I apologize for marginalizing the 0.00000013% of readers who live in space, who do actually use UTC as their home time zone. You matter too. I’m sorry. Please don’t drop anything on me

(c) https://errorprone.info/docs/time

The goal isn't to write more code faster. It's to build better software.

(с) https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-70-problem-hard-truths-about

If you ever see a course that tries to shame C++ with a billion angle brackets, just know that the author of that course is a clueless moron who has no idea what they're talking about.

(c) https://learncodethehardway.com/blog/31-c-plus-plus-is-an-absolute-blast/

For developers, this means you need to be cautious about who you interact with and where your contributions come from.

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It is disappointing that the open source community cannot operate independently of international sanctions programs, but these sanctions are the law of each country and are not optional. Many developers work on open source projects in their spare time, or for fun. Dealing with U.S. and international sanctions was unlikely on the list of things that most (or very likely any) open source developers thought they were signing up for.

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...if an SDN identified a memory bug and submitted an unsolicited patch to fix the issue, developers receiving this patch should be able to evaluate the patch on its technical merit, modify it if they see fit, and apply the patch to their repository. The SDN’s developer submitting the patch would see the patch being applied but should not be engaged in a two-way communication discussing the patch, the technical merits, or ways to improve the patch.

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As stated at the beginning, the Linux Foundation’s position is that open source and open standards are the most inclusive collaborative innovation model in the world.

(с) https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regulations-and-open-source-us-ofac-sanctions, по следам https://t.me/tech_b0lt_Genona/4986

When you are using AI, you are sacrificing knowledge for speed. Sometimes it’s worth making this trade-off. Though it is important to remember that even the best athletes in the world are still doing their basic drills for a reason. The same applies to software development: you need to practice the basics, to be able to do the advanced work. You need to keep your axe sharp.

(c) https://lucianonooijen.com/blog/why-i-stopped-using-ai-code-editors/ (по следам https://t.me/tech_b0lt_Genona/5181)

When OpenAI's sphincter-like logo became successful, it created a template that said, "This is what serious AI looks like." Now, any new AI company that doesn't resemble a colorful anatomical opening risks being seen as unserious or unprofessional.

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

We do not think that viewing AI as a humanlike intelligence is currently accurate or useful for understanding its societal impacts, nor is it likely to be in our vision of the future

(с) https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology

Никогда не упоминайте знаменитый Zen of Python: ни в шутку, ни всерьез. Если упоминает кто-то другой, пропускайте мимо ушей, не важно насколько он именит.

(с) https://grishaev.me/zen-of-python/

Хорошим примером служит история с Log4j. Когда я читал, что было под капотом, вставали волосы во всех местах. Ощущение, что разработчики объехали все сумасшедшие дома, записали пожелания пациентов и выполнили их дословно. Добавьте в шаблоны Тьюринг-полный язык? Хорошая идея. Хочу подгрузку классов по урлам? Считайте, уже сделано. Напишите фасад над фасадом над фасадом? Уже в этом релизе.

(с) https://t.me/igrishaev_blog/866

Dear so-called "social" websites.

Your catchword is "share", but you don't want us to share. You want to keep us within your walled gardens. That's why you've been removing RSS links from webpages, hiding them deep on your website, or removed feeds entirely, replacing it with crippled or demented proprietary API. FUCK YOU.

(c) https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge?tab=readme-ov-file#rant

An even more dispiriting upshot of this is that, as developers, we spend an ever greater proportion of our time merely fixing up the output of these wondrous babbling machines. While the LLMs get to blast through all the fun, easy work at lightning speed, we are then left with all the thankless tasks: testing to ensure existing functionality isn’t broken, clearing out duplicated code, writing documentation, handling deployment and infrastructure, etc. Very little time is actually dedicated to the thing that developers actually love doing: coding.

(c) https://chrisloy.dev/post/2025/09/28/the-ai-coding-trap

The law is clear that large corporations have no right to stop you from owning wrenches

(c) https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/bullying-is-not-innovation

...planning to move away from GitHub owing to concerns about over-reliance on JavaScript, GitHub's ability to deny service, declining usability, inadequate moderation tools, and "over-focusing on LLMs and generative AI, which are destroying the open web (or what remains of it) among other problems"

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/