Boris Gordon

working programmer. eat, drink, refactor, repeat

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

@ThePrimeagen @bcherny The coding was easy; when they finally talked to users and worked out how to plan it correctly (the hard parts) then coding was instant and finally debugging could begin.

Welcome to the new SDLC.

Yes, we’re cooked.

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

@addyosmani @techgirl1908 “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.” 🙈 ⌨️

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

We truly have reached the era of “a million monkeys typing”-driven development (MMTDD).

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/hIe0UX7z6T

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

I must be looping it wrong.

[htmx.org / CEO of Bad Flags (same thing) @htmx_org]

we should have been checking our dependency source into our repos the whole time, btw

resolving dependencies at deploy time was always completely insane and i say this as an older gentleman pretending to be a horse with lasers shooting from its eyes online to remain relevant

[Michael Nygard @mtnygard]

Behind every increment of enshittification you’ll find a product manager hitting their OKR.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

When they don't say *who* attacked, you know it is (what is currently known as) the state of Israel.

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

@thdxr Spot on but they assume people even know what problem they’re solving to begin with.

[Joran Dirk Greef @jorandirkgreef]

As an industry we debate languages and tools, but the goals are more important.

https://t.co/MUXRalFkvd

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

Indeed the answer is always “you’re prompting it wrong”.

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

@thorstenball I assume you’ve got data etc. as you guys seem to know what you’re doing but hopefully you can empathise with the whiplash caused following you and @mattpocockuk and others with constantly conflicting recommendations.
Just wondering if there’s a reason other than your eval data.

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

It’s been interesting seeing “engineers” realise they never bothered to practice design. More painful learnings to come courtesy of these new accelerators.

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

An internal Slack post I shared with the Amp team a few weeks ago:

Building software is learning.

https://t.co/gasUel9aAv

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

@thorstenball While I’ve got you here is there a simple explanation for why many insist on handoff style context management but amp now does the 90% compact thing and eschews handoff?
Is there some “it depends” that hasn’t been made clear or is everyone else behind?

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

You cannot make this up: Meta nuked teams like Integrity so bad that services are without oncall coverage 💀

Let me spell it out: it’s more important for Zuck to reassign devs from security/integrity teams to do data labelling than for these teams to have functioning oncalls…

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Finito.
I used to hold those who support Israel in moral disgust, eliciting a deep visceral revulsion.
Today I hold ALL those not disgusted by Israel in moral disgust.
Life is too short to tolerate evil & abettors of evil.

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

We are cooked

[Rhys @RhysSullivan]

software engineering is solved btw

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

How to manufacture consent:

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

@EarthOddysey @toghrul37 @academic_la Ah yes the Area C that Israel agreed to be “gradually transferred to Palestinian jurisdiction”.
I know, i know, an irrelevant detail. Those Bedouins should just be patient and fill out some more forms. Or if they get tired of that they’re free to leave right? What a vibe.

[Boris Gordon @boztek]

@EarthOddysey @toghrul37 @academic_la How’s this for law - you’re not allowed to forcibly transfer occupied populations or move your people in. Period. Weird to get obsessed by rules all of a sudden; Israeli gov admits openly to violating the spirit if not the letter of Oslo.
Would you be more comfortable with vibes?