horsellama

shameless plug to something similar (albeit less polished) I’ve been hobbying on for Fantozzi and PeepShow (still wip)

https://asdfasdf.fyi

I only remember things I understand/care about. Until then there’s no way for me to retain anything.

Therefore I double down on practice the concepts and test my understanding.

I gave it a serious try for a side project. Entirely vibed from system design to backend, db, frontend and all sort of ci/cd hacks.

I ended up binning the fully vibed version and started again with a design of my own. This mostly because the final product wasn’t really usable.

Then I heavily modified the backend.

In the last days I finished a major refactoring of the frontend.

I’m now in the situation where the project is 20% vibe coded.

If I were to start again it would possibly be less than that. Just because in the process I learnt as much react I need to do things myself.

This was using a mix of gpt4, claude, gemini, lovable…basically anything with a free tier to squeeze free tokens from

homebrew. I dream of something quick and simple to use as uv is now for python ecosystem

OP may want to test this setup here [0]. This is a bit more challenging than replacing a google query with a LLMs pipeline

[0] https://code.golf/mandelbrot#assembly

pregnancy is no joke, you don’t undergo that experience just to see if you like having a baby for one year

oh yes, they do

but I meant the actual sticker on the keycap (very silly requirement, I know)

finally a vendor that allows the customization of the super key

and also ships with nvidia gpu

I might have found a new laptop…

Julia is fun when used with the “array” mindset. It can also get very terse [0]

[0] https://code.golf/wiki/langs/julia

what’s the performance of the vm? can you use it for medium heavy tasks?

OP, are you my manager by any chance? /s

This resonates with me a lot, I can try to show you my perspective.

Been there 10+ yrs, started as “graduate” and never officially got a promotion but I’m now considered principal. This is mostly because I own responsibilities for a big chunk of the core technology. I used to put in 60+ hrs/week and implemented the shiny new products we’re basing our revenue. Salary wise I’m in a mid tier (lower bound) and thanks to our flat hierarchy I don’t have anywhere to go on my career path. More senior engineers to learn from left and we don’t hire juniors to mentor.

I used to be a 10x engineer, delivering 10x. I still am but now I work 1/10th to deliver 1. Pay isn’t great but it’s amazing for how much I work. I think I have golden handcuffs after all. You know, life gets in the way and all of a sudden pushing configs for a saas becomes way less important (and interesting) than, say, spending time with family.

Add all those useless bureaucratic wrapper around any process (I spend 50% of my standing desk time on meetings) and the infinite friction against any new proposal from my side. It’s like they want to kill instead of fostering innovation.

Sorry for the rant, but while looking for a way to sac the guy, you better look also at your organization.

ps the market is horrible at the moment, I’m not leaving just because it’s not that straightforward

you’d need a training set covering all the useful cases. Something that we don’t have even now for mainstream languages

A small (not tiny) apartment with a tiny (that yes) garden/outdoor space in Tokyo. Murakami describes something similar in “The Wind Up Bird Chronicle” [0]. I want a small kitchen corner and a spacious and luminous living room for reading and listening to music. As minimal as possible.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11275.The_Wind_Up_Bird_C...

the jobs requiring cuda experience are most of the times because torch is not good enough

In random order: fixing bugs that bother me; networking; learn

this.

Having JC focusing on, say, writing a performant OSS CUDA replacement could be bigger than any of the last 20 announcements from openai/goggle/deepmind/etc

just give a go at vibe coding a moderately complex system and you’ll realize that this is only hype, nothing concrete

it’s a shame that this “thing” has now monopolized tech discussions

The Ergo: https://www.zsa.io/the-ergo

fwiw, on mac/ios you can put your obsidian vault inside icloud directory and have a “free” cross-device sync feature.

same

but clicking on the hamburger menu it shows a link to “Motions”, which seems to be the first level/demo of the game

Epistory https://store.steampowered.com/app/398850/Epistory__Typing_C...

What about Grok 18+ models?

sounds about right, I was pulling all nighters and had no weekends, holidays, etc

However, some courses were “easier” and didn’t require such effort.

I used them to keep track of time in a broad sense. Once the candle was on, my mind wouldn’t care about the time and could focus on the course work. I was offloading the time tracking to the candle (if that makes any sense).

It was also handy to know when preparation was done. Once depleted the candles any doubt about my preparation would be relegated into “impostor syndrome” symptom.

talking about focus hacks…when at uni I had odd studying hours, often mixing day and night without any clear distinction.

What kept me grounded were scented candles. IKEA used to sell those with an expected burning time. My favs were the 40hrs ones [0]. My exam preparation was 1 candle for revising notes, 1 candle to go through relevant books and 1-2 candles to do exercises (exp for calculus and similar courses). Add 1 more for the final revision. I was constantly lighting on and off those.

[0] https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/jaemlik-scented-candle-in-glass...

+1 for legos

those bricks helped me out of burnout towards the end of my studies (14 exams in 3 months…yes, you can do that in Italy)

now I keep new unopened boxes (+ my childhood stash) ready for future dark days

A clone of gifglobe[0] but for Italian movies/tv series. Very important stuff

[0] https://gifglobe.com/

I just ask to code golf fizzbuzz in a not very popular (golfing wise) language

this is interesting (imo) because I, in the first instance, don’t know the best/right answer, but I can tell if what I get is wrong

zed

I mostly use python and I’m pretty happy with uv[1]. It replaces pyenv and poetry as package manager at system and project level.

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/uv