Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.
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mastodon 4.7.3All-around nerd. Programmer. Sr Staff Dev at EverAI. Ex-Shopify. Founder of Rebased and ArtRage. Books, whisky, crossfit, motorcycling. he/him.
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Hey #wrocloverb, the slides for my Modularity lightning talk are online at the usual spot: https://tomash.wrug.eu/talks/
How're things with the thought leader, is he still "optimistic" about Trump now that Trump wants to basically start a war with Denmark?
On March 10th we seem to celebrate Men's Day (40 Martyrs of Sebaste). Ask a friend what's up and if he wants to grab a coffee, beer or just hang out.
this was mildly irritating (maybe even sometimes amusing) before 2022 but now it's fucking infuriating.
It's hard to scale your way out of shitty code.
i know what i'll be playing with over the weekend!
also, light up a candle for crystal because they will be competing for same target audience:
https://github.com/matz/spinel
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@emil@helo.fuse.pl @patrys@mastodon.online i blogged recently that in 2026 abstractions and coupling they introduce is actually more expensive than allowing some duplication: https://tomash.wrug.eu/blog/2026/04/19/new-modularity/
this year's #wrocloverb starts on friday and ends on sunday. and it opens with a throwback for me: headius about jruby is a conference talk i saw on my first ruby conference, euruko 2008 in prague
today i learned: les goddamns
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@alicetragedy Piotr inspired and made better lives of everyone who got the luck of meeting him. the best person i ever met.
My weakly-held opinion on DHH's political ramblings: as far as my political views are from his, freedom of speech means he can express non-extremist views, including right-wing ones. Open-source, like workplace, has and will have people from different parts of political spectrum.
just when you begin to think he's maybe not that bad, just trying to make it in a weird industry, he pulls of shit like this ram deal
Testament just released their new album, Para Bellum. Way better than Brotherhood Of The Snake and Titans Of Creation, as they've toned down the black metal experiments (not fully though) and we're back to Bay Area thrash. It might replace Dark Roots as my second favourite!
ChatGPT Deep Research + word2md + Obsidian, or Perplexity export-to-markdown + Obsidian are pretty good kick-starts to researching any topic one one's own.
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@samir i like the assumption that anyone decided anything, instead of just "here's a new solution (LLM), let's see what problem we can apply it to"
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@halfbyte call for violence against a group of people is where i draw the line between extremist and non-extremist views.
New blog post: Let It Slop: A New Approach to Modularity in the Age of AI Code Generation. Still a bit rough and needs some editing but the main arguments are there:
Because I'm a cheapskate and don't code after-hours as much as I want to, also I want to keep the manual-coding skill sharp, I only pay for Cursor and not Claude Code (which I use a lot at work). And I'm happy to report that cursor-cli (on stock config!) is not that far behind!
If you're a caveperson like me who sometimes uses web chat interface of different LLMs and likes markdown export then you might find it useful: bookmarklets!
* repository: https://github.com/tomash/bookmarklets
* page: https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tomash/bookmarklets/refs/heads/main/index.html