FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Ever since discovering DTrace and its philosophy over at http://dtrace.org/ , I have become a convert of pervasive observability and debugging; including in production.

So I've starting applying it everywhere in my work. Case in point: for my money, I have yet to see a graphical debugger for native code beat Eclipse (except maybe Xcode, but I don't work on Macs at the day job). And while it supports remote debugging, the protocol is unauthenticated; unacceptable in production… What to do?

This is for all my dad joke afficionados

Thinking about it some more, the fundamental flaw with CoPilot is that the goal is to make it faster and easier to generate code.

As a programmer, you don't want to generate code.

You want to solve problems, and the less code involved the better. I don't want to tools that will generate boilerplate, I want less boilerplate.

https://github.blog/2022-09-07-research-quantifying-github-copilots-impact-on-developer-productivity-and-happiness/ shows the problem. "Less mental effort on repetitive tasks", sure, but you should be trying to _prevent_ the repetition, not do more of it.

I am once again posting Aramaz's Theme because it is my bangingest chiptune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q72xQqm1NYk&list=PLMqmD44Zmu5H-hrwNNkdVL14rDLJ5i_EJ&index=14

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Get ready!

old japanese nouns be like: fuji-no-yama-no-tate-no-tokoro
middle japanese nouns be like: chuuukanyoujoutsujuuchou
modern japanese nouns be like: Wow! Cool Mountain Style

cool Swedish phrase: ”inför öppen ridå”, literally “in front of an open theatre-curtain”. used for example when there is fighting in a political organisation and it's being talked about publicly, rather than behind closed doors (or behind the “curtain”)

just created a new type called NullTerminatedStringTableStream and i feel like i'm doing Serious programming now. a type name like that really makes you feel like you mean business

This image was in my head this morning and so now it is on the computer

I found the network router gacha! Assumed it was so niche it would only be found in like Tokyo but there was one around my neck of the woods as well.

This is the cutest thing ever! Look at the little cables and cable management hoops, the PDU, all of it is so well-done!

#japan #gacha #networking #sysadmin #mb

The daily struggle

I wish more people understood this.

rebecca sugar released a very sweet little EP on bandcamp!

https://rebeccasugar.bandcamp.com/album/spiral-bound

amazing fact about the Ouija board:

> The name is taken from a word spelled out on the board when its inventor asked a supposed ghost to name it.