Gus
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“soft” i can understand, the “ware” is the question…..
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Rojas heading to the clubhouse to cut up and pour milk in his own cleats, celebratorily
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Rojas heading to the clubhouse to cut up and pour milk in his own cleats, celebratorily
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With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11.
And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
September 27, 2025 at 10:59 PM
With Pete Davidson getting a big check to do the Riyadh Comedy Festival, the Saudis are finally paying reparations for 9/11.
And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
And jokes like that aren’t allowed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
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Tough break for the Red Sox offense tonight with Anthony Volpe getting a night off.
August 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Tough break for the Red Sox offense tonight with Anthony Volpe getting a night off.
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X: When deploying in test things break for other teams.
Y: The problem is we only have shared test environments.
The problem is not shared test environments. Production is messy, anyway. If we cannot handle messiness in test, production will be downright chaos.
It is a skills and practice problem.
Y: The problem is we only have shared test environments.
The problem is not shared test environments. Production is messy, anyway. If we cannot handle messiness in test, production will be downright chaos.
It is a skills and practice problem.
August 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
X: When deploying in test things break for other teams.
Y: The problem is we only have shared test environments.
The problem is not shared test environments. Production is messy, anyway. If we cannot handle messiness in test, production will be downright chaos.
It is a skills and practice problem.
Y: The problem is we only have shared test environments.
The problem is not shared test environments. Production is messy, anyway. If we cannot handle messiness in test, production will be downright chaos.
It is a skills and practice problem.
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A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
August 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI.
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work.
For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
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People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
August 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
People posting about how they’ve never seen em dashes used before the rise of ChatGPT are really great at telling folks they’ve never read a book before.
One of the main appeals of TDD to me is that it is an approach to actually writing software. I’m naive and new to the industry but IME when people are not doing TDD they also can’t articulate how they go from a blank file to the “end” result.
August 16, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One of the main appeals of TDD to me is that it is an approach to actually writing software. I’m naive and new to the industry but IME when people are not doing TDD they also can’t articulate how they go from a blank file to the “end” result.
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Most code is crap. Most developers are mediocre.
In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry.
1/6
In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry.
1/6
Is AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are? | Rob Bowley
blog.robbowley.net
August 9, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Most code is crap. Most developers are mediocre.
In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry.
1/6
In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry.
1/6
Collected a few thoughts on my time with “The Ray Tracer Challenge”, which is a great book on implementing a ray tracer “Guided by Tests”. Mostly about what Rust has made me think about as a mostly JVM person, and how TDD is not just writing tests before code.
www.gusmurphy.com/2025/08/07/r...
www.gusmurphy.com/2025/08/07/r...
Reflecting on “The Ray Tracer Challenge”
In December of 2023, I got a copy of “The Ray Tracer Challenge: A Test-Drive Guide to Your First 3D Renderer”. Getting close to the two year anniversary of that purchase and semi-frequent work on the ...
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August 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Collected a few thoughts on my time with “The Ray Tracer Challenge”, which is a great book on implementing a ray tracer “Guided by Tests”. Mostly about what Rust has made me think about as a mostly JVM person, and how TDD is not just writing tests before code.
www.gusmurphy.com/2025/08/07/r...
www.gusmurphy.com/2025/08/07/r...
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So to be impressed by a machine going way beyond the question asked feels like the technical implementation of this exact anti-pattern. Worse, all that generated output creates significant gravity/path dependence, your brain turns off all that much faster. Why do we assume this is good?
August 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
So to be impressed by a machine going way beyond the question asked feels like the technical implementation of this exact anti-pattern. Worse, all that generated output creates significant gravity/path dependence, your brain turns off all that much faster. Why do we assume this is good?
Every place is feeling increasingly like the “airport version” of itself
February 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Every place is feeling increasingly like the “airport version” of itself
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I wish there was a person that coulda brought this stuff up 4 years ago
In his farewell address, Biden calls for:
An end to dark money
18 year term limit on Supreme Court Justices and ethics reform
A ban on stock trading in Congress
Amending the Constitution to say no president is immune from crimes committed in office
An end to dark money
18 year term limit on Supreme Court Justices and ethics reform
A ban on stock trading in Congress
Amending the Constitution to say no president is immune from crimes committed in office
January 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I wish there was a person that coulda brought this stuff up 4 years ago
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I want less Silicon Valley companies and more companies like Tabasco where everything is just put into big oak barrels and once in awhile an aging Cajun man walks in and goes “how them babies doin”
January 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I want less Silicon Valley companies and more companies like Tabasco where everything is just put into big oak barrels and once in awhile an aging Cajun man walks in and goes “how them babies doin”
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we can't say for certain that releasing slay the spire 2 would heal this nation's broken heart. but it's important that we try
January 10, 2025 at 12:02 AM
we can't say for certain that releasing slay the spire 2 would heal this nation's broken heart. but it's important that we try
“In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.”
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December 17, 2024 at 7:53 PM
“In plain terms, everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing.”
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The existence of “debugging” implies people are spending time “bugging” their software…. Maybe we should cut that out
November 29, 2024 at 6:59 PM
The existence of “debugging” implies people are spending time “bugging” their software…. Maybe we should cut that out
Constantly refraining from replying “this shit sucks!” on LinkedIn
November 26, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Constantly refraining from replying “this shit sucks!” on LinkedIn
Idea I just had: is there a browser that doesn’t have tabs? I think that my life would be better if I couldn’t open tabs…
November 21, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Idea I just had: is there a browser that doesn’t have tabs? I think that my life would be better if I couldn’t open tabs…
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In the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.
September 29, 2024 at 8:20 AM
In the future, we won't need programmers; just people who can describe to a computer precisely what they want it to do.
Once more unto the weblogosphere. I’ve been thinking a lot about how strongly people hold on to definitions of different types of tests, and how I feel that works to the exclusion of considering what benefit they provide and to whom.
www.gusmurphy.com/2024/09/13/w...
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Who Cares About Your Tests?
Something that I’ve been pontificating on in my chamber as of late are the definitions of various types of tests that people often treat as fact. “Unit”, “integration”, “acceptance”, “end-to-end”—thes...
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September 13, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Once more unto the weblogosphere. I’ve been thinking a lot about how strongly people hold on to definitions of different types of tests, and how I feel that works to the exclusion of considering what benefit they provide and to whom.
www.gusmurphy.com/2024/09/13/w...
www.gusmurphy.com/2024/09/13/w...