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michaelbarenboim.bsky.social @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social · 2d

@thunberggreta.bsky.social has done more to prevent and punish genocide than all 193 States in the UN, especially the 153 signatories of the genocide convention. Let that sink in

Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg gives her first words after she was released from Israeli prison where she was beat and forced to kiss the Israeli flag. She says the story is not about them, the story is about Gaza.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 2h

A little trick that gives me joy: have a look back at the code as it was before you started tackling it. You'll see how all the tiny improvements added up

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 2h

The vibe coder was constrained: AI hype made them believe skill and judgement are no longer needed 😀 But I can imagine it's hard to empathise. Ignorance is bliss but only for the ignorant.

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah I need to reply to your email 🙈

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 11h

Wanna hear a joke? In its early years, Google's mission statement famously was "Don't be evil"
bsky.app/profile/erik...

Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 15h

404 Media has coverage and a pod out on this as well. Google made the same choice. These companies will not save us. They will happily feed as many of us into the chipper shredder as is necessary to keep themselves in the good graces of the regime.

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 11h

The only surprising thing to me, is that so many people still believe that Apple is somehow different from all the other billionaire-owned capitalist tech monopolies. These people always side with power.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 16h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 12h

Google spokesperson Castaneda: "allegations concerning YouTube are "simply not true," in part because it's a streaming service & not a social network"

audit results: "YouTube’s algorithm violates the platform’s very own policies, recommending misinformation, violent content, hate speech & scams"

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 12h

Sometimes the constraint is Mb/s, sometimes it's WTF/s

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 12h

We're is always constrained by the laws of physics, CPU speed etc. Think of messy code as just another constraint.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 12h

Engineers like challenges, but we tend to be selective about what we consider a valid challenge. "I need to build this despite shit code /politics / lack of resources..." The mindset switch is that all these things are not inhibitors to solving the problem, they are part of the problem definition.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, in theory 🤣

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 17h

I haven't tried it yet with vibe code. In human code, usually one of the things I do early on is reduce abstraction and then reintroduce it with a better model. With vibe coding I imagine there won't be much abstraction to get rid of.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 17h

...he said, while thinking to himself: bsky.app/profile/eina...

Einar W. Høst @einarwh.bsky.social · 18h

How wonderfully human.

Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 18h

To be honest, given time and access to the people who vibe coded it, I quite enjoy cleaning up codebases that are a mess. Maybe I'm weird. But usually, having to deal with people who don't understand the value of the cleanup are what make a job like that shit.

Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 1d

From a CTO WhatsApp group I'm in

Message in CTO WhatsApp group:

I did a code and architecture review for a company yesterday who had vibe coded their MVP - there were no common classes, modules, functions, etc. every "feature" was a separate file with literally a main method full of all the code required for that one function - no reuse anywhere and loads of bits of code that were declared but never used, variable names that didn't make sense, the same variables defined everywhere, etc. Because they were quite far down this path the tidy-up process is going to be a long and difficult road

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 21h

Do you think you and others could be interested in a full day workshop, eg at DDD Europe? Perhaps as exercises where we start with a problem description, evaluate models, compare them, DIY build a new one?

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 21h

4/ Spoiler alert: there is in fact a problem, it just doesn't affect the person who made that claim.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 21h

3/ There's a higher order effect: if your organisation is comfortable with experimentation (and risk, failure, discovery) in good times, they will be more skilled and willing to experiment when you are hit with a problem.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 21h

2/ If you only experiment when you have a crisis at hand, it's usually too late.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 21h

1/ Experiments are useful to learn what's possible, to discover your blind spots, to generate optionality (aka the availability of options even when you don't need them), and to allow innovation. Without experimentation for the sake of discovery, there's no science, art, philosophy.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 21h

I was told today that "we don't need to experiment, we don't have a problem".
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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 2d

Some of the essays in our book Design and Reality give some more ideas, specifically "Design and Reality" and "Models and Metaphors". The examples are from software engineering but you could apply it to org design, politics etc

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to the language people use: if a concept is mentioned a lot but not represented in the model, it could be a building block.

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 2d

Make the implicit explicit. If you value something, consider making a building block for it. If there's friction, consider whether a concept is not being represented. Sometimes the concept you need to model is not the "things" but the relationships between them.

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Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 2d

The “et al” is such an amazing community! For those who weren’t able to join us: the paper is a valuable read and the discussion was so vibrant and engaging, we were a minute over before I even looked at the clock :D

Thank you @rebeccawb.bsky.social , @mathiasverraes.bsky.social and everyone there

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Mathias Verraes @mathiasverraes.bsky.social · 2d

It was good to see you again Hibri, thanks for joining 😀