Stephen Farmer

Husband, daddy, grandfather, and software developer with a woodworking problem.

[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

@johnsdvorak You were great on the show. I'd love to hear you talk more about technical things. I could sense that Andrew was, for topical reasons, reigning in a voice who had a lot to share.

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[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

@SirajAHashmi I think she'd be calmer without the excited guy in the back seat!

[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

I'm installing macOS 27. It's a 29GB download! What percentage of Mac users are privileged enough to have that much available disk space?

[Strace @straceX]

Somehow a 100-line SQL query is considered unmaintainable, but splitting the same logic across five services and a message queue is considered architecture.

[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

@davepl1968 Apple usually disallows running a version of macOS that is older than the version originally installed on the machine.

[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

@downdetector Re-evaluating my life.... er... model choices.

[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

Why can’t Apple design an AirPod case that doesn’t eject its occupants when dropped?

[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

@adamcurry Just this Thursday’s show? Or every Thursday?

[José Valim @josevalim]

People are sleeping on Elixir for a coding harness:

* Hot-code swapping allows you to build an extensible plugin system similar to Pi, which reloads live without dropping state

* Designing a client-server architecture, similar to OpenCode, is basically a byproduct of the actor model (plus you get both IO/CPU concurrency)

* The built-in distribution means you can easily isolate the brains (model + session) from the hands (sandbox + tools). For example, you can the agentic session on your machine which coordinates agents executing inside Docker or a remote node. Or even have one agent session coordinate multiple nodes (this is basically how Livebook works anyway)

Those can definitely be built from scratch in other languages, but in Elixir the building blocks are basically part of the runtime.

[DHH @dhh]

Since there's no way to really know, I'll just choose to believe that Omarchy did this 😜

[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

@davepl1968 Activity Monitor needs some competition.

[Sean Moriarity @sean_moriarity]

I'm at the point where I would not mind the models NOT getting smarter if it meant they got significantly faster

[BaconOverflow @BaconOverflow]

@awscloud So many people complaining in the comments, I find it crazy that people believed it in the first place. I didn't receive the email but first thought would've just been "well that's a fun bug"

[Stephen Farmer @majorcode]

@321and713 @engineering @X @premium @nikitabier @elonmusk @X please reverse this!

[Matt 🇺🇸 🏴‍☠️sports, space, small govt @321and713]

And now the Following tab is no longer in chronological order?!?! WTAF @engineering @X @premium @nikitabier @elonmusk

Stop catering to the lowest common denominator. X is where smart people come to get alpha. It’s a sty now.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

AI must pass the Galileo test

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

I like to think about extinction events when it comes to media.

Analog Zero: (Born ~2005)
Generation who will likely never touch analog encoded media.

Physical Zero: (Born ~2012)
Generation who will never interact with non-bitstream media.

Past this it get’s more speculative, but we can take a few guesses...

Broadcast Zero: (Born ~2015)
Generation who never experienced everyone watching the same thing at the same moment. Media ingested asynchronously.

Capture Zero (Born ~2023)
Generation that will never assume a video or image represents a physical event that actually occurred.

We might be getting close to a handwriting zero, but I don’t think we’re quite there yet. One of the most bizarre ones I’ve seen is the concept of a future “Stranger Zero”; as in a generation emerging that finds meeting someone without information about them first alien. What else?

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

My girlfriend got on to me the other day because she doesn’t understand why I can’t just pick eggs out of the carton like a “normal” person. She’s standing there watching me and says, “Why can’t you just go row by row like everyone else?”

I said, “Because no egg should ever know when its time is coming.”

She stared at me for a second, shook her head, and said, “You’re a psycho,” then walked off.

Little does she know…I’ve got a whole tournament system going on. I take two eggs, tap them together, and whichever one doesn’t crack moves on to the next round.

Only the strongest survive. 🥚 💪 😂

[Punt Road @punt_rd]

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