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I am a french who love coding the hard way (no AI), worked for a lot of startups until saturation, hope for a come back of social values instead of monetization of the poorest. Toots in 🇬🇧, please be indulgent.

Are you French? Take a look at my profile on Chapril: @batsify@pouet.chapril.org

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Joined November 07, 2024

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French (native), English

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France, European Union

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

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@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social What I found amusing in the very first seasons of the Star Trek television series was Kirk's declaration that there was no concept of money in society. This was in an episode where the USS Enterprise is transported back in time to World War II. I found that surprising.

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 10mo ago

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@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de ❤️

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Interesting article on API documentation best practices.

The author focuses on web APIs, but I think this article applies to classic APIs (those in our packages or that we generate ourselves for other teams).

In short, it's always advisable to provide two types of documentation: the specifications (the "what") and the API documentation (the "how").

https://inkwright.inc/blog/your-api-reference-is-not-your-api-documentation

#SoftwareDocumentation #api

inkwright.inc

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

I loved this article. It's something that resonates with me personally and in my professional life.

<< Neither decision involves asking the person using the software. The adding is driven by business metrics. The removing is driven by engineering metrics. The user is in neither equation. >>

I recommend reading:

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/the-feature-creep

vivianvoss.net

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 13mo ago

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@mjd This isn't the only security measure in place, but it's part of a set of practices aimed at reducing costs and negative impacts on both sides of the mirror: customer assets on the one hand, and the company's long-term investment in the product on the other. Perhaps I see that we too often reduce code review to what is generally called a “PR.” But code review is much more than just PRs. It’s a practice that doesn't wait for a “click” in a rush moment.

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 10mo ago

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@LarsFosdal@mastodon.social Inside you will find another instruction asking you to invite a friend to share this good time.

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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I also want to open the discussion about the “listen to users opinion” here. It’ll probably hurt you to hear that, but users are not the holy grail for many open source contributors. They are for companies that profit from users, but very unlikely to be for independent contributors. Most of us don’t profit from our work. You can demand features and bugfixes from open source contributors just as much as you can from any random people on the street. From https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak/#comment-835 [2/2]

feaneron.com

The Infamous GNOME Shell Memory Leak – feaneron

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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@esparta@ruby.social It would be naive to say that these are bad developers. You can't imagine the level of pressure they face from society, within companies, and in the media. This makes people who try to regain control seem anti-AI. The example I was given to describe this behavior is the arrival of computers in the era of typewriters. That's what we're being compared to.

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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The article itself was interesting, but on another topic: bad GC behavior on Gnome Shell The Infamous GNOME Shell Memory Leak https://feaneron.com/2018/04/20/the-infamous-gnome-shell-memory-leak

feaneron.com

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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@georgetakei You are the boss ♥️ ♥️ ♥️

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

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@workchronicles A variant everybody should keep in mind: << You don't own the company >>

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 7mo ago

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@christi3k This is what happens when a society rewards success, which is necessarily synonymous with personal wealth, at the expense of the interests of society as a whole - which is no longer a value.

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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@GeePawHill ❤️ Yes. But on the other hand, a good number of people know this very well, but don't care at all. That's somewhat the problem of the times we live in.

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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@cwebber To use AI, or should I say, to be forced to, I know that AI happily uses private or unstable APIs, and that this kind of thing hides in incomprehensible code that no one bothers to review.

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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@cammerman@mstdn.social Can you, please, stop to publish on Internet the MAGA secrets plans? Yes, de-naturalize is a way to legally pressure and oppress peoples. Black, strangers, political opponents... A legal weapon to terrorize.

Batsify @batsify@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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@esparta@ruby.social Thank you for this toot. It seems obvious. But I don't subscribe to it. I develop software in a corporate environment, and companies are pushing people to use AI (it's even a performance indicator). What I see are some cool things where AI can support the thinking process. But I also see many, and much more often, products partially written by AI, and for which the developers don't have a complete understanding of the AI-written part.