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Vinyl flooring etc is at least related to varnishing floors?

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Ask one of the Ylvis brothers

I was glad when linux went with the .config standard for most dotfiles.

That all random game and messaging sites now wants my kids' passport uploaded to some random 'id verification company' is madness.

But now instead, my 11 year old's Roblox thinks she is 18 because she wore glasses in their age verification webcam tool. And it can't be changed unless she uploads a passport, which I will never allow.

Please, gov.uk introduce a gov ID verification service? I could trust that, -ish, I have worked with public sector clients several times...

Only when chatting in a large channel at work, did I realise nearly 1/3 of the people there also set theirs as 1/1/1970. Which I presume is the first date that phisers will try to enter to reset people's accounts.

I am fully aware that my standard fake birthday is now used by me in some many places, that I have started to have a fake fake birhday. I should really just randomise and store it in my password manager.

But obviously the context of this OP story ruins all that.

Many startups that build features which sit on top of Claude/ChatGPT/Codex, etc. And I think:

You are just one new feature announcement from Anthropic/OpenAI away from irrelevance.

Same as it was when people built their busineses on top of AWS a decade ago

I may use my own skill to automate this... https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/revi...

Are people still reading PRs in detail manually?

I am after the automated PR agents have all passed a PR I tend to let Claude Code and Codex give me a summary, with an MCP skill to read the requirement story. I trust their ability to catch edge cases and typos more than me. I just check the general structure of the PR

It's the same reason why I have, for more than a decade, been so frustrated with people refusing to consider proper pair programming and even mob programming, as they view the need to keep people busy churning lines of code individually as the most important part of the company.

That multiple AI agents can now churn out those lines relatively nearly instantly, and yet project velocity does not go much faster, should start to make people aware that code generation is not actually the crucial cost in time taken to deliver software and projects.

I ranted recently that small mob teams with AI agents may be my view of ideal team setup: https://blog.flurdy.com/2026/02/mob-together-when-ai-joins-t...

LOL, calling Scott Hanselman a 'VP of something' is funny. Been listening to his stuff for years, even when I despised MS. Always seems genuinely nice. Probably one of the main reasons I these days have a more positive image of Microsoft.

It's why I wrapped my tiny skills repo with a script that softlink them into whichever is your skills folder, defaulting to Claude, but could be any other.

I treat my skills the same as I would write tiny bash scripts and fish functions in the days gone to simplify my life by writing 2 words instead of 2 sentences. Tiny improvement that only makes sense for a programmer at heart.

[1] https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills

But it is also really good. I love the completely enclosed platforms, ie shielded from the track and train by a glass wall/doors, like the Jubilee line, but all the way to the ceiling. This makes it both safe and very quiet.

Though the platforms are huge, as the trains are long, you have to really make a conscious decision on which exit to use as they come up very far from each other. Unlike other tube stations, where if you don't pick the most optimal exit, you just have to cross the road.

I was so confused. Why is domain driven design especially good for debugging? I guess context is bound within the models... And then all the other comments were just talking about debugging tools. Glad I was not the only one.

This smells like Claude's own version of Gas Town by Steve Yegge. Probably more constrained and less of a crazy bull ride.

But seems we are heading this way, from initially:

- a Senior Dev pairing with Junior Dev (2024/25)

- a tech lead/architect in charge of several Developers (2025)

- a Product Owner delegating to development teams (2026?)

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- https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown

- https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Also that they only built one. I think most people with experince of trips in heavy snow conditions or any mountain trip know you go in at least pairs. 2 snowmobiles, 2 dog sleds, etc, so if one gets stuck, the other can help pull it out, or go get help. As you always get stuck.

Comparing renting a new type of car when you have to figure everything out for 2 days then return it, to owning a car, where you also have to figure everything out, but only for the first days, not the 600 days afterwards, is not really comparable.

Also, when you own a car you charge it at home and work, so you don't really wait for the car to charge very often.

And the next time you rent a car, it will be a bit simpler as you have done it once before. And even quicker/simpler the time after that etc.

It was built in Chicago. They could have just tested a bit North of Chicago. Wisconsin sees a fair amount of snow, and probably would not have needed to go all the way to Canada before the shortcomings were obvious.

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Or now at https://gauge.team Seems appropriate URL.

Gauge.

https://gauge.flurdy.io

A pulse of your team's mood and well-being.

Simple, voluntary, anonymous, daily feedback on stress, happiness and productivity.

With anonymous reports with gauges and trends. Spot trends early.

12 years on, and a lot of Postgres-based services built since the OP site first went live, I now actually may recommend MongoDB as the sensible option...

Need to add (2013) to the title of this article

The article is actually good. The title is a little click-baity even if that is actually what it covers. It is mostly about tweaking the AI options which is actually helpful as I don't mind some of the new features.

It is so often dismissed how important the second part is. Many think that just moving to a country is enough, and you will pick up the language. Maybe the basics, but not if you don't speak and think it 24/7, however uncomfortable that is at the start.

You see this clearly with the people who move with their family vs the single person. The family person will speak English or whatever their native language is at home every day, will never really speak fluently, whilst the single guy/girl will often become fluent very fast.

Though this also depends on who their new friends are, so if they only hang out with people from their home country or just groups of international friends who all speak English with each other, then that learning journey will take a lot longer.

This is hard, though. But when I moved to the UK I decided not to try to find the student groups from my home country, and mostly had English only friends and I got an local English accent super quickly. On the other side years later when my GF and me moved back to Norway for a few years she struggled to get non-international friends and didn't loose the accent.

It seems for the moment they will only check for this new fee on entry at the borders. If the fee has been not paid entry will be denied from tonight.

Hence, if you stay in the country nothing will change. And they can wait until this gets played out in the courts, media, congress etc.

Reminds me of this great house/greenhouse in Norway with a small "power station" in the stream outside. https://youtu.be/irp_HPzfxbQ?si=ZR3PAXvUyjsSSZx5&t=1658

These are my own fears as well, but guardrails will evolve to make them a minor nuisance.

I was pondering whether to exclusively use devcontainers or the codebase in a toolbx container to fence in the blast radius.

It is part of why people argue that Chess is a sport.

When grandmasters battle it out for hours in classic chess, thinking ahead of so many branches of moves that I would find unfathomable, they do burn through a lot of energy.

For what is quite a sedentary career choice, I rarely see overweight grandmasters. Though that is probably more correlation of other facts than causation...

I do too. Though it does get awkward when dealing with a human related to that site. E.g. a small time hotel phoning about a booking or a local events organiser, they all seem weirded out that I have their name in my email address... :) I often rely on Fastmail's email masking these days instead, which at least reduces that human interaction awkwardness.