Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy

Working full time on an open source internet search engine. Acting librarian of the weird corners of the web.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

Today is the day. I left the office for the last time an hour ago. Time sheets filed, corporate laptop handed in, goodbyes said.

I'm now working full time on Marginalia Search.

https://t.co/1Yk1rEerfz

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@vaxryy Could try rasdaemon but if there's nothing in the kernel log it sounds like bad hardware tbh.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@vaxryy Right, says so in the corner. Thought he was encased in cement or something. The dude has strong opinions, but that seems excessively harsh.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@chrisalbon To be fair that plate could be large enough to fit a family size pizza for all the referential bananas we're given.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@awesomekling Me last week: Finally done with my grant-funded work. I should take some time off to unwind after these 60 hour weeks I've put myself through!

Me this weekend: 6 random bugfixes, crawler disk I/O cut in half, and one major new feature in the pipe.

Why it gotta be like this?

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@vaxryy I like to think that the literally first thing you do when you come home is immediately drop everything and rush to your computer and type `sudo pacman -Syu`.

Never must the bleeding edge dull from indolence.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@awesomekling It's the youtube crabs.

https://t.co/cxpcGqLwtg

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@shotgundotdev Really got a Reginald's face.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@exacoustics @awesomekling Yeah this is from the communications graph having n(n-1)/2 edges if it has n vertices, along with Conway's law.

Though I think this is arguably an upper bound. Many organizations scale much worse than this.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@trevorlasn @awesomekling Programming has always scaled spectacularly poorly with team size.

The team of 15 is to protect the business against the risk of critical people leaving or burning out. Gambling on this is how startups have been able to compete with bigger and more risk averse companies.

[Klara @klara_sjo]

Take me down to the parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@awesomekling I'm currently lobbying for Lawrence of Arabia. At "but it's just a bunch of sand". Wish me luck.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@vaxryy @gnukeith I wouldn't call the random-ass patchwork of 3rd party patches and mixed concerns that make up kernel namespaces a "very secure platform". There certainly was an attempt, but it's hard to make secure namespaces if you only start thinking about that stuff 20 years in.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@ptr_to_joel Name a more famous duo than Oracle engineers working around to clock to make Java fast and correct, and Java developers working around the clock to make Java programs still be slow and buggy.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@vaxryy Use a declarative configuration language, or risk turning into neovim with a 45 minute start up and constant coil whine as some random ass transitive dependency you pulled mines bitcoins on your GPU to fund their author's krokodil addiciton.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@joakial_ The Red Wedding was a basically unchanged retelling of that one time we let Danes into Stockholm.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

@monospacegames I very much have a sense that the open social web is an evaporating ocean, rapidly turning into an inhospitable salty death zone full of bots, shills, and influence campaigns, a mocking imitation of the people that used to be around.

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

All you need to understand the state of LinkedIn and HN the last few months can be found in this openclaw template:

https://t.co/FiSNAkKreS

[Viktor Lofgren | Marginalia Search Guy @MarginaliaNu]

If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines them in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.