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@jochen@wersdoerfer.de this account is kind of dead, but I’m active in the fediverse cu

Düsseldorf
Joined February 2009
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The expensive part was never producing an answer. It was knowing whether the answer was any good. Chess: exact feedback, free. Code: cheap, incomplete. Drug trials: slow. Novels: nobody agrees. Where feedback is cheap, AI moves fast. Essay in the reply.
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“Slop” is not a property of origin. Slop is the difference between your code and what the best affordable check would find in it. That difference grows with every model generation while nobody touches a line. Your codebase sinks; the waterline rises.
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“Don’t EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That’s giving your intelligence much too much credit.” — Linus Torvalds, 2001. The bitter lesson, 18 years early.
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Normal work week, rendering Wagtail pages without hitting the database is harder than expected - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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First workweek, podcasting about typescript and typing and trying to separate rendering and database fetching for Wagtail pages for django-cast - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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🏖️ Still on vacation - started to improve performance of django-cast in a systematic way and published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Vacation, new django-cast release including image galleries via web components and htmx - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Short work week, image gallery web component for django-cast via django-vite, published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Podcasting about PyTest and some web component stuff, published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Got covid, year almost over panic and sync renditions command for django-cast - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Impending🎄, work, and issues with threading / Wagtail / sqlite - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Visited Amsterdam for work, progress on revisiting responsive images for django-cast and web components are growing on me - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Normal work week, thinking about responsive image issues and bad weather dragging me down - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Work dipping my toe into the responsive images topic again - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Home almost improved, short work week, miscellaneous stuff - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Peak Home Improvement, some sickness and getting back into data science - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Still haunted by home improvement, frontend stuff at work and dusting off an old data science tutorial I wrote - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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Home improvement woes, work and increased podcasting activity - published my #Weeknotes for last week: wersdoerfer.de/blogs/ephes_b…
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