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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Fuer den, der aus Holz Gold machen kann, ist ein Holzweg auch kein Holzweg mehr.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

All happy families are alike. But not many happy families use scrum.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The opposite of play is not work. The oppositte of play is depression.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

"How do you get out of maze?". Senior programmer: "Ah, I never go into a maze without a spool of yarn.". #programming #wisdom #expert

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noby @prismbeings.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

series of computer graphics fantasy artwork i made in the past few years these are all rendered with a simple custom GPU path tracer that fits in a 4 kilobyte executable, along with scene being traced

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I program and I need something that just works and I need it now. This is a moment where I don't use AI tools. What the hell? #AI #GenAI

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

“.. Fears of a bubble are mounting, as tech stocks follow a pattern that is ‘surprisingly similar’ to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s ..” @bloomberg.com $QQQ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Claire (derogatory) 🎃 @clarissakickass.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

I don’t need a self driving car. I need a vehicle that runs between major areas and can transport large numbers of people at once to reduce environmental impact…wait it’s a train. I’m describing trains. Build more goddamned TRAINS, America.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

@edzitron.com is up my alley. Computer Technology is awesome, it is the current tech mainstream + hypsters that are gargabe. Dito @garymarcus.bsky.social - AI is fucking awesome, but the current Gen AI hype is useless. Add to this that programming is supposed to be #creative. #Clojure, #Lisp

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Rational #meme: Wants to be criticised. Is better than it's alternatives because it is actually closer to the truth. Obvious in #science and #enlightment. Anti-rational meme: A meme of static societies, suppresses critizism through coercion. Hence Socrates' #dankestmeme: "I know nothing"

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

God (#religion) and the aliens running our simulated world (#simulationHypothesis) are in the exact same boat as us. What is reality, what is suffering, how to have the most fun? If religion was true, it would be a boring fact about the world. Religion is even more boring than we can suppose.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Viecher in Ruhe lassen == Integritaet und Rueckrad haben. Ihr wisst, dass es so ist. #Veganismus #vegan youtu.be/yV-X1pFdaqM?...

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Markus Rühl vs. Militante Veganerin (Analyse 2)

YouTube video by Peter Frahm Coaching

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

To #AI software tooling hypsters, I ask: "Are you sure?".

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Using #AI in a > medium sized #software project is hit 2 out of 5 times. When it works, it is a dopamine hit. The perfect pattern that also draws in gambling addicts. This model explains both the excitement and the gloom around the tools. #AIGloom

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

#FuckUpdates #Livesucking Count the hours of livesucking (both as engineer and normal world person) that #softwareUpdates have caused you recently: 20+.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

You have a function. Your lib is used by somebody. You think "I don't want this function anymore, I want it out of my life". Make a new namespace call it `lib-2`. Leave the behaviour and the code alone. Just leave stuff, jez It's called being adult and getting stuff done. #fuckUpdates #Software

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

There are 2 things that I don't like in life: 1. abstractions in config code (sorry #doomEmacs) 2. abstractions in test code When I start thinking myself into the test setup to make the damn thing green, my fingernails are crawling upwards. #software #softwareEngineeringLife

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

If you put `$` in front of shell command lines in your Readme, I cannot copy the line to execute in my shell. Am I the only one for whom this is a problem? A ``` sh .. . ``` markdown comment block is sufficient! #shell #programming #readme

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

The `j` in `conj` is the same `j` as in `Clojure`! It is the modern Lisp, hosted on the jvm. Abstractions at the bottom. One of the fundamental functions in Lisp, `cons` works on lists. In clojure, the equavlent is `conj` (clojurified) and works on the seq abstraction.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

#TechnoSpiritualism The #spritis of old are described via #software. #topDownCausation is enabled by #informationProcessing #ricing in this view is a kind of #meditation on the mental. The act of building ones own operating system shows one truths about what a good software interface is.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

`git add -- . && git commit -m 'various fixes'`

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Current #genart #art #creativity This is #clojurescript . The gallery is here: vehicles.faster-than-light-memes.xyz/art/p/not-fi... . The core algorithm is a brownian motion algorithm.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

A theory of #AGI is saying how software programs itself to be a person. AGI is #philosophy of #programming. A mind incoorporates #design - saying where this #knowledge comes from is the job of a brain theory, similar to the problem of life - it is a #epistemology. David Deutsch is cool.

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

youtu.be/DICKwl4-DF0?... very high quality linguistic analysis of speech. I love the channel. This video was making me aware of english language nuances, making me a better english speaker, and how AI generated speech get's it wrong. Accenting and Deaccenting - is fascinating.

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Why YouTubers (and AI) get these English features wrong

YouTube video by Dr Geoff Lindsey

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I follow @garymarcus.bsky.social on AI and culture. I am happy to connect to like minded people. Potentially IRL in Berlin. #gen-ai #enshittification Some ongoing blog post on enshittification and gen AI: benjamin-schwerdtner.de/gen-ai-criti...

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critic-of-pure-bogus

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@acollierastro.bsky.social Hi I'm software engineer and your AI critic is very valuable to me. I am collecting my AI / culture thoughts here: benjamin-schwerdtner.de/gen-ai-criti...

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Benjamin Schwerdtner @ftl-mentality.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

"Cracket Engineer" is a soy dev term for "hacker". But you cannot be a hacker without being a scholar of computer science. You cannot be a scholar of computer science without being interested in history. This blog post by Eric S. Raymond www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hac... is still relevant.

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How To Become A Hacker

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