DanTheBuilder

0.1x engineer #grayTribe

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

Why are there tears going down my face

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

It’s 2018 and your coworker just sent you a 400 line pull request.

You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it.

It’s beautiful. Elegant micro-refactors. Crispy method names.

You catch a few things, but that’s ok. It’s part of the dance. They didn’t consider extensibility on part of their API. Here’s a comment buddy.

They respond in an hour saying they think we should do one piece differently than your comment. Hey let’s jump into a room and figure it out. We can’t just agree to disagree, this code is too important.

The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of ownership and accomplishment.

That night you go to sleep and dream of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids, your IDE syntax highlighting sparking neurons in your reptile brain.

You go to work the next day ready to go. You understand the system. N is your foundation. Time to build n+1.

[chloe 🐇 @SapphoSys]

world's first enterprise solution to reach zero nines uptime

[Mo @atmoio]

AI is making CEOs delusional

[Adam Rankin @rankintweets]

this line in our AGENTS.md has done more for agent code quality than any skill ever will

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

It was about Tylenol… Tylenol. Goddamn. Anything to make us forget about the Epstein files

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

They think we didn’t know?

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

@Compurnicus This image is so blursed

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

okay which one of you thought it would be a good idea to make people enter their email address on their smart tv

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

@Compurnicus HE DID IT

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

@Compurnicus Just remembered I had a Twitter account lol

That sounds about right to me haaha

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

I love routine

Until I'm bored, then I love excitement

Until I'm overwhelmed, then I love routine

[Barrett Linburg @DallasAptGP]

GOV: We have a housing crisis. Prices are too high.

ME: I agree. Supply is too low.

GOV: So we have a plan. We’re going to subsidize demand.

ME: …What does that mean?

GOV: We’re going to give people money to buy houses.

ME: But there aren't enough houses.

GOV: Right. So we’ll help them bid harder.

ME: If you have 10 people fighting for 1 house, and you give them all cash... the price just goes up.

GOV: Then we’ll give them more cash.

ME: That’s not a solution. That’s inflation.

GOV: It’s "First Time Homebuyer Assistance."

ME: Okay, let’s back up. Why are houses so expensive in the first place?

GOV: Because we made them the perfect investment vehicle.

ME: How?

GOV: First, the 30-year fixed mortgage.

ME: That’s standard, right?

GOV: Only in America. In other countries, rates float. Here, you can lock in a low rate for three decades.

ME: Why would a bank take that risk? If inflation goes up, they lose money.

GOV: Banks don’t take the risk. They sell the loan to us.

ME: To the government?

GOV: To Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We guarantee the liquidity.

ME: So the taxpayer subsidizes the risk so I can have cheap leverage?

GOV: Correct.

ME: And then I get to deduct the interest?

GOV: Only on the first $750,000 of debt.

ME: That seems... high.

GOV: It used to be a million. We trimmed it.

ME: But wait. If I rent, can I deduct my rent?

GOV: No.

ME: If I buy a small business, can I deduct the interest on the loan?

GOV: It’s complicated.

ME: But if I buy a giant house, I definitely can?

GOV: Absolutely. We wrote it into the tax code.

ME: So you’re paying me to borrow money to buy a bigger house than I need.

GOV: We’re "incentivizing ownership."

ME: What happens when I sell?

GOV: The Capital Gains Exclusion!

ME: How does that work?

GOV: If you sell a stock for a $500,000 profit, you pay taxes.

ME: Roughly 20%.

GOV: If you sell your house for a $500,000 profit?

ME: What do I pay?

GOV: Zero.

ME: Zero tax?

GOV: As long as you lived there for two years.

ME: So housing is the only asset class where I get subsidized 30-year leverage and tax-free profits?

GOV: Pretty sweet deal, right?

ME: So you turned shelter into a speculative financial asset.

GOV: We call it "Generational Wealth."

ME: Okay, so demand is juiced to the moon. Can we at least build more supply to bring prices down?

GOV: Oh, absolutely not.

ME: Why?

GOV: Zoning.

ME: I own land. Can I build a duplex?

GOV: Illegal. Single-family only.

ME: Can I build a granny flat?

GOV: Only if you provide two parking spots and pass a shadow study.

ME: So you made it illegal to build cheaper housing?

GOV: We protect "Neighborhood Character."

ME: But you spend billions on roads and utilities for the suburbs.

GOV: Infrastructure investment.

ME: So you subsidize the expensive sprawl, but ban the cheap density?

GOV: Now you’re getting it.

ME: This system seems designed to keep prices high.

GOV: It is.

ME: But you started this conversation by saying we have an "Affordability Crisis."

GOV: We do. Prices are too high!

ME: So we should lower them?

GOV: No! We can’t lower prices.

ME: Why not?

GOV: Because then the voters lose their "Generational Wealth."

ME: So we need high prices for the voters... and low prices for the buyers?

GOV: Exactly.

ME: That’s a paradox.

GOV: It’s politics.

ME: So what is your actual plan?

GOV: We’re going to give first-time buyers $25,000.

ME: Okay. I’m a seller. I list my house for $400,000.

GOV: Uh huh.

ME: I know every buyer just got a free $25,000 from the government.

GOV: Right.

ME: What do I do?

GOV: You... keep the price the same?

ME: I raise the price to $425,000.

GOV: You wouldn't.

ME: I absolutely would. The buyer can afford it now.

GOV: But that just transfers the subsidy from the poor buyer to the rich seller!

ME: Econ 101.

GOV: We don’t think that will happen.

ME: Just like you didn’t think $7,500 EV credits would make Ford raise the price of the F-150 Lightning by exactly $7,500?

GOV: That was a coincidence.

ME: You are trapping us in a box.

GOV: It’s not a box.

ME: What is it?

GOV: It’s a Single Family Home with a 2.5% mortgage rate that you can never afford to sell.

ME: ...

GOV: Welcome to the American Dream.

[blue @bluewmist]

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it’s called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don’t care, but because you care too much.

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

Honestly not even shocked anymore @DoorDash @UberEats

[Jesse @d0wnsideofme]

holy fucking shit

[Crazy @Cr4zy0_0]

The scariest variable here is "2017."

That is an 8-year window where every internet-facing Mongo instance was essentially a public kiosk.

If you think this was just "discovered," you are naive. State actors and APT groups have likely been harvesting this memory bleed for half a decade. We are just reading the autopsy report.

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

Okay this might actually be the best link I can send to someone the next time they tell me to build something in Rust and HTMX

https://t.co/f9Kku5xo3C

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

@DramaIsMyAura What

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

@gpt_alex Sign of the times

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

@Compurnicus @posthog The answer is always no

[Håkon Fløystad @hakflo]

be me
universe maintenance intern
assigned to “Program 42”
job description just says “ensure meaning continues”
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every cycle, check if the Program halts
if it halts, restart it
if it doesn’t halt, record output
problem: the output is always “42”
ask supervisor if that’s normal
he says “yes, as long as it halts”
ask “how do I know if it halts?”
he says “check the output”
“but the output only happens if it halts”
“then check if it halted”
“how?”
“by reading the output”
catch-42.exe
start debugging universe
realize I am part of the code
realize checking if I halt makes me halt
panic, decide not to check
output “42” anyway
universe continues
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[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

@recap_david ADTHIEF

[DanTheBuilder @dan_thebuilder]

@iyoushetwt @Compurnicus is this your next OS project?