insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results Probability is doing the same thing over and over again and getting different results. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Who is the greatest scientist of all time (in terms of Google Scholar citations)? Is it Einstein? Or Bengio or Hinton? No. It is a humble servant of knowledge, Mr. Rachmad of Indonesia, who has had a rather productive publishing period after the launch of ChatGPT

Data structures are the core of programming. They underlie performance and code structure. And yet developers mostly plug them in thoughtlessly

במקום ה0: זמן זיכרון אפשר לנקות, דיסק אפשר למחוק וכסף אפשר להביא משקיעים או מהבנק. אבל את הזמן אי אפשר לחסוך לאח"כ אי אפשר להחזיר לאחור* וכשהוא נגמר.... *אלא אם לא השתמשתם בmonotonic clock ואז הוא יכול לחזור לאחור וזה חתיכת זין

Another day, another "log collection is broken" discussion Same discussion for 20 years. rebranded "DevOps", "platform", "SRE" teams, with fancier tools; but the problems are still the same We've learned nothing. FML

השירות הציבורי הוא תמיד מפעל ג'ובים, השאלה היא האם הוא מפעל ג'ובים של פוליטיקאים או של כנופיה לא נבחרת. רוצים שזה יפסק? תקטינו את השירות הציבורי, תבטלו משרדי ממשלה רשויות וכו'

Hey, western commie! Nothing makes me laugh harder than a guy or a girl tweeting about "great communism" from a $1,400 phone, in a 3-bedroom suburban house, with a fridge full of food. Comrade. You would not survive week one. And here is why. In the USSR you couldn't just quit your job to "find yourself." Not working was a crime. Literally. They called it "social parasitism." They put the future Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky on trial for it. Your podcast about late-stage capitalism would've gotten you five years. You picture yourself as a commissar. You'd be in a queue. Three hours. For maybe bread. The commissars were a tiny elite with their own shops, their own hospitals, their own everything. You weren't invited. You'd be the guy informing on his neighbor for an extra ration. That brave political take you posted today? In 1949 USSR deported 20,000 people to Siberia in three days for a lot less - for just being LOCALS. Whole families. Children. Cattle cars. You'd have lasted until your first "actually Stalin was misunderstood" reply landed in front of the wrong person. The gulag wasn't an edgy metaphor. Roughly 18 million people passed through it. Unpaid labor, -40°C, digging canals nobody needed. But please, tell me more about how you'd "organize the workers" from the group chat. Things get bad and you want to leave? You can't. There's a wall. There are dogs. There are guards who shoot. The whole design was that you couldn't go. The people romanticizing it from a comfortable suburb can always book a flight home. People in the USSR couldn't even move to the neighbouring city without permission. So wear the Che shirt. Read rge Red Book by Mao. Enjoy the iPhone he'd have confiscated, the internet he'd have banned, and the free speech that lets you praise the exact system that would have shot you for using it. Some of us actually remember how it went.

Recurring merge conflicts are a sign of socio-technical problems. They are the canary telling us that there is a misalignment between a) the work we do, and b) the type of work our architecture supports. adamtornhill.substack.com/p/…

Code was never the value blog.nukemberg.com/post/pop-…

I've got an agent in a loop optimizing a renderer with the goal to minimize frame times (and tests to measure). It got times down from 88ms to 2ms and allocations down from ~150K to 500. Sounds good, right? Wrong. This is exactly why agent psychosis is a big fucking problem. As an experiment, I rewrote the Ghostty core render state in Go, with access to identically laid out data structures as Ghostty and the exact same validation tests. I made a purposely naive renderer (simple, correct, but slow). 88ms per frame with 150,000 allocations (horrendous, lol)! I then kickstarted a Ralph loop to bring the frame times down. I told it it can't modify input data structures or the public API or tests (they're correct), but it can do anything else it wants. It got to work. It has worked for about 4 hours. I've spent around $350 on this experiment so far. The results? 88ms => 1.5ms 150K allocs => ~500 allocs Incredible right? Nope. My hand-written renderer I ported has frame times (same benchmark) of ~20us (0.020ms) and 0 allocations in the update path. This is the problem with psychosis and lacking systems understanding. If you don't understand the system, you're going to accept that this is an incredible result. If you understand the system, you'll see better solutions immediately and can do roughly 75x better on throughput. The people who blindly trust agent output are in the former camp. They're sheeple, overdrinking from a fountain of mediocrity. Standard disclaimer: I use AI all the time. I like AI. The point I'm making is to not blindly accept results. Think. Analyze. Learn.

שוב הגיע הזמן הזה בשנה שאני רוצה להזכיר לכם שאני עצמאי שעוסק בהנדסת תוכנה ויש לי פנאי ללקוחות חדשים. מה אני עושה? כל דבר שאינו לפתח עבורכם פיצ׳רים - אבל את זה בכל מקרה עושה קלוד קוד. השירותים שלי נעים בין תהליכי גיוס (בניה שלהם, ראיונות בפועל, אסטרטגיית בניין הכח), מנטורשיפ מרמת CTO דרך מנהלים ועד מפתחים, ארכיטקטורה, אופטימיזציה של SDLC לאנשים ורובוטים, ריפקטורינג, אסטרטגיית טסטים ועוד. באתר שלי (בתגובה הראשונה) אפשר לקרוא קצת טסטימוניאלס של לקוחות מרוצים. אשמח לשיתופים כדי להגיע לקהל פוטנציאלי שאולי לא מכיר אותי עדיין.

קול קורא להגשות לכנס רברסים 2026 נפתח! sessionize.com/reversim-summ… הקול הקורא נפתח ממש עכשיו ונסגר ב 26.7 ויש יתרון למקדימים! נעבור מוקדם על ההגשות ונציע שיפורים. אז קדימה, זה הזמן לספר על את הסיפור הטכנולוגי המיוחד שלכם, אתגרים ניהוליים, קוד פתוח, בואו לדבר בכנס התוכנה הטוב בישראל!

"17% improvement in the P90 of Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR) of alerts" I do not think it means what you think it means 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Another day, another nasty OSX shenanigans where Apple hack libraries under the hood breaking compatibility with Linux, POSIX in subtle ways. To be fair Apple is in the business of consumer products, not POSIX dev machines - we're to blame for making that assumption

יש משרות פתוחות אצלנו בסניק, אם מישהו מחפש שלחו לי DM אפשר לראות באתר של החברה את הרשימה snyk.io/_next/data/OxVDBGcJN…

סטודנטים למחשבים - ההרשמה לתוכנית הסטודנטים של וויקס נפתחה ל 48 שעות בלבד. סטודנטים למדעי המחשב והנדסת תוכנה המסיימים ב 2028 לפחות, זו ההזדמנות שלכם. הגישו מועמדות ושתפו עם חברים, זו תוכנית הסטודנטים היחידה שתיפתח השנה שתכשיר אתכם להיות מהנדסי תוכנה בעולם ה AI. הגישו עכשיו: wixenter.com

The building blocks for agentic development at scale are appearing

I've realized that I simply don't care what non-Jews think about what will keep Jews safe, and what constitutes anti-Semitism. My understanding of Jewish history just makes it impossible to take them seriously. When someone who's not Jewish tries to explain to me why something is or isn't anti-Semitic, I feel like I'm listening to a ten-year-old give a TED talk on what makes a successful marriage.