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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Extremely high IQ engineering going on at my company

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The amount of financial anxiety I can suddenly detect permeating the people I know in the AI sector gives me the strength to go on I have avoided commenting on speculating on when we're nearing Peak Bubble for the past two years, and I still probably wouldn't do it in the press, but by pure […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

That company that I just mentioned had their founder doing Terraria mods just announced, 28 minutes ago, that they've shut down the old startup to start a new one focused on game mods @laurentgiroud Firstly, really interesting that their startup is "mods", the exact thing that I was suspicious […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I saw a news article about the founder of an AI company "remaking a functioning Terraria" overnight I was wondering if it was just modded Terraria as a publicity stunt, and never found out, because I started poking around their product and Discord and […] [Original post on mastodon.sprawl.club]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@glyph I am intending to write about this, but you would not believe how many things pitched for executive leadership are just thinly veiled attempts to help them not address their issues in therapy (or maybe you would, but I have concrete examples of the sales pitches because I have a CEO […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@glyph I think I have somehow threaded the needle and only seen the posts where I'm not referenced but that makes my day! "Programming Isn't Special" is fantastic And yes, avoiding the temptation is hard, especially when people say that. I asked my friends to only share with me the funniest […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@glyph I did not realize you were on here! Firstly, hello, your writing rules. Secondly, never go on Hackernews 😢 I stopped reading comments a few posts ago and my life is so blissfully free of pain now that I am not imbibing from the idiot firehose

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Went off on Deloitte at a dinner, and only after the rant did one of the attendees note that they work at Deloitte I regret nothing

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Howdy! I have a client that's hiring a data engineer (ideally with Snowflake experience, but they'll take anyone smart enough to figure it out) in Canberra. I can arrange for the automated screens and the like to be skipped, and the interviews will not have any leetcode-style nonsense. I've […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I think my version of getting old and hating the youth is saying that their Pokemon are bad. Bad job. This is nothing compared to the majesty of Wobuffet

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Recently saw someone talk about their prestigious AI specialisation to a group of veterinarians, who then walked out thinking that the guy was an expert in Artificial Insemination and asked me "So what's ChatGPT?"

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

(I'm pretty sure that's the cause at least, as no one else has reported any issues)

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Discovered today that I have so many subscribers to the blog that trying to see who is subscribed crashes Mataroa GLOBALLY for 10 seconds then returns a 502 I only check once a year because I don't care, but suddenly I care about because of the comedic value

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@zzt @tael Titanfall 2 is sick as fuuuuuuuck. I was amazed to find out that Apex: Legends is a spin-off, because it was one of the dullest things I've ever played. They even took the giant robots out of it, which is a truly baffling decision

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@deliverator Gerry Weinberg mention detected* Our consulting practice is based heavily off his work

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@deliverator It probably sounds extra surprising because I might have worded that poorly and implied these are mostly programmers talking The 1GB thing will usually come from someone that has bootstrapped themselves into Extreme Excel Programming. But yes, it also comes from weak programmers […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@deliverator The highest leverage tends to be when we're helping people that don't program. We get lots of: "That won't work." "What would be illegal because of Obscure Law In This Domain." "Nope." "That... wait, that would work. So you're saying this 'SQL' thing can read ONE WHOLE GIGABYTE of […]

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Ludic 🧛 @ludicity.mastodon.sprawl.club.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

@deliverator A large part of their method (and what my team does in non-crisis scenarios) is to fill the room with the best ground staff we can find. Oftentimes this ends up being people like quiet analysts who we see have touched every little bit of code but who don't get thought of a lot by […]

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