Amédée d'Aboville
@amedee.me
😋😋they/them. Staff software eng @outschool.
I really like these “Git of Theseus” charts that make your git repo look like a weathered mountain.
Unfortunately they can be slow/cumbersome to make.
By reimplementing it in Rust with a better algorithm I got a massive speedup, hopefully now more people will make them! amedee.me/introducing-...
Unfortunately they can be slow/cumbersome to make.
By reimplementing it in Rust with a better algorithm I got a massive speedup, hopefully now more people will make them! amedee.me/introducing-...
500x Faster Theseus Plots with Rust and Gitoxide
I rewrote Git of Theseus in Rust for fun.
amedee.me
October 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I really like these “Git of Theseus” charts that make your git repo look like a weathered mountain.
Unfortunately they can be slow/cumbersome to make.
By reimplementing it in Rust with a better algorithm I got a massive speedup, hopefully now more people will make them! amedee.me/introducing-...
Unfortunately they can be slow/cumbersome to make.
By reimplementing it in Rust with a better algorithm I got a massive speedup, hopefully now more people will make them! amedee.me/introducing-...
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this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
September 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
this charlie kirk deification is some of the weirdest shit i have ever seen
jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk...
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. This feels like a normal, level-headed, centrist take. It shouldn't take one of the most leftist publications to publish this, this to me is a WaPo/WSJ/NYT uncontroversial opinion. Instead these other places are hagiographizing.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. This feels like a normal, level-headed, centrist take. It shouldn't take one of the most leftist publications to publish this, this to me is a WaPo/WSJ/NYT uncontroversial opinion. Instead these other places are hagiographizing.
Political Violence Is Abhorrent. Charlie Kirk Didn’t Think So.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.
jacobin.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
jacobin.com/2025/09/kirk...
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. This feels like a normal, level-headed, centrist take. It shouldn't take one of the most leftist publications to publish this, this to me is a WaPo/WSJ/NYT uncontroversial opinion. Instead these other places are hagiographizing.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. This feels like a normal, level-headed, centrist take. It shouldn't take one of the most leftist publications to publish this, this to me is a WaPo/WSJ/NYT uncontroversial opinion. Instead these other places are hagiographizing.
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The two things to remember about the Hillary email thing is:
A) the Times have hated the Clinton's since they made them look dumb in the 1990s.
B) by the time the NYT printed this, it had already been discovered that the whole thing was a troll job by Jason Chaffetz, and the FBI had cleared her.
A) the Times have hated the Clinton's since they made them look dumb in the 1990s.
B) by the time the NYT printed this, it had already been discovered that the whole thing was a troll job by Jason Chaffetz, and the FBI had cleared her.
This is probably too shitlib a thing anyone in the thread will bring up and *obligatory annoying throat clearing that it doesn’t mean Hillary had no flaws yada yada* but looking back it is genuinely insane the degree they prioritized the email thing given everything that has happened since.
September 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The two things to remember about the Hillary email thing is:
A) the Times have hated the Clinton's since they made them look dumb in the 1990s.
B) by the time the NYT printed this, it had already been discovered that the whole thing was a troll job by Jason Chaffetz, and the FBI had cleared her.
A) the Times have hated the Clinton's since they made them look dumb in the 1990s.
B) by the time the NYT printed this, it had already been discovered that the whole thing was a troll job by Jason Chaffetz, and the FBI had cleared her.
There’s a funny thing where historically we tend to inadvertently use the “currently hot thing” as our model of the mind. Freud used steam engines, when I was a kid it was computers, and recently deep learning/“predictive processing”. But now the hot thing is LLMs, and they are so faulty!
August 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
There’s a funny thing where historically we tend to inadvertently use the “currently hot thing” as our model of the mind. Freud used steam engines, when I was a kid it was computers, and recently deep learning/“predictive processing”. But now the hot thing is LLMs, and they are so faulty!
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It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates
August 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It's very telling that the far left refuses to support huge pieces of shit who everyone hates
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Everything is {gender|computer}
Watching this Computer Programmer instruction guide from 1976, I'm reminded that being a programmer was somewhat gender coded as a woman's job, like an advanced secretary job, until the modern computer era.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-gp...
Basic Computer Terms (1976)
YouTube video by A/V Geeks 16mm Films
www.youtube.com
August 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Everything is {gender|computer}
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hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot
Something I’m not seeing any discussion about is vibe coding for UX prototyping. I just implemented a figma for a complicated new feature in 2 hours, you can interact with it much better and find gaps in the user flows.
It’s like 3D printing a prototype to iterate on before sending it to the factory
It’s like 3D printing a prototype to iterate on before sending it to the factory
May 23, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Something I’m not seeing any discussion about is vibe coding for UX prototyping. I just implemented a figma for a complicated new feature in 2 hours, you can interact with it much better and find gaps in the user flows.
It’s like 3D printing a prototype to iterate on before sending it to the factory
It’s like 3D printing a prototype to iterate on before sending it to the factory
Google buying Wiz for $32B (!) and adding a bunch of ex-Unit 8200 spies (the cyber unit of the IDF) to their payroll is the final straw for me, I’m going to start de-googling my life.
March 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Google buying Wiz for $32B (!) and adding a bunch of ex-Unit 8200 spies (the cyber unit of the IDF) to their payroll is the final straw for me, I’m going to start de-googling my life.
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At your company, is your key issue collaborating on things that could be transactional, or trying to treat collaborative things transactionally? Or somewhere in between?
January 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
At your company, is your key issue collaborating on things that could be transactional, or trying to treat collaborative things transactionally? Or somewhere in between?
Holy absolute fuck this story is damning. Medicine’s culture has to change to weed out perceived “toxic geniuses”, or else it’s going to keep killing people like the 16 year old girl mentioned here.
www.propublica.org/article/thom...
www.propublica.org/article/thom...
A Hospital Helped a Beloved Doctor’s Practice Flourish Even as It Suspected He Was Hurting Patients
Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did th...
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Holy absolute fuck this story is damning. Medicine’s culture has to change to weed out perceived “toxic geniuses”, or else it’s going to keep killing people like the 16 year old girl mentioned here.
www.propublica.org/article/thom...
www.propublica.org/article/thom...
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Everyone values arts and humanities until it’s time to pay for it; everyone thinks they can be a painter or a writer until they try; everyone is a confident problem solver until there’s no single right answer.
November 27, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Everyone values arts and humanities until it’s time to pay for it; everyone thinks they can be a painter or a writer until they try; everyone is a confident problem solver until there’s no single right answer.
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"Working in this field in 2024 is like ..." (we asked 570 people to answer this with a metaphor). Some themes/examples:
November 27, 2024 at 1:07 AM
"Working in this field in 2024 is like ..." (we asked 570 people to answer this with a metaphor). Some themes/examples:
Cool! The heavyweight models had 80-90% precision vs bag-of-words doing 67%, so "LLM stuff" still has some value at the top end, but I love to see simpler stuff like BoW still holding its own and having applications for on-device classification
For a closer view on the meme :) we found that dictionaries outperformed some LLMs in classifying whether content was political or not.
November 25, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Cool! The heavyweight models had 80-90% precision vs bag-of-words doing 67%, so "LLM stuff" still has some value at the top end, but I love to see simpler stuff like BoW still holding its own and having applications for on-device classification
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Me: We have to take care of ourselves and each other because opposing authoritarianism is a long fight and you will burn out.
Also me: I cannot remember to eat on a regular basis.
Also me: I cannot remember to eat on a regular basis.
November 12, 2024 at 8:00 AM
Me: We have to take care of ourselves and each other because opposing authoritarianism is a long fight and you will burn out.
Also me: I cannot remember to eat on a regular basis.
Also me: I cannot remember to eat on a regular basis.
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optimizations will continue until the perf improves
November 7, 2024 at 1:26 PM
optimizations will continue until the perf improves
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80 degrees on Halloween 😱
November 1, 2024 at 1:37 AM
80 degrees on Halloween 😱
reading a lot of job postings recently, like this one: "Seeking a code-slinging sorcerer to sprinkle some magic on our avant-garde digital quests" 🙄🤮
I think this is so common bc the people writing the JD are deeply bored, they think the job is boring and they need to "spice it up" to attract people
I think this is so common bc the people writing the JD are deeply bored, they think the job is boring and they need to "spice it up" to attract people
October 7, 2024 at 8:32 AM
reading a lot of job postings recently, like this one: "Seeking a code-slinging sorcerer to sprinkle some magic on our avant-garde digital quests" 🙄🤮
I think this is so common bc the people writing the JD are deeply bored, they think the job is boring and they need to "spice it up" to attract people
I think this is so common bc the people writing the JD are deeply bored, they think the job is boring and they need to "spice it up" to attract people
Packing some books… Circles make the coolest covers
September 2, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Packing some books… Circles make the coolest covers