Gregor Riegler @gregorriegler@qoto.org

If you find yourself jumping to defend a billionaire, any billionaire, chances that you’ve been fooled are higher than Me on 4/20z

External software quality telegraphs internal software quality.

They're different concepts but they are inextricable.

“The thing that provides any meaning at all to the concept of a “service” in software terms is that it represents a boundary. There is a difference between what is known and what is exposed, on either side of these boundaries”
— @davefarley77

(p. 115, Modern Software Engineering, 2022)

Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on #ClimateCrisis: act now or it’s too late | Climate crisis | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c

Any experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.

The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”

Study: Developers write measurably worse code when assisted by AI

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03622.pdf

Computers have been beating the best human Go players since 2016. The Go world champion retired in part because AI is “an entity that cannot be defeated.”

But a human just trounced one of the world’s best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai

I think this news story is more interesting than it might first appear (without knowing details, so grain of salt). It isn’t just a gaming curiosity; it points to a fundamental flaw with “deep learning” approaches in general.
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this is MUCH better than chatgpt: catgpt

https://catgpt.wvd.io/

I've just posted an article about DI Frameworks and why they are Bad For You. Inspired by a post from Jeremy Miller—entirely unintentionally, I'm sure. Featuring The Dude.

I'll post a thread on it on Monday, but it's the weekend and I doubt anyone's interested in snarky bullshit right now. Here's the link to the article in case you *are* in the mood for my snark: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2023/the-problem-with-dependency-injection-frameworks

Testing Without Mocks: A 🧵.

So a few days ago I released this massive update to my article, "Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language." It's 40 pages long if you print it. (Which you absolutely should. I have a fantastic print stylesheet.) I promised a thread explaining what it's all about.

This is the thread. If you're not interested in TDD or programmer tests, you might want to mute me for a bit.

Here's the article I'm talking about: https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks

72 pencils arranged into four intersecting hexagonal prisms. Took me a bit to figure out how to assemble it after seeing a picture. Original design by mathematician/sculptor George Hart. #Geometry #Pencil