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Lars Rosenquist

@calvobianco.com

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"Do the right thing. Do what works. Be kind." Aka Calvo Bianco. Father of 2, husband of 1, musician, software/tech nut. Dev adv eng @ Zoom. Formerly @ Redis, VMware, Pivotal. Dutch. He/him. https://soundcloud.com/calvo-bianco https://deployonfriday.com

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 25d

My new track 'Clockwork' is out NOW!

Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSX3...
Buy: calvobianco.bandcamp.com/track/clockw...

Also on:

soundcloud.com/calvo-bianco...

#musicsky

Calvo Bianco - Clockwork

YouTube video by Calvo Bianco

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 31m

ADHD can be fun some times.

Daugher preparing lunch, to the dog: do you want the crusts of the cheese?

My brain wired directly into my mouth:

(To the tune of "The wheels of the bus go round and round")

🎵 "The crusts of the cheese are for the dog, for the dog, for the dog!" 🎶

Daughter: WTF 🤣

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1h

Joke's on them. I only catch half, so the responses I yell back cause utter chaos. 🤣

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 4h

We see a similar pattern in music and Spotify, etc. Everyone just following the masses hoping for money (which never comes) by trying to emulate the big players (who play by entirely different rules and contracts).

Folks think they have to make boring garbage and follow dark patterns.

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 4h

And not just games. Gimme my one-time pay apps without ads and in-app purchases and I will be happy.

And knowing App Store stats a bit: nobody makes money except the top 1% or so. So I suspect folks are not really A/B testing (both A and B are zero), but more 'doing what everyone else is doing'.

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 5h

Reposted with #AltText

Tumblr post from girliesinnermonologue

Did the name odysseus already exist before the odyssey? or was Homer just like "This is my new book 'The Journey' and our hero's name... Journathan"

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 16h

Drum-upbeefing is done. That's the easy part, basically some replace and rebalance/mix and done.

Now to the extending part. This requires a bit more thought because I want to make the track longer, but not by artificially lengthening it (boring) or retreading earlier steps (boring).

#calvobianco

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 2d

Extended mix/version of Clockwork is now in progress. Beefing up the drums a bit while I'm at it. :)

@nalyd14.bsky.social :)

#calvobianco

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 19h

After all the serious tech stuff, I'll be resuming shitposting and music shortly! :P

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 20h

I think they will do that regardless. /pessimist-mode :P

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 20h

Welp. RIP my mentions. 🤣

If you need another great convo around non-determinism and automation, check below.

Grace @gracekind.net · 23h

Different visions of AI-driven software
1) agents will take the place of the shell scripts
2) agents will take the place of the person writing the shell scripts
3) Both 1 and 2

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 1d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 20h

Folks adopting 'new-thing' and completely abandoning all they learned from 'old-thing' because they assume that somehow 'new-thing' will automagically do all those things (it usually doesn't).

A different form of abandoning reason than in your article, but also valid here I think.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 21h

Being able to reason over things has *so* much value. www.anildash.com/2023/06/08/a...

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 20h

I am disappointed. No longer surprised though.

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Samuel @samuel.fm · 20h

#react

how on earth do you do a search input with a typeahead dropdown thingy without pulling in an enormous ui library

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 21h

Yes, and it's a good way to protect yourself from becoming (seen as) a bottleneck and/or burning out.

Most folks are not like the person you described BTW (fortunately). And you develop a sixth sense for them after a while. :)

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 21h

Just roll the dice again, maybe it will be correct this time! 😱😂

But all jokes aside, I’m disappointed (not surprised) that with every new paradigm, folks seem to think that they can throw out all previously learned experience.

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 23h

TL;DR: how is this a work thing and not a healthcare thing?

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 23h

Want less cancer patients? Crack down on carcinogenics (industry/manufacturing/food processing/water treatment).
Want less folks burt-out? Crack down on toxic workplaces and stop 'worker efficiency' BS.
Want less long-COVID folks? Promote clean air and vaccination tech.

But who am I? ;)

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Folks that have experience with deterministic automation in (esp. in distributed systems) understand compounding error rates well enough to be very sceptical about throwing non-determinism in that mix.

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

You make music? Then you're a musician. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. :)

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

That's where I usually pull a "I'd love to help, but I'm really busy with <some other task of mine> at the moment".

Not sure about team/leadership dynamics, but if they're not being honest a "how about we let <manager name> decide?" does the trick. May not work if management is not great. ;)

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

You got this!

Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

There are hardly any one-time-pay, ad-free apps anymore. Everything is a subscription, a funnel into upsell and/or ads.

Heard someone mention they bought a guitar tuner that came with an app that required a 10/month sub for basic features. WTF.

Where are the apps with the actual users in mind?

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Panic attacks suck. Hope you are better now.

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Danilo Piazzalunga @danilopiazza.bsky.social · 1d

Work ethics dilemma: I'm helping an experienced coworker doing their job. Is it okay if I help them, stopping short of doing their job myself?

The key aspect here is: they are more experienced than me, and (supposedly) more qualified for this specific task. I wouldn't do that to a junior.

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Lars Rosenquist @calvobianco.com · 1d

Depends. Are they trying to coach you to their level (then it's probably ok) or are they trying to dump their work on you (probably not ok)?

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