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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-19 at 21:05

I know Synapse has few contributors outside of the Element company, but I just read this blog post about how Element is keeping the good Synapse code, increasingly rewritten in Rust so that it doesn't perform like a garbage barge, completely proprietary:

https://element.io/blog/scaling-to-millions-of-users-requires-synapse-pro/

Why would anybody contribute to the legacy Python code which this post makes clear is not scalable and is not good enough to sell? Surely it's a self fulfilling prophecy.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-16 at 20:27

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Solaris, is in fact, illumos, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, still just illumos. Solaris is not this operating system, but rather another totally different proprietary operating system forked from the same lineage some 15 years ago. All the so called "Solaris" distributions (except for Oracle Solaris) are really distributions of illumos.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-09 at 22:13

If you've been afflicted by this, you should leave feedback for the Mozilla people: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/sidebar-and-vertical-tabs-release-channel-experimentation/td-p/78966

It's also super gross that this is an A/B testing thing; TIL Mozilla are pretty serious about this kind of user hostility: https://experimenter.info/

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-09 at 22:12

Firefox have added an awful new sidebar which wastes 80+ pixels of dead horizontal space in each browser window in an A/B test on some users who update to 133/134. It doesn't have a clear way to turn it off again. I tried to log in to "Mozilla Connect" to give feedback and it's down, lol, lmao.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-09 at 03:49

Broadly, software is a kind of long con for convincing rubes that the computer is able to do anything other than reason about what we believe might have been true at some point in the past

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-07 at 17:25

I think we should get in early and use the horrendous neologism, "agentic", as a flat derogatory term; e.g., "wow, this incredibly tedious spam in the bug tracker is really agentic".

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-06 at 10:06

I saw this video in high school physics class on a VHS cassette, and I feel like it holds up remarkably well even today: https://youtu.be/0fKBhvDjuy0

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-02 at 23:48

Why would I need an LLM for home automation, we solved this already

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2025-01-02 at 12:12

Have done about 100X more driving this week within Cyberpunk 2077 than in the real car. Definitely had to take a moment to adjust mental processes on the way to Safeway.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-23 at 18:25

Using GraphQL as your only API is incredibly user hostile. It's a dubious facility with a high cognitive overhead compared to plain REST-style APIs, even when you consider that REST means different things to different people.

This is specifically a complaint about GitHub Projects V2.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-21 at 09:17

I don't know how anyone can read the word "Kubernetes" and not immediately hear Estelle Costanza screaming at George after discovering he's using it.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-12 at 23:57

I will do it for Prado, who was once great with the bugs.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-11 at 04:32

You may not like it, but this is what peak programming performance looks like.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-11 at 03:37

While it's true that the idea of "chat-oriented programming" makes my skin crawl, that's nothing compared to the idea that I might be expected to call it "CHOP" for short.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-09 at 09:06

Starting to wonder if there's a kind of brain thing that happens to Old Man Programmers. A kind of last great polemic nostalgia, where all you kids have never heard of any history and you're all fucking it up because you discarded all the good computer ideas back in the 1970s before you were born.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-09 at 04:49

While I don't entirely agree with the thesis in the article, "Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad" describes, to a T, exactly how I feel whenever I read about some new edict from Douglas Crockford.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-06 at 21:55

Has anybody been referred/subjected to the new Kaiser "Regional ADHD Medication Service" yet? So far my experience has not been positive.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-05 at 07:14

They're waiting for you Gordon, in the test chamber.

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-04 at 11:14

idle minds begin to bridle

waiting on that recompile

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Written by Joshua M. Clulow on 2024-12-03 at 20:21

Webhooks, the way they're thought about by, e.g., GitHub, are not a good design pattern. What I want instead is an ordered event sequence I can (long) poll, or watch via Server Sent Events. If you want to sleep until activity, a hook-like POST with no content could tell you to resume polling.

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