Posts by tef@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AqvCKqlMcKJ3Yz4ZW4 by tef@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T21:48:30Z
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@wxcafe we called him "internet famous tom scott" as a bit of a joke but 2012 was different
(DIR) Post #AqvCdQnfN2e8Xj0g2i by tef@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T21:51:54Z
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@wxcafe 2012, evolved out of the london hackspace
(DIR) Post #ArUbzTng7LGzSK6jxo by tef@mastodon.social
2025-02-25T23:50:54Z
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@wxcafe real trick is charging high subscription fees because the preppers will go "oh well that's only three months"
(DIR) Post #AuPbsQjlRXyVzXIN8K by tef@mastodon.social
2025-05-23T16:11:41Z
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it looks like my role is about to be made redundant, so i might be looking for a new role, staff developer, remote uk/usmy resume/cv is here: https://tef.computer i am pretty good at the whole "fixing distributed systems" stuff but i'm also pretty good at the "levelling up a team" stuff too
(DIR) Post #AupIUAcBcLuo6iGxjk by tef@mastodon.social
2025-06-05T11:50:34Z
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correction: i have been calling ai tooling "per request billing for editing text files"after some research i have realised the billing model is slightly differentgiven that you have to make a few pulls to get something that compiles, it's closer to a gatcha gameor loot boxes, but with way lower payout rates
(DIR) Post #Ax26qTNxushinKpHiC by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-10T12:44:03Z
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doing some programming: walking around the block for 20-30 minutes as i try to think of the right word or name for a thing
(DIR) Post #Ax26qV2Plyebv4l6Om by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-10T12:45:25Z
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for some reason, managers like to think programming is the bit where i'm using a keyboard, rather the bit where i'm actually thinking about a problemwhen i'm at a computer it usually means i'm debugging
(DIR) Post #Ax26qVzyCYICtmcfE8 by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-10T12:48:57Z
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fwiw, i have some long running operation on a server, which can be cancelled by the client, and i'm looking for a good way to say "and make sure to cancel this if you give up"rather than something that only implies "you can cancel this if you want", or worse "you should cancel this"like CancelOnError rather than CanCancel or ShouldCancel
(DIR) Post #Ax26qWtcrcoPgOf6ye by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-10T12:52:44Z
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the larger issue is more accurately "this is a server side resource being held open for the client and it will expire if you do nothing, and also if you do not need it, it would be nice if you told the server if possible"and although these properties usually happen to be true at same time, i'm also working out if "things that can only expire and not be cancelled" exists in a useful sense
(DIR) Post #Ax26qXcIBYXbuvYmbA by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-10T12:58:06Z
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that said and done maybe CanCancel is the right one, as the client doesn't actually care what the thing is, and only really cares about "should i send a cancel if i give up" so maybe i'm overthinking it
(DIR) Post #Ax26qYeoJg9L91kJA8 by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-10T13:02:04Z
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people do love to over estimate the amount of mathematics in programming when a lot of it boils down to word play
(DIR) Post #AxXxsZS9e9QVfAQeC8 by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-25T18:00:30Z
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feeling old as people are posting on tiktok "what was it like to watch season2 of haruhi at broadcast time" and here i am having watched eva on vhs
(DIR) Post #AxXxsePVDRHB2OE6Fs by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-25T18:01:43Z
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my truest weeb moment is having seen the uk dub of all purpose cultural cat girl nuku-nukuwhere kansai accents are turned brummie
(DIR) Post #Axfzfz6MjFE6cR2i3s by tef@mastodon.social
2025-08-28T14:56:06Z
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@misty "We regret that, sadly, unanimity is not possible on this issue and kinder ground eludes us." adding this to my list of ways to tell people where to stick it
(DIR) Post #AyGT5FjcfLwngzzwDA by tef@mastodon.social
2025-09-16T02:22:43Z
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is there a word for when a software company grows to the point where it is no longer capable of writing software and so all new products come from acquisitions wrong answers only
(DIR) Post #AyGT5KwZIeH1qb5qaG by tef@mastodon.social
2025-09-16T02:25:27Z
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from a systematic point of view: it's when the middle layers of the company become filled with people who see their job as avoiding any risk they may be held accountable forwhich inevitably happens, as like promotes like, and any risk takers who slip up are quickly ejected as a sacrifical offering to productivity
(DIR) Post #AyGT5QrpHC2sDcv91c by tef@mastodon.social
2025-09-16T02:37:04Z
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see also: we will never have a silver bullet for programming as almost all the reasons why things are slow and over budget are socialthat and genuine improvements invoke a tradeoff, which presents itself as a risk, and so it's only snake oil that gets purchased or adopted by companies
(DIR) Post #AyGT5VtQafIVo2hziS by tef@mastodon.social
2025-09-16T02:38:47Z
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yes there is a certain size where this becomes inevitable but i have seen places with two pizza teams where nothing can ever get done
(DIR) Post #AyGT5cUs2MoUHuGyuW by tef@mastodon.social
2025-09-16T02:41:44Z
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i guess my best answer to this is "running on fumes" in the sense of running out of potential and coasting along on the remnants
(DIR) Post #AzWzVyLNz8eaCHANgu by tef@mastodon.social
2025-10-23T20:03:54Z
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realising that can call the library of copy on write datastructures: cow tools