great attack ad.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Possibly unpopular opinion: All the Go error checking improvement proposals are going to be worse than the original `try` one that the Go Team backed away from, and they should just refloat that one again after everyone has gotten more used to seeing equivalents in Rust, Zig, etc.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

It is impossible to discuss Go on Hacker News without endlessly re-litigating whether Go is a terrible language, and whether it ignores decades of language research, and whether Rob Pike's quote is terrible and whether Rust is better. For the love of god people, just go use Rust and leave us alone!

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

@swtch.com you might be interested in this… zellyn.com/2022/01/gopi...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments

My new LLM test:

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

You know, those CEOs of multi-billion dollar AI companies make some very cogent points about how the US government should stifle their competition with more export controls.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I'm almost maxed out on Schadenfreude… …nope. Nope. There's always room for more. Did you know Sam Altman has a car that cost the same amount as training DeepSeek?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I continue to find JD Vance way more scary than Trump. Since we live in a terrible timeline, I fully expect Trump to die in office.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

@rhg.dev just coming back to Elm for the first time in a few months — I worked through your YouTube videos from start to finish. Now I'm trying to decide whether to use my final code… or elm.land — is there a succinct comparison somewhere? elm.land looks pretty similar to where the videos ended…

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

What is it about assertion and testing libraries that brings out the absolute worst in programming languages? I'll take Go's brutal clarity in tests any day over the custom abomination—dragged from the DSL Dark Ages of 2005—you've abused your language's infix+block+no-parens support into allowing

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Perhaps I've spent too much of my career in Foundational teams doing long, painful migrations, or perhaps it's just programming in general, but my favorite programming quote is by Macbeth: I am in blood Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more Returning were as tedious as go o’er

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment