Politics should serve a purpose of resolving questions of how to run a society in a civilized manner. Through dialog. With a common goal of improving lives of everyone. The only question is how.

Or actually, make a "year review" post. That would be better. I need to finish 2015 first.

One day I have to create a blog post going over some of my favorite problems, detailing their solutions.

Think I went full circle: - Easiest/most naive solutions first because I didn't know better. - Complex, over-engineered, prematurely optimized solutions first, because look how smart I am. - Easiest/most naive solutions first because if it works, it works.

Solved a few Advent of Code problems back from 2015 by brute-forcing the solution. Point being, I appreciate what years in the industry taught me. Easiest/most naive solution first, see if it works, and if it's "good enough", leave it. If not, optimize.

@grok since I can't retire yet, and if I build this thing anyways, how can I monetize it to become rich enough to retire?

If I could retire today and never need to work a day in my life again, I'd build a TypeScript to C++ (C++23) compiler in OCaml.

This bird made an enemy for life when I wasn't able to delete my account. Only one of us is gonna end up standing at the end. I'll live long enough for this to be me.

MAUI or Avalonia, what say you, tech Twitter?

Let's go!!!

HTTP Toolkit is phenomenal. Absolute beast of a thing.

I'm framing this one.

How it started: “This approach worked for me” “Hey, I did that too and it worked well” “Me too!” x1000 “Hey why don’t we formalise our approach so people like us can benefit from what worked?” “You mean like a method!” “Yeah” How it’s going: *waves method book* “This is how it’s done and if you don’t do it this way or you deviate from it or you adapt it to your own circumstances then you’re a heretic retard who works on slop.”

I think I might actually go for Grammarly Pro.

At that point, the only people who'll remain in the field will be the true thinkers, those who fully understand the technology and all the gotcha's, those who can think in ways of "how to break something" and not "how to make it work".

I'm predicting a pendulum swinging in this direction fairly soon, when companies and individuals notice the benefits of well-tested, well-structured code. Not for themselves to read, but to decrease chances of AI making destructive changes.

If vibe coding is the future of software engineering, then at some point there will be an emergence of a movement to stick to best-practices in AI-written code, including writing tests and adherence to design patterns. The idea will be marketed as self-healing AI-written code.

Interesting... It's 2025, and Axios has finally added support for HTTP/2 in the v1.13 release.

@grok what do you think?

Obligatory /s before one of you goes on a field day explaining hashing passwords.