Misc
Drinkup #47 took place 2024-12-19 19:00 at Cantona Leipzig.
- LLM coding assistants became so mainstream this year that people are starting to turn them off (even if they are given away for free); but new interaction modes like canvas or deeper integration with your code project or IDE feel a bit like having swimming fins 🧜
- do you know about software that is usable, used and finished? haha! tell us about it! – the DoD would also listen! cf. HN
- well, are we really engineers, then why can’t we make simple software? Does a time travelling debugger help? If you think the old times were better, or less strange, please check out The Old New Thing: Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows
- if you are developing software, you are going through many different stages along different axes, with one axis being testing: you start with enjoying unit test and you end with mostly focussing on integration tests
- Greg Wilson nicely summarizes a lots of empirical research on code and sofware development into a few slides, like this one: greatest-hits/#20: SLOC is still OK, more on that complex topic: From Code Complexity Metrics to Program Comprehension
- speaking of SLOC, did you know that wireguard, the VPN tunnel protocol, shines on this metric: 3904 vs 116730 lines of code, compared to OpenVPN (2017, wireguard has been added Linux 5.6)
- speaking of wireguard, did you know that you can run a tailscale control server yourself, e.g. with headscale? both tailscale and headscale are written in Go, so we may explore this topic further in an upcoming event (the name tailscale is flipped from the 2013 Google paper The tail at scale)
The long tail of products are never going to be that big [ie. as a hyperscaler] — almost everybody building almost everything doesn’t have any of those problems. – Avery Pennarun at 45:56…
[…] Which may mean that we will see more people regaining ownership over their personal data – or even more cloud exits – because it gets constantly cheaper to store, host and run stuff on your own infra.
The people predicting the end of Moore’s law is doubling every 18 months. – [Jim Keller, maybe]
The aspect of privacy can also be put at the key of products, like ente.io, a fully open source, End to End Encrypted alternative to Google Photos and Apple Photos.
Anyone up for a challenge to implement an array programming language in Go? Or maybe presenting something yourself?
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