Matt Luker
@codingmonk
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Christian, Husband, Father, Super Geek. I write software for a living. Any opinions are my own (for better or worse) š @š§µs under thecodingmonk
Pacific Northwest, USA
Joined July 2007
Listen, I donāt know how to say this, but here it goes: you arenāt going to get or keep people without radically changing how the government does software and IT projects. The mess you are in is of your own making. I did civil a bit back, and it was very, very bad. You arenāt
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Thereās a whole ābig tech SWEs donāt know/do real engineeringā vibe happening. This is bullcrap. Yes, they donāt know the toolkits or weird edge cases you do because you rolled it all yourself. But they can easily pick it upājust like you can pick up their specialized knowledge
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It's like macOS Tahoe took all the worst and goofiest UI elements from the web and browsers and made it the OS default. Maybe I will switch back to Linux after 25 years š”
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I see the feed alg is broken and now all I see are people replying with no context š¤£
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My corporate laptop just force upgraded to macOS Tahoe and Iām just so mad at Apple right now. This is fundamentally a step backwards in usability all to pointless change āchromeā. Iām sure Iāll get used to the dumb eventually, but I shouldnāt have to.
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Me, working with the distilled wisdom and knowledge of the internetāi.e. Claudeātrying to finish some unit tests. Claude: I canāt get these tests to work, itās just easier to delete them ā¦ THINK ABOUT THAT FOLKS. Trained on the internet and gobs of code and programming
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šÆ this. Everything was plain text and easy to understand. We all rant about systemd because even though it solved some problems it made everything worse to manage and more opaque.
Sad to see a generation of Linux users not understanding a pre-systemd world. Shell scripts are what made UNIX. Please, return to them. It was a more user friendly world.
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Oh man, I am so excited about @rookisaacman for NASA! Itās like everything flipped in the space of a week! And Elon wants to build orbital energy and a moon base! This timeline sorta rocks!
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ā94 was my first real paying gig. Man, I hated Foxpro. Still amazing everything it powered and the telephony boards we hooked it up to š
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Gotta confess, after years of backend work, Iām enjoying typescript. Itās not as bad as I feared it would be š¤£
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Ok, Iāll play ā¦ but Iām gonna do ranges because ā¦ come on, man. And Iām old š 1983-89: Variants of BASIC 1989-93: Pascal 1994: dBase/FoxPro 1995-96: Perl 1996-2009: Java 2009-2013: Perl (lol) 2013-2018: Java 2018-2021: Kotlin (so much fun) 2021-2025: Hack š¤£ 2025: Typescript
My main programming language 2007: Visual Basic 6.0 2008: Python 2009: Turbo Pascal 2010: Pascal ABC 2011: C++ 2012: Java 2013: Java 2014: C++ 2015: Kotlin 2016: Haskell 2017: Haskell 2018: Haskell 2019: Haskell 2020: Haskell 2021: Haskell 2022: CoffeeScript 2023: OCaml 2024:
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Remember how Ben Affleck mocked Michael Bay for the whole concept of Bruce needing to bring his oil rig crew to teach the NASA engineers how to do drills and transmissions? Truth stranger than fiction? Life imitating art? Ugh š
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Not to play old fart here, but this was the same issue in the dotcoms. The bust resulted in a reset, but the decade plus of āever dominant tech earningsā from 2012 on undid that.
In the last 48 hours, many people DM'ed me that they actually hate programming. I didn't realize we forced so many people into programming because there were once economic opportunities in this domain. You can't ask people to do an incredible job while they don't feel passionate.
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You canāt convince me that Bose headphone ear muff replacement isnāt a purposeful business model. Iāve had to replace so many over the years, Iād probably have one or two new headsets š
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All I want from this worldline we are all stuck on is for this AI to be named after *this* Harvey
Lawyer friend: āIāve seen the future. Harvey isnāt perfect but has better attention to detail and is more thoughtful than almost any junior person at our firm. Iāve watched it do $100K of associate level work in 10 minutesā
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Oh put another way: just getting things done with AI, while impressive, is Vibing. *Learning* while using AI, even if a little slower or seeming to not āproduce as effectivelyā, is far, far, far more valuable. Using it that way is the true ābicycleā for the mind. Vibing? Ngmi
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Ok, I sorta see it like this with AI: - just use it to search or produce āas-isā? Vibing - asking āwhyā, digging in, working through possible options for āhowā? Something other than āvibingā The amount you āwrite yourselfā doesnāt matter so much as category of usage.
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Geez, I guess we are trying to speed run @nealstephenson ās The Fall? https://t.co/49Dnd1nyvN
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Dear everyone: why the hell are you in us-east-1 and not us-west-2 or us-east-2? Like for realz.
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