colin

sr text file editor, dad, and husband. i know how to break things in creative ways.

[colin @colineckert]

my 2024 @Neovim config, heavily inspired by @ThePrimeagen with minimal plugins. not to be touched for ~6 months. pretty happy with it

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

LIFT IT UP ©️

[WhatsApp @WhatsApp]

we love you @arsenal, we do 🏆

[colin @colineckert]

what a club. what a group of players and fanbase. what a story. COYG!

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Premier League @premierleague]

🏆 ARSENAL ARE CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

ARSENAL ARE THE 2025/26 PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! 🏆🔴

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.

I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).

It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.

The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.

We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.

I worry.

[Footy Humour @FootyHumour]

Arsenal fans to Everton

[colin @colineckert]

what’s wrong with games looking like games?

[Mo @atmoio]

AI is making CEOs delusional

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

Video games are a healthier use of time than social media scrolling.

[heiner @HeinrichKuttler]

I liked Sweeney before, now I'm a fan.

[colin @colineckert]

just spent 2 hrs coding in neovim without copilot bc i ran out of free completions

…i forgot how fun programming is

[colin @colineckert]

absolute boss

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This guy… 😎

[colin @colineckert]

@afcstuff 10/10, without question

[Lord of the Rings Memes @TheLOTRMemes]

The perfect day

[FFmpeg @FFmpeg]

It's important to remember that "technology influencers" can be bad role models. Many encourage people to be "fans of technology" instead of actual developers of technology.

Hot takes are easy, writing good code is not.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Be wary of people who spew AI hype and screenshot their army of agents but don't seem to be shipping anything but demos. I'm a big fan of AI assistance and use agents and chat everyday, but there's a ton of engagement farming happening out there.

[colin @colineckert]

My Top 10 Games Of All Time (no particular order):

Mass Effect trilogy
Skyrim
Dragon Age Origins
The Last of Us
The Witcher 3
Elden Ring
Halo 2
Oblivion
Uncharted series
KCD 2

[Vara Dark @Vara_Dark]

Here’s my Top 10 Games Of All Time:

Elden Ring
Arkhamverse (City, Origins, Asylum, Knight. Yeah I’m cheating with all 4 sue me 🤣 )
Knights of the Old Republic
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Lies of P
Resident Evil 2 (Both OG and Remake are amazing)
TLoZ: Twilight Princess
Bloodborne
The Witcher (All 3)
Final Fantasy 16

VERY close contenders! Dante’s Inferno, Lollipop Chainsaw, Silent Hill, Rule of Rose, Bayonetta 2, Halo 2, Black Myth Wukong, TLoZ: Ocarina of Time/ Majoras, Resident Evil 4, Super Mario 64, Minish Cap, Skyward Sword (if it wasn’t for the at times insanely janky controls) and Skyrim (way better with mods though)