cognophile
cognophile.bsky.social
cognophile
@cognophile.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood software engineer.
Starting a petition to replace the letters ‘A’ and ‘I’ in the alphabet as they’re simply too triggering now.
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
thanks, co-pilot agent (claude 4) - faultless app build verification steps 👌

❯ cd ../app && npm run build
❯ cd ../app && npx tsc --noEmit
❯ cd ../app && npm run lint
❯ cd ../app && npm run lint 2>&1
❯ cd ../app && echo "Linting complete"
June 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
i can’t figure out whether I should be entertained or concerned to be seeing job ads genuinely titled ‘vibe coder’
June 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
To quote one of my lecturers - “Software engineering is a race between us striving to produce bigger and better programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning”.
April 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A colleague has just told me of the existence of ‘vibe coding’ and told me, somehow, it wasn’t satire. what. the. hell.
March 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I’m announcing that I’ve officially identified the solution to procrastinating when you have housework to do, and it’s simple - start a masters. This way, the housework becomes the task you do when procrastinating from studying 😅
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
What an idiotic ultimatum for the Government to issue to one of the few privacy upholding tech companies. Whatever the outcome were to be - whether they complied with or not - both ways would have set a dangerous precedent that will harm more than help.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Customers' photos and documents stored online will no longer be protected by end-to-end encryption.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM