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𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕kubikpixel@chaos.social
2026-02-15

An average #dev team might cost €70k a month. It's a lot easier to convince teams that spending €1.25m on a big bang rewrite is a bad idea, than complaining that 18 months is too long to spend on such an endeavour.

Indeed I think being completely transparent about costs, P&L and runway radically change people's relationship with their work. But beware, some people think they want this level of visibility and then quit, saying "I just want to write code".

Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome:fosserytech@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-15
2026-02-14

Arborium is AI slopware and should not be trusted: A blog post about my recent experiences trying to make a syntax highlighter work and instead running face first into the horrors

https://ewie.online/posts/20260214-arborium-is-ai-slopw/


#dev #syntax-highlighting #web-dev
2026-02-14

Still using `npm init -y`?

May I introduce you to `npm init --init-type=module --init-license=AGPL-3.0-only -y`?

:awesome:👍 Free software license (makes “open” as in ”open for business” folks squirm)

:awesome:👍 ES modules (because it’s 2026)

#nodeJS #npm #FreeSoftware #AGPL #ECMAScriptModules #JavaScript #web #dev

Alexey Skobkinskobkin@gts.skobk.in
2026-02-14

Блядь, как же мне тяжело в местном чатике Meshtastic общаться с представителями секты "Meshtastic без MQTT".

Вот сегодня мне, например, затирают что то, что нода ретранслирует пакет, который получила из MQTT раньше чем по радиоканалу ретранслирует его сразу, не дожидаясь пока его же копию получит по радио - это плохо.

Я сижу и просто не вывожу понять чем руководствуются эти люди.

Это, получается, надо создавать искусственные задержки и лишний раз засирать память и так ограниченного девайса ради того чтобы на маршруте следования пакета ни в коем случае не поставился флажок передачи через MQTT?

Оно того правда стоит?

А если пакет по радио не дошёл? Сколько нужно ждать копии сидя с пакетом полученным из MQTT в руках?

ПОМОГИТИ 🤦‍♂️

#Meshtastic #log #dev #hardware #soft #firmware #MQTT #radio #people #log #WTF

2026-02-14

A question for more experienced devs: is the rise of CONTRIBUTING.md organic, or is it becoming more popular as a sort of proto-AGENTS.md that allows projects to have some plausible deniability regarding their use of or tolerance for vibecoding tools?

It feels like I almost never saw a CONTRIBUTING.md before a few months ago, but now it’s everywhere, and I’m curious.

#software #dev #foss

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef

What was once a shitpost is now a published addon. Very basic, but works on my machine (and on mobile).

#firefox #dev #software #mobile

La Experimental Newslatterlaexperimental
2026-02-14

Ya esta disponible La Experimental #21

🔧 Servicio de automatización
💻 TUI de análisis de espacio en disco
📚 Curso gratuito de NodeJS
🧑🏻‍💻 Gestión de secretos
🐍 GIL en Python
💾 Análisis de datos con IA
🤖 Skills para agentes IA
🐧 Editor vectorial OpenSource
🌩️ Servicio selfhosted de newsletters
💡 Mapas de estaciones de metro
🎮 Juegos de ingenio diarios

open.substack.com/pub/laexperi

2026-02-14

The 40 days of Lent are typically associated with the days Jesus spent fasting in the desert, resisting the temptation of Satan. It has become a religious tradition in Christian religions to also fast from Ash Wednesday to Easter.

I think it's unfair to the Devil to compare him to AI, as, as the story goes, he gave us free will.

However, to keep in tune with the story, starting this Ash Wednesday (18th Feb, coincidentally my 30th birthday), I will keep a 40 day AI Lent. No AI help, no Claude Code, Copilot, Google AI search.

Meanwhile, I will track the following:

- My satisfaction with software engineering (which has been slumping with AI)
- Mental fatigue/cognitive load (daily journal)
- Learning depth vs breadth (concept understanding tests)
-Number of PRs merged
- Time to complete defined features
- Confidence in released features

#AI #Lent #SoftwareEngineering #Dev

My child will meme template with the devil encouraging honing your craft and Jesus encouraging vibe coding
Diana Islas Ocampo 🏳️‍⚧️hyuchia
2026-02-14

I was today years old when I learned expands $ as variable interpolation in .env files AND auto-responds pings on web sockets.

Nice to know, was having some issues because of this.

2026-02-14

[...] In the long run, we should expect the power of technology to overcome these bottlenecks, in the same way that a river erodes a stone over many years and decades—just as how in the early decades of the twentieth century, the sheer power of what electricity could accomplish gradually overcame the bottlenecks of antiquated factory infrastructure, outdated workflows, and the conservatism of hidebound plant managers.

Why I’m not worried about AI job loss

#dev #ai

2026-02-14

If your interactive program requires network data, please, I beg of you, if you have any humanity at all left in you, do your usability testing on the lowest reasonable global common denominator in this day and age: A 2Mbps packet radio connection *with* other people on the same band.

Desktop *and* mobile. Even if you're not on a cellphone in Syria, you might just be on wifi in a crowded apartment building.

#UX #UI #Accessibility #Dev

Alexey Skobkinskobkin@gts.skobk.in
2026-02-13
2026-02-13

This is annoying. #llm #zai #dev #opencode #mcp #glm5

2026-02-13

I switched to PRO plan on my z.ai coding subscription to try out faster #glm5. So my first comment, it is much slower than 4.7, but overall all z.ai infrastructure today is kind of underperforming - including web interface.

Let me try it more and I will share some more comments.

@dawid btw, what did you mean by huge opencode tokens usage? 🤑

#opencode #zai #llm #agentic #development #dev

The AI for the Charger is very simple right now and rough. Something I want to work more on going forward

#gamedev #indiegame
#coding #dev #indiedev #unreal #madewithunreal #gaming #videogames #gameplay #3d #blender3d #UnreaEngine5 #animation #shader #nature #coding #conceptart #ai

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