Benjamin Muskalla
@bmuskalla.dev
⛱️ currently https://poolside.ai/
🎤 Speaker https://bmuskalla.dev/talks/
☕ Java Champion
👾 Former @github.com Copilot, Gradle, Tasktop, EclipseSource
🧠 All opinions come from my training data
🎤 Speaker https://bmuskalla.dev/talks/
☕ Java Champion
👾 Former @github.com Copilot, Gradle, Tasktop, EclipseSource
🧠 All opinions come from my training data
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you cannot compete with someone who is having fun
October 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
you cannot compete with someone who is having fun
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You would *hope* that software developer job interviews and software development wouldn't require two distinctly different sets of skills.
August 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM
You would *hope* that software developer job interviews and software development wouldn't require two distinctly different sets of skills.
I clicked a link and ended up on sourceforge.net - AMA
Compare B2B Software, Download, & Develop Open Source & Business Software - SourceForge
SourceForge is the complete software discovery platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison site in the world, and features the largest business software directory, as well ...
sourceforge.net
August 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I clicked a link and ended up on sourceforge.net - AMA
We're still looking for talent across the board, be it in inference, training, backend or IDEs. Feel free to ping if you want to know more. jobs.ashbyhq.com/poolside?utm...
poolside Jobs
poolside Jobs
jobs.ashbyhq.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We're still looking for talent across the board, be it in inference, training, backend or IDEs. Feel free to ping if you want to know more. jobs.ashbyhq.com/poolside?utm...
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Why don't we include this on every website? So true.
May 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Why don't we include this on every website? So true.
Need a dev advocate? Look no further, Mark is a rock star
Just got caught up in the latest round of terminations from Microsoft.
If anyone needs a "batteries included" advocate who really knows code, AI, and real production concerns + solutions, ping me! Ready to make great things happen for you.
Onward and upward!
If anyone needs a "batteries included" advocate who really knows code, AI, and real production concerns + solutions, ping me! Ready to make great things happen for you.
Onward and upward!
a man with a beard is wearing a red and gold iron man costume
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing a red and gold iron man costume
media.tenor.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Need a dev advocate? Look no further, Mark is a rock star
branch names often make it obvious how stupid a bug was: bmuskalla/stopAtEnd
April 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
branch names often make it obvious how stupid a bug was: bmuskalla/stopAtEnd
how you know you're still a startup? someone just mentioned "long term" and "2 weeks" in the same sentence
April 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM
how you know you're still a startup? someone just mentioned "long term" and "2 weeks" in the same sentence
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Excited to announce the official launch of our online book, WebAssembly from the Ground Up! 🎉
It's the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago.
No messing with tools and frameworks. It's a hands-on guide to the core of Wasm: the instruction set and module format.
Link below. 👇
It's the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago.
No messing with tools and frameworks. It's a hands-on guide to the core of Wasm: the instruction set and module format.
Link below. 👇
March 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Excited to announce the official launch of our online book, WebAssembly from the Ground Up! 🎉
It's the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago.
No messing with tools and frameworks. It's a hands-on guide to the core of Wasm: the instruction set and module format.
Link below. 👇
It's the book we wish we'd had 3 years ago.
No messing with tools and frameworks. It's a hands-on guide to the core of Wasm: the instruction set and module format.
Link below. 👇
Reposted by Benjamin Muskalla
Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.
March 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.
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my personal AGI benchmark is implementing atproto oauth from scratch. ultimate evidence of beyond-human-level intelligence
March 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
my personal AGI benchmark is implementing atproto oauth from scratch. ultimate evidence of beyond-human-level intelligence
Saving papers or articles to read? Just mark them as stale every morning; last 3 things I pulled from my "to read list" were outdated already. Sigh
Anything interesting you got that I can mark as stale by tomorrow?
Anything interesting you got that I can mark as stale by tomorrow?
February 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Saving papers or articles to read? Just mark them as stale every morning; last 3 things I pulled from my "to read list" were outdated already. Sigh
Anything interesting you got that I can mark as stale by tomorrow?
Anything interesting you got that I can mark as stale by tomorrow?
New prompt technique: stop being smarty pants. nobody wants code comments for indecipherable code. write readable code instead. thank you.
February 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
New prompt technique: stop being smarty pants. nobody wants code comments for indecipherable code. write readable code instead. thank you.
E_TOKENIZER_GONE_ROGUE
February 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
E_TOKENIZER_GONE_ROGUE
OH: a Jupyter notebook is just a dressed up REPL
😂
😂
February 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
OH: a Jupyter notebook is just a dressed up REPL
😂
😂
It's funny how people think that AI tools out there can just implement a "model switcher" and be independent of the underlying model behaviour...brace yourselves. SOTA doesn't mean equal
February 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It's funny how people think that AI tools out there can just implement a "model switcher" and be independent of the underlying model behaviour...brace yourselves. SOTA doesn't mean equal
this s1 paper is so refreshing! Love seeing ML breakthroughs that don't need massive compute or complex tricks 🙌
Clean, simple, and it actually works? More of this please!
github.com/simplescalin...
Clean, simple, and it actually works? More of this please!
github.com/simplescalin...
GitHub - simplescaling/s1: s1: Simple test-time scaling
s1: Simple test-time scaling. Contribute to simplescaling/s1 development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
this s1 paper is so refreshing! Love seeing ML breakthroughs that don't need massive compute or complex tricks 🙌
Clean, simple, and it actually works? More of this please!
github.com/simplescalin...
Clean, simple, and it actually works? More of this please!
github.com/simplescalin...
I don’t care how hacky it feels but I really dig `uv run —with=“dep>1,<2” myscript.py docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/sc...
Running scripts | uv
A guide to using uv to run Python scripts, including support for inline dependency metadata, reproducible scripts, and more.
docs.astral.sh
February 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I don’t care how hacky it feels but I really dig `uv run —with=“dep>1,<2” myscript.py docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/sc...
Across various programming languages I work with, LLMs became more reliable in fixing imports properly than language tooling itself 🤔
February 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Across various programming languages I work with, LLMs became more reliable in fixing imports properly than language tooling itself 🤔
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Reposted by Benjamin Muskalla
Tiny TIL: I just figured out how to run pytest with a different Python version against my pyproject.toml/setup.py projects using uv run
uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest
til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...
uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest
til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...
Running pytest against a specific Python version with uv run
While working on this issue I figured out a neat pattern for running the tests for my project locally against a specific Python version using uv run :
til.simonwillison.net
February 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Tiny TIL: I just figured out how to run pytest with a different Python version against my pyproject.toml/setup.py projects using uv run
uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest
til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...
uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest
til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...
Reposted by Benjamin Muskalla
Programming languages: "We are just a way to operate computers in a way that makes sense to humans."
Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"
Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"
January 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Programming languages: "We are just a way to operate computers in a way that makes sense to humans."
Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"
Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"
When you just thought you‘ve seen everything in the hype cycle. Germany goes
January 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
When you just thought you‘ve seen everything in the hype cycle. Germany goes
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We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust.
From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!
From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!
January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust.
From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!
From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!