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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 26/05/2025

Man this is great. Hope y’all are having a blast. Gonna give that 1996 classic album a spin tonight 🍻

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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 21/05/2025

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.

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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 21/05/2025

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.

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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 19/05/2025

Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

Elliott protagonist, Mr. Robot

Awkward, suspicious, black hoodie, black backpack

Jack Hodgins, Bones

Suspicious, bearded, curly hair, grey hoodie under a royal blue lab coat

Emmett “Doc” Brown, Back to the Future

Serene, balding, unruly mop of white hair. White jumpsuit.

Basher Tarr, Ocean’s 11 (2001)

Hunched and anxious. Red windbreaker and matching hat. Goatee. Clutching a remote detonator.

Time to start ordering better snacks for the break room, bossman.

Horse ebooks tried to tell us

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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.

Disney's FastPass: A Complicated History

My teen found this on YouTube and it was *fascinating*. youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE?...

youtu.be

YouTube video by Defunctland

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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 17/05/2025

Lots of PEOPLE are LOOKING at your profile 🙌🏻

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Did he at least turn in a rockstar performance once y’all got moving?

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Looking forward to the blameless post mortem

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Cousin, is Abby a plant? 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.

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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?

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

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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.

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

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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...

Sounds like the kind of guy who’d be super motivated to improve the lives of all the little people out there by trimming federal budgets with a magic wand

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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 13/05/2025

Maybe he asked the students to provide written instructions for doing something highly illegal.

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It’s on Wikipedia now guy, keep up

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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 13/05/2025

The dialog below his exes says “Would you like to see more from this poster? [yes] ”

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I can’t really blame the optimistic public for treating this stuff like a slot machine that *might* drop a working program on them when the cost per pull is so much less than a professional programmer’s monthly rate. Just a few more pulls and it’s sure to hit the jackpot.

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Seeing how the “Before you submit…” checklist goes all the way to 25(!) feels like a dare. Are you challenging fans to innovate entirely new genres of unsuitable work?

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I get it. Anything I ever wrote or recorded without an editor or a producer came out as an improbably glorious flaming heap in danger of collapsing under its own weight — videos, blogs, programming, etc. etc. Once the creative act is completed there’s not much energy left for polish.

Sometimes laypeople don’t know what good production values are so much as they can sense the lack of ‘em 🤷

Anyway interviews are mostly vibes no matter how objective people claim they’re being, just keep your chin up and there’s a decent chance they’ll like what they see no matter how rusty you might be feeling

The job wasn’t one that demanded a world-class Ruby expert either, so it was odd to get bounced immediately after that interview rather than one more directly relevant to the position as described 🤷🏼‍♂️

A certain near-IPO company failed me after a Ruby deep-dive interview a couple years back despite my having previously written it six years straight *and* publishing a whole book full of my own Ruby code.

Sounds like the most popular use cases amongst devs are “read stack trace” and “write unit test” which are both key activities in growing one’s abilities year over year. I really wonder how folks are going to keep learning if they successfully outsource everything but the writing of core features.

“What happens when you only have to send one request instead of 20?”

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Nice. Idk how anyone can work in this field without an insatiable curiosity for automating everything around them.

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1) convoluted scheme to force everyone to drive Miatas 2) people get fresh air and sunshine and inexorably remember how to enjoy the little things 3) ???? 4) world peace

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What all does that entail in the contemporary games space anyway? Bazel farms? CI pipeline yaml tweaks and optimization? Crunching assets into a matrix of lower-res options for different targets?

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Damn, hope your week gets better soon.

Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 07/05/2025

I gasped, surely plain text is the most normalest

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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 04/05/2025

Whenever I script things I try to make sure the actual parameterized bash* commands that get run are printed on the screen so fellow engineers are never far from being able to see the moment things went off the rails. Basically, `set +vx` anywhere I can get away with it

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Daniel Pritchett @dpritchett.net · 04/05/2025

I’m still cranky at a Twitter-famous tech PhD for suggesting it was better *not* to share actual the corporate data behind their runaway success of a business book. Laypeople wouldn’t know what to make of it, or something. That and corps wouldn’t share without expectation of secrecy.