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unfunco

1,950 karma · joined November 25, 2013

Ahoy! I'm Morris, I work as a senior service delivery engineer at GitHub.

Previously, I consulted as a platform engineer at LEGO, served as a technical design lead at British Airways, worked as a software engineer at Vitsœ, and later as a platform engineer at Tumelo.

I live in Mid Wales with my two orange cats, David and Norman.

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unfunco··on A faster way to calculate the day of the week
There was this[0] famous answer on University Challenge, but it's a pretty simple calculation.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dh7COSiB7g

unfunco··on Beware Management Consultants
That's why mums go to Iceland.
unfunco··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Yes, the tall Peter Dinklage.
unfunco··on Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Only tangentially related, but I'm convinced Comic Sans is the best font option available in Slack, and everyone should try it.
unfunco··on Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
I've spent some time thinking about it, and I respectfully disagree.

I don't think a `--sort` flag is a failure of composability, the producer understands image size semantics better than the sort command, you can either bake everything into sort, making it an all encompassing command or you can simplify the previous step with a sort flag.

Your original powershell command is way more verbose and complicated, and maybe that's the price to pay for composability, but I'd rather just use the `--sort` flag and not spend hours or days coming up with some other undocumented and undiscovered way of doing it, the answer is right there ready to be used.

I think my point is that it's a violation of the UNIX principle of doing one thing really well, but I don't think that is a violation of composability.

unfunco··on Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

    $ podman image ls --all --sort=size
…or was the point more about doing it in a pipeline?
unfunco··on Swift Package Index joins Apple
Working on an idea after it has been Sherlocked is a bold choice.
unfunco··on Claude Fable 5
I tried running a simple security review on a Terraform module I made and after some thinking, it responded:

> ● The model returned no content because the response was blocked by content filtering.

> Blocked? We are performing a defensive security review on a Terraform module I made, what's blocked by content filtering? This is a legitimate use-case.

> ● The model returned no content because the response was blocked by content filtering.

A waste of money. I'm not going to just hope that the model returns a response, I'm already for paying for wrong responses, I'm not going to pay for no response, especially when I'm paying per token.

unfunco··on David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
That's an uneducated opinion rather than an unpopular opinion.
unfunco··on David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
I'll never forget the disgust amongst me and my friends when we found out that American television had replaced Attenborough's documentary voice with Oprah fucking Winfrey. Cultural vandalism.
unfunco··on What British people mean when they say 'sorry'
Aren't holidays brilliant? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgMgkl-gRxk
unfunco··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
Don't hallucinate!
unfunco··on OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
You're paying way too much for water.
unfunco··on NASA Force
I'm saying people at NASA may want to skew the results for Space Force, not Trump.
unfunco··on NASA Force
I think it's called NASA Force to screw with the search results for Space Force, similar to Boris Johnson saying his hobby was building toy buses, in order to try and reduce the relevancy of the Brexit bus.
unfunco··on macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses
Are the Apple-owned app windows inconsistent too? I see some inconsistencies but it's generally 3rd party apps mixed with Apple's apps.
unfunco··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
Dario said in an interview with CBS that they're not against fully autonomous weapons but their technology is there yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU&t=17m47s
unfunco··on OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network
I cancelled and deleted my account and I got an email immediately with a pro-rata refund. You can get that money back.
unfunco··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
There's no way you're reviewing 20kloc a day unless all you're doing is the Sandi Metz squint test.
unfunco··on We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM
I think the O means order of magnitude. It looks like Big O notation, but O(10) would collapse to O(1) and OP is not talking about efficiency anyway.
unfunco··on Move tests to closed source repo
If it was a joke (the test suite issue), then it was a really shit joke. It reads more like backtracking, I don't think _you_ should feel any embarrassment.
unfunco··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
…and more from Backdrop.

    Hi Daniel, I found your GitHub profile while searching for anthropic projects, and got your email from your profile.

    I'm part of an online program for builders called Backdrop Build, and I think that program would be a great fit given what you are building. We have a track for builders in AI like you, it's fully online/remote and costs nothing to participate. It also works if you have a day job, it's light on time and perfect for side projects!
And then another after I marked the first one as spam and ignored it.

    Checking in one last time to see if you have any questions about the program or the application. If it's not for you, all good - just ignore the email because I won't be pinging you again :)

   Joey from Backdrop
Both companies have guaranteed that I won't use their services nor procure them for any organisation I work for.
unfunco··on Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
I also had unsolicited spam from Vincent Jiang of Aden, another YC company.

    Hi Daniel,

    I just came across your profile on social media and wondered if you'd be interested in joining our Discord community for AI agent development. Currently, we see that agents break, loop, get lost, hallucinate, and cost a fortune, and therefore built a space where developers can share challenges and insights.
unfunco··on Writing code is cheap now
Computer programming is cheap. Software engineering is expensive.
unfunco··on Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents
…and you can get almost identical features by simply installing the GitHub app inside Slack, and then asking Copilot to work on something, this should take < 5m to set up for any organisation using Slack and GitHub.
unfunco··on Vouch
People with very little to no skill in software development are spending hundreds of dollars on tokens to fix things for clout, will an extra dollar barrier really slow things down noticeably?
unfunco··on Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
They didn't build a browser from scratch.
unfunco··on SEC obtains final consent judgments against former FTX and Alameda executives
> Not sure what he would gain from that.

What? It's a bribe, he gains money. He doesn't care about pissing anyone off, he's (probably) not running for reelection, he cares about money, it's really that simple.

unfunco··on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
He was head of the crown prosecution service and knighted in 2014.
unfunco··on Show HN: Rails UI
I think you missed a trick not naming it Railwind UI.
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