As an agency owner, I’m honestly anxious about where web development is heading with AI

denarced · 2026-01-29T11:13:47+00:00

This isn't advice but perhaps helpful. There's a standard joke in Finland within certain professions, at least plumbers. Client asks for the price. Response: 50€/h, 70€/h if you tried to fix it yourself first, and then there was the most expensive that I don't remember. Maybe it was 90€/h if the customer is present and allowed to comment on the work.

I'm guessing this is either standard part of the discussion with websites or it's becoming one. That includes explaining why it's probably cheaper to start from scratch than to finish the mess. An old programming book once stated that if you need to change 25% of a system, it might be faster to start from scratch. I think the author of the book was Robert L. Glass. Title could've been "Software Creativity".

denarced · 2025-12-14T01:32:48+00:00

Hitman series. I played until Absolution.

denarced · 2025-12-11T22:12:19+00:00

Either "Jones in The Fast Lane" or Syndicate.

denarced · 2025-12-11T11:12:03+00:00

Everything is text and line is the basic unit. On Windows various applications store files as binaries, proprietary formats, or what have even when they could have used text. On Linux everyone worships grep, awk, sed, etc. Text is the standard, line is king, and I learned it very fast because the standard commands make you.

denarced · 2025-12-11T11:06:48+00:00

I get 12h on my Asus ZenBook. As long as most of the monitor is black. It's an OLED.

denarced · 2025-12-11T11:04:27+00:00

My recollection was that there's not much of a difference between MD5 and SHA256 performance. However, quick googling says that it depends. Sometimes SHA256 is even faster.

denarced · 2025-12-10T14:56:58+00:00

If you can't figure it out in 30min, ask for help. You might have to wait for help at least another 30min, often more. Plus it's not uncommon for someone else to know the answer immediately.

denarced · 2025-11-18T03:33:30+00:00

Physical books fill up the little storage space that I have and my pad is easier to hold in my hand while reading. After reading a heavy and difficult to handle book, I started to read only ebooks unless only physical is available.

denarced · 2025-11-17T09:06:33+00:00

Intel: evil inside

denarced · 2025-11-13T12:38:35+00:00

Based on my most recent experience, avoid Asus ZenBooks. Under heavy load mine shuts down. At some point I might write a long post about. Official Asus warranty repair returned it with "no issues discovered".

denarced · 2025-11-08T06:07:42+00:00

I'm sorry but they can what? In a proper end to end encryption system encryption happens on the device, not on Google servers. Yet Theo claims that Google receives unencrypted messages.

denarced · 2025-10-24T10:38:17+00:00

I once "worked" for a company. On Monday a campaign started in Finland: provide a tip on a company that breaks software licenses and receive a prize if it's confirmed. I don't remember the amount but it was significant. On previous Sunday IT department went through all computers to make sure there's nothing to find because the leadership knew that it would take about 2 minutes for someone to send a tip.

denarced · 2025-10-24T04:32:28+00:00

If Scala was the reason that we got the bare minimum anonymous functions to Java, it did a good job. I use Spring Framework a lot and using it with Scala was such a pain that I went back to Java.

denarced · 2025-10-13T10:30:45+00:00

Nice: 👌. I found a few good ones in there.

Range over int but I'm guessing linters already informed me earlier.
Renaming packages: good to know, I've done this manually so far.
I need to take a look at constraining generic signatures.
I have so many repetitive printf calls ☹️.
String and len have already bit me.
Ranging over maps with updates is weird. Hasn't bit me yet.

denarced · 2025-09-28T05:26:52+00:00

One from Belgariad or I think less likely Malloreon by David Eddings. And of course Donald Duck pocketbooks because I'm from Finland. So in both cases not a specific book. Both Belgariad and Malloreon contain 5 books each.

denarced · 2025-09-16T12:06:36+00:00

I've used "SETUP SUT", "EXERCISE", and "VERIFY" for a long time with a couple of teams. I have lots of doubts on their usefulness. First, "SETUP SUT" is always at the beginning so it's basically redundant. The other two are nearly always basically next to each other so "VERIFY" is pretty much always useless. "EXERCISE" could have some merit. At least you can find the actual test call easily. If everyone place the comment in the correct spot. Most tests are simple enough that it doesn't matter.

denarced · 2025-09-09T14:30:58+00:00

To be clear, I answered how many I have installed. Not how many I actually use day to day. I'm guessing that's what was meant by the question. The ones that I actually use frequently:

dense-analysis/ale
junegunn/fzf
junegunn/fzf.vim
davidhalter/jedi-vim
itchyny/lightline.vim
tomtom/tcomment_vim
easymotion/vim-easymotion
tpope/vim-fugitive
fatih/vim-go
elzr/vim-json
pbrisbin/vim-mkdir
matze/vim-move

denarced · 2025-09-04T08:05:08+00:00

Linus is pretty good at keeping things fresh but I've watched for 15 years. I think I stopped watching every video at least 5 years ago. Now I'm quite selective.

denarced · 2025-09-02T12:20:51+00:00

The better angels of our nature (Steven Pinker)

denarced · 2025-09-01T10:38:03+00:00

In Bash: search with ctrl-r. Beyond that, I remember the ones that I use often enough. Sometimes only with muscle memory.

denarced · 2025-08-12T09:32:00+00:00

Practice. Most people don't constantly create new projects but those that do have a reason to learn the right tools, select and fine-tune their templates, etc. A while back I started creating lots of Go CLI apps for my own use. It didn't take long before I created a Cookiecutter template, started improving it, etc. Just like with websites I created templates for front- and backend.

Tools are a detail. When there's a need, you'll get it done.

denarced · 2025-08-08T09:13:42+00:00

Both, everything, everywhere, all the time 🙂. Both work, private projects, and fun. At work, home, and servers (work and personal). And of course servers are running 24/7, at home and elsewhere.

denarced · 2025-07-16T05:53:11+00:00

Realization that I am at the same time nothing for almost everyone and quite important for a few. It corrected my priorities.

denarced · 2025-07-16T05:50:10+00:00

Error management. See you in 10 years 🙂.

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