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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

> infrastructure problem at work > I post The Answer > IT director asks two of his guys to look into the problem > 3 days later > the two guys ask me what I think > I post The Answer > they go do The Answer > it works

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Getting the urge to collect the spare computers around the house and run my own k8s cluster send help

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oven🛸 @ovengoats.world · 25/02/2026

holy fuck

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

mfs be pushin over the first domino and then be like "it's not MY fault the 6th domino fell over"

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

serverless for your main APIs never made sense to me from the jump. maybe the alternatives for autoscaling just weren't that good a decade ago

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

A lot of video-game publishers spend hundreds of millions of dollars chasing after "realistic graphics" and "massive open-worlds" when what players really want is just a shitload of weird little guys

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I actually had way too much fun using Neovim for stuff at work this week. So many little tweaks & improvements to make. I'm getting sucked in

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Reading through the section on serializability/locking and I am reminded of the time at my first job I had to rewrite a multithreaded search service on top of Lucene. Apparently I implemented 2-phase locking without knowing what it was! I just independently arrived at that design. Damn hes good

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 22/08/2025

A part of my fridge broke while under warranty. Mechanic turns up and replaces the full back panel. Asked him if debugging and fixing the fault would be an option. His response: "That would take longer because that is engineering work. They don't pay us enough to do it."

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

bloomberg.com

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make

The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I didn't know windows terminal did multiple panes, this changes everything Considering just doing that instead of running tmux in my WSL Ubuntu setup. The prefix input is really bugging me

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

One of the things I've been doing on parental leave is configuring Neovim. It's fun! Running it in WSL on my laptop, through the new windows terminal. Just need to find a decent file browser plugin and make a script that'll setup a fresh WSL distro and then I'll call it good for now

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

lmao adding getting set up on tangled.sh to my todo list wonder what happens to azdo at this point, whether they accelerate the sunsetting or finally try to roll the two products together

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qntm @qntm.org · 07/08/2025

The full OceanGate report has some incredible, deep details. Submarine pilot manual was an incomplete draft; CO2 scrubber was obviously homemade by Rush and didn't work; Rush panicking when the sub gets stuck on an earlier mission, then throwing the sub controller at his assistant pilot

4.6.9.4.3. At the time the Pilot Manual was provided to the MBI, the majority of its sections were incomplete. Many of the essential functions were “TBD” (to be determined) in the manual and there was a watermark within the pages of the manual that were consistent with that of a draft.

4.29.6.2. According to a former OceanGate Director of Engineering, the initial scrubber system in the TITAN, designed and built by Mr. Rush, was a "homemade" system that consistently failed to maintain adequate oxygen levels. This system was not in use on the final TITAN hull. The date of its replacement is unknown. The Director of Engineering provided the following testimony to the MBI:

“The scrubber was a homemade Stockton thing. I tried to get rid of it multiple times. Always was told no. It was literally made from a Tupperware container that came from Walmart or Amazon or somebody like that. It had liked a screen in the bottom with an air space underneath. You would pour the scrubber into this thing which was a granular chemical material, soap and lime is what it is, right. You'd pour that in there, and then there was a lid, a Tupperware lid that went on and in that Tupperware lid there was a computer fan. You'd attach the computer fan to a battery. That would pull air out of the environment, push it into the scrubber material and then, you know, through the grid at the bottom and out some vent somewhere. So, this thing never really kept up. If you put four people in the sub, it really couldn't keep up with the occupants' breathing rate. So -- and it looked like it was a total piece of junk. I mean it looked like a Tupperware container from Walmart with computer fan on the top.”

4.10.12.2. In testimony regarding the ANDREA DORIA expedition, the OceanGate Director of Operations, who served as the assistant pilot to Mr. Rush, described a critical moment during a dive when the CYCLOPS I became stuck under the bow of the ANDREA DORIA wreckage. The assistant pilot stated that Mr. Rush experienced a "meltdown" and refused to let him assist in resolving the situation. When a mission specialist suggested that Mr. Rush hand over the controller to the assistant pilot, the assistant pilot reported that the controller was thrown at him. Upon obtaining the controller, the assistant pilot was able to free the CYCLOPS I from the wreckage and safely navigate it back to support vessel WARREN JR.

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

my brain still goes CROSS FIYERRRR every couple of months

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 06/08/2025

3. LLMs are no deterministic and often go off rails. Hard/near-impossible to guarantee a deterministic outcome (“production-ready apps”) with a nondeterministic system But new AI startups NEED to make outrageous claims otherwise no one will use them: everyone would stick w incumbents!

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DavidPCM / Demi! @davidpcm.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

wanted to express this visually

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Heroku, more like Her-choke-u, am I right

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Saw some stuff about how LinkedIn made a new Kafka, called Northguard, plus something called Xinfra to go with it. 0% chance the source is released under an OSI-compatible license. It's 15 years later, so the MBA-havers are in charge now.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 29/07/2025

it is NORMAL and HEALTHY to know where the spawns are in the halo one campaign. these are things known by everyone. this cave is not a natural formation

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Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

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eevee @eev.ee · 24/07/2025

people are bitching at itch for "caving" and i don't know what they expect to have happened. they clearly had a gun to their head and the posts read like "i would simply have not been shot" it's easy to demand someone else's bravery from the stands, where you're not risking anything

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

> article title: Kubernetes has solved the stateful workload problem!! > look inside > proprietary operator/controller and CRD

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"you are being matched against players of your skill" says the hearthstone loading screen tip, as I queue into 6 opponents with decks I can find on ranking sites against my free starter deck at the lowest rank possible

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Next book: @martin.kleppmann.com's Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Partly for my own development, partly to nerd out, partly because I want to see whether the system I now play a large part in maintaining was done right lol

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Just finished @jasonschreier.bsky.social's Play Nice. Awesome read and filled in many of the gaps from my perspective as a player of Blizzard's games for many years. Big recommend!

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Baby #2 in the bag. I would say achievement unlocked but it's more like a prestige level

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 17/07/2025

man visits doctor. feels depressed due to job selling snake-oil to unsuspecting consumers. feels guilty for harm caused. do not worry! says doctor. I have enterprise subscription to groundbreaking new therapy platform, PagliaccAI

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rich harris @rich-harris.dev · 16/07/2025

even by HN standards this is an all-timer

screenshot of a Hacker News post complaining that Svelte is 'woke' because it emits accessibility warnings. It reads:

Why does svelte have to be this woke? Please let me write this first, i will figure out accessibility on my pace, svelte be like no, do this or we are not going to let you do it at all - we will fill your editor with warnings in a way that you can't see anything.

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Shopping while full might be worse than shopping while hungry

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Wake up, eat breakfast, run outside and find the other neighborhood kids, roam until dinner with no adult supervision, repeat I'm hoping our neighborhood now is decent enough to give the same experience to my kids, but who knows

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

deploying on a Friday just to feel something

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

who up writing they software idea down rn

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

just learned our data streaming thing handles 1.5 milly events per day, nice. it's not huge, but it's mine

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

sorry to comment on Trending Topics™ but Linda Yaccarino stepping down is entirely what was supposed to happen from the start. The CEO of X's job is to get paid a few milly to agree with the big man and take the fall when it comes. Not a bad deal tbh

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 09/07/2025

A brief history of computer science

the progressively larger dominos meme, but both sides are javascript

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I gotta start getting into tangled

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I like what I'm reading on aftermath lately. might have to send them a sub soon

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 01/07/2025

"You say you only used AI for placeholder text, but in that text was a response from the AI saying 'here's a revised version'. Here's what I don't understand - why revise placeholder text? You see my problem? It just doesn't make sense to me. Why revise something nobody was meant to see, unless..."

Peter Falk as Columbo, looking quizzically at someone off camera.

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Iykyk @lipstickscribbles.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Exceptionally thought provoking essay by @garymarcus.bsky.social clearing some clouds from the base of the perhaps infinite mountain that AGI proposes to scale. It crystalizes a key weakness in LLMs, though not useless, from taking finite data, words & statistical situationships to each other.

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Lots going on rn. Kitchen damage from the flood in January will finally be done this week. Baby 2 arrives in a couple weeks. Trying to wrap some stuff up at work before then. I need a wolfpost but for staying steady & keeping on

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lettucemode @lettucemode.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Finally finished with the porch steps rebuild. The boards aren't spaced perfectly, the walkway pavers aren't perfectly even, but it's mine and a victory for me and all of mankind. Now it's time to grill

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