André Polykanine

Le journaliste Jean Quatremer quitte « Libération ». Sa lettre d'adieu est très pertinente. https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/je-reprends-ma-liberte-car-elle-est-mon-bien-le-plus-precieux-jean-quatremer-quitte-liberation-EXJNF4FXXBGHLOLMCESC3JEHWU/

@wronglang @fastfinge @matt @nolan @zersiax Wooow! Respect for knowing and remembering the great and mighty Victor Borge. BTW, Michel Leeb made a… remake of this in French which, in my opinion, is also very funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj3edfsJgGU

@wronglang @fastfinge @matt @nolan @zersiax I'll transcribe for you *one* line of logs, so you understand. Remember: one. line.
Left bracket, two thousand twenty-six dash zero seven dash twenty-eight T sixteen colon forty-seven colon fourteen point five hundred fifty-three thousand two hundred three plus zero zero colon zero zero, right bracket, doctrine.INFO colon Disconnecting left bracket right bracket left bracket right bracket
Notes:
1. It's an extremely primitive line of logs. Here it is in notation for normal people:
[2026-07-28T16:47:14.553203+00:00] doctrine.INFO: Disconnecting [] []
2. Punctuation symbols are in fact shortened for me, but I cannot turn them of because you know, a single semicolon in programming matters.
3. It would be super mega nice to be able to turn off timestamps, since, as you can see, it's the main pain in the bottom. However, they are not useless because sometimes you need to know when exactly this or that happened. Of course, I could set up several loggers, one with times, another without, and sometimes I do that (especially in Serilog-powered .NET apps). but still, if you need to sift through hundreds of kilobytes of them… you get it.

@AmIsraLHai aurez-vous un lien ? Dans ce monde il serait agréable de lire quelque chose comme ça.

When high-level compiled programming languages hit the scene in the 1970s, I wonder how many machine-language, punch-card programmers groused about the poor quality inefficient code they produced? And, yes, I do realize there are differences in the comparison, but, really, I think the general idea stands. Technology moves forward and there are just different approaches to how we humans handle change.

@zersiax @matt I woulnd't say it's that awful quality-wise, if you steer it correctly with detailed plans, project conventions, guards, hooks etc. At least, when I see what it produces in languages I know, it's not awful.

@matt Absolutely not. I'm a software engineer, I coded before LLMs, and if they go (which I would grief), I'll still code. Five times slower, but I will. Also, without LLMs I wouldn't afford diving deep into languages I consider difficult to read and maintain (like Rust, sorry).

Question for people who vibe-code full apps, especially blind people, as I believe that covers most of my followers who do this: What would it take for you to be comfortable coding directly in a programming language without an LLM? A high-level programming language with better tutorials and quickstart templates than are currently available, particularly for writing real apps? Or do you believe that having an LLM generate the code is the only way you could practically do what you do?

Symfony 8.0 reaches its end of maintenance! 2 years of work, 650+ features, 13,202 lines of deprecated code deleted, then 16 patch releases and 646 fixes from 270 contributors. Thanks to all of them! Next stop: 8.1. https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-8-0-reaches-its-end-of-maintenance

Hello! I'm Florent, a french guy who makes instruments in Estonia, mainly from the flute family. I only use wood from the nearby forest.

I’ve had the account @monviolon for years but it was intended for discussing the violin. I’m opening this new account to follow artists and craftspeople and to present my instrument-making activities, which have now officially become professional ones.

Please feel free to share this post to help me out 😉

#introduction #woodworking #whistle #fipple #handcraft

@Tamasg Human didgeridoo? 😊

so The beatles have finally, finally, finally announced a deluxe version of Rubber Soul. In celebration of that, they have released take 1 of their song Michelle from that album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0HMLhaQOw&si=KuA1FOq2OaoG2Kpx

I wonder what my parents did to fight boredom before the internet?

I asked my 18 brothers and sisters and they don't know either.

@JenMsft Meow! Adorable! touch her on my behalf!

@JenMsft How old is she? My first cat (may she rest in peace) once brought three kittens. I'll remember this for my whole life: holding a newborn kitten in my hand. Something absolutely marvelous and unforgettable.

It's a long shot but I don't suppose anyone in the UK, London more specifically has an old google pixel they'd be willing to part with? I'm running into issues with my app working perfectly fine on a galaxy with all labelled buttons, but not on google's devices. I'm making 0 money from this app so I don't and can't justify buying a new device just for this one thing, but someone's old, replacement device they no longer need would be super helpful. Thanks Fedi.

@Revertron I also use Windows and hate Linux Desktop. More than that, I believe Linux is good for servers, but not for desktop usage.

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