Seref Arikan
@seref.bsky.social
Nerd. Programmer. Consultant at times. Tech lead at Ocean Health Systems. Londoner, likes writing code, sci-fi, B movies. Likes kind people. Please don't yell.
It is 2025 and the first key you press when Windows displaying the lock screen is not typed into the password box that is displayed in response. I curse for every redundant key stroke I have to perform.
June 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It is 2025 and the first key you press when Windows displaying the lock screen is not typed into the password box that is displayed in response. I curse for every redundant key stroke I have to perform.
Indeed. I work in healthcare, and it is such a strong phenomenon: when it comes to processing information, clinicians work via "unite and conquer," engineers work via divine and conquer. Chaoes ensues.
Excellent observation
From an engineering perspective, software wants to be decoupled. From a business value perspective, software wants to be deeply interconnected. That's the fundamental friction that software design, and Domain-Driven Design specifically, attempts to address.
June 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Indeed. I work in healthcare, and it is such a strong phenomenon: when it comes to processing information, clinicians work via "unite and conquer," engineers work via divine and conquer. Chaoes ensues.
If you'll read one thread today...
The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943.
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
Only one cat has ever received the award.
This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25
June 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you'll read one thread today...
That's a sufficiently large voter base for a party that'd become the government in many countries. Hold my beer Greens party.
I'm smart enough to be frustrated by the mediocre software engineers at work but not smart enough to get a job where software engineers are of good quality. I'm so unhappy.
June 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
That's a sufficiently large voter base for a party that'd become the government in many countries. Hold my beer Greens party.
There are two ways to write code that works but you have no idea how. Stochastically, using an LLM, or deterministically using an ML variant.
June 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
There are two ways to write code that works but you have no idea how. Stochastically, using an LLM, or deterministically using an ML variant.
I say a lot of bad things about the javascript/css driven Web UI stacks, but then I go back and check out how Uno/Blazor/Avalonia is going, and you know what? JS won. It does not matter if we like it or not. For the Web UI, JS won.
June 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I say a lot of bad things about the javascript/css driven Web UI stacks, but then I go back and check out how Uno/Blazor/Avalonia is going, and you know what? JS won. It does not matter if we like it or not. For the Web UI, JS won.
I just have to ask: does anybody have the source for this?
May 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I just have to ask: does anybody have the source for this?
Reusable in so many countries right now.
May 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reusable in so many countries right now.
AI has also given politicians a golden, shiny can to put things in and kick down the road. Just say that all the holes in your policy and logic will be filled by AI.
The technology doesn't work. It *feels* like it works, so they keep doing science to see whether it does or it doesn't. But when you look at it with science instead of vibes, it just doesn't. https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/
Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'
Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.
fortune.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
AI has also given politicians a golden, shiny can to put things in and kick down the road. Just say that all the holes in your policy and logic will be filled by AI.
Do you like vibe coding? Why not try seeing a "vibe treating" doctor next time you feel unwell?
May 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Do you like vibe coding? Why not try seeing a "vibe treating" doctor next time you feel unwell?
Re all that being said about StackOverflow dying, yes LLMs played a part, but how the moderation was done and the culture that formed mainly around moderation, which then extended to comments and discourse in general also played a part. LLMs do not judge or patronise.
May 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Re all that being said about StackOverflow dying, yes LLMs played a part, but how the moderation was done and the culture that formed mainly around moderation, which then extended to comments and discourse in general also played a part. LLMs do not judge or patronise.
Especially if she's allergic.
May 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Especially if she's allergic.
This is just ... beautiful. BatmanJuice? BeetleBat ? I'd love, love to see that movie made. What Carrey did in The Mask would be left in the dust (no rhyme intended...)
May 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
This is just ... beautiful. BatmanJuice? BeetleBat ? I'd love, love to see that movie made. What Carrey did in The Mask would be left in the dust (no rhyme intended...)
Re the so called Brexit reset (which is not, at all), the so called wins are not diluting Brexit as some suggest. They're just plastering over the massive harm it has done.
Using the e-gates? Give me back my freedom to live and work in any EU country, and I'll accept a 2 hr wait every time.
Using the e-gates? Give me back my freedom to live and work in any EU country, and I'll accept a 2 hr wait every time.
May 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Re the so called Brexit reset (which is not, at all), the so called wins are not diluting Brexit as some suggest. They're just plastering over the massive harm it has done.
Using the e-gates? Give me back my freedom to live and work in any EU country, and I'll accept a 2 hr wait every time.
Using the e-gates? Give me back my freedom to live and work in any EU country, and I'll accept a 2 hr wait every time.
Brilliant stuff
sometimes you pitch an article, black out, and then wake up 2000 words later with no real recollection how any of it happened www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...
I did Liberation Day tariffs in Victoria 3, and it all went well until the famine in Colorado, the 2 lost wars with Canada, and the president beating a man to death with a stick
But apart from that, would recommend.
www.pcgamer.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Brilliant stuff
This is not a pleasant read.
linked post has, perhaps, one of the greatest postscripts of all time
AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My! By Ben Shindel
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm.
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm.
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
May 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This is not a pleasant read.
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Big savings down at Aldi
May 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Big savings down at Aldi
I am really not sure we're actually living in .. you know... reality
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9Z...
May 16, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I am really not sure we're actually living in .. you know... reality
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9Z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW9Z...
You're the hare, and I am the tortoise my friend
May 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
You're the hare, and I am the tortoise my friend
Ok, now people are using AI to write their emails, which takes mere seconds for the LLM to spit out. I then have to spend an hour to respond to all the horseshite it produced. I'll have to start asking people not to do this.
May 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Ok, now people are using AI to write their emails, which takes mere seconds for the LLM to spit out. I then have to spend an hour to respond to all the horseshite it produced. I'll have to start asking people not to do this.
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There are a lot of incredibly talented people on the job market right now. Many of my friends in DevRel, OSPO, program management, and engineering are looking for their next role, some have been searching for months. If you’re hiring, please consider sharing a link to your open roles below. TY ❤️
May 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
There are a lot of incredibly talented people on the job market right now. Many of my friends in DevRel, OSPO, program management, and engineering are looking for their next role, some have been searching for months. If you’re hiring, please consider sharing a link to your open roles below. TY ❤️
If it can not deliver the wild promises thrown around, it may replace 90% of the CEOs making those promises too.
Just saying 😉
Just saying 😉
You think Anthropic has gotten rid of ~20% of their devs since this, on track to get rid of 90% by September?
felloai.com/2025/03/anth...
felloai.com/2025/03/anth...
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "AI Will Replace 90% of Developers in 6 Months" | Fello AI
AI will replace 90% of developers within 6 months, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Learn how AI is changing the future of software.
felloai.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If it can not deliver the wild promises thrown around, it may replace 90% of the CEOs making those promises too.
Just saying 😉
Just saying 😉
Why do we have to pay for access to European Standards? Are they not funded by European taxpayers? Assume it is to ensure non European parties do not have access them for free, but isn't the point of standards to ensure as many parties as possible align/comply with them? Why hide them then?
May 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Why do we have to pay for access to European Standards? Are they not funded by European taxpayers? Assume it is to ensure non European parties do not have access them for free, but isn't the point of standards to ensure as many parties as possible align/comply with them? Why hide them then?