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Nolto.Social is gone, but is has shown the Demand!
Nolto.social started as a small experiment as a free alternative to LinkedIn. The author wanted to explore ActivityPub and see what could be built. There was no funding, no team, no roadmap. Just an idea and some time. Within a few weeks, almost a thousand people signed up. Companies created pages. Articles were posted. Events…
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AI Won’t Turn Everyone Into Developers- Because Most People Don’t Want to Be Developers
The AI hype claims that LLMs will make everyone a coder. I say: that’s pretty much BS. Most people don’t want to build software. They want their problems solved, preferably without lifting a finger. Joan Westenberg nails this so well in her recent article: The “everyone will code” myth ignores decades of proof. We’ve had…
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Find me on Nolto!
AAhh – Nolto has gone Nolto was never meant to grow. [… ] It was one person building something interesting to see what would happen. At this point I have decided to shut it down. Ahh too bad. But I respect the decision of this guy! He made quite a thing but also admits that…
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StaffEng is back!
I just saw that the StaffEng Podcast is coming back! We’re rebooting the Staff Engineer podcast with a specific focus: practitioners using AI to deliver valuable outcomes with specific examples If you don’t know StaffEng, its About Staff Engineering, “Leadership beyond the management track”. At most technology companies, you’ll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level,…
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Firefox vs Vivaldi – A Matter of Engines, Not Just Geography
The world is complicated. I like the #DID campaign – regaining your digital independence step by step. Like changing from X to Mastodon or from Chrome to another browser. For me, the next logical step was reconsidering my browser choice. Firefox was the first choice, but then I wondered: why not Vivaldi? A Norwegian developed…
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How to migrate Gmail to another Provider without Breaking the Mail History
This is a practical how-to on moving email from Gmail to another provider. The main challenge is Gmail’s label system: one email can have multiple labels and all mails also appear in “All Mail”. Most other providers use folders instead, where an email can only exist in one place. If you migrate without taking this…
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How a User Helped Fixing 4 Bugs with AI (and No Expertise)
I see a lot of AI skepticism in the dev community — and some of it is fair (okay, maybe “a lot”). Vague bug reports, monster commits, untested code … We’ve proably read it all, and maybe even seen it all. Even Mitchell Hashimoto whose post appeared yesterday in my timeline writes “Slop drives me…
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Skipping AI is not going to help you or your career
I just saw a post on Simon Willison’s blog where he linked to “Don’t fall into the anti-AI hype”. And I pretty much agree on what antirez writes there: Whatever you believe about what the Right Thing should be, you can’t control it by refusing what is happening right now. Skipping AI is not going…
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AI Won’t Fix Bad Software Teams
What do you do an Saturday when you don’t feel well to go out for some activities? Right! Let’s read about Software Engineering and AI! Yesterday I read the complete series of the 22 blog posts listet on The AI-Ready Software Developer – Index – Codemanship’s Blog.
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The Fear of DevOPs
I just read Walking Skeletons, Delivery Pipelines & DevOps Drills and came to the paragraph about “throwing s.th over the wall: DevOps – the marriage of software development and operations – means that the team writing the solution code also handles these matters. We don’t throw it over the wall to a separate “DevOps” team.…