Love my city. Seattle rocks!
Building together is hot date material right here!
A few more from views from up high.
Made it to the Smith Tower finally. It is now a favorite place of mine, easily!
If anybody is ever confused about my position on things: 1. I'm very pro-immigration. To the point I'm not supportive of barely a thing about the current model - the broken parts or the working parts. 2. I do not like organization like DHS, ICE, TSA, or most of the low quality, poorly trained, often brutal and fascist oriented Governmental agencies organized around DHS. Most of those organizations pre-Bush were setup independently for a reason, a very specific reason many times to balance their power. Under a single org that doesn't exist - there is no balance as we're seeing now as ICE is turned into a defacto paramilitary arm of the executive branch of the White House that now terrorizes the population of the United States. 3. If a job has me working on DHS, ICE, TSA, or related assets I would resign and go without. I will not support these organizations. I support the people in the Untited States and people all over this planet. I'm pro-Iranian people, anti-Iranian Government, pro-Palestinain and pro-Jewish people, I'm pro-Russian people and anti-Russian Federation, and the list goes on and on and on. I'm against any organization that tries to push overt power over the population for means against the improvement of quality of life of the people. More simply put. Power to the people of these United States, fuck ICE, and may we all survive this tyranny we now are under. May the Ukrainians know peace in their life time. May the Palestinians and Jews know peace. May Iranians know freedom again, and may the tyranny there fall. So yeah, just in case anybody questioned where I stood on this matter, I'm pro people and societal advancement, not this luddite, laggard, backwards moving fascist shit. It NEVER has worked out well of society, even the grumpy couch fucking snowflakes that voted for and pushed for it. That is all. Thanks for your attention! 😑 Just wanted to make sure that was clear.
Do you ever just start cooking at something with scraps in the kitchen and all of a sudden make your new most favorite dish ever? I just did that with a little andouille, zucchini, carrots, chicken broth, elbow pasta, mushrooms, and that’s about it. It looks so boring too, but it is absolutely delicious!
A thought that keeps crossing my mind. Yup, another 🧵. Currently we've got a pretty wide selection of diff tools to compare PRs and all, many of them even built into the repo management systems or sites we use like Github. There are numerous online ones like; https://codeclean.dev/code-diff, https://www.w3docs.com/tools/code-diff/, https://diffcheck.io/, among many others. Most of these are alright for a quick static check between two files. Then there are the standalone installed tools, which I tend to prefer. Also the built in diff tools in VS Code and other IDEs. What I'd like to ask you dear Internetizens, is what tool(s) and workflows do you use to diff check during PR reviews and things like that? I'm curious for a kind of pincer movement approach I'm taking to my own PR reviews. First off, the need to review faster while maintaining effectiveness in catching issues or verifying functionality is huge. How do I, as a developer, hone this skill? The second part is, knowing that the increased rate of PRs and related collateral coming from AI cruft is mounting, I - as well as any of you other humans - will never manage to review all of this cruft coming through! So how do we automate, often via the very AI tooling that is writing the things coming at us - to effectively review and verify PRs to a level of effectiveness, accuracy, and safety that we experienced engineers/devlopers/coders/haxors can manage ourselves? I don't have clear answers on this yet, nor evidence of AI tooling giving PR reviews that are anywhere near as effective or reliable as developers, but I know we've gotta be pretty close in some cases. Github seems to be close to doing this with their reviews via CoPilot (or whatever variant they have running on server) that gets the PR automated and all. Would love to discuss more and will be starting discussions on this in various mediums - so send a response or 50 at me! I'd love to know your thoughts.
Let's talk AI for a few moments. For a lovely 🧵 of thoughts. I'll start with a few of hot takes. 1. If you're not using - for whatever reason - AI tooling like CoPilot, Cursor, Claude, or whatever, you probably could start counting the days until you're irrelevant in the industry. Go ahead and sign your career's death certificate, it's over. 2. If you don't know how to code without AI tooling like CoPilot, Cursor, Claude, or whatever, you're not going to get as far along with those tools as you should be able to get on a day to day basis. 3. For heavily regulated, audited, and tightly controlled industries; think banking, medical, and government related. Aside from already moving at a dramatically slower rate than the rest of the industry, AI is slowing down those companies even more because they can't simply use the tooling without vast and drastic security issues. In turn, these industries have had to lock down themselves and their engineers to prevent usage even more harshly than before - slowing things down even more than the regulation, auditing, and controls had previously put into place. So at this point we're talking about 3 distinctive scenarios that counter each other - somewhat harshly - and prevent increased usage of AI tooling in some situations, cause churn in other situations, and otherwise obfuscate but also bring out greater pains in the industry for the day to day software engineering work that many of us do. This takes bore out the core points of: 1. Developers, ALL developers, if they intend to stay in the field need to get into and figure out how to effectively use AI tools post haste. I wrote about it a bit in the past in response to something Geoffrey Huntley had written. https://compositecode.blog/2025/03/28/staying-in-software-dev-best-be-able-to-just-do-things/ 2. If you aren't familiar, at least at this stage of AI tooling usage, with the underpinning of the languages it has to use that we - the industry - have traditionally used to make web pages, deploy web sites and applications, how infrastructure works in general, you're in for great pain and a dramatically higher rate of cycling through problems with AI tooling. It isn't going to hand hold you if you aren't familiar with the terms, the implementations, and the way code is written and how it works. At this time the AI tooling just mimics that, so if you don't know what "that" is, it makes it almost impossibly to effectively - over time - troubleshoot problems and keep systems running. The "Debug" option is just not enough in most scenarios to take care of a lack of knowledge around the underpinnings - that Comp Sci degree is still going to be very useful for at least a few more years! 3. The heavily regulated industries are going to need more sandboxes, more control, and more divisive segmentations of the LLMs/Gen AI infrastructure that the AI tooling tools use. Numerous big companies are working on that problem (i.e. like Microsoft, which I have other thoughts on and some are critical and harsh, some are lauding their efforts as you might expect). But I digress, got thoughts? Where are you at with the onslaught of AI tooling?
Ov Sulfar, good live, I haven’t had the chance to check em out that much but after seeing them open for Orbit Culture, prioritizing checking them out! 🤘🏻
Alright, who of all of you are going to GopherCon here in Seattle later in the year? (August) https://www.gophercon.com/
Today’s lunch brought to you by Chelan Cafe, part of old Seattle.
If you're a big fan of Nevermore like I am, you should definitely give a listen to Ola's take. He states the elaphant in the room situation - that the great Warrel Dane is no longer with us - and he's got some good things to say. https://youtu.be/uO3BBGwQiF8?si=sk5s6g492cUN9au2
Here he is, Berzan, nailing it on Enemies of Reality! https://youtu.be/Zd4xoOXVGOo?si=Vdmsex1joFOPfIjH
Oh hell yeah, the new singer for Nevermore is INTENSE as he should be! Absolutely spectacular! https://youtu.be/8Hhszw5H4po?si=X19PxagEydaBs_91
Mid-day Ballard visit. Some boom, spice, and a ride to boot.
Listening to Russian Circles and thinking about setting up listening parties as a podcast and trying to figure out how to make it recordable/podcastable. My stereo setup is listed here - https://github.com/Adron/stereo-build For those that join me IRL it is easy. We listen to the music easily, via the speakers, as it was meant to be listened to with full spectrum audio, great sounding bass, great sounding mids and highs, just in ever grand and glorious sound! But what about the podcast notion? I can figure out the webcams and that type of thing, but what about the rest - getting the audio from the stereo onto the stream. Additionally, is it even worth trying since YouTube or whatever service may just block the audio entirely for copyright reasons or what not? Got thoughts? Would you listen or join listening sessions? Is it worth doing as a podcast? Maybe I just stick to listening parties of my own IRL and the internet legions just don't get the joy? Maybe there's a format I could spin and spread good music this way but just nip the audio into chunks or ways so that it doesn't cause copyright strikes? So many questions, curious what people's thoughts might be, what y'all got?
BTW picked those up at Empire Records in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood. Hit me up if you’re into spinning vinyls, music listening, and in Seattle - always happy to trade notes! 🤘🏻
Giving the new Russian Circles a spin. If you’ve not heard em and like atmospheric instrumental metal (post-metal?) than absolutely give a listen. The press on this one is beautiful too! 🤘🏻
Skalka time! Some of the best grub in Seattle!
Nevermore, new members, putting the tracks back together for upcoming touring! https://nevermoreofficial.com/
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