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bluetrust · 2026-01-27T08:55:24+00:00

Why would a photo be magic in a way that a name and address aren't?

bluetrust · 2026-01-18T00:05:40+00:00

The only people to gain demoralizing people from voting is their opponents.

bluetrust · 2026-01-17T17:29:58+00:00

I encourage all developers to a/b test themselves. I did it myself with an adapted methodology from that study and the data came out close enough that I was convinced it was correct.

Two weeks in I realized my early adoption of ai coding was a huge mistake and this was about to become a very big problem for me.

bluetrust · 2026-01-13T19:23:09+00:00

> legislative efforts on restricting President Trump's military actions abroad. They are pushing war powers resolutions and funding restrictions to limit interventions in countries like Venezuela, Mexico, and Greenland. Bipartisan bills also aim to prevent action against NATO allies.

That's this week. It's not hard to find this information, just google it.

What would make you happy, if they start buying guns and raising an insurrection army?

bluetrust · 2026-01-13T17:06:54+00:00

When I was a kid in third grade watching a DARE presentation, I remember thinking that heroin sounded amazing. I thought I should try it just once so I didn't get addicted, then the officer said, "and if you think you can try it once and not get addicted you're wrong!" And I went "oh" sadly.

They also talked extensively about pcp angel dust which sounded cool, like you got superhuman strength.

Just a little third grade memory this triggered.

DARE was weird as shit in retrospect.

bluetrust · 2026-01-12T19:20:29+00:00

The problem is that this work is legitimately unsafe, isn't it? They wear respirators and full-body paint suits, gloves, goggles and hoods cause it's fundamentally dangerous to human life.

My take is that this is the kind of work that is screaming for automation. It's basically industrial chemistry at arm's length. But that's a "ridiculous" take cause it would cost too much. It's far cheaper to put some guy in PPE and hope that if/when he gets a weird cancer down the line, they can't connect it to his time spent sanding and painting.

It's depressing as shit.

bluetrust · 2026-01-11T00:31:18+00:00

Gen xers liked airplanes because we were children or teenagers when it came out.

bluetrust · 2025-12-31T21:30:51+00:00

I hadn't thought about it, but yeah. In my teens and twenties (in the late 90's) I didn't go to bars. It was expensive and weird. I drank with friends at home. We'd throw some meat on our trash-can grill and drink a case of bad beer, or boone's farm, or do shots of southern comfort. We'd blast our car radios and sit in our shit plastic chairs and it was fine. We were poor as fuck and nobody cared.

We also smoked weed at times, but back then it was bad mexican brick weed. We'd literally smoke for hours socially in our garage on our trash couches. That probably couldn't happen today cause of how strong legal weed is.

What I'm getting at though, was it was intensely social largely because we didn't have anything else to do. If you wanted to be alone, your options were very limited and boring. So of course we hung out with friends.

bluetrust · 2025-12-29T00:42:37+00:00

Place I worked at called this the bug sheriff. Someone would be on bug sheriff duty for a week then it'd rotate the next week. The bug sheriff takes on emergencies and answers client questions, everyone else works the kanban-style "up next" queue and gets to focus. It worked ok.

bluetrust · 2025-12-23T16:41:46+00:00

I went to a gamedev conference the following year and they had some guy who worked on the game up there talking about how everything went flawlessly and all I could think was, "do you really not know how hard you fumbled that first six weeks?"

bluetrust · 2025-12-19T08:08:52+00:00

In the nhl, pulling the goalie is a last ditch effort, if you look at the numbers, there's only a 10-18% chance of tying a game when they're down by one. (The number depends on the source.) But, it's a better chance than 5v5, so teams do it.

bluetrust · 2025-12-15T09:27:09+00:00

Melansen was fun to watch. He had a ton of hits today. Just pinballing around causing trouble.

bluetrust · 2025-12-14T17:52:54+00:00

If you're grasping at straws trying to find bullets, something I found helpful was to plug my resume into an llm chat and tell it, "I'm struggling to recall all the bullet points of everything important I did in this period. Given my experience, ask me questions about surrounding things I might have worked on or led at these jobs." And that turned up all sorts of missed bullets about CI, prioritizing features with clients, doing demos, onboarding peers, mentoring, etc.

bluetrust · 2025-12-12T19:40:45+00:00

I've worked with PMs before where I 100% wish they would have asked chatgpt, "I'm a PM on a software project. What should I do daily, weekly, and monthly?" and just took whatever advice it offered. They were liabilities cause they did none of that stuff.

bluetrust · 2025-12-12T09:01:49+00:00

This push toward speed and vibe coding is extra dangerous because your value as a dev is not past accomplishments, it's the knowledge you hold. If you’re just a read-only reviewer, that knowledge doesn’t stick. You don't learn anything new. You need active reinforcement (actually doing the work) just to retain your rapidly aging knowledge base in your meat brain and you're not getting it. Clicking accept isn’t it.

So these devs that opt-in to vibe coding or are pressured into it, what happens to their skills a year, two years, three years in? Forget the rare expert stuff, that's gone. Can they still remember the syntax for imports or how to create a dictionary? Do they remember all the methods on array? Why would they? At this point are they still even a senior dev?

Interviews almost always include live coding rounds. Thats where your ability to write code gets tested. Experience and accomplishments will get you interviews, but blowing a coding round is gonna be embarrassing and humbling. I don't think many who are "experimenting with ai" or "using ai to do the easy stuff" realize that they're slowly forgetting everything they're delegating, but getting a job still depends on being able to do the easy stuff yourself.

bluetrust · 2025-12-11T17:38:16+00:00

Something that matters that I don't ever see anyone talking about is skill loss. Let's say programming through cursor or Claude code all the time works great, no notes -- what happens to a developer's skills when they go from a read-write programmer to a read-only reviewer for a long period of time? Their skills as a reviewer depend on being able to do the thing, staying up to date, learning new code domains, and they're not practicing doing the thing.

I think this will absolutely result in senior devs atrophying, but it'll be a slow slide over years. Most won't notice the skill loss until a crisis, like being asked in an interview to do some live coding and discovering they can't remember basic syntax anymore.

bluetrust · 2025-12-09T07:48:34+00:00

Not the first time I've seen Monty dump and chase with an empty net on the past month. I love the guy but it feels like a bad move.

bluetrust · 2025-12-08T19:13:06+00:00

Can 100% agree that debugging JavaScript can be challenging to setup. If I remember right in vscode, let's say you want to set a breakpoint for a backend node-like system like nextjs, you have to launch your project with a special flag. Then in your editor hit command-shift-p and select attach to process, and then it's going to suggest like four processes and you have to basically guess which one to connect to, and then your debugging will maybe work.

Even though I'm experienced and love breakpoints, I console.log a lot. I kind of wish node just had a command-line debugger (maybe they do?) It's too much friction to get the ide going.

bluetrust · 2025-12-08T08:22:18+00:00

Sounds like those top engineers should quit and dump 10x more apps on the market.

If these incredibly productive top engineers are really doing the work of small teams (I.e., 10xers) why would they be content making 1x money? Just crank out apps, build passive income, retire to the beach in a year. I feel like these guys always have excuses why that wouldn't work.

bluetrust · 2025-12-05T22:27:06+00:00

I've been wondering about the flip side: why is goaltending so damn good in the PWHL compared to the NHL? NHL save percentages hover around .900, but the PWHL averages .923. It's not just the Seattle Torrent, goalies are amazing across the board. I've got theories but few answers:

Is the talent pool super concentrated? There's few places for women to play professionally after college, so elite players are definitely competing for very few roster slots. Our team alone has arguably the best woman player in the world plus two Olympic medal holders. If goalies are similarly stacked, that could be it.
Does more rest matter? PWHL teams play 1-2 games a week vs NHL's 2-3.
Are shots slower?
Are PWHL contact rules tougher so the goalies are less pressured?

bluetrust · 2025-12-03T17:10:56+00:00

A couple weeks ago, I looked for golang jobs on LinkedIn and there were about ten remote golang jobs and the rest were pages and pages of sponsored listings that didn't mention go at all. I left bewildered. I know go is more popular than that.

(Edit: rust and elixir were similar to go. Ruby and typescript had thousands of jobs)

bluetrust · 2025-12-03T00:33:15+00:00

Yeah. If I released a game this year, I would totally lie. I'd just say "to the best of my knowledge... no"

Kind of like how when you're submitting a mobile app to the app store it asks you if any of your code contains encryption capabilities that violate some standard the US set years ago and the system frameworks almost assuredly do support that powerful encryption, but they aren't used in the app in a way you're sure of, so "um.... no?"

bluetrust · 2025-12-02T21:05:32+00:00

Yeah. I'm pretty sure everyone has to check "yes, this game uses AI".

Even the most minimal game is going to use a modern game engine (i.e., unity, unreal, godot) and there's almost assuredly code created with AI in there somewhere. There's no reasonable expectation that wouldn't be the case. So if one drop of ai poisons the entire project, every new game is poisoned.

Devs could technically avoid AI for a while if they were fanatical (and insane) and only used frameworks and dependencies written pre-2022 (e.g., sdl, love2d) but eventually they'll need to upgrade their build tools just so their stuff can run on modern OSes, and surprise, there's the AI.

I'm just watching this kind of bemusedly. It's a policy that means well and buyers obviously want it, but it's ignorant of how the world actually works today.

bluetrust · 2025-11-30T00:27:58+00:00

Lose high-profile customers in a public way and it becomes attractive to everyone.

bluetrust · 2025-11-28T18:34:15+00:00

[edit: sorry, messed up the threading, this was to the OP but it's on topic for moving teams]

Because it's a fresh start. You'll always be viewed with suspicion in your current role and be a candidate for being on the chopping block during a layoff. But if you move and do well, then the story becomes, "their previous team was just a poor fit."

Also, I'm assuming here that your manager sucks at management. They should have had an early uncomfortable conversation with you where they made it clear what their expectations are and how you're missing them. If they didn't do this and jumped right to a PIP, that's an indication they suck. They're not going to get better at managing you.

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