G-J van Rooyen
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G-J van Rooyen
@gvrooyen.com
Director: Engineering & Innovation @ http://octoco.ltd. Associate Professor Extra-Ordinary in Industrial Engineering @ Stellenbosch University.

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Maine attraction!
July 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Oh nice, I saw your tweet about that Robert Caro passage a couple of weeks ago. I was briefly intrigued and wondered where it came from, but things were a bit too busy to dig deeper.

The Power Broker is now in my library; really looking forward to start dipping into it
June 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Out of interest, what was your takeaway from the jj experiment? I found it quite difficult to break my git muscle memory on shared work repos
June 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I switched to Arch a bit more then a week ago – 1st time with Linux as my main OS in more than a decade. Incredibly impressed by how mature, sleek, and customizable everything has become. And my entire Steam library is playable here now, with better performance than on Windows!

Not switching back.
June 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
:fistpump:
May 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The prompt string I use in my `.zshrc` to just show the current minimal change ID. Since the working copy is always committed, no need to check for any uncommitted changes.
May 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I think the git workflow bit is worth talking and writing about even more. This is definitely a topic I'll pick up with my team. I love how new tools can unexpectedly level-up old tools – thanks for pointing this one out!
May 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"Speech is a clumsiness and writing an impoverishment," to quote Richard Rhodes somewhat out of context
May 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I'm a huge fan of diagrams to communicate with an LLM. It feels as if the Mermaid syntax is so clear and uncluttered with formatting concerns (it just relates concepts) that it maps more directly to the model's own latent space than its translation into natural language would
May 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Reposted by G-J van Rooyen
I’ve never had someone take a honk as a conversation starter before but there we are
April 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM