XDF @xdfdev

Owner of https://t.co/LndgLEpXqN Reaching you through a blinding one megabyte connection from my secret, mountaintop fortress. codegarden.substack.com The End of History Joined October 2024

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XDF @xdfdev

4 months ago

@etscrivner That's a good book! I would also recommend Racing the Beam (about the Atari) which in that family of platform studies books from the MIT Press.

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XDF @xdfdev

4 months ago

@cmuratori Windows 365 -> HOBO -> Azure Virtual Machines -> Microsoft Intune -> Entra ID

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@rfleury @vkrajacic "Don't reinvent the wheel!" - "You won't be able to do it better than a library some smart people wrote!" - "It's not worth it!" - etc. It's drilled into people by others with zero imagination or curiosity.

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XDF @xdfdev

4 months ago

@valigo It's glued to 'c'. But it's a design flaw in the language. I choose to "incorrectly" write code as if the pointer is part of the type expression, so I write 'char* c'. And 99.9% of the time this is fine. The other 0.1% of the time you make an exception.

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Casey Muratori @cmuratori

4 months ago

NARRATOR: Claude Code was not, in fact, close to a small game engine.

Thariq @trq212

5 months ago

Most people's mental model of Claude Code is that "it's just a TUI" but it should really be closer to "a small game engine". For each frame our pipeline constructs a scene graph with React then -> layouts elements -> rasterizes them to a 2d screen -> diffs that against the

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Alberta Tech @albertadevs

5 months ago

I’m just going to keep reposting this every time a new prediction comes out

ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism

5 months ago

Anthropic CEO: "Software Engineering Will Be Automatable in 12 Months". yea, we’re cooked.

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LeftHandedOctopus @AggieCapitalist

5 months ago

"Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated AI’s capabilities. They have found that AI simply can’t cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and

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Adam Rezich @rezich

5 months ago

When I attended GDC for the first (and only) time in 2016, it's not that I expected it to look like what BSC would eventually be… but I thought it'd be more like that than… whatever it was. Even if I never get invited (likely!), I'm overjoyed that BSC exists. You should be too.

Ryan Fleury @rfleury

5 months ago

The Magic of the Better Software Conference Why BSC worked; why other conferences don’t.

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XDF @xdfdev

5 months ago

@rfleury @rezich Had the opportunity to go in 2016 and 2018. There were definitely good talks to be found, but far fewer than I expected. It was hard to even fill my schedule with stuff I cared about. I agree it was pretty disappointing.

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Jay Alto @theJayAlto

5 months ago

"we are building a perfect archive of a life no one attended"

🕊️ @lichthauch

5 months ago

I watched a man film his daughter's first steps and he watched it through the screen. she walked toward him and he was not there he was in the rectangle and she reached for a ghost. that is the whole thing now. we are building a perfect archive of a life no one attended

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XDF @xdfdev

5 months ago

@Feoramund Thanks!

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Héliographe @heliographe_

5 months ago

If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design

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XDF @xdfdev

5 months ago

@pikuma Of course it's entirely possible this person specifically is very good at both math and English, and is merely extrapolating that to all math students.

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XDF @xdfdev

5 months ago

@pikuma I was going to say that this seems to betray either ignorance of college level English or maybe experience in a university with very low standards.

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Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz

5 months ago

Pretty wild that LLMs seem to have trained on my 2019 article of "The product-minded engineer" and I now find blog posts published in 2025 that are an exact rehash of my post. Because if you ask an LLM "write a blog about a product-minded engineer" they spit out mine!!