and now the bank has confirmed that I’ve sent the money, and sent it on to Bolagsverket.
I love the transparency and setup of their page explaining how long it should take to process my application, there’s a goal (7 working days), and which applications they’re aiming to process this week (those from 14-19th of October). Wish more gov’t services did this. eyes Försäkringskassan
Disposable code is here to stay by Charity Majors.
I like the distinction between disposable and durable code: it’s about whether you try to make the code maintainable or not. Most code when working at a company is durable code, because the outcome when we get it wrong is so high (even if it’s just the risk of losing money or at worst, our job).
And the idea that we can experiment, create POCs, the 10 variations of an idea to see which one works better… that’s great. Work with the genie and figure it out, then spend the proper time and effort making it durable.
Durable code is used when the stakes are high, the losses are material, the ripple effects of failure or performance changes throughout the system are complex and unpredictable. Highly regulated industries require durable software.
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Here’s one (unscientific) rule of thumb: the lower on the stack you go, the closer you get to laying bits down on disk, the more dependable and predictable our software has to be. Databases and operating systems will be durable code til the stars die out.
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The difference between disposable code and durable code is not about whether the code was generated by AI or written by a human, or even how difficult it was to write. The cost is defined by the standards you are building to, and the rest of the software development lifecycle: how well you expect to maintain it, extend it, migrate it, understand its behavior, or fix it when it breaks. This is the expensive part of software development, the type that requires deep expertise and familiarity with your language and environment. Disposable code is cheap because you don’t even try to maintain it.
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This isn’t about “using AI” vs. “not using AI,” or even about generating code vs. not generating code. It’s about understanding the cost model and the risk profile of the type of development you’re engaged in.
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If it’s easy to achieve proficiency with disposable code generation tools, it probably won’t be thought of as software development (and the pay scale will drop accordingly). If I had to guess, I suspect it won’t be a profession at all so much as a skill set, much like typing or spreadsheets, that any tech-literate modern worker is expected to pick up in order to perform the functions of their job in marketing, sales, product, design, etc.
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The coordination tax on large groups is enormous; if AI can help a smaller number of engineers own more product surface and move faster with more confidence, that’s exciting.
As Charity says, I think there likely will be changes in what programming, or rather, software development, is. Just as it did with typing before, a skill every office worker just need to have. Not that all of us are writers, just because of it.
I’m also excited at how working with a genie might open up codebases, so you need fewer people to own and maintain larger codebases (because maintenance is in communication within a team).
For example, I recently contributed to a new codebase in relatively little time and it was done so fast to the genie figuring out where to make changes. Even if I had to change most of it, because the quality wasn’t at the level where I wanted to put my name on it.
aktiekapital sent for starting my company, the bank has talked with me and decided I’m allowed to have an account with them, next up, get approved by the gov’t.
also TIL, in Singapore you only need $1 as starting share capital and in SE it’s a minimum of 25,000 SEK (~3,500SGD)
the first (digital) forms signed on the quest of starting my own company, now the waiting begins
Don’t quote regex patterns in Bash [[ ]] tests, because they’ll match literally.
So the below won’t match because it’s looking for a literal $ in the string,
instead of matching at the end of the string:
file="https://example.com/blog-post/index.html"
[[ "$file" =~ "/index.html$" ]] && echo MATCHBut this will:
file="https://example.com/blog-post/index.html"
[[ "$file" =~ /index\.html$ ]] && echo MATCHNote: [[ ]] is a Bash extension of the test command that supports regexes (among other things).
The [ ] is the POSIX standard test (see man test),
so [[ ]] features may not work in other shells or in limited shells like ash or sh.
The regex | (or) operator splits the pattern left or right unless explicitly grouped.
Group it using (pattern) if you need to use the match later,
or as a non-capturing group (?:pattern) if you do it for clarity.
I used to think there was some magic rule about how | decided where to split,
but it’s simply: characters and subpatterns concatenate into a single pattern first,
then | splits the entire thing left and right unless you explicitly group it.
That’s because | has the lowest precedence so all other operations happen first.
So while I used to think that prefix_cat|dog would match prefix_cat and prefix_dog,
it actually matches prefix_cat and then dog.
And that exact problem in a real-world example, to find if a page is linking to another, both relative or full URL:
[… more]I just caught myself thinking, “I need to get coasters” so turns out that’s a thing I’m missing from my Singapore stuff 😅
Execute the data node/step and pin it, instead of rerunning the workflow or the step that relies on that data, when modifying a step that needs fresh data.
Example: When modifying Mastodon/Bluesky cross-posting nodes that depend on an RSS Feed Trigger, execute and pin the RSS node. Then iterate on the posting logic that only depends on the RSS data without triggering any posting.
[… more]Hugo’s resources.Get only finds files in assets/, not static/.
I kept my assets/resources in static/ and didn’t get why I always had to write /absolute/urls and use hope as a strategy,
when I moved them into assets/ I could look up all my assets.
urgh. I’m trying out ChatGPT, and it really is telling me everything is a great idea, just like South Park said:
(I really don’t feel I get this from Claude, but maybe my personal base prompt helps there?)
Being back and speaking Swedish every day, and more than in years, I have felt that my Swedish has atrophied a bit. That I’m not able to express myself as well in it as in English, so I decided to read a bit more in Swedish.
August Strindberg’s Dödsdansen & Spöksonaten and Fredrik Backman’s Björnstad
I ended up getting a very contemporary author and one very much not. I read Backman’s blog back before he got his first book published, so I knew how funny he was and I read half of Beartown yesterday, he’s really nailing the storytelling. I had a hard time putting the book down.
Strindberg is famous and I haven’t ever read or seen anything by him (that I know of), so why not. I suspect it’ll be a harder read in many ways. It was a very random pick, because I just strolled around the library (second library card down, now I can use Libby from my Kobo), and I totally picked it because Ghost has a song called Spöksonat, so why not…
my application to register as residing in Sweden (folkbokförd) has been approved, no longer a ghost merely living here.
I can now get a convenience store membership since the systems can look me up 🙄🥳
Use usermod -l newuser -d /home/newuser -m olduser when renaming a user account, because it’ll update all relevant system files and move the home folder in one go.
Then groupmod -n newgroup oldgroup if you need to rename the group.
I really miss having an induction stovetop. it really is so much better than a normal electric one
Use :focus-visible instead of :focus, because it will only show when helpful.
:focus-visible only shows focus styling when the browser determines keyboard navigation is being used, unlike :focus which triggers on all interactions including mouse clicks.
okay, don’t turn on the dishwasher while running the kettle. upside, I know the breaker works, and I’m happy it’s flip switch instead of having to replace fuses 🙂
Now that I’ve moved back to Sweden without most of my stuff (it’ll be on a ship soon enough), everyone’s got suggestions on necessities. Need to buy all the tools (so I can fix things), the kitchen equipment (because the kitchen is very basic), the cleaning tools (okay, the basicness here might hinder), and the big one: a car. “There are such distances now that you just have to have a car.”
I keep pushing back with “maybe, let’s see in a few weeks.”
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A rhubarb pie with whipped cream and a cup of coffee
today I found a shop that has specialty coffee Krukmakeri Hemjord (amongst other things) in Kristinehamn, and the owner has the same name as I do and is a proper coffee nerd.
He’s been telling me about the coffees as I was planning to sit here a couple of hours, and we ended up with Ethiopian coffees, and I am now trying an anaerobic Ethiopian. While I have tried this in the past I haven’t known what to expect of it properly, and now that I know the citrusy/acidic is the point of this it’s quite nice as I like sour/acidic. Before this cup I had a similar but washed, and it was very tame in comparison. Very nice, and coincidentally they’re even brewing with the Clever Dripper (which I got recently), so I have some practical ideas for how to repeat at home.
The Emperor’s light shines upon my acquired reading material