I’m a web-centric software engineer living in Tucson, Arizona. This site, limulus.net, is my personal website.
In March 2018, I got married!
I am most active on fedi, but I also maintain accounts on privately-owned and non-federated platforms:
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Agents prompted with “red-green TDD” write most of the tests first, then all the code — skipping the part of TDD that actually matters. Dual-loop BDD might be a better prompt strategy.
A wonderful essay by Ed Lyons, offering lessons for surviving the AI revolution in software development — including “stop listening to people who are afraid” and “seek first-hand testimony, not opinions.”
embedding-shapes writes about how having good taste is the human differentiator — the hard thing has never been producing something, but producing something good. They’re right, but I have to wonder if enough employers care about good taste.
John Gruber is scathing about macOS Tahoe’s window corners. In general I think the larger corner radiuses look fine. But if Apple really wanted to make this new look functional they really needed to rethink how windows work at a more fundamental level…