reading a book on emotional intelligence and it's quite dystopian that it's funny. I got the name of it from a highly sensitive person book praising it (so you'd think they would be sensitive and empathetic, and be able to perspective-take and all that jazz)... he also keeps talking about how cognitive capability doesn't mean better social skills but better social skills means better cognitive ability. lol

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> One of the more surprising job arenas where emotional intelligence makes a competitive difference is computer programming, where the rate at which the top 10 percent exceed average performers in producing effective programs is 320 percent. And those rare superstars, in the top 1 percent of programmers, produce a boggling 1,272 percent more than the average.9
“It’s not just computing skills that set apart the stars, but teamwork,” says Spencer. “The very best are willing to stay late to help their colleagues finish a project, or to share shortcuts they discover rather than keep them to themselves. They don’t compete—they collaborate.”

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> After hearing me give a talk on emotional intelligence, the CEO of a company—one of the ten largest in its market—told me in confidence about why, instead of grooming his chief operating officer of many years to take his place as CEO, he fired him: “He was extraordinarily talented, brilliant conceptually, a very powerful mind. He was great on the computer, knew the numbers up, down, and backward. That’s how he got to be chief operating officer.“But he was not a brilliant leader, not even particularly likable. He was often brutally acerbic. In groups he was socially awkward; he had no social graces, or even a social life. At forty-five, he had nobody he was close to, no friends. He worked all the time. He was one-dimensional; that’s why I finally let him go.
“But,” the CEO added, “if he could have done just five percent of what you’re talking about, he’d still be here.”

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so you knew he was smart because he collaborated / taught you how he thought... and this isn't the only excerpt where the author praises overtime, commitment, etc. but then the guy gets fired for having no friends. lol

My LLM after uploading all my financial data: `Large purchase threshold: Anything exceeding €100 requires my approval`.

Haha, but I like it, I do everything with perplexity and if he can help me offering cheaper alternatives everytime I use it, it's a big win.

But so bossy. Damn. And 100,-? :P Seriously. I don't work but I pee that :P Hmm, ok, but that's the problem I guess.

Ain't nothing like compiler development to make you want to jump of a bridge

I went in with my childish naivety. How wrong I was... lmao

Best buy employees and geek squad don’t know shit about computers

I've been working more and more with vibe coding. The only way I can get it to work is with Claude code.

I'm not sure why it's different, but that one actually works. He's worth the 200/mth if you can make money coding.

Is the code great? No. But who gives a fuck. He frees up so much time

Today I learned the difference between Hashmap and LinkedHashMap in Java.
After 20 years of PHP development I could not undestand the difference until I hit my nose on an error.
It'hard to change yous development stack whene you are 50 year old.

My daddy was a baker. The flour was bringing pest, so we had a cat.

We also had a giant automatic oven. And a sale lady that was in charge of checking that the cat wouldn't be in it before closing it for the night.

One day she didn't do her job and when my parents woke up, it was smelling like grilled chicken.

I just had a recruiter reach out to me on LinkedIn for a senior front end developer job. Hybrid, 70% more than what I currently get as a Laravel developer. And I really like working with Laravel.

Fuck... I've been in this new job since September and I might just pursue this. It's SO MUCH MONEY, HOLY FUCK.

Problem is, I won't have a lot of holiday time when my lover wants to come visit me next year.

I've been trying out Amazon q on and off for a few days. I can see the potential it may have. But learning how to use it is best done while working from home as a sudden outburst with too many swears in a row in an open space office draws attention.

Here some nice performance statistics from AI used for coding: https://static.molodetz.nl/rp.cgi/...

This statistics page just stopped at a certain moment exactly like 10.000. I should've known. I read the source code and literally an entry_limit variable. Why would such variable ever exit? The gateway kept workng but it stopped to maintain statistics.

I have sent 1.37 GB of source code to AI and received 86 Mb. 63 errors on 10.000 requests, AI came from far. First i had a chatbot that i just stopped with debugging because the issue were always remote. This is mainly grok-code-fast-1 trough open router. Could say they're reliable.

I love data :)

Rust is fucking hard! I think I need more estrogen.

The push for AI is going to put people in hot water and possibly jail. Here is one example.

Is it okay to put a resume into an AI Detector to determine if it was AI written?

If PII is not removed, and the AI Detector is a public service (meaning no control of where the data goes) then it may be a GDPR violation. PII is not a joke in the USA either. There are things you have to follow to protect that. Work history is also a form of PII. It names places you worked so someone could figure out it is you that way.

Also, why would anyone care if they used AI to work on their resume? People are being asked to modify their resume to match job descriptions. One tool to do that is to use AI to help with this. If someone does this, and doesn't proof read that is on them. Also, you have to tone down the flowery bullshit AI produces. It embellishes and flat out lies.

I've always been a frontend guy but this time I'm ready for the backend

And no I'm not talking about code

Shamefully, after years of c++ hobbyism, I've only now discovered the ABSOLUTE BEAUTY of constexpr

I thought it was just the "new way of defining constants", so I always skipped over it as more of a basic utility than a hugely powerful part of c++

I didn't realize it could do comptime code! I can pre-compile huge arrays into my binary just like I could with comptime in zig.

Fuck me, I feel stupid as hell. More c++ rants to come, surely.

We have a cold moving through our house. Some people have it, some people don't.

Me: Do you have a cold?
Kid: I don't know...
Me: Is your nose running?
Kid: Yes
Me: Then why don't you go catch it?
Kid: ...shut up...

2025/6 is the year contrast dies.

Apple, obviously, with liquid glass (AKA, "I can't see what's on top or bottom!")

But now also, trying out Visual Studio 26, everything is just a slightly different shade of gray.

Won't anyone think of the clarity?! We have reached the point where we are so biased towards form over function, that our form is no longer functional! Bring back contrasting shades of colors in UI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So November is epilepsy awareness month.

People literally shaking with excitement about this.

My job is not satisfying anymore. I used to live creating beautiful pages from scratch and totally get a kick out of working for A-clients.

However i’m currently more and more turning into a software developer. Nobody cares if it’s pretty as long as it’s functional and working noone cares.

Ofcourse it give me freedom but at least half of the stuff i’m working on is not creative in the least bit and worse; is created by AI in seconds.

Are there any developers out there who made a successful career switch?

Degrees of comparison are weird as they go in the "more" direction for almost every human language but not in the "less" direction.

For instance, there is hard, harder and hardest,
but if it goes in the other direction, it’s suddenly "less hard" and "least hard".

It’s even weirder for languages that don‘t fall back to the "more" form for long adjectives, like English does:
More retarded, most retarded.
Which is again symmetrical to the other direction with "less".

Just some shower thoughts…

This November shall be... Noirvember, i.e. watching Film Noir. Nyah, see? H'what are you saying, see?