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The European Space Agency OPS-SAT satellite can run DOOM
https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-a-programmer-got-doom-to-run-on-a-space-satellite-and-what-happened-next

How a programmer got Doom to run on a space satellite and what happened next
The first-person shooter is famous for being ported to almost every computer on the planet. Now, we know it can run off the Earth as well.

Can We Trust the AI Pair Programmer? Copilot for API Misuse Detection and Correction
Saikat Mondal, Chanchal K. Roy, Hong Wang, Juan Arguello, Samantha Mathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16795

Can We Trust the AI Pair Programmer? Copilot for API Misuse Detection and Correction
API misuse introduces security vulnerabilities, system failures, and increases maintenance costs, all of which remain critical challenges in software development. Existing detection approaches rely on static analysis or machine learning-based tools that operate post-development, which delays defect resolution. Delayed defect resolution can significantly increase the cost and complexity of maintenance and negatively impact software reliability and user trust. AI-powered code assistants, such as …

The FCC's Brendan Carr says "local TV stations" "stood up" to a national programmer by preempting Kimmel and that "we need to keep empowering local TV stations" (Farrah Tomazin/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-tv-at

Trump’s TV Attack Dog Doubles Down on Kimmel Ahead of Return
Controversial regulator Brendan Carr wants to see more local stations pushing back.

Fediverse Programmers:
"I am a programmer with a Fediverse account, and I do most of my code-writing for these type(s) of program(s)."
Please consider boosting for a more representative sample.
#programming #poll

#EU Commission Reactivates #BugBounties
https://www.i-programmer.inf…

from my link log —
A programmer's field guide to assertions.
https://typesanitizer.com/blog/assertions.html
saved 2025-08-17 …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115382255162970844
The Fediverse programmer's OS use poll has just ended with 6,064 votes, and 1.1K boosts (thank you.)
Linux or Unix came up first with a whooping 3,453 votes (57%), followed by Ma…

Wenn allen Firmenchefs der "10x Programmer" «dank» #KI versprochen wird, wieso sollen sie dann jetzt auf Amazon hören?
https://www.golem.de/news/da…

"NOT everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer’s library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language."

Tim Peters
Not everything that is worth reading is a book. A good programmer's library (I will let you decide whether that is a good library owned by a programmer, or a library belonging to a good programmer) includes essays, scholarly articles, videos, magazines, blog posts, podcast episodes, and more. This month, we are going to read an Easter egg in a programming language.

SO close to 10x programmer! #agiAnytimeSoon https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/115050433640095929

HTML Programmer.
—from the always lovely @…

... an anecdote from IBM's Yorktown Heights Research Center. When a
programmer used his new computer terminal, all was fine when he was sitting
down, but he couldn't log in to the system when he was standing up. That
behavior was 100 percent repeatable: he could always log in when sitting and
never when standing.
Most of us just sit back and marvel at such a story; how could that terminal
know whether the poor guy was sitting or standing? Good debugg…

You know what's the difference between a human programmer and an "#AI coding assistant"?
Sure, human programmers make mistakes. And rookies often make "worse" mistakes than an #LLM can come up with. However, the difference is that humans can actually learn. Teaching them comes with a payoff; not always and not necessarily for your project, but there's a good chance that they'll become better programmers and contribute back to the community.
Sure, human programmers sometimes plagiarize. And of course they need to look at some code while they learn. However, they actually can think on their own and come up with something original. And they can learn that plagiarism is wrong.
And most importantly, usually they don't lie if they don't have to, and there are limits to their smugness. You can build a healthy community with them.
You can't build a community with unethical bullshit-spitting machines.
#programming #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

As a non-programmer/coder, i played around with https://jules.google.com/ , connected it with my github account, let it write some simple code for me, it worked the first time, improved it a bit etc. Actually good to experience in practice this "vibe coding" and Jules is very friendly. I even used the (fre…

Free business idea: ESD safe programmer socks. Apparently nobody makes them.

I'm a computer programmer with a Fediverse account, and I am this many years old.
Please consider boosting for a more representative sample.
#programming #poll #demographics

Hey friends, my partner has put together a course to help people with the mental side of landing a tech job. Confidence in interviews, finding stuff that aligns with your values, salary negotiation; that sort of thing.
She’s been a programmer for 15 years and a therapist and coach for a few years now.
She is looking for feedback on the course in exchange for some free coaching on the topic.
If you’re interested, let me know! And boost or forward if you like.

Do you need better performance than what the standard #tidyverse functions have? {collapse} might be worth a look: https://sebkrantz.github.io/collapse/

anyway my number one most important advice that I can dispense as a wise elder programmer with decades of experience is “don’t be a dick”

CoMoNM: A Cost Modeling Framework for Compute-Near-Memory Systems
Hamid Farzaneh, Asif Ali Khan, Jeronimo Castrillon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11451 https://

CoMoNM: A Cost Modeling Framework for Compute-Near-Memory Systems
Compute-Near-Memory (CNM) systems offer a promising approach to mitigate the von Neumann bottleneck by bringing computational units closer to data. However, optimizing for these architectures remains challenging due to their unique hardware and programming models. Existing CNM compilers often rely on manual programmer annotations for offloading and optimizations. Automating these decisions by exploring the optimization space, common in CPU/GPU systems, is difficult for CNMs as constructing and …

Boys do I feel this
https://yac.grumpy-learning.com/@grmpyprogrammer/statuses/01K0YQ31YQCWC7ZY2DZQ7GEQ9V

Post by grmpyprogrammer, @grmpyprogrammer@grumpy-learning.com
There has never been a harder time to be a computer programmer with ethics and morals.

Best comment ever below this post:
"You know what else is unsafe? Life, yet we do it all the time.
I don’t care about rust and it’s artistic fanatics doing artistic screeching every time some C programmer uses a pointer."
👏🏻😂🙏😬🫣😳
https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/a-gent

A Gentle Introduction To Fortran
Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainfr…

#programminghumor #memes

Here are some details of the new #logseq DB variant (currently in alpha):
https://discuss.logseq.com/t/logseq-db-unofficial-faq/32508
TL;DR:
- you can't edit the …

@… Yep; we’re going to see a whole generation of software that was “vibe coded” by someone who doesn’t even *consider* a “no”; intentionally bypassing the “difficult” programmer/architect/operator who said “no” last time.
It’s going to be very bad for everyone.

Thought experiment: Most programming languages were designed in an era where mostly one programmer coded in isolation. If you were designing a language for modern collaborative programming/commenting/etc., what would you change? How would you *modify* existing languages?

I’m sure it's funny, @… always is.
However, I am so glad that I don’t get that joke. I mean, I can theorize about whether that is user input or the LLM complaining or whatever, but not recognizing the context is comforting.

CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow: (@catsalad@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image You've been coding for 10+ years? Wow, you must be a really good programmer then!

"I'm a programmer with a Fediverse account. I spend *most* of my programming hours on this OS:"
Please consider boosting for a more statistically significant result.
#poll #programming

Day 9: Eniko Fox
Edit: added a store link for Kitsune Tails.
We're back to videogames, and with another author who's on the fediverse: @…
Fox has developed a few games, but the one that I've played and love is Kitsune Tails. It's a sapphic romance take on Super Mario Bros. 3, and (critically for a platformer) it's got very crisp controls and runs smoothly. I think one thing a lot of indie platforms devs struggle with is getting those fundamentals right, because on the technical side they require very challenging things like optimization of your code and extremely careful input handling that go beyond the basic skills necessary to put together a game. From following her on Twitter and now the Fediverse, it's clear that Fox is a deeply competent programmer, and her games reflect that. Beyond the fundamentals, Kitsune Tails has a very sweet plot with a very cool twist in the middle, and without spoilers, that twist made both the levels and gameplay very difficult to design, but Fox rose to that challenge and put together a wonderful game. Particularly past the plot twist (but in subtle ways before it) Fox is able to build beyond SMB3 mechanics in ways that gracefully complement the original, and the movement in the game ends up being difficult but extremely satisfying, with an excellent skill/speed response allowing for both slower, easier approaches that work for a range of players and high-skill extremely-fast options for those who want to push themselves.
There have been plenty of people I follow with indie game projects that are kinda meh in the end, and I'll still boost them without much comment if they're decent. Fox' work is actually amazing, which is why if you've followed me for a while you'll know I tend to mention it periodically, and which is why she makes this list of authors I respect.
You can buy Kitsune Tails here: #20AuthorsNoMen

I actually like the analogy of a hammer made of rubber. When you use it (as a junior developer or a non-programmer), you're as likely to miss the nail as you are to hit it, and it might also bounce in your face.

So yeah if you want advice how to be a better programmer, start by not self-marinating in the false admiration of the worst obsequious yes-man incel basement dwellers just to feel something
#lifehacks

The 85th edition of De Programmatica Ipsum is out!
This month, we look at the strategies used by major programming languages to manage memory; in our Vidéothèque section, we learn how C and C manage memory in a video by Ryan Baker; and in the Library section, we review "What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory" by Ulrich Drepper.

quickly describing the deceptive difficulty of the Collatz conjecture as the mathematical equivalent of "if I were a programmer I would simply not write bugs"

Me, shoppingtonz is very smart, I read "mod function".
Then I queried an LLM:
"What does that mean?"
LLM goes "useful in coding or whateva"
I'm like " COOL. Now I know programming!"
Reality: NO YOU DON'T!
I'm like "Yes, I'll become a great programmer. Mod function, I pronounced it! Great achievement!"
Reality: ONE MOMENT! Can I have your attention please
I'm like "I feel…

TIL that one of the singers on one of my favorite blues bands, the very entertaining "Saffire: the Uppity Blues Women", used to be a computer programmer. I'm sure she was great at that too, but I'm glad she gave it up!

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

Day 6: Kamome Shirahama
Before I wander much father afield, I'd be remiss not to include at least one Mangaka (I've got 8 on my planning list; if you think Manga is pushing it just wait until you see what the next few days have in store).
I'm currently following "Witch Hat Atelier," and it's absolutely amazing in several dimensions: first class world-building, deep philosophical themes, nuanced diverse cast, tightly-constructed interwoven plots, deep mysteries that keep everything churning and show up in unexpected places, absolutely stellar art both in terms of in-panel depictions and page layouts (some are Watchmen-quality), especially if you are sartorially inclined, and general kindness of its core messages. This is a series I wish every programmer would read, because it includes excellent advice about software design in multiple ways (did I mention there's an intricate and logical magic system within which the main character innovates in legible-to-the-reader-as-innovation ways?). Also, I bet I would have enjoyed this just a much as a 10-year-old as I'm enjoying it in my 30's, which is something that takes well-honed skill to pull off.
Shirahama is a master of her craft, and I'm honestly kinda surprised to see Witch Hat is only her second series. Definitely thinking how I can get my hands on her earlier work in English.
#20AuthorsNoMen

🤘 Friendly reminder that if you want to support the work I do on #Jellyfin for #Roku you can use either Github or Buy Me a Coffee.
Buy Me a Coffee: https://

From Code to Career: Assessing Competitive Programmers for Industry Placement
Md Imranur Rahman Akib, Fathima Binthe Muhammed, Umit Saha, Md Fazlul Karim Patwary, Mehrin Anannya, Md Alomgeer Hussein, Md Biplob Hosen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00772

From Code to Career: Assessing Competitive Programmers for Industry Placement
In today's fast-paced tech industry, there is a growing need for tools that evaluate a programmer's job readiness based on their coding performance. This study focuses on predicting the potential of Codeforces users to secure various levels of software engineering jobs. The primary objective is to analyze how a user's competitive programming activity correlates with their chances of obtaining positions, ranging from entry-level roles to jobs at major tech companies. We collect user data using t…

Poll: "I'm a server application programmer with a Fediverse account." This means that I mainly develop server-side applications.
Please consider quoting, or boosting for a more statistically significant result.
#programming #backend

VibeCodeHPC: An Agent-Based Iterative Prompting Auto-Tuner for HPC Code Generation Using LLMs
Shun-ichiro Hayashi, Koki Morita, Daichi Mukunoki, Tetsuya Hoshino, Takahiro Katagiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00031

VibeCodeHPC: An Agent-Based Iterative Prompting Auto-Tuner for HPC Code Generation Using LLMs
We propose VibeCodeHPC, an automatic tuning system for HPC programs based on multi-agent LLMs for code generation. VibeCodeHPC tunes programs through multi-agent role allocation and iterative prompt refinement. We describe the system configuration with four roles: Project Manager (PM), System Engineer (SE), Programmer (PG), and Continuous Delivery (CD). We introduce dynamic agent deployment and activity monitoring functions to facilitate effective multi-agent collaboration. In our case study, w…

"I'm an application programmer with a Fediverse account and I mostly program:"
#programming #poll #demographics

I ran a poll asking programmers in the Fediverse what age bracket do they belong to.
https://mastodon.social/@rperezrosario/115234900863397017
The poll had 4,839 self-professed computer programmer voters, and received 936 boosts.
Summary:
10-20 years o…

Resolving Build Conflicts via Example-Based and Rule-Based Program Transformations
Sheikh Shadab Towqir, Fei He, Todd Mytkowicz, Na Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19432 https:/…

Resolving Build Conflicts via Example-Based and Rule-Based Program Transformations
Merge conflicts often arise when developers integrate changes from different software branches. The conflicts can result from overlapping edits in programs (i.e., textual conflicts) or cause build and test errors (i.e., build and test conflicts). They degrade software quality and hinder programmer productivity. While several tools detect build conflicts, few offer meaningful support for resolving cases like those caused by method removal. To overcome limitations of existing tools, we introduce …

As much as I like to hate on #VibeCoding and #LLM s , #claude code helped me ship a bunch of fixes in a #golang codebase I was totally unfamiliar with, within a few hours. I guess it's a case of having the proper experience to steer the tool in the right direction and avoid hallucinations. A power hammer in the hands of an experienced programmer, a rubber hammer in the hands of a novice.