shubham dhama

software engineer

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

my clanker trying to build data intensive applications

[Appwrite @appwrite]

Opus 4.6 lately

[Thorsten Ball @thorstenball]

You scroll through here and it's

• more layoffs will follow
• no one's hiring right now
• there will be more software than ever
• there will be more software engineers than ever
• software is dead
• this is depressing
• i'm having more fun than ever

No one knows.

[Alexander Embiricos @embirico]

📣 Open call to agent builders: Let's read agent skills from `.agents/skills`, so people don't have to manage separate folders per agent.

Today we pulled the trigger for Codex to read `.agents/skills`. Goal is to deprecate `.codex/skills`.

Pls like/tag/RT for momentum.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Imagine if all major tech companies took outages as seriously, and held themselves accountable publicly as Cloudflare does.

But 99% of them do not: and so I trust Cloudflare more than almost any other company (including the hyperscalers).

Cloudflare next level in transparency

[Rosalind @rosalindmar19]

Kurt Vonnegut on buying an envelope

[Klaas @forgebitz]

"asia is amazing, everything is perfect!"

- remote worker with 40x local income

[Simon Eskildsen @Sirupsen]

we've been accepting more or less every invite for a few months now. we finally shipped a signup form :)

[Pravar @bengawalk]

Alas! Once again pipes have appeared

[🦉 @macroschema]

An average sidewalk in

France

Turkey

China

India

[Tyler Angert @tylerangert]

someone at @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI please let me export a chat as markdown. maybe even xml separated too.

[Kenneth Cassel @KennethCassel]

the male urge to buy the abandoned first large scale power plant in your city and turn it into a high tech manufacturing facility

[Cynthia @yescynfria]

there should be an easier way to release silly little apps to just ur friends without needing the app store

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

My theory why quality is so rare is that it is rare to have people care for their work or allowed to care for their work.

The culture shifted from people doing their craft to fastest way to check the checkbox
https://t.co/v1BWuArhKE

[Hannah Fry @FryRsquared]

An extraordinary day. Massive congratulations @demishassabis, John Jumper & the whole team at @GoogleDeepMind on your Nobel Prize.

If you want to hear the full story on this incredible scientific achievement and how significant it will be for our collective future, you can listen to @Googledeepmind podcast: https://t.co/PrIzJIiMVo

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

[giatt @1owroller]

>linux kernel developer
>no syntax highlighting
>no LSP
>one terminal window, no tmux
>literally just rawdogging terminal and barebones vi
>writes USB driver from scratch in just 3h

what's your excuse anon?

[gaut @0xgaut]

modern engineering

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Burnout happens when there is no progress. Burnout also happens when you have no visibility into how dots will connect in the future. Burnout is about not being able to close the loop after putting a ton of effort and not seeing enough results.