I gave 42 years to this thing, and the thing changed into something I’m not sure I recognise anymore. Not worse, necessarily. Just different. And different in a way that challenges the identity I built around it and doesn’t satisfy in the way it did. #AI #LLM #softwaredevelopment
https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/
I gave 42 years to this thing, and the thing changed into something I’m not sure I recognise anymore. Not worse, necessarily. Just different. And different in a way that challenges the identity I built around it and doesn’t satisfy in the way it did. #AI #LLM #softwaredevelopment
https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/the_thing_i_loved_has_changed/
We’re pleased to highlight an article from the latest edition of the FreeBSD Journal. In “printf(“Hello, srcmgr\n”);”, Mark Johnston introduces the Source Management (srcmgr) team and the role it plays in supporting FreeBSD source development.
Read the article:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/printfhello-srcmgrn/
#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #Community
We’re pleased to highlight an article from the latest edition of the FreeBSD Journal. In “printf(“Hello, srcmgr\n”);”, Mark Johnston introduces the Source Management (srcmgr) team and the role it plays in supporting FreeBSD source development.
Read the article:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/printfhello-srcmgrn/
#FreeBSD #FreeBSDJournal #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #Community
Later today @claresudbery talks to us about building reliable software with the help of large language models. Remember to sign up before the event so you don't miss the beginning!
https://dddlondon.com/events/going-back-to-basics-key-to-ai-coding/
Monday 9th February
7pm GMT | 8pm CET | 11am PST | 2pm EST | 12.30am IST (Tue 10th)
You can find information about all our upcoming events on the DDD London website.
#dddLondon #ddd #software #AI #LLMs #softwareDevelopment #softwareArchitecture #softwareDesign
Later today @claresudbery talks to us about building reliable software with the help of large language models. Remember to sign up before the event so you don't miss the beginning!
https://dddlondon.com/events/going-back-to-basics-key-to-ai-coding/
Monday 9th February
7pm GMT | 8pm CET | 11am PST | 2pm EST | 12.30am IST (Tue 10th)
You can find information about all our upcoming events on the DDD London website.
#dddLondon #ddd #software #AI #LLMs #softwareDevelopment #softwareArchitecture #softwareDesign
On 7 February 2010 at 19:51 SAST, I wrote the following on my Facebook profile: "Playing around with the Twitter API. Testing to see if I can update my Twitter status programmatically from my C# application."
Those were the days. When Twitter's API was free and open and anyone could use it without restrictions or applying for permission or anything. And there were a plethora of Twitter clients for all sorts of platforms, as well as little apps to do specific things.
And then Elon Musk happened... Well, to be fair, they started locking it down long before Elon Musk. But Elon Musk hammered the final nail.
But a free, open, unrestricted API, along with the GARGANTUAN number of clients out there, is one of the things that drew me to Mastodon. And I've written a few Mastodon bots myself. It's the good old days. :-)
On 7 February 2010 at 19:51 SAST, I wrote the following on my Facebook profile: "Playing around with the Twitter API. Testing to see if I can update my Twitter status programmatically from my C# application."
Those were the days. When Twitter's API was free and open and anyone could use it without restrictions or applying for permission or anything. And there were a plethora of Twitter clients for all sorts of platforms, as well as little apps to do specific things.
And then Elon Musk happened... Well, to be fair, they started locking it down long before Elon Musk. But Elon Musk hammered the final nail.
But a free, open, unrestricted API, along with the GARGANTUAN number of clients out there, is one of the things that drew me to Mastodon. And I've written a few Mastodon bots myself. It's the good old days. :-)
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/
Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work/
I'm a software developer with 40 years' professional experience, lucky enough to be considering early retirement. I love writing code and don't want to stop. I'm keen to give something back and contribute to one or more open source projects.
The questions are, to what shall I contribute, and how do I get started?
My skills are mainly C++, having spent much of the past decade programmatically dismantling and reassembling Microsoft Office files. I'm quite happy to learn Rust or Go, but don't really like webby front-endy ux stuff.
Any suggestions for a worthy project to which I could contribute? Please boost if you can.
#SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #SoftwareDev #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
La Craft Letter n°9 est parue !
Dans cet extrait de ma veille technologique, je parle de Ruby, de Git, de créer des applis en ligne de commande avec Python, des recommandations d'un ancien de chez Google, d'amélioration des logs, d'outils pour le développement d'API, et bien d'autres sujets encore...
https://www.craftletter.fr/lettre-ndeg9-02-fevrier-2026.html
Bonne lecture !
