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This is why I think the whole crunch culture is fucking stupid. People need rest. Without it, you spend more time doing things badly, because the tunnel vision that comes from working 10’s of hours straight means you’re not open to the possibility that the problem might be elsewhere.
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Whoever said that a good night sleep is all that’s needed to solve a problem is absolutely right. Was facing a problem last evening, decided to call it a day, took a look at it this morning, and fixed it. Wasn’t even that good a sleep.
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The month of free public transport has introduced an interesting problem. A completely open barrier does not provide a way to force people in a particular direction. So PTV staff have to make do with alternatives for controlling flow, like directing people manually, or paper signs like these.
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When you deploy your service to the wrong environment, Dev instead of Test, you know it’s time to call it a day. Just be glad I didn’t accidently deploy to Prod. 😬
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Now that coding agents can produce code in reasonably working order, the real source of problems will come from the human’s miss-understanding of how the code should work. If the human has some bad assumptions, and conveys that information to the agent, then things could quickly get quite messy.
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I can’t see how OpenAI pivoting to a “super-app” would entice developers from moving away from the likes of Claude Code. Having a purpose-built TUI works perfectly here: I know where I launched it, I can have multiple sessions, etc. Plus, I’m already using the Terminal for building, Git, tailing logs, etc. Having one more tool in the same collection of windows is a small price on the old spacial awareness budget.
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Oof! Jacket and beanie weather sort of snuck up on us. I’m a little unprepared for it. 🥶
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You know, just because you did manage to deploy something on a Thursday doesn’t mean you’ve saved yourself from spending the weekend fixing said something. 😫
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It’s said that the price of freedom is constant vigilance. In the same vein, the price of working software is constant paranoia. Is it working? Sure you tested it yesterday, but is it still working today? Maybe you should check. 😥
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Tiny victories: I spelt “amalgamation” correctly on the first try. 🏆
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Amusing how many podcasts are just interviews with people while they do X. Got me thinking about starting a podcast where I interview people about their work BUT, and here’s the hook, they clean my house. Will you learn anything new here that you wouldn’t from any of these other shows? Well, no, but I end up with a clean house, so it’s a win-win. 😛
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🔗 Robert Birming: How to kill a blog
What can you do to prolong [your blog’s] life?
It’s very simple. Don’t go niche.
Blog about whatever you feel like. Some posts get more attention than others. It’s not important.
Love it! And so true.
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Some people are just incapable of being quiet.
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It just occurred to me that the ability to fully dog-food the software one is paid to work on is actually quite a small subset of software people are willing to spend money on building. Realistically, it could only be achieved for those working on consumer apps, or for tools used by other software developers. For anything else that serves a niche that requires it’s own set of skills, dog-fooding would be difficult to pull off. I’m paid to work on software for pro-videographers, yet I’m not a pro-videographers. My skills are in software development, not film or television.
So while the goal of dog-fooding is one to strive for, sometimes it’s just not feasible.
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No level crossing is spared from the Level Crossing Removal Project. The one near my station is up for replacement. The rumour was that was to be replaced with the rail line going over the road. The issue, though, was it’s location: it’s right next to some stabling yards, where trains are kept when they’re not in use.
I was unsure what they were going to do about this. You could see from the photo that these stabling yards, along with platform 3 at the station, are accessed by a pretty broad flat junction. And I couldn’t see how they could keep this and elevate the rail line to cross the road. They could move the yard, but speaking to a driver while we were both waiting for our
coffeetrain, there isn’t a suitable place to move the yard to, unless they start taking parkland.Well, the proposal is in, and from the concept drawings, it looks like they’re planning to keep the yard:
So, okay. I guess they could find a way to do this. I would be interested in knowing what they do about access to platform 3 though. I can’t see them keeping the existing rail road that goes along the yard fence line. I’m guessing that they’ll need to reconfigure the junction in some way. Either that, or they scrap platform 3 altogether. It does see some use, and provides a good terminal for certain services, but maybe they could live without it? 🤷
Anyway, something to look forward to.
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The whole thing about the government encouraging people to work from home to save petrol has left me, someone who takes public transport to work, with various feelings. 😏
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🛠️ Simon Willison’s Tools: Cleanup Claude Code Paste
From Simon Willison:
Super-niche tool this. I sometimes copy prompts out of the Claude Code terminal app and they come out with a bunch of weird additional whitespace. This tool cleans that up.
Niche it may be, but I’ve been wishing for something like this for a few weeks now (occasionally Claude will fall over and I need to start a new session with the same prompt). Tried it today and worked like a charm.
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Slack needs to improve their list feature. I want to use it more, but it’s so buggy. It’s slow; paste randomly places content in the row above the selected one; and entering the edit mode of a cell eats the first character, so all my cells say “0” when I’m trying to type “10”. Needs work.
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🛠️ Sky — an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go
Kind of striking seeing Go becoming the target of other languages. Here’s another one. Looks a bit like Haskell to my eyes.
Via: Hacker News
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My vote for the forth company on Tech Mt. Rushmore: may be a strange one but I'm going to say Acorn Computers. Why? Because they came up with the first ARM processor and instruction set. Important for the iPhone and arguably the most important architecture for the foreseeable future.
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Various shades of grey at the beach this morning. This one’s looking towards Phillip Island and Seal Rock.
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🔗 Kaptur: Sora - A Solution Without a Problem
A fascinating exploration on the failures of Sora, why the engagement of AI-generated video wasn’t there, and what real video and photography has that the AI-generated counterpart just doesn’t.
Via: Om Malik
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🛠️ Lisette — Rust syntax, Go runtime
A little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go
This looks really interesting.
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One thing Merricks Beach has plenty of is black cockatoos. Here’s a small flock I saw preening while on a walk. It’s not a great photo — I was shooting into the sun — but I hope you can make out the highlights on their tails.
