#introduction (again)! 👋 Self-hosting mishap ate my last instance, so — fresh start.
I'm Max, a software engineer (15+ yrs) based in Malmö, Sweden. Currently between roles.
🔧 Self-hosting addict — K8s, Proxmox, Home Assistant, this instance
🤖 Writing about AI's impact on engineering identity
💻 Building things in TypeScript, React, Python, Rust
🎮 Anno 1800, Battlefield, GTA
🐱 Staff to a ragdoll
#SoftwareEngineering #SelfHosting #Fediverse #Kubernetes #AI #Malmö #ReIntroduction
I need some inspiration on how to make more use of my Matrix server. I found only 2 advantages so far. The first one is, not having to install the client apps of each BigTech corp and eliminating surveillance by these apps (...although this is sort of invalidated by the fact that I need those apps when I need to take a call from friends). The second one is that I can have whatsapp on multiple devices. There has to be more to this.
Sweden is quite strange. There is high tech literacy for generations and it is the birthplace of ThePirateBay, a country in EU with GDPR. Yet, when it comes to privacy, you'd be shell shocked coming from anywhere else. Your address, car, pet, marriage status, birthdate, salary are by default public and Google-indexed... So you are essentially doxxed by default. You can opt-out out of this from the individual sites that publish and make this Google-indexed, but the info stays publicly accessible.
Post-bubble economics of GenAI, specifically AI-assisted coding, will make programming pay-to-win. I wouldn't be surprised software engineers start paying a big chunk of their salary to AI service providers, essentially becoming type of a salesman.
Google's Antigravity IDE runs out of the quota faster over time. No wonder Claude Code is gaining popularity.
It was reaching to the quota limit after 4 hours of use with Gemini 3.0 first. But today, I saw it run out after only 3 messages to the Gemini 3 Flash... Completely unreliable and frustrating as a paying user. Besides, I found it is possible to plug Ollama into Claude Code.
Here is a wild take, entire AI coding trend is a sneaky play to get the developers to come to terms with they have to accept selling turnkey cloud solutions.
When the craft is entirely tokenised, the efficiency of delivery becomes a commodity, and nothing is cheaper than a pre-made, pre-validated catalog of function calls.
The clarity that comes when you hit 30 and realize your true favorite genre is rock
Many of my developer friends are paying for the $100+ monthly package for #ClaudeCode #Cursor or #Antigravity. Jury is out whether I should join them, or keep using this opportunity to step away from my desk. Luckily, I am taking a career break and programming for fun. I really hope $100+ pay-to-win packages are not the default when I get back to professional life of a programmer. Probably it will be something far stranger by then.
@ScienceScholar@mastodon.social I think your AI summariser needs the rest of the prompt for the post 😅
The 2026 Department of War strategy has officially moved into the "literary confession" phase.
The Pentagon just launched "Ender’s Foundry," a project dedicated to refining "sim-dev and sim-ops feedback loops." The name is a transparent nod to Ender’s Game—a story about a boy who thinks he’s mastering a simulation while actually conducting a real-world war.
We aren't the players; we’re the training set. 🤖🕯️