Marco Lopes
@mpmlopes.bsky.social
Functional Scala Guy. Tech Lead. Coaching, mentoring, learning.
@asarturas.bsky.social lol, it took you a few weeks, but you got here.
January 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
@asarturas.bsky.social lol, it took you a few weeks, but you got here.
I donate every year anyway. But this year I'm doing it twice to help Wikipedia fight these disgusting attacks.
December 29, 2024 at 6:46 PM
I donate every year anyway. But this year I'm doing it twice to help Wikipedia fight these disgusting attacks.
Was scrum always a bad idea, or was it good back in its day and it became outdated as we found better ways?
I feel the latter might be more likely.
I feel the latter might be more likely.
December 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Was scrum always a bad idea, or was it good back in its day and it became outdated as we found better ways?
I feel the latter might be more likely.
I feel the latter might be more likely.
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In software development, repetition can be a signpost to a better design or a better process. Teams who say "Oh, we'll just get the intern to do that" (or, the 2024 version, "We'll just get Copilot to do that") often end up baking in the repetition, creating serious downstream headaches.
"LLMs are helpful with boring, repetitive work"
I can't help wondering if, in the long run, the better strategy is to address the repetition?
I can't help wondering if, in the long run, the better strategy is to address the repetition?
December 11, 2024 at 9:29 AM
In software development, repetition can be a signpost to a better design or a better process. Teams who say "Oh, we'll just get the intern to do that" (or, the 2024 version, "We'll just get Copilot to do that") often end up baking in the repetition, creating serious downstream headaches.
Is Reddit on a 31 month regime now???? Who's going to come up with names for all 31 months? Are they all going to be named after Julius Caesar? I have so many questions!
December 3, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Is Reddit on a 31 month regime now???? Who's going to come up with names for all 31 months? Are they all going to be named after Julius Caesar? I have so many questions!
Lol, apparently tying to get ChatGPT to say David Mayer, makes it crash.
December 1, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Lol, apparently tying to get ChatGPT to say David Mayer, makes it crash.
This looks pretty cool. Unfortunately the price is completely crazy, and also with my talent for putting these kinds of models together, and for painting the end result would probably look like something the cat regurgitated.
youtu.be/bDxOi75eFGI?...
youtu.be/bDxOi75eFGI?...
Outer Wilds Hearthian Lander Model Kit Infomercial - Official
YouTube video by Mobius Digital Games
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November 27, 2024 at 10:35 PM
This looks pretty cool. Unfortunately the price is completely crazy, and also with my talent for putting these kinds of models together, and for painting the end result would probably look like something the cat regurgitated.
youtu.be/bDxOi75eFGI?...
youtu.be/bDxOi75eFGI?...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Poetry
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/poetry-2
"Anyone who thinks AI endangers poets should first prove that there exists a poetry journal with more readers than contributors."
November 27, 2024 at 10:00 PM
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Poetry
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/poetry-2
"Anyone who thinks AI endangers poets should first prove that there exists a poetry journal with more readers than contributors."
Semantic Diffusion is the bane of a software engineer's existence. Can you think of any concept that hasn't lost its meaning as soon as it spread a bit?
November 27, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Semantic Diffusion is the bane of a software engineer's existence. Can you think of any concept that hasn't lost its meaning as soon as it spread a bit?
Got my first smart watch since my Pebble Time Steel maybe a decade ago, looking forward to seeing how much things have changed since then.
November 27, 2024 at 5:08 PM
Got my first smart watch since my Pebble Time Steel maybe a decade ago, looking forward to seeing how much things have changed since then.
Reposted by Marco Lopes
Everything old is new again.
November 27, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Everything old is new again.
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“Don’t Repeat Yourself” is advice that only makes sense when developers are talking about semantics.
Even if two passages of code are identical, unless a change to one should always change the other nothing has been repeated.
Even if two passages of code are identical, unless a change to one should always change the other nothing has been repeated.
November 25, 2024 at 4:29 PM
“Don’t Repeat Yourself” is advice that only makes sense when developers are talking about semantics.
Even if two passages of code are identical, unless a change to one should always change the other nothing has been repeated.
Even if two passages of code are identical, unless a change to one should always change the other nothing has been repeated.
Reposted by Marco Lopes
I have to temper everything I read about the EU "lagging behind" in "A.I. research" with the increasingly evident fact that *everybody* is lagging behind in A.I. research. What the EU's lagging behind in is drinking the Kool Aid.
November 24, 2024 at 8:41 AM
I have to temper everything I read about the EU "lagging behind" in "A.I. research" with the increasingly evident fact that *everybody* is lagging behind in A.I. research. What the EU's lagging behind in is drinking the Kool Aid.
I don't just like this, I love this. For ages I've been trying to tell people. You're just replacing your interpreter by a non deterministic interpreter and using a less formal language to describe what you want, thus increasing the time and explanation efforts, and increasing the risk as well.
November 23, 2024 at 1:19 PM
I don't just like this, I love this. For ages I've been trying to tell people. You're just replacing your interpreter by a non deterministic interpreter and using a less formal language to describe what you want, thus increasing the time and explanation efforts, and increasing the risk as well.
Reposted by Marco Lopes
Programmer: "Just read the documentation"
The documentation:
The documentation:
November 18, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Programmer: "Just read the documentation"
The documentation:
The documentation:
Reposted by Marco Lopes
Friday at 2pm CEST, I’ll be discussing about domain modelling with @krever01.bsky.social and Lukasz Bialy in the next episode of Scala Space Podcast. Join us on YouTube or on Twitch.
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November 19, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Friday at 2pm CEST, I’ll be discussing about domain modelling with @krever01.bsky.social and Lukasz Bialy in the next episode of Scala Space Podcast. Join us on YouTube or on Twitch.
www.youtube.com/live/-8k3WfX...
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Acceptance test coverage shouldn't be about happy or unhappy paths. They should be about what's important for the business. Happy paths tend to be important. Unhappy paths can sometimes be important and sometimes they may not.
Product Owner: Why do the acceptance tests only cover the happy paths?
Developer: They're called rose tinted specs.
Developer: They're called rose tinted specs.
November 19, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Acceptance test coverage shouldn't be about happy or unhappy paths. They should be about what's important for the business. Happy paths tend to be important. Unhappy paths can sometimes be important and sometimes they may not.
According to some news article "chatGPT beats doctors" at illness diagnosis. I'm not sure I'm willing to accept medical advice from a software that can't even count the letters in a word...
November 19, 2024 at 1:10 PM
According to some news article "chatGPT beats doctors" at illness diagnosis. I'm not sure I'm willing to accept medical advice from a software that can't even count the letters in a word...
Everyone's excited about bluesky's promises of not changing its principles, but I say, let's take it with a pinch of salt. I was around back when Google's moto was "don't be evil", and when they promised infinite storage space on Gmail. And yet, here we are today where none of those things are true.
November 19, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Everyone's excited about bluesky's promises of not changing its principles, but I say, let's take it with a pinch of salt. I was around back when Google's moto was "don't be evil", and when they promised infinite storage space on Gmail. And yet, here we are today where none of those things are true.
