«Maintainability isn't just a matter of hard-won experience teaching you where the pitfalls are. It also requires the cultivation of "Fingerspitzengefühl" – the "fingertip feeling" that lets you make reasonable guesses about where never before seen pitfalls might emerge. It's a form of process knowledge. It is ineluctable. It is not latent in even the largest corpus of code that you could use as training data»
@… about code as liability
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Leopold Koželuh:
🎵 Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra in F Major: II. Adagio
#LeopoldKoželuh
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eqO8VMbbPeEy6eNoe2Olv
Un Momento III 🕰️
一瞬 III 🕰️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
ChatGPT head says screenshots of ChatGPT ads are "either not real or not ads"; OpenAI's research head says "anything that feels like an ad" is now turned off (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-insists
LOL moment from #IETF124 pre-BOF was @awarm.space describing Leaflet as "macro blogging"
I just get like this picture of like carb loading, and like @schlage.town as my super intense coach. "GET OUT THERE AND MACROBLOG, PEOPLE!!!"
Trump’s White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans.”
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the White House launched a web portal it says will spotlight bias on the part of news outlets,
targeting the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as its inaugural “media offender of the week.”
It’s the latest wrinkle in the fight against the First Amendment
-- what Trump, in his first term, labeled “fake news.”
The Republi…
from my link log —
Raspberry Pi Reliability: how to reduce writes to your SD card.
https://www.dzombak.com/blog/2024/04/pi-reliability-reduce-writes-to-your-sd-card/
saved 2026-01-05
So... is the field named `Client Name` actually Client Name or is it really Client ID (which is a GUID)?
_Oh, you have to put Client ID in there otherwise it won't work_
Um.... so why isn't the field labelled `Client ID` then?
_Client ID was too confusing._
(despite this being what its called everywhere in the code, the config backing store etc.)
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