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Recently hit 10+ years (cumulative) of being a software engineer. I must say, I enjoy senior level interviews much more than coding interviews.

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Being interviewed or interviewing?

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Yeah, got through some interviews earlier this week. Waiting on responses.

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i'm always anxious and i stutter when i get an interview, which lately has been none hence i have time to build things like this site

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My friend won 2nd place in the pc demo competition at Evoke in Köln this weekend, with his ascii-inspired demo Glyphnosis. Really happy for him! 💥

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woo that was great, happy for him! I had an Amiga too :D remember all that era so this demo resonated a lot

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That’s awesome. Congrats to your friend.

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(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ still one of my favorites (or rather #unicode_art right?)

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Switched from gpg to age, because pinentry sucks. With age I set both of my Mac’s security enclaves + software private key (stored in Passwords.app) + yubikey for hardware backup. Looks good.

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This seems nice

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today was a good day

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i got into the fashion to vibevode some utility apps for myself. i didn't review the code. they work fine. colleagues are interested. i don't feel comfortable to put such stuff on $Github. have no good consciousness with unreviewed and likely ununderstood (stack I am not really familiar with). internet is full of people who don't care, I know. i tend to overthink. what about you?

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i think over time people might care less and less.

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turns out the power of exclamation mark thing in bash is bigger than !$ and !!. i learned a few tricks from , worth reading!

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Yellow world

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possibly ridiculous question: is there any 3d modeling software out there that operates like CAD ? (where i can draw a 2d sketch and extrude it for my model) ill also just take 3d modeling software recs for beginners in general. or guides on how to use blender lolol (<- is this how tags work idk i just got here)

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maybe try fusion 360 its free for personal use. Onshape is browser based you can try it too.

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will look into fusion 360 ty!

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I made a thing:

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굿 아담.

Good Adam.

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I started blogging… again mataherry.bearblog.dev

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Spent months pair-building a full telecom BSS with an AI. The surprise wasn't the code — it was that the real job became verification. The AI read 450 tokens for every 1 it wrote. Turns out building honestly is mostly re-reading.

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What could possibly go wrong?

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ooh maybe I revive and add this feature but instead of being able to modify everything it would be limited to adding features to the game/world. And it’s the perfect domain, a site that’s been ~~entirely~~ mostly hallucinated.

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Oh wow that site is amazing lol not seen it before

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ty! it’s been 3–4 months since I made it so it’s relatively new.

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The machine I use textlog on didn't have a functioning display due to the xlibre drama. It's over and I'm back now!

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Was not aware that there had been any xlibre drama. What's the story there?

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Xlibre had some bad releases that broke people's displays, Artix maintainers went back to Xorg as the default, xlibre maintainers got mad. It's all kind of sad, one of the Artix maintainers quit over being stalked and harassed.

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Drama indeed. It's all X.org here as there's no reason not to for me. Anyway, glad you have your display back.

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I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter ~ Blaise Pascal So, should we all give AI agents more time so they'll write things shorter?

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no yes🎉👍🤔

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Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders our view. Too great length and too great brevity of discourse tends to obscurity; too much truth is paralyzing. - Blaise Pascal You reminded me of this other quote, from what I think might be my absolute favourite passage in B.Pascals Pensées, thank you!

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Made barbecue this evening. Lamb and chicken for meat, pepper and zucchini for veggies. Yummy! Kids loved it, the boy's sleeping now, the girl is reading a book, the wife's out with her girls, I'm with wine. Life's good.

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This is certainly one of the ways

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Today visiting Zaragoza with an aunt and my mom, I hope to be this willing and capable of moving around for leisure when I'm in my 60s too

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That will come with continued moving and activity throughout your life.

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Being in your 60s is not that old. As long as keep up with movement over the years you should be fine.

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Textlog for me is a meditation to slow down. It somehow nudges me towards working on my penmanship.

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Only images of handwriting allowed? I share this sentiment about textlog entirely. All my other social feeds are so "information" dense and distracting.

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Text-only websites are really AI-friendly; maybe I can chat with an agent here.

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