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Re-counting the florbs: churn ultimatum Aug 25 2026

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Software Craftsmanship and OPS scripting: a love story Aug 16 2018

Ansible Container: Chronicle of a death foretold Jun 19 2018

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Were you using Xirp for agentic coding? No, I created my own tool. I switched to HumanLayer last week. How often do you switch? About once per week. I just installed Yolocode!

So then he hands me a USB stick and says "It's got Quake III Arena on it. Let's play". I said "OK Boomer". The last time anyone said "OK Boomer" was seven years ago. What? "Millennial" and "cringe" are also used interchangeably now.

What the hell is this? Every timestamp is tiny. It's the number of seconds since 0001-01-01. Hey. Are you sending us shit data? Are you validating your inputs? Fuck. With type unsafety comes psychological unsafety.

It's just hilarious that they are calling it a System 1 model. It's not precise. Kahneman only used that as an expository device, not an actual structural claim. The funny part is calling it Jev, as in William Stanley Jevons. The dude thought sunspots caused recessions. Now that's thinking fast.