Judd Vinet

Software Engineer, Creator of Arch Linux, Pretty good typist

[Ayaan 🐧 @twtayaan]

The volunteers bringing Linux to Apple MacBooks are almost ready to ship it on the M3, with zero help from Apple.

This is Asahi Linux. A tiny team that has spent years reverse-engineering Apple Silicon from scratch.

And they are getting dangerously close.

Webcam support now works on M3. USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt work too. The team had to reverse-engineer Apple's changing USB controller designs just to get there.

A full M3 release is expected in the coming weeks. And they're already working on M4.

The funny part? Apple never opened a single door for them.

Yet they kept picking the locks anyway.

[Adam @adamdotdev]

I find it very funny when anyone feels confident that they've figured out agentic programming, even funnier when they're trying to teach others how to do it. I've been working on OpenCode since May of last year and I still have days (like yesterday) where I'm not even sure any of this is a good idea lol

I end up landing on "yes, these models are an incredible tool" but it's still all very confusing, lots of tangled thoughts and emotions and realities.

I badly miss the mundane coding tasks that broke up my days/weeks, the ones where you put on the headphones and just bang out 600 lines of code. But, no question, replacing those hours of my time with a few minutes of waiting on an agent is a boost and worth being excited about, despite the mixed emotions.

Then there's the distance that can creep in between you and the codebase if you start getting apathetic. I think it's pretty common at this point to make even small changes by prompting the models. It's less friction than finding the relevant code and making the change yourself. And less friction seems to win, must be some law of the universe or some shit. When most or all of your interactions with a codebase start flowing through the models, you start to lose track of where things live, which abstractions/components are carrying the weight, etc. It's a scary feeling to wake up and realizing you can't even reliably @<mention> a precise file for a change you want to make, and you have to get more vague, leaning harder on the model.

It all creeps up on you, there's an undeniable dopamine hit from using these things, and the resulting come down is predictable, like coming off a sugar high. On the positive side, it's really nice seeing other devs go through the same cycles, knowing we're all in this together and we'll ultimately figure it out.

[Brian Merchant @bcmerchant]

The future* is here!

*paying extra for the luxury of speaking to a human representative of the company you have purchased a good or service from to ensure said good or service actually works because the automated help center labyrinth they've installed is impossible to navigate

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

Happy birthday, you little weirdo. Your constant build cycles heat my uni bedroom in the winter. https://t.co/HVwpPRbBss

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

Just setup a @Tailscale VPN mesh network in about 5 minutes and it Just Works. Probably the easiest network-based task I've ever done. What a fantastic product.

[Vess @VessOnSecurity]

1970: We're going to build a global network that can withstand a nuclear war.

2021: AWS is down and my coffee machine doesn't work.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Charlie Munger said "show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."

A great way to learn this lessons: look at poorly-designed rules (AKA bad incentives) that had unintended consequences.

Here are 10 examples 🧵

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

@burgessdryan QBASIC.EXE

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Browsing the web, 2021

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

@thejonotron @jesselearmonth I tried this with my student loan repayments. Immense backfire.

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

@thejonotron @firefox @googlechrome If a site is built to work with Chrome and only Chrome, I use a Chromium-based alternative like Brave. I never need Chrome anymore.

[Shit User Story @ShitUserStory]

As a...
– potential customer
I want to...
– call for pricing
so that...
– I can enjoy a sales pitch and product demo

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

Finally, everyone can stop waking up and thinking "Geez, I wish I had a TUI-based cookie mgmt program for Chromium-based engines such as Qutebrowser."

🎉Ta da! https://t.co/BdGcHOexJT

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

The only thing worse than not knowing why something's broken is not knowing why it's working...

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

Verifying myself: I am jvinet on https://t.co/ebs7P3bFmI. ohTGMlywGUY_q_iM_f1Z9Op0g4rtclebzBup / https://t.co/JxMYxZTSww

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

LIVE on #Periscope: Jesse buys 50-50 https://t.co/EoZAwTUEA0

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

Toyota ad hijacks Siri to switch off iPhones while driving - http://t.co/QByjmYqvHB

[Mark O'Neill @TheMarkONeill]

@juddv here's the original blog post pointer https://t.co/8zbu7HvdOC Great to see the API Mullet become such a meme!

[Judd Vinet @juddv]

"API Mullet -- all SOAP in the back, all REST in the front." New term coined (credit to WaxProlix on HN).

[Max Howell @mxcl]

Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.