Daniel Pritchett
@dpritchett.net
Florida. Programmer. Author. https://dpritchett.net
Man this is great. Hope y’all are having a blast. Gonna give that 1996 classic album a spin tonight 🍻
May 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Man this is great. Hope y’all are having a blast. Gonna give that 1996 classic album a spin tonight 🍻
I’d like to say that you can at least do some sort of risk assessment (i.e. likelihood x impact) but I can’t argue that such a forecast would ever actually be verifiable *before* the next bad things happen.
May 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I’d like to say that you can at least do some sort of risk assessment (i.e. likelihood x impact) but I can’t argue that such a forecast would ever actually be verifiable *before* the next bad things happen.
Significant overlap between folks who used Reader a dozen-plus years ago and folks in a position to influence corporate technology choices today. Forgive? Maybe. Forget? No.
May 21, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Significant overlap between folks who used Reader a dozen-plus years ago and folks in a position to influence corporate technology choices today. Forgive? Maybe. Forget? No.
Time to start ordering better snacks for the break room, bossman.
May 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Time to start ordering better snacks for the break room, bossman.
Horse ebooks tried to tell us
May 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Horse ebooks tried to tell us
The key difference is that the principal will *usually* have the decency to feel some guilt over the ever-widening gulf between their own day to day and the lived experience of front-line programmers.
May 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The key difference is that the principal will *usually* have the decency to feel some guilt over the ever-widening gulf between their own day to day and the lived experience of front-line programmers.
Programmers across Bluesky wincing as they realize they’ve found themselves contemplating a Big O(r^2) problem on a weekend.
a man with a beard is crying and saying `` he can 't keep getting away with it ! ''
Alt: a man with a beard is crying and saying `` he can 't keep getting away with it ! ''
media.tenor.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Programmers across Bluesky wincing as they realize they’ve found themselves contemplating a Big O(r^2) problem on a weekend.
My teen found this on YouTube and it was *fascinating*. youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?...
Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History
YouTube video by Defunctland
youtu.be
May 18, 2025 at 3:43 AM
My teen found this on YouTube and it was *fascinating*. youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?...
Lots of PEOPLE are LOOKING at your profile 🙌🏻
May 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Lots of PEOPLE are LOOKING at your profile 🙌🏻
Did he at least turn in a rockstar performance once y’all got moving?
May 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Did he at least turn in a rockstar performance once y’all got moving?
Looking forward to the blameless post mortem
May 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Looking forward to the blameless post mortem
Cousin, is Abby a plant?
Is this lady secretly bankrolled by Big Aromatics?
Is this lady secretly bankrolled by Big Aromatics?
May 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Cousin, is Abby a plant?
Is this lady secretly bankrolled by Big Aromatics?
Is this lady secretly bankrolled by Big Aromatics?
Tree man, on the property walk, next to the stomach bug? It’s more likely than you think.
May 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Tree man, on the property walk, next to the stomach bug? It’s more likely than you think.
Do you ever worry that you’re actually a sock puppet operated by a dozen bsky staffers working follow-the-sun shifts, Weird Twitter style?
May 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Do you ever worry that you’re actually a sock puppet operated by a dozen bsky staffers working follow-the-sun shifts, Weird Twitter style?
Makes a ton of sense! What I don’t get is how few programmers approach their work with the same mindset. If you don’t have a million personal scripts and custom configs what are you even doing?
May 15, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Makes a ton of sense! What I don’t get is how few programmers approach their work with the same mindset. If you don’t have a million personal scripts and custom configs what are you even doing?
There’s also an ego-preserving misdirection going on: if people don’t like someone’s AI-generated “writing” it must mean that the LLM did it wrong, not that the operator himself is a bad writer
May 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
There’s also an ego-preserving misdirection going on: if people don’t like someone’s AI-generated “writing” it must mean that the LLM did it wrong, not that the operator himself is a bad writer
New headcanon here is that Elon has a personal text box on his phone he can use to stuff Grok’s global context window with whatever he’s most excited about today
May 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
New headcanon here is that Elon has a personal text box on his phone he can use to stuff Grok’s global context window with whatever he’s most excited about today
Big Ditch at it again open.spotify.com/track/2Ua8fk...
Big Ditch
DJ Icey · Catalysts of the Catalog · Song · 2020
open.spotify.com
May 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Big Ditch at it again open.spotify.com/track/2Ua8fk...
My current theory is that LLMs are extra fun for people who think of themselves as too busy to write… or read
May 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
My current theory is that LLMs are extra fun for people who think of themselves as too busy to write… or read
On a lighter note I regularly revise my work chat posts from “seven thoughts separated by semicolons and em dashes” down to a few Real Sentences.
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
On a lighter note I regularly revise my work chat posts from “seven thoughts separated by semicolons and em dashes” down to a few Real Sentences.
We gotta nuke this thread before HHS catches on
May 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We gotta nuke this thread before HHS catches on
Some sort of “I’ll never bother to learn how to do this trivial thing and I mistrust anyone who does” energy
May 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Some sort of “I’ll never bother to learn how to do this trivial thing and I mistrust anyone who does” energy
Yeah people are scared of anything with even the slightest bit of effort put into presentation nowadays, assuming it’s AI slop bsky.app/profile/dpri...
It really burns having to watch the internet grow rightfully skeptical of posters with conspicuous layout and formatting choices, viewing them as a sign of AI-generated slop.
That *used* to be the domain of thoughtful technical writers and ransom notes.
That *used* to be the domain of thoughtful technical writers and ransom notes.
May 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Yeah people are scared of anything with even the slightest bit of effort put into presentation nowadays, assuming it’s AI slop bsky.app/profile/dpri...