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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 2h

> "i want you to do X" > ~ crystallizing ~ 3m45s > command failed > "is there anything else i can help with?"

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Marlamin @marlam.in · 26/09/2026

This post perfectly explains what I was talking about a while back regarding developers that get sucked into AI losing their way and probably not even realizing it. blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/o...

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One month without AI

Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — ...

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 26/09/2026

i went to my first ever magic: the gathering pre-release event for the new set got absolutely kerb-stomped for 4 hours and won a single pack 10/10 would recommend and go again

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 25/09/2026

if anyone picks these, they must be a fun guy

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 23/09/2026

blizzard allows players to make first and last names in WoW: Forever are you sure you thought this all the way through? like, _really_ sure...?

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 21/09/2026

the one thing i will always reach for AI assistance for first alongside reading docs is working with AWS clients in Typescript. AWS docs are steaming hot garbage

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 16/09/2026

halls of origination was the best non-classic World of Warcraft dungeon

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 16/09/2026

kids playing "chap the door and run away" on my door gave the gentlest of knocks amateurs. back in my day, we made it sound like the police were about to raid your house

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 16/09/2026

i've recently been feeling rather burned out with tech and all the AI nonsense floating around so i decided to take a step back and do some other things in my spare time and holy shit, it works

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 14/09/2026

it's that time of year again where i forget how to mock things in test suites! can't wait!

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 10/09/2026

if Rust has taught me anything, it's that the pain is temporary but references last 'a lifetime

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 10/09/2026

wonder how long it'll take before these AI agent things for CTFs decide that taking down Cloudflare will be an appropriate action at least then i'd get a couple of hours off work

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 10/09/2026

the horrors will persist until morale improves

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 06/09/2026

decided to move on from a decrepit X11 WM config i had setup and moved over to using Noctalia / Umbriel forgot what it's like to have control like this (mainly because i was too lazy to update old config to make it usable...)

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 05/09/2026

don't know why people complain about Rust being complex, look at this wee thing all it's doing is saying hello and people are mean to it

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 25/08/2026

when you look at the world, sometimes you think that Algalon the Observer in the Ulduar raid of the peak MMORPG World of Warcraft had the right idea by wanting to scour all life from the face of the planet i'm sure we could all benefit by witnessing the fury of the cosmos

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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 21/08/2026

Before you say positive things about DHH because of Omarchy, a reminder that it's been like 3 weeks since he published a blog that compares Roma people to the wolves Denmark eradicated in the 1800s. He's an open, virulent racist and always has been. Everything he touches should be radioactive.

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amos @fasterthanli.me · 23/08/2026

Re: "Funding for Omarchy is good news for the Linux ecosystem overall" No it's not

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 22/08/2026

WoW 12.1 Main Plot: An untold horror has been unleashed within the Venomous Depths to wreak havoc upon the world WoW 12.1 Delve Plot: Go play Simon Says with a snake

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 21/08/2026

i always consider myself lucky that i don't work for one of those mad "grindset" tech companies that force 90+hr weeks and burn you the fuck out only to produce absolute vapourware products and pay you in imaginary equity

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emma 🍞 @bnuuy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

// SAFETY: i legit just dgaf
let range = unsafe {

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 17/08/2026

school: bell rings -> go home work: github goes down -> log off

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 16/08/2026

university: operating system fundamentals + complex algos hobby: some obfuscated nix fuckery job: 2 week wait for a one-line change + config updates

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 12/08/2026

turns out it's a bit of a rabbit hole

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 09/08/2026

maybe i should give Nix a try surely it can’t be that much of a rabbit hole

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 06/08/2026

it's a sad day when you google something and it takes you to a stack overflow post from a year ago with no responses

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 02/08/2026

all intelligence is artificial we're all born not knowing anything and then we're "trained" to know things just like the computer this is probably why i keep failing captchas to identify bicycles

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 02/08/2026

saw this on vacation i think they call this a “fixer-upper”

a dilapidated centuries old house that is in ruins with a for sale sign in front

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 27/07/2026

> npm install > 10 vulns > run npm audit fix > 17 vulns > run npm audit fix > 18 vulns > goddammit

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java as in javascript @ctierengineer.com · 26/07/2026

my holiday to the scottish hebridies is now over can't wait to get back to data hydration pipelines, dashboard monitoring, and reading brain-dead engineering takes online again

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