@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Yeah. That DORA quote is probably spot on. It’s exactly what I’m seeing here.
@prologic@twtxt.net Hm, yeah, probably. I don’t think that’s how many FLOSS projects are/were run, though, so they’ll have to find new ways to build those relationships. 😅 I mean, isn’t it usually a new person sending patches to a project, over and over, and at some point they’ve shown enough skill so they’re “promoted” to a full maintainer position? 🤔
favicon.ico and only around 7.5k hits on the image thumbnails. So I guess that, in reality, it might have gotten around 7k hits. The rest … is probably bots.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Two emails. 😅 One person asking for the source code, and the author of wcwidth (the library I’m using) contacted me to provide some input. 👌
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Switching to Make might be a good idea, though, because the whole thing is purely sequential at the moment … It takes close to 20 seconds (including the w3c verification which runs the Java checker). It’s not unusable, but it could be better. 😅
@arne@uplegger.eu Hat nicht so lange gehalten. 🤪 https://movq.de/v/1359841828/s.png
(This settled at about 25k hits on the HTML page now. But only about 11k hits in total on favicon.ico and only around 7.5k hits on the image thumbnails. So I guess that, in reality, it might have gotten around 7k hits. The rest … is probably bots.)
@prologic@twtxt.net As have I. 🤔 I mean, since I left GitHub, I got basically 0 pull requests anyway.
Even during my time using GitHub, I noticed that “drive-by PRs” are rarely a good idea. People don’t really know/understand the code or the design principles/goals, so I often turned down PRs. Or I accepted them and was grumpy afterwards. 😅
What does work is having a team of maintainers/devs. The only question is: How do you build such a team if you don’t accept PRs? That’s going to be the interesting part.
Now that is an interesting move:
https://ladybird.org/posts/changing-how-we-develop-ladybird/
Maybe this is how all Free Software will look like in the future. It might not be the worst idea … ? 🤔
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, I almost thought so (that you wrote it by hand), but then I looked at the source code and saw the TOC and I was like: “Naah, probably not. I would be way too lazy to do that manually.” 😅 And indeed … ha.
Oh god, yeah, that’s a lot of <span>. 🤔 Can’t really avoid that, I guess, especially if you want to do syntax highlighting of code blocks.
You wrote your own site generator, didn’t you?
In parts. I write everything in Markdown (it’s online, even: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-29/0/POSTING-en.md), plus a few Vim shortcuts (to generate thumbnails, for example), and then python-markdown renders it: https://pypi.org/project/Markdown/ This process is wrapped in a shell script, like “re-render every page if the .md file is newer than the .html file” and that’s mostly it. And the Atom feed generator is completely custom. 🤔
@bender@twtxt.net lol, no, please don’t send me a quackton of ducks. 😅 We use BIRD a lot at work, hence this bears some significance for me/us. 😅
You know what this is?
https://movq.de/v/ef1674f6c5/bird-bird.webp
A BIRD bird! 😅
I got it as a gift from a very friendly coworker and she, in turn, got it from Maria Matějka. 😃
@bender@twtxt.net Ugh, I don’t know. I’m having a long vacation now and I try not to think about this topic anymore. 🤣
Response by the author of rsync: https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
Okay. I have lost the “battle” against “AI” at work and I will no longer try to “fight” any of it.
It is simply what people want. They want to use it. And that’s the end of it.
And why do they want it? Because it makes their job easier. And why is that? In very large parts, it’s because we have accumulated a metric fuckton of technical debt due to decades long mismanagement. We were (and are) operating in “emergency mode” all the time. There simply was no time to clean things up or to rethink designs. We always have to go with the cheapest and quickest solution. We are never ahead of things: Earlier this year, I started an initiative and wanted to tackle some issue that I could see coming. I was shut down because this wasn’t “urgent”. Very soon after, this exact thing became that exact problem – but now, there was no time anymore to do it properly because NOW it’s urgent, so, once again, we had to go with a quick and dirty solution.
It’s always like that and I had brought it up again and again. And now we have a huge spaghetti mess that hardly anyone understands anymore.
Nobody – except AI. It can still make some sense of this and, obviously, this is useful to people.
So, any argument I make against AI is completely pointless to begin with. I’m such a fool for not having seen this earlier.
The last argument I made today was: “Look, we already have so much technical debt and spaghetti systems, we really, really must clean this up. If we throw AI on top of this now, it’ll only get so much worse.” And once more, I was shut down. My intentions were “admirable”, but “there’s no time for that”.
Okay. Good luck with that. They’ll keep doing it this way. At some point, it’ll either explode entirely and some poor soul has to clean it up, or it’ll explode and they’ll have no other choice but to throw everything away and start from scratch – assuming they can still afford that.
In other words, none of this about AI, really, nor caused by it. Our department’s massive spike in AI usage is just a symptom of the underlying management issues. And since those aren’t being addressed, nothing will change and this whole mess will only get worse.
(I blame all this on management, because, well, that’s who’s to blame. I do not have a solution for it, though – and assigning blame without constructive criticism always sucks big time. I don’t like doing this. If you had put me into that particular management position, I wouldn’t have been able to solve any of this. The thing is, though, I’m not an expert on management and it isn’t my job – I’m just the “princess” who solves your technical issues.)
<updated> of the feed, too. But for some reason, some articles were suddenly marked as new.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org By the way, which site generator are you using? I kind of miss having code blocks with syntax highlighting and that generic yellow highlighting thing is pretty cool, too.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org lol, “garbo” 😅 Took me a moment. 🤣
@bender@twtxt.net That certainly sounds much better in English, yeah. 😅
@bender@twtxt.net It started out as me calling myself “Princess Valium” because I’m so tired and braindead today, but then someone misheard that because a garbage truck drove by, and, so … one thing lead to another. 🤪 Sadly, it kind of fits, because I’m often the one who cleans up shit. 😬
@kiwu@twtxt.net In-cred-ib-ly tired. 😂
Aha, my nickname at work now appears to be “Princess Garbage Disposal” (“Prinzessin Müllabfuhr”). 🤦♀️ 🥴
Das neue Album von Boards of Canada “Inferno” gefällt mir wirklich sehr!!1elf
how r y’all doing?
It’s not that much traffic, of course. One hit per second on average. (Plus the images.) The nasty bots are much worse. 😅
We’re at close to 20k hits now, but it has slowed down considerably. Nobody cares about page 2. 😅
@bender@twtxt.net The good thing is that it’s already pretty battle-tested. 😅 There was this dumpster fire a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31114554 This was on their front page for quite a while, just look at the number of comments … 😂
tail -f access.log looks like a Matrix screensaver at the moment. Whoooooosh …
@arne@uplegger.eu Indeed. I’m glad that it’s all just static HTML. The most expensive part about this is probably TLS. 🤷♀️
oh, I knew it wasn’t you. It is just nice to see your hobby was noticed. :-)
Ah, I see! 🤗
@bender@twtxt.net Doing tail -f access.log looks like a Matrix screensaver at the moment. Whoooooosh …
@bender@twtxt.net … boom, 5500+ hits on that blog post. 🤣 Should I start monetizing this shit?! 🤪 (Don’t worry, I won’t. German law gets super annoying if you do that kind of thing.)
@bender@twtxt.net Oh, well, thanks, I guess? 😅 (This “zdw” person isn’t me. I don’t even have an account at HackerNews. 😅)
<updated> of the feed, too. But for some reason, some articles were suddenly marked as new.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, nice. That was quite the ride. :-) And all that because of locales. 😳
But, did I understand that correctly? All Atom feeds were broken, right? Because they all use that same code path with that strftime/strptime dance in it?
Ambient noise. Crows, (wild) parrots, pigeons, the occasional blackbird, some traffic, individual raindrops, thunder, heavy rain on lots of trees.
A welcome change from the daily noise of the construction site nearby.
(I wish I had better equipment. As usual.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nature is cruel.
And the humidity sucks. It’s been a horrible day. 🥴
@prologic@twtxt.net lol, well, better than nothing, eh? What did the tickets cost? 😅
Oh boy, it was bloody humid this morning. Just around 20°C when we left, but climbing rapidly. The flow of air when walking was okay, but as soon as we stopped, streams of sweat were pouring down on us. Luckily, it was cloudy, but the lack of wind was bad. Now, the sun is out, 29°C will be reached in an hour and I’m glad that the house is still cool. It will be a different story in a few weeks or months. Not looking forward to that at ll.
On the bright side, we saw the first tadpoles of the year and an also first, but sadly dead slow worm that probably some bird dropped on a bench next to the fountain. The fly was stuck to its feast and also cactus. The municipality fixed the railing nicely and we came across a giant patch of great looking fire bugs on the summit.
All in all, a successful stroll through the woods but for the humid heat.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @tftp@tilde.town Someone has pointed out that there’s OpenRsync:
Since I run OpenBSD on my servers, I actually do use that and have never noticed any incompatibilities with the “normal” rsync.
Haha, someone had a similar idea … https://lpcvoid.com/blog/0018_why_i_am_against_genai/index.html
@prologic@twtxt.net You actually did? 😅 Good luck. 😅 I never dared to, I’d probably get addicted. 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net Oh yeah, same here. 😞 Let’s all just win the lottery and stop with this damn work thing. 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net (I hope I’m not too incoherent. I didn’t sleep very well recently and have a lot of unrelated stuff on my mind. 🤣)
@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, so that’s what “Bob” is. I saw that popping up in email notifications. 😅
it’s “probabilistic” not “deterministic”
Yep, I know. And when I tell that to people and tell them “if we use AI here, we lose the ability to debug this stuff”, then all I get is: “But it’s good enough. We don’t need to debug this. Non-deterministic computing has its use cases.”
But that is just not how I’d like to model/implement our business processes. 🤔 I want something reliable, not “it mostly works”.
It’s one of the reasons in fact I’ve been working on bob so I have a very concrete and strong foundation for how these things work, how they behave and how bad or good they can be. I am on-purpose building bob to be not only a decent coding tool and general task completion tool, but with serious security boundaries, sanitation, auditing and compliance. If I’m going to succeed at building autoonmous agents that can cope with a wider array of varying inputs (mostly natural language, some structural language) then it needs to be both a) Safe and b) Robust
@prologic@twtxt.net Ahh, I see. Okay, I’m with you there. On this high level, I can understand how the thing works.
Maybe my wording isn’t good. 🤔 Let’s take a real life example from what we do at work.
There’s this AI chatbot. It gets support requests from users, so the user says something like “I need access to a particular system”. This triggers the bot to “run” the instructions stored in a large Markdown file, like “check if the user is authorized to do this, then issue the following API requests”, and so on. This is essentially like running a little script, except it’s written in natural language (German) and there’s no “script interpreter” but just the AI.
Now, suppose that the AI doesn’t quite do what was intended. There’s some subtle bug. How do you debug this? How do you find out how the AI came to the “conclusion” to run step A instead of step B? And how do you find out how exactly you have to change your prompt so this doesn’t happen again next time?
If this was an actual script/program instead of AI, you could repeat the request and attach a debugger or throw in some printf() or whatever. How do you do that kind of thing with AI? How do you pinpoint exactly what the problem was?
(Or is this just a stupid idea? Do we have to give up that way of thinking when using AI? Is the era of debuggability over?)
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, it’s hard to get my point across here. I tried to address that a few paragraphs down.
Yes, I can tinker with AI techniques on a general level. That’s cool but not really my area of interest.
What I certainly can’t do is learn how specific AI products work. I can’t possibly find out why Claude Code produced that particular line of code. Claude is just a magic box that does something and I have to trust it.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m very curious…
What I like about this whole computer stuff is that you can explore how
things work. You can dig through problems and solve them. Nothing is
more satisfying than finally understanding something after you scratched
your head for some hours.
Surely you could do the same with AI? Tinker with how it works, study it, understand it, build your own and realize what it really is (without all the big tech hype)?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Alright. 😅
Yeah, don’t waste time on this. I have a vacation coming up and I won’t touch this subject, either. Fuck this shit.
I really like your style of writing, btw. It’s much calmer and less aggressive then mine. :-) When I turned my bullet points into paragraphs, I got a bit mad in the process.
This is like the 32nd iteration of that list and it was much worse in the beginning. 😂