Mark Schmidt
@mark-schmidt.bsky.social
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Nobody is born a great engineer. Great engineers are forged in the fires of experience -- year after year of compounding challenges and opportunities.
Does your org frustrate the pursuit of greatness, or unlock and accelerate it? For whom?
And then yes: shipping is the mechanics of learning.
Does your org frustrate the pursuit of greatness, or unlock and accelerate it? For whom?
And then yes: shipping is the mechanics of learning.
"If there is a single non-negotiable truth in Charity’s worldview, it’s this: shipping is how engineers learn. Not architecture diagrams. Not months of planning. Not 400-comment design docs. Shipping."
October 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Nobody is born a great engineer. Great engineers are forged in the fires of experience -- year after year of compounding challenges and opportunities.
Does your org frustrate the pursuit of greatness, or unlock and accelerate it? For whom?
And then yes: shipping is the mechanics of learning.
Does your org frustrate the pursuit of greatness, or unlock and accelerate it? For whom?
And then yes: shipping is the mechanics of learning.
Reposted by Mark Schmidt
I know there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the value brought by LLMs, but how can anyone not be slightly delighted by technology you can run on your own (powerful) computer that causes it to draw you an SVG almost-pelican with both visible legs and the caption "🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!"
September 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I know there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the value brought by LLMs, but how can anyone not be slightly delighted by technology you can run on your own (powerful) computer that causes it to draw you an SVG almost-pelican with both visible legs and the caption "🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!"
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Reposted by Mark Schmidt
VEO 3
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
May 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
VEO 3
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
Prompt: Generate a TV news anchor with a British accent, the anchor says "in shocking news, Jake Kaye Rowe ling's yacht sank with her on board after being attacked by orcas off the coast of turkey" include the announcement in the dialogue.
This took one prompt and 2 minutes to generate.
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Being a Software Engineer
Pro:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.
Con:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.
Pro:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.
Con:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.
April 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Being a Software Engineer
Pro:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.
Con:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.
Pro:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.
Con:
If the software you need doesn't exist, you can build it yourself.
Blue hour is starting 😍
March 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Blue hour is starting 😍
Beautiful sunsets are beautiful!
March 19, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Beautiful sunsets are beautiful!
Zero damns given 😱
March 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Zero damns given 😱
Great stuff! And perfect timing…
Holy smokes this is awesome, a new debugger for Phoenix LiveView. Think React devtools, but not a chrome extension.
github.com/software-man...
#ElixirLang
github.com/software-man...
#ElixirLang
February 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Great stuff! And perfect timing…
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Curl -v Google.com
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/05/curl-v-google-com/
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/05/curl-v-google-com/
November 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Curl -v Google.com
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/05/curl-v-google-com/
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/11/05/curl-v-google-com/