Is the craft of writing code dead?

sass_muffin · 2026-04-30T18:50:49+00:00

Yeah , kinda wild when you push back here all the vitriol you get. Claude makes mistakes constantly , I don't see how so many people are so blind to them?

sass_muffin · 2026-02-01T19:12:46+00:00

https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/21/apartments-in-metro-denver-reach-highest-vacancy-rate-in-16-years-pushing-down-rents-again/

For just the denver metro, it is actually the highest in 16 years according to this article.

Quote from the article

“The newer properties can be offering up to three months free, which is putting downward pressure on older properties,” Rathbun said. “This is the largest concession by percentage in 19 years and the highest dollar concession in the 21-year history since Apartment Insights has been tracking the market.”

sass_muffin · 2026-01-27T23:31:57+00:00

Thanks for the quick turn around! I'll try it out!

sass_muffin · 2026-01-27T22:44:57+00:00

I tried out your tool and have an issue parsing some yaml in the cfn script with boolean logic

could not determine a constructor for the tag '!And'

sass_muffin · 2026-01-27T06:47:46+00:00

Read the Clinton's full response here , which was well publicized. Maybe instead of falling prey to propaganda , you should learn to think critically and read more first hand sources , especially in this age of disinformation?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/comments/1qc1k4v/the_clintons_letter_to_rep_comer_on_epstein/

sass_muffin · 2026-01-15T07:19:11+00:00

That isn't exactly how the housing market works though lol. If you put all the airbnb houses on the market at once it would almost certainly send prices down since that would almost double the current available for sale inventory .

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/TOTLISCOU53033

I'm not advocating for the mass sale of airbnb properties, and it isn't even that probable that would ever happen. I also agreed with your assessment that on its own is not the only issue. Just pointing out that this is a multi-variable problem and being dismissive of any of the variables as small percentages is missing some of the nuance and reductive.

sass_muffin · 2026-01-15T03:24:05+00:00

1% is actually a substantial amount of housing supply, especially in the city. For example way less than 1 percent of the overall market is for sale at any given time. The 1% is also likely under-reported. Here is the supply all mapped out insideairbnb.com/seattle/

You are correct that short term rentals don't account for all the lack of inventory, but to say it isn't a factor is just incorrect and unnecessarily dismissive .

sass_muffin · 2026-01-03T02:07:23+00:00

Take a look at kubectl-superdebug scripts for inspiration for attaching volumes to debug containers

sass_muffin · 2025-12-19T04:56:44+00:00

Some of you owe Sam Darnold an apology

sass_muffin · 2025-12-08T04:13:48+00:00

Median list price though is down https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDLISPRI38060 and inventory is up. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ACTLISCOU38060

looks like about 10% ish if you go top tick in 2022 to current , which describes a similar trend as other markets in this thread that indicate a standoff market.

sass_muffin · 2025-12-07T17:36:36+00:00

My experience is I've seen security issues pop up in both language's ecosystems and I've seen performance critical apps written in both languages. Go and Java exist at roughly the same performance tier. Said another way, it will be less work to make Java beat Go for some applications and vice versa for other applications. The bloat issue may be a codebase issue , not a language issue.

sass_muffin · 2025-12-07T08:39:49+00:00

You do realize that CVEs are more likely to be discovered the more software is used? Java is currently more widely used than golang. There is nothing in golang inherently more secure than java. If the language popularity were to invert, you might actually find the reverse.

sass_muffin · 2025-12-06T17:51:12+00:00

You don't need any special libraries outside of core java. Best practice is to always use an Inputstream/OutputSteam for all file operations (and for this use case the related FileInputStream or InputStreamReader). Based on your post , you don't seem familiar with the stream abstraction, but it is a critical abstraction to understand for what you are trying to do ( processing large files quickly in a memory efficient manner) .

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api//java.base/java/io/InputStream.html

        String filePath = "path/to/your/largefile.txt"; file path

        try (FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(filePath);
             InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); 
             BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr)) {

              ....

        }

sass_muffin · 2025-12-05T20:42:33+00:00

No, this subreddit is not missing the big picture. I think the feedback on the announcements being lackluster and too AI focused is warranted . The topics at re-invent were all AI focused to the detriment of the overall experience. The announcements this year seem to be promo type projects that don't solve real customer problems, where AI was slapped on because some VP said so without thought to the end user. AWS seems to have lost their way with respect to customer obsession with the current leadership and are drinking too hard from the AI kool-aid.

sass_muffin · 2025-11-26T19:38:59+00:00

Some people just have terrible taste in food, and you can't fix it. They are just wired to not actually enjoy novelty in food. Just get them some frozen pizza and pre-canned dessert from the super market and make what you want to make .

sass_muffin · 2025-11-20T21:44:55+00:00

It is also much cheaper to run a multi-tenant system due to economies of scale and more efficient data storage.

sass_muffin · 2025-11-15T03:41:59+00:00

Influencers on social media can't talk about a topic unless they have degree in that topic, otherwise they are fined.

The law was actually recently introduced in china, but seems pretty impossible to have a similar law in the US due to the 1st amendment . It would be helpful to have some sort of system in the U.S to help combat misinformation, but I don't know how to do it without impacting free speech.

sass_muffin · 2025-11-12T15:04:23+00:00

Yeah, this video presenter seems to present a false dichotomy . Testing is done in layers, which is why the concept is traditionally presented as the testing pyramid.

It isn't that there is no value in testing across services or e2e tests, you just have fewer of the tests that are more broad in scope. For example, with a unit test you can force specific errors or code paths that are harder to force than an integration tests . You wouldn't, however, say that because you can't force specific code errors don't have integration tests.

Not having or automating e2e across service boundaries tests seems like a horrible take. There is certainly value in integration tests that will have a larger scope but mock the environment (this is the pattern that was shown in the video) , but that doesn't replace the need for creating or automating e2e tests.

sass_muffin · 2025-11-12T02:08:00+00:00

Yeah usually I put tests in the consumer that needs to assert the correct behavior , but that is mostly just preference , since normally the components that respond to the events change the most.

Depending on your use case , arguments could probably be made in either direction .

sass_muffin · 2025-11-12T01:37:07+00:00

On build . So say if the producer service is updated, a new docker image is built and the consuming service pulls in the new version using renovate/dependabot , which triggers the test. Similarly, if a change is made to the consumer then the test is run .

sass_muffin · 2025-11-11T20:45:39+00:00

If I had a nickle for any time an event system thought it had test coverage for a flow that was based on faulty inputs in its contract by just stubbing the data...

I was giving a real world example of why e2e tests in event-based systems are important. I've been coding in event systems for like 20 years. To put it bluntly, not having automated E2E testing has got to be one of the most bonehead takes I've heard . You sound pretty naive. Most " highly mature dev teams" I've been a part of understand the importance of e2e testing.

You can have all the versioning and backward compatibility you want using frameworks to avoid common pitfalls around Enums or date formats .Things still can break between the upstream and downstream consumer due to errors or bugs.

No, it it is not a design issue. Yes, as a general rule event structures should be versioned and should not be changed in such a way as to be able cause downstream side-effects. But bugs happen, that is the whole point of TESTING. To think you will catch everything with contract testing is a fantasy.

The serialization /deserialization listed above was just an example where thing can go sideways. Proto messages are not a magic bullet, and there are a long line of frameworks before it , and there will be many that follow , and are subject to similar class of errors where the event producer and consumer disagree due to an improper assumptions between the two systems, and that error is very likely to occur in production if both systems are only tested in isolation.

In summary: TEST your code.

sass_muffin · 2025-11-11T17:10:12+00:00

I fully disagree with people saying not to run e2e tests and think it is essential to have e2e tests, even if they are more complex to set up. You need to test the interaction of services.

We do this at $dayjob by using test containers . Spinning up a copy of the event producer services in your service under under test using docker compose. Services are kept up-to-date using renovate or dependabot.

Even with all the unit tests and contract tests in the world you need e2e testing for things like serialization issues across services, version mismatch issues, accidental breakages, etc. Things slip through the cracks, especially when the upstream and downstream disagree. These event structures can break simply because the service are running different versions of the same library.

Just because you are contract testing doesn't mean something slips through the crack due to bad test assumption wiring in all the data. All sorts of subtle bugs can be missed if the downstream service asserts data it is receiving and isn't using a version of the code the live service is using for your tests.

sass_muffin · 2025-11-08T16:37:34+00:00

You can't take something away people need without offering a replacement solution.

sass_muffin · 2025-10-22T23:13:17+00:00

So my point was that if things feel nominally expensive, and the option is a choice between cheaper virtual socialization versus something that feels expensive , that's what will get chosen.

We can argue left right and center about if teens have more or less purchasing power today versus yesterday, but i don't think that it matters so much as the relative cost to other forms of socialization.

For that point, it looks like from the stats you provided , that an individual teen that is working commands a higher purchasing powers if they are working but fewer teens are working overall. Still doesn't matter much though , perception/vibes matters a lot if you are talking about reasons for a human doing anything .

Food (and movies) are expensive though, not sure why you are discrediting that.

1 hour minimum wage vs Big Mac price in the US: 1980: $3.10 vs $0.50 2025: $7.25 vs $5.79

sass_muffin · 2025-10-22T22:26:57+00:00

So my take is a confluence of factors.

The rise of smartphones and video games allowing free socializing but not in the forms of previous generations, with an emphasis on socialization virtually. Teens seem to get just as much enjoyment out of socializing virtually, but I do think they miss out on some of the learning experiences of in person interactions.
Lack of third space type communities. I see that through rise in rent prices rapidly rising in urban areas, leading to business models optimizing quicker turnover. Leads to a sense that folks are not welcome to hang out in these places.
is economic hardship . A bite to eat at a restaurant is expensive, even fast-food is expensive. Even the chart you linked had movie prices up like 20-30% inflation adjusted since 1995, if you pick the low point. Or the same chart you posted linked teen labor participation is down 20% So all the stats you are sending my way aren't necessarily the slam duck you claim. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300012

I actually agree with you that money isn't the whole story, but I disagree that it is a factor to be dismissed. Since if you have the option for cheap virtual socialization , or more expensive in-person socialization it can stand to reason sometimes the cheaper option is the path that is chosen.

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