Ilya

"Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance"

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

This is good actually. The less you know about programming, the less reason you have to overcomplicate things. There is an annoying Bell Curve kind of situation in programming where you spend decades studying just to realize that whatever dumb shit you were doing in the beginning is the right way.

[David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw]

Truly amazing how far ahead SQLite was in open source project organization. Closed to contributions, test suite private.

[Ilya @slash3b]

-_-

[Igor Chubin @igor_chubin]

https://t.co/VtuCVhQ4Sl was fully rewritten from scratch, this time in Go.
What we achieved: high performance and reliability (the main goals), the new architecture is very clean, deployment is trivial now (a single binary), and the code is super simple too. I like it.

[Ilya @slash3b]

@Calimerolltn @WorldwideSpell Toni Morrison. https://t.co/ITnh3J4TfS

[David Crawshaw @davidcrawshaw]

While the industry is pouring resources into programs without GC (rust), I think the Jane Street OCaml folks have it figured out with OxCaml.

Almost all your code paths are cold and GC is net positive. 1% of your code is performance sensitive. Don't create GC pressure there.

[CG @cgtwts]

“who should we lay off first”

CEOs:

[francesc @francesc]

Working on something
#justforfunc

[vicki @vboykis]

What I most desire doesn’t exist on the market yet: a coding agent model, but it’s only been trained on code reviews by Eastern Europeans.

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

There will be more of this. And as much as we're joking about it, we're seeing a massive degradation of code quality right now and we're increasingly only catching it way too late.

[Fatih Arslan @fatih]

It's crazy that people brag about adding thousands of lines code, whereas true Software engineers now that it's actually better when you can brag about deleting code (while maintaining the same requirements).

[go nelenkin.club @lenka_colenka]

the only way out is through

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Why can't all websites just look like HackerNews or Craigslist? I literally don't give a shit about your stupid ass purple gradients and slide shows on scroll. I need to get my shit done.

[dax @thdxr]

genie is out of the bottle

everyone hitting the magic button

button puts your brain in a state of laziness

that seeps into all your processes and they get skipped

we talk about this all the time and still our team is struggling with it

[Ilya @slash3b]

@pliutau looks very nice! you might want to try to put laptop aside and only use monitor 🙂

[Alex Mordvintsev @zzznah]

Working on the new simulator. I just wanted to see what Atari2600 fetching data from ROM looks like at CMOS FET level
(@tinytapeout TT09 Atari circuit by @__ReJ__)

[dax @thdxr]

i've always been pro making money, being money motivated

and if i tried hard to do something great then money would be a side effect

it feels like silicon valley lately is infected by a different version of this where the money is the entire point

very uninspiring

[Ilya @slash3b]

wow, haha

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

korean autism remains a sight to behold

[Felipe O. Carvalho @_Felipe]

developing a compiler in 2026