jtwaleson

I was at a large tech conference this week in Amsterdam, it was < 1km from the JetBrains office. They set up the booth 3 hours too late and there was no one actually there when I walked by (twice). I think they have given up?

Another one after yesterday's outage, I'm wondering if Gitlab.com is now also buckling under the strain like Github has been for the last year or so.

It would be great to have less languages and ecosystems rather than more. However, I think that none of these programming systems have hit a peak yet. There's a lot of innovation still to be done, and in that sense, id rather see more divergence and less consolidation.

That's just ridiculous. Not sure if you're serious, but if so, please make a serious attempt at this argument.

Imho it's wildly ignorant to call the current SotA coding agents a slot machine. They are extremely powerful tools.

My point was: I play Factorio for fun and it reminds of me of what programming was like before AI coding. In Factorio, all the automations you build are proper abstractions that you yourself actually designed.

For pre AI software engineering yes.

There are many many instances where the CEO is not an employee, but they operate via their own legal entity. To be honest I don't know how this works at larger companies.

A couple years back I drove from Vegas to Yosemite. Due to a road closure we had to take a 4 hour detour. We had this colourful van from Escape Campervans, and every night looked at freecampsites.net to find a free place to sleep. Nice adventures.

That night around 8pm we drove to a random pick, called Willy's Hot Springs, very tired and hungry. We had no idea what it was and had never been to a hot springs. After confirming we could stay there, we drove for dinner and a beer at Mammoth. When we got back, we were curious and went along the wooden path to see the hot springs.

It was around midnight, there was no moon and 0 light pollution. It was magical. You sit in the cold night in natural hot water, in the middle of pretty barren country. There's all the stars and the milky way. Then all of a sudden it got pretty bright. The moon rose over the horizon. It was the first and only moonrise I've ever seen.

This was the most magical night in nature I've ever experienced. A friend of mine said "oh, Willy's Hot Springs, I've been there too, it was kind of mid." I think we experience the world in different ways.

yes

I think it's because people are building agentic flows, reducing the amount of developer seats needed. It's the first step towards usage based pricing.

I was young and naive

At one point, 20 years back, I was joking that The Netherlands should quit the EU and join the USA as the 51st state. Lot less appealing in the current political climate, but for technology it'd be great. My point was that the constitution of the US is based on ideas, and the country could be open to any territory, independent of location, whereas all of Europe's countries are based on more on historical artifacts.

Funny that the opposite approach is now considered with Canada. I can see it though.

It's a best-in-class real time collaboration board. It's also a decent general purpose diagramming tool, but if you're using it for creating software architecture diagrams or product flows, there are better tools for that.