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Sue Smith

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🤡 Lefty Glaswegian smartarse 🎏 Helps folk learn how to code 💅🏻 Still petty after cancer https://www.suesmith.dev

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · Nov 17

I bought the domain to match its predecessor so you can now access HTTP Golden Girls at

www.goldengirls.codes

HTTP Golden Girls ( )

An app for learning about status codes!

www.goldengirls.codes

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 1d

Is this how it ends 🥴

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 1d

I don't mean to alarm anyone but tomorrow's weather doesn't look great

BBC Glasgow Wednesday weather, it's just a couple of dashes

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 1d

How the fuck is my Irish Scottish body so unable to cope with cold weather 😭

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 1d

'There’s a feeling too that the Orange Order has acted in good faith and in the spirit of One Scotland Many Cultures; that they’ve moved into those values and helped advance Scotland’s reputation as an inclusive, diverse and tolerant nation' || Kevin McKenna 👇

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 2d

I just want the golden girls lifestyle of eating cheesecake at 3am

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 2d

Aside from being racist and sexist as fuck, mastodon is also unfortunately a patter void, a space where even if you yourself bring decent patter, it cannot survive

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 3d

Slightly freaked out by how well the youtube algorithm on our telly appears to know us lol

Videos of cats, Celtic (Daizen Maeda), swimming, foxes

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 3d

I prefer to communicate with computers in exactly the same way I communicate with human beings, extremely patronisingly 👍🏻

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 3d

Meanwhile even supposedly cool women's clothes are dreadful

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 3d

William Gibson really gave me a false impression it would be possible to dress like Cayce Pollard

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 4d

My mum's shopping list for today was cream soda and a Glasgow Herald

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 4d

Storm Amy ya fuckin boot gie it a rest

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 5d

Don't like this thing I get paid to work on and that your participation made valuable? Why not work on it yourself for free! Are we cursed to never learn anything from open source lol fuck sake.

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 5d

If you don't like the way I'm running the app you're using go ahead and build your own version on top of the platform I am also leading is.. certainly an interesting argument lol

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 5d

Or better still, learning how to stop talking to them lolol

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 5d

Anyway seeing tech company executives not know how to do basic workplace shit folk who do minimum wage service jobs learn almost immediately never gets old does it

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 5d

"We're system architects at core" in response to a complete and utter failure to think systemically about the platform you're building is something else tbh

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 6d

Hiya, *people who already know how to code* using AI to make things by generating the code does not mean no one needs to know how to code anymore, that's no how this works

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 7d

I've known a few folk from poor backgrounds who became successful musicians, some of their lives went to shit and others didn't.. Honestly it was the same being in tech at a particular time, money being thrown at you, you have to decide is it an arbitrary twist of fate or just that I'm special lol

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Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 8d

I mean more than 'a lot of police support the far right' btw. we need to put that in context with the rate of domestic violence in police, the rate of sexual assaults and rapes, the way they actually manage 'crime' and who they see as their enemies, and understand what they are and who they serve

Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 8d

at some point we actually have to put two and two together here

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d

Met officers suspended over alleged abuse of suspects and support for Tommy Robinson

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 8d

This is where I diverge from these alarm bells

"Teams that care about quality will take the time..."

Laying the blame at the team level is a red herring, in reality organisational and economic factors will determine the approach

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 8d

For dependencies there's "community" oversight to an extent, but imo that ticking timebomb paved the way for this much bigger one.

Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 8d

Let's not pretend that before LLMs everyone was taking the time to fully understand changes before approving them, the economic dynamics made that impossible. As for dependencies, it became normal to rely on code you had no expectation of understanding, it's a difference in perceived accountability.

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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 8d

My hope is that this forces a long overdue reckoning with the extent to which we do (don't) understand codebases in general. From importing a ton of dependencies to copy paste from stack overflow and team member churn / absence, code comprehension has been increasing in urgency for some time.

Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 8d

“Comprehension Debt: The Ticking Time Bomb of LLM-Generated Code – Codemanship's Blog”

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/comprehension-debt-the-ticking-time-bomb-of-llm-generated-code/

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