Is this thing on? 🎙 Software "Engineer", dabbler, tinkerer, idealist. Resident of Kyushu, Japan. On the 'verse since 2021, but migrated to my own instance in 2025. "Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsistence of the system into unfixable obsolescence" --Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
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Last Notes npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip @nprofile…7rg4 just to counter-balance, my mental response to that post was "he has an easel, cool" npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip AI produced software is like McDonalds food, but everyone knows good home-cooked food is best. npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip @nprofile…eq7c @nprofile…7rg4 Pochitta (Japanese onomatopoeia word for the sound of pressing a (buy) button) npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip Yes. Yeeeeees. This blog post summarises my entire career. > find a place where good judgment is actually recognized 😭😭😭 Unfortunately I don't think there are any easy answers, and the suggestions in the post are not effective in my experience. Its effectively a question of personal integrity, and of finding meaning even when the system you are in does not reward your actions. https://terriblesoftware.org/2026/03/03/nobody-gets-promoted-for-simplicity/ npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip Dusted off, literally, the piano last night. And pulled out the beginner book again. Let's see if take 3 at starting this hobby is more successful than the previous two times 🎹 npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip I think my gut rejection of LLMs is because they remove the need to know the *how*, leaving only the *what* (and the *why*, if you are careful). I love to understand how things work, and get great pleasure from seeing a smoothly oiled machine running with all the parts in place. The why and the what give you your immediate results. But it's the how that enables agency, allows for growth, understanding, and innovation, and ensures that civilization doesn't forget what it's built upon. npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip 2007: gonna make a blog to share all my knowledge 2017: not much point of a blog, everything is on StackOverflow 2026: blogs are like hidden hideouts of humanity in a dystopian sci-fi future. npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip @nprofile…p9sc https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/115652289949965925 npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip @nprofile…p9sc you've reached the next plane of existence. I share your opinions, but I *do* care, and it's exhausting. I wish I could let go. 😬 npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip @nprofile…zfuh $ curl -i https://calendar.thi.ng/ HTTP/2 200 alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=2592000 server: Caddy content-length: 0 date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 09:09:36 GMT npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip On a whim, I signed up for a new eSIM, so now I have two mobile networks and two phone numbers. Feels a bit weird. https://toots.adamu.jp/fileserver/01CNA0FTA8S085J5FND7XYZPKF/attachment/original/01JZ5BKFDVB4WN4338488S3MV1.jpeg npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip I was interested to see if The Verge are still recommending Brother printers in 2025 given the encroaching enshittification, and yep, they are. https://www.theverge.com/tech/641940/best-printer-2025-just-buy-a-brother-laser-printer-middle-finger-in-the-air npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip @nprofile…uafq can you ask them to replace Twitter with Mastodon? 🐘 npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip I don't often expose myself to the YouTube algorithm, because I avoid the home page on desktop and go straight to subscriptions. But they successfully grabbed my attention with "related videos" on mobile today, with a clickbait video that was a repost of a years old vid with a misleading title. I reported it as misleading - how they handle it determines whether I'll keep my account. (It also looks like they are restricting views to some recently uploaded vids to logged-in accounts only) npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip New #blog post! Creating a personal #TLS certificate authority. I talk about how I created my own trusted root certificate, so I can use services on my VPN via #https, without using self-signed certificates, and without exposing my internal domain's existence to the public internet. https://adamu.jp/blog/personal_certificate_authority npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip New #blog post! I love technology, but artificial intelligence makes me sad. I talk about why I love technology, but not AI, and the reasons why, specifically: 1) The current LLMs are running on effectively stolen data and are morally corrupt. 2) For software development LLMs result in lower quality code and ultimately cost more developer time. https://adamu.jp/blog/ai_makes_me_sad npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip @nprofile…cvct haha yeah, even decaf has *some* caffeine and I'm trying to go cold turkey, so staying completely away from anything that naturally contains it for now. npub1nlrgfh43nt5aueagssdj2xk45pcx5p85jpah5u8vlkf46aqp6ressff8ea Adam Millerchip The problem with giving up alcohol, caffeine, and also trying to avoid sugary drinks including fruit juice, is that you're basically out of options if you go to a café or bar. I'm like, can I just give you some money to hang out for a bit? Overpriced water, I guess...