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What's that? Noted software Thought Leader (TM) Lewis Campbell has updated his consulting website? And he's got capacity for new clients? WOW that is BIG NEWS.
Lewis Campbell
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Lewis Campbell
@LewisCTech
I stop software projects getting any worse than they already are.
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Blog: lewiscampbell.tech/blog
- "Delve' is not a fancy word. It's one syllable. It's been used continuously for 6000 years. It's a word a child would know. Shakespeare used it. This is unacceptable for an educated native English speaker.This post is unavailable.
- HTTP - 1989 SQL - 1973 Unix - 1969 I fully get the amount of industrial equity built by all the above technologies. But I must ask... is this it? Are we as an industry just going to build off of these things forever? Do we not dare imagine anything else?
- There's no one I sympathise with more than Harvard PhDs who run million dollar companies that are micro-aggressed by their Uber Black drivers. Truly the real victims.
- Vanilla JS is by far the most sensible thing to build your web app in. The mild discomfort of manual DOM manipulation absolutely pales in comparison to the endless grind of transitive dependency and tooling updates. I will die on this hill. The front-end emperor has no clothes.
- Tsoding has demonstrated - time and time again, on live video - that he is an excellent programmer in a wide variety of domains and languages. Deriding him because he doesn't stream boring maintenance work on some infrastructure project misses the point entirely.Last one on this. People still trying to make me think I am wrong and tech influencers are really valuable and meaningful. I disagree. I’d rather listen to people who have actually tackled real problems than those who just complain and rant about everything without taking any
- Confession: I have never properly understood asynchronous programming. I've *used* async await, thread pools, workers, rust's tokio, etc. But it's all been very black box. The Beam VM, co-routines, green threads, io_uring, epoll... I'm trying to figure it all out atm.
half of bun’s team is here on visas. it’s already very difficult to find great engineers. please don’t make it harder- Replying to @DanielW_KiwiThey can leave out details that would clutter up a paper. They can also avoid favouring any one particular language. Usually it's the algorithm that's important, implementing is is trivial. I don't know why so many people get hung up on this.
- Replying to @scrypto_Because he's embarrassed. I once met a woman I did this to (though in my defense it was ONE party I tried it) years later, when I had a long term gf. I pretended I hadn't met her before. Felt easier.
- Replying to @paulg"Bad writers, and especially scientific, political and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones" - George Orwell There's also this, from Nineteen Eighty-Four:
- Replying to @tomfool1978how would that change anything? People would just immediately rush to port Unix, SQL, and HTTP into quantum computers.
- Does anyone ever see this screen and basically decide "you know what, I don't need to use github today"?
- Replying to @mkaleelLOL that's right he calls his blogs "essays" doesn't he. The man lecturing us all on not trying to sound smart calls his blog posts "essays".
