“The Green Tea Garbage Collector” by Michael Knyszek and Austin Clements — https://go.dev/blog/greenteagc

#golang

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

The three biggest miracles in the world are: creation of earth, evolution and people becoming AI experts in just a few months.

A reminder for #golang folks joining Bluesky - here's a starter pack of contributors to the Go project!

1/ Die USA erleben einen rasanten Umbau des Staates. Viele nennen es einen Coup. Musk bekommt Zugang zu sensiblen Daten, vermutlich nicht mal verfassungskonform. Auch unsere Demokratie ist damit gefährdet. Der Grund heißt CLOUD Act. Ein Thread.

There's the term "Enshittification:" products decay over time. Almost always to allow companies to make more money (e.g. via ads etc.)

We need a term for "AI enshittification." Where AI functionality is added: that degrades the product experience.

Except the company now makes LESS money on it!!

Siemens recently launched a blog about bitcoin, here is one blog post from it: blog.siemens.com/2025/01/bitc...

Am I the only one who finds it mildly disturbing that a company who is a key player in the energy sector claims things like "Bitcoin is energy"?

From an email:

"Do you know of any teams that have had positive experiences with offshore teams - where directors and eng managers were in the US, and devs in another country? Why and how did these teams work so well together?"

My take: this (almost always) will not work. Everyone learns...

As a developer: Bluesky is like the “good old” Twitter, before the API got taken away/locked down

Eg you can access the “firehose!” Without having to pay $42K/month or more

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4215...

AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.

CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders

Everything good that happened in my writing career happened because someone, normally another writer, helped me. Suggested me for something, put in a good word, and so on. The idea was always that you help others and they help others in their turn. It's not a win or lose game.

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