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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

It is 2025 and the first key you press when Windows displaying the lock screen is not typed into the password box that is displayed in response. I curse for every redundant key stroke I have to perform.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Indeed. I work in healthcare, and it is such a strong phenomenon: when it comes to processing information, clinicians work via "unite and conquer," engineers work via divine and conquer. Chaoes ensues.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

If you'll read one thread today...

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

That's a sufficiently large voter base for a party that'd become the government in many countries. Hold my beer Greens party.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

There are two ways to write code that works but you have no idea how. Stochastically, using an LLM, or deterministically using an ML variant.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I say a lot of bad things about the javascript/css driven Web UI stacks, but then I go back and check out how Uno/Blazor/Avalonia is going, and you know what? JS won. It does not matter if we like it or not. For the Web UI, JS won.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I just have to ask: does anybody have the source for this?

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Reusable in so many countries right now.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

AI has also given politicians a golden, shiny can to put things in and kick down the road. Just say that all the holes in your policy and logic will be filled by AI.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Do you like vibe coding? Why not try seeing a "vibe treating" doctor next time you feel unwell?

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Re all that being said about StackOverflow dying, yes LLMs played a part, but how the moderation was done and the culture that formed mainly around moderation, which then extended to comments and discourse in general also played a part. LLMs do not judge or patronise.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Especially if she's allergic.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

This is just ... beautiful. BatmanJuice? BeetleBat ? I'd love, love to see that movie made. What Carrey did in The Mask would be left in the dust (no rhyme intended...)

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Re the so called Brexit reset (which is not, at all), the so called wins are not diluting Brexit as some suggest. They're just plastering over the massive harm it has done. Using the e-gates? Give me back my freedom to live and work in any EU country, and I'll accept a 2 hr wait every time.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This is not a pleasant read.

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Matt Craddock @mattcraddock.com · 17/05/2025

Big savings down at Aldi

A price label for a pineapple from Aldi. The price has been reduced from 99p to 98p

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I am really not sure we're actually living in .. you know... reality www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9Z...

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Andrew Santino | You Know What I Want At The Border?

YouTube video by Comedy Corner

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

You're the hare, and I am the tortoise my friend

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Ok, now people are using AI to write their emails, which takes mere seconds for the LLM to spit out. I then have to spend an hour to respond to all the horseshite it produced. I'll have to start asking people not to do this.

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Ashley Willis-McNamara @ashley.dev · 13/05/2025

There are a lot of incredibly talented people on the job market right now. Many of my friends in DevRel, OSPO, program management, and engineering are looking for their next role, some have been searching for months. If you’re hiring, please consider sharing a link to your open roles below. TY ❤️

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

If it can not deliver the wild promises thrown around, it may replace 90% of the CEOs making those promises too. Just saying 😉

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Why do we have to pay for access to European Standards? Are they not funded by European taxpayers? Assume it is to ensure non European parties do not have access them for free, but isn't the point of standards to ensure as many parties as possible align/comply with them? Why hide them then?

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A sensible tear-down of the impossible promises policies which became mainstream globally. However, similar to others it fails to be infuriating because it just refuses to mention how much of the intractable problems that feed these policies are down to Brexit. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Nigel Farage’s snake oil is the strongest available

Anyone who thinks the Reform man is telling hard truths is not listening

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I saw a "90s and 2000s vintage shop" today, and it was my wife who stopped me from resorting to violence.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I've been using Kagi for a week now instead of google. No problems, no disappointments re usefulness of results compared to google. I am paying for starter, but I know that I'm not the product here and that, to my surprise, matters a lot to me now than it would just a few years back.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A great test of one's willingness to remain sane is the "but it wasn't done properly" brigade Regardless of how obviously spectacularly bad the idea was, it failed because it wasn't done properly. He jumped off a cliff and died? Well, he obviously didn't jump properly, isn't it?

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I just checked twitter after a long time and ... it is ... man, what's that??! Following tab has accounts I am not following vomiting AI clickbait slop. Lots of technical accounts I used to follow seems to have remained though

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Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you #RenaissanceHorses 🐴

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The thing about software is, no matter how absurd an idea coming from another dev sounds to you, there's always at least one other dev to find it sensible and plausible and at least one other to say they did it and it worked. Just remember life is a blip and move on.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

To the person responsible for the parfume that makes women walk around smelling like jars of jam. For the love of whatever that's holy for you, please stop.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The first thing you need to get rid of for a successful career is your sense of fairness.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The problem we have as software developers is not the possibility that LLMs can take our jobs. The problem is employers and market taking that possibility as certainty. Being right doesn't matter when you're unemployed. Also, disrupting labour intensive industries is too attractive for capital.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Carlito's Way. De Palma has a trick or two, doesn't he? Those last 15, 20 minutes. The shots, the tension, the finale. Wow.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

As in, "What's common between Netflix and potatoes?"

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I mean... That's deep isn't it?

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Bodega Cats of New York @bodegacatsofny.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

NYC’s Working Cats: The Bodega Cat Fundraiser is LIVE at www.bodegacatfundraiser.com Raising $30K by June 30 for NYC’s bodega cats. This initiative celebrates the four-legged managers who’ve become part of our neighborhood fabric. @bodegacats.bsky.social 🙌

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

There's now a whole group of people who collectively turned into some variant of Eric Cartman screaming in front of AI based coding tools: Respect my authority!!!!

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Racoon here, guilty as charged. Scandinavian architect (a.k.a. wife) laughed out loud, btw

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What happened to sci-fi movies? Why is no one filming decent sci-fi ? Is there a streaming channel where some form of creativity still lives? It's all variations on a theme: some CGI monsters ate the world and we're surviving despite our annoying teenager kid(s) trying get us all killed.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

When dreams of stochastic models come true...

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I installed lunux for the first time in 1995 with Slack. 30 years on, it still bricks itself for no reason. The year of the linux desktop won't be 2025 either, I guess.

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Seref Arikan @seref.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Good read. There was also a brilliant BBC Sounds episode a few years back about scientists who found a type of coffee that was only mentioned in a Victorian explorer's notes, then managed to find a single plant in the wild, somewhere in Africa or south America

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