Blake V & V

SWE (st) | Bootstrapped my own Zero to Freelancing | FOSS/OSS is the way | Neovim, btw | Give me Monster Eng & VimMotions = good(er) code | C/Rust/Zig is him.

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@mazeincoding So I know it sucks, I've been there.
The first thing you'll want to do is brush up on your assembly skills. Then after that you can transition into C and get the bootloader implemented, after that you're off to the races with a standard loop. Only take you 2-3 hours
Best of luck

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

X has officially peaked in content.

[lauren @poteto]

never ask a model her weights

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

The solution to this is very easy, trivial infact -

The trick is simple to never research your competition.
That’s what vibe coders do when they “just ship it”.
Literally don’t even worry and market tf outta it

[𝖒𝖔𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖌 @wanted4mogging]

if you ever have a really good idea and think “holy shit i’m going to be a billionaire, let me just research any competition…” congratulations you’re about to find out about an extremely successful company you’ve never heard of

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

A quality follow up to the earlier meme too

[Gandalfo @gandalfo]

@ArielKwiat "Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world." - Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964)

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

It might be unhinged, but he’s right ya know

[Ariel @ArielKwiat]

At this point as a software engineer I'm basically a condom for Claude

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

"We're looking for 1-2 years of experience"

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@tonbistudio @herdrdev Dude, I am so glad that herdr is getting all this attention.
It’s the only thing that I’ve found that actually maps close enough to tmux that it doesn’t feel alien (atleast OOTB).
Once it gets enough attention for major UX improvements it’s gonna be such a great tool!

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

Average corporate experience tbh

[Alex Zenciks @alexzenciks]

@awsdevelopers wonder if you had to go through 14 layers of management to get this slightly edgy tweet out

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@ptr_to_joel You’re telling me bro 😭

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@hibakod That post went from independent to communist real fast

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@haydendevs The homie:
>”im strapped, pull up!”
How the homie pulls up:

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

Unhinged sure.
But strikingly relevant to Java devs in today’s world too

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Programmers today: "boo-hoo your language sucks! 😭"
Dijkstra in the past:

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@Teknium Yo Tek, I have a suggestion - can we get a Nous endpoint that always routes through your free models so I can stick it in fallback providers?
Y’all get so many deals and it’s hard to keep up fr fr

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@ptr_to_joel The only long running task you need to plan for with an on-prem model is how to have it token Max its own worm so that you have back door access later

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@ptr_to_joel “Got one prompt l, one prompt, one agent - will you capture this or let it be inferred?
Harness clogged,
Tokens slow,
There’s slop all up in your project,
Claude’s spaghetti.
Blowah!”

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

@ptr_to_joel Nooooooo

[IroncladDev @IroncladDev]

At my last job, they were looking for a senior React Native + Rust dev with 5 years of professional experience

I had never developed in React Native. I'd never touched Rust before. Completely underqualified.

The only reason why I got an interview is because I met and talked to one of the company's employees in-person.

Despite being a junior with less than a year of professional experience (I had just turned 18), I was hired full-time.

I was thrown into the deep end. I went from making small web PRs to diving into the React Native codebase. I didn't really touch the Rust code but I read a lot of it.

By the time tech layoffs hit, I was the second-to-top contributor of all time (despite writing 95% of my code by hand) and had helped to lead the development of countless major projects.

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Unlike what they say nowadays, you don't need to lie on your resume. Just send it in.

What you really need is someone who is willing to invest in you, who can get you past the recruiters.

The best way to do that is to meet up with people and talk to them in-person.

If I hadn't gone to that in-person tech conference three years ago, I wouldn't have had that job.

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Despite having done frontend/mobile for my whole career, I'm currently interviewing for a few roles that I'm completely underqualified for, including a Senior DevOps role that requires prior experience.

Deja Vu.

I talked to someone at a tech conference.

They connected me to someone who got me past the recruiters.

Removing the middle man and the barriers between you and the job market is that easy.

Go forth, my unemployed brothers; meet people, talk to people, and show them what you're capable of.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Valve says the global memory shortage isn’t improving, warning that RAM and SSD prices are likely to keep rising.

“There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, honestly. It’s still getting worse.”

Valve says memory manufacturers are focusing on high-end chips for AI servers, leaving less supply for consumer hardware.

“Things that were commodity items a year or two ago… now you have to negotiate really hard just to secure a few thousand. And there are so many more people in line in front of you.”

Valve sees no improvement anytime soon.

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

Sony doing Sony things… as usual ig. Anyone remember Helldivers? Or any of the other hundreds of things?? No, just me??

[Skrammz @skrammz]

@Pirat_Nation As a reminder, Sony NOW thinks it is a good idea to hold all your games digitally on a hard drive. Instead of an optical disk that is not being effected by the RAM and SSD shortage.

[Blake V & V @TheOnlyDwarf]

I’ve said it’s only a matter of time before storage mediums (HDD/SSD) start getting the same treatment (as RAM) too. Trying to people that already have enough RAM & GPU to run local models from even being able to store them and cutting yet another avenue for the free people

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Valve says the global memory shortage isn’t improving, warning that RAM and SSD prices are likely to keep rising.

“There’s no light at the end of the tunnel, honestly. It’s still getting worse.”

Valve says memory manufacturers are focusing on high-end chips for AI servers, leaving less supply for consumer hardware.

“Things that were commodity items a year or two ago… now you have to negotiate really hard just to secure a few thousand. And there are so many more people in line in front of you.”

Valve sees no improvement anytime soon.