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New comment by allthetime in "Deno 2.8"

allthetime — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:29:08 +0000

Running out of money is never the issue with a big company buying an open source project. There are countless examples of projects dying or changing significantly for the worse after acquisition.

Also “no human wrote any of this code” is not my personal benchmark for a reliable dependency.

New comment by allthetime in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

allthetime — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:35:16 +0000

They often are on macOS now. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/accessing...

New comment by allthetime in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

allthetime — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:26:25 +0000

Claude is significantly better at rust than zig. Zig is changing all the time. If you check my profile comments I did a quick experiment recently to demonstrate. Essentially, Claude could generate a basic working tcp echo server in a few seconds. For zig, either asking it to do it just with zig, or with specific versions (.15 and .16 because some fundamental language changes necessitate different implementations) failed to produce working code in all three cases and also took magnitudes longer to generate the code.

Aside from the big marketing play, Claude not being able to easily generate zig code was probably a big motivator - it doesn’t make anthropic look good and it doesn’t fit into how they’re doing things

Also, you’re assuming that actual traditional maintainers even exist now. Likely it’s a smaller team of people running mythos agents with an unlimited budget and no real need to fully understand the code

New comment by allthetime in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

allthetime — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:16:38 +0000

Zig is still a moving target with big fundamental changes being made to the language from version to version - nowhere near v1. When rust was at this stage of its development you wouldn’t have been able to name many projects either.

New comment by allthetime in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

allthetime — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:12:47 +0000

What serious zig shops exist are generally run by actual engineers. Check out tigerbeetle if you want a good example.

New comment by allthetime in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

allthetime — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:58:08 +0000

They are complicated in different ways. The rust compiler doesn’t include redis, Postgres, and S3 clients for instance.

New comment by allthetime in "Should you leave red herrings about yourself online?"

allthetime — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:10:32 +0000

I had the good sense to use a fake name long ago when I first signed up for facebook. A handful of my friends did the same. Over the years it has paid off in terms of people I don't know not being able to look me up. I'm also lucky to have a very common name. I am very un-googlable unless you know actual details about my professional life, in which case you can learn a bit more about what I do for work, but nothing else.

I also have a secondary facebook account with my real name whose "friends" are only random acquaintances who have bothered trying to connect with me over the years. I have used this in the past when potential employers, or border guards, have asked about my online presence.

I've been online since I was young and deep dark secrets about me are contained and findable on old forum databases and fragments of lost proto-social networks. I might be over-confident, but I'm almost sure not even palantir knows.

New comment by allthetime in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

allthetime — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:49:39 +0000

Imagine other possibilities.

New comment by allthetime in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

allthetime — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:44:56 +0000

Bun is owned by anthropic and so has access to Mythos & unlimited tokens.

The answer is... more than any of us could likely afford.

New comment by allthetime in "What we lost the last time code got cheap"

allthetime — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:07:31 +0000

Self generating docs based on docstring comments are great. LLMs are capable of generating architectural overview docs from these. What more do you need?

New comment by allthetime in "Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM"

allthetime — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:53:07 +0000

I wouldn’t consider “the way most people do TLS in 2026” weird. That said this isn’t all that impressive or interesting, a computer… serving a website.

New comment by allthetime in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

allthetime — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:06:34 +0000

New software is being generated faster than it can be adequately tested. We are in the same place we’ve always been; except everything is moving much too fast.

New comment by allthetime in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

allthetime — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:01:23 +0000

In a darker reading; strong aviation safety is mostly motivated by not killing customers. An airline or plane maker who kills more customers than others will rapidly bleed those same customers and lose them to less lethal competitors. If no one cared about dying people I imagine aviation safety wouldn’t be so impressive.

As someone else here said, software, for the most part, is a deeply unserious industry. The stakes are so comparatively low and the consequences less obvious that it’s a lot easier for companies like intuit to maintain their supremacy simply by being entrenched, having strong sales teams, and the hearts & minds of non-technical managers.

In recent times it seems Boeing has been flirting with enshitification and half-assery but critics are not quiet and not falling on deaf ears

New comment by allthetime in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

allthetime — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:55:59 +0000

Once you’ve done the work to deterministically define your system; you’re not vibe coding anymore. You’re officially an engineer who cares about the consistency and robustness of your product, not just its superficial outcomes.

New comment by allthetime in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

allthetime — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:53:14 +0000

That’s just you using the tools responsibly. Not using LLMs to perform well defined virtually deterministic tasks that you fully understand is simply a waste of time. There’s a big difference between that and just letting agents go wild and do your design for you.

New comment by allthetime in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

allthetime — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:48:21 +0000

Apple portable hardware is unparalleled. Linux is what runs the internet.

For now, my old gaming PC runs as a Linux server hosting all my dev services and home lab projects and my MacBook is where I work with them and build apps that consume them.

It would be nice to have the server setup mirrored on a laptop I could take places with me.

New comment by allthetime in "What British people mean when they say 'sorry'"

allthetime — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:29:09 +0000

I’d argue tone is often useful. But you’re right - as someone who habitually employs subtle sarcasm I’ve found a large portion of the population are not really in tune to that subtlety. For me it’s a good quick differentiator to identify strangers I might actually get along with. That’s an aside though… in our case the meaning & intent might be opaque, but the result is the same. In my case, I either make someone laugh, or weird them out.

New comment by allthetime in "What British people mean when they say 'sorry'"

allthetime — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:56:42 +0000

What’s mad about that? The sorry was for interrupting and engaging you and having a favour to ask. The sorry itself wasn’t a command, it was an apology for the implied command.

New comment by allthetime in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

allthetime — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:43:39 +0000

Where did I say they weren’t? We’re all using LLMs now, it would be stupid not to. It’s how we use them and how much care we’re willing to give up for speed that is at issue here.

New comment by allthetime in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

allthetime — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:47:44 +0000

AI is just revealing the two types of people in this line of work. Those who don’t actually like software and just do it because it’s lucrative, and the actual nerds who care.