half/byte

Co-founder of Depfu. Dreams in MIDI (the protocol, not the music). Writes code by hand and would like to continue to do so for a while. Would prefer to keep this planet livable for all instead of building homes for billionaires on Mars. He/Him.

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2026-09-29 16:19:17 UTC

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I completely and utterly disagree, but I must admit that I am influenced by a couple of absolutely effed up spec suites and in contrast, I never really had any substantial issues with Minitest.
Mastodon posts are probably the wrong format but I'd love to learn about your issues, though.

2026-07-16 14:40:01 UTC

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what drives me nuts is this essence of "it's just a tool". That's such a limited, reductive, narrow minded etc. view on LLMs that I'm honestly not sure how one can say that in good conscience and with more than 5 minutes of thought.

2026-01-28 14:03:40 UTC

I think a lot of really hyped developers are about to find out soon that they *actually* suck at product management.
But what do I know.

2026-01-23 12:49:51 UTC

I have this very persistent "company" of sorts claiming they have a "family office" that wants to invest in Depfu. They contacted me with, I think, two different persons (personas?) with wildly different email addresses, which look scammy and don't have any websites attached. I don't even have a company name to research their credibility.
So I'm assuming it's a scam, but what kind? Is the family office a "Nigerian Price's" family?
(Sorry to Nigerians. I'm afraid it's a bit of a generic term)

2026-01-21 11:52:17 UTC

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I *really* don't want European Hyperscalers to be a thing. Hyperscalers are at best a market/regulation failure and at worst a huge risk to create another one of these "too big to fail" scenarios.
I want a sane and healthy landscape of small- to midsize competitors in the hosting landscape.
It makes everything more robust and reliable.
Not sure why this is not a shared understanding anymore.

2025-10-10 17:22:28 UTC

Honestly, I'm not in a good place right now. I have invested a lot of time into this community and this technology. Not as much as some others, sure, but substantial enough that it defines large parts of my professional career.
I'm having a conference to organize and meetups to attend and software to write and all of that and none of that seems to make any sense right now.
Big "I didn't survive 2024 for this fucking shit" energy. And no idea how to deal with it.

2025-10-10 07:32:50 UTC

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What I do know is this: @npub1adh…8lgh keeps putting out absolutely incredibly terrible communication. Their latest one with the incident "timeline" is full of between-the-lines accusations and insinuations.
It feels to me like this is an org in paranoia mode. This is not a good mode of operation. Goddamnit, RC, we want to be able to trust you. We want to be able to help you, even.
What a mess.

2025-10-10 07:24:39 UTC

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we still don't know what exactly made the hasty transition necessary, because RC won't tell us the full background story. There might be some ugly things there, BUT WE DON'T KNOW.
We do know that the hasty transition did exactly what you would expect: things were missed, mistakes were made, heads were butted and now everything is in a much worse state than before.

2025-10-10 07:19:56 UTC

I guess one way to read this (and I'm not saying it's the correct way, but I think it's plausible from what we know) is that the actions of @npub1adh…8lgh on the 18th of Sept did exactly what we've been accusing them of and exactly the opposite of what they've been saying: it made rubygems considerably less safe.
The one thing you cannot have is a situation where you don't actually know (for 12 days!) who has access to what and why.

2025-05-21 08:45:00 UTC

People who moan about Europe not having a Google or Meta. Because of regulation and shit and because (of course) we in Europe don't like success.
It's always funny, because to me, the system is working. I don't want an unregulatable, too-big-to-fail hot mess of a company in Europe.
This may not be 100% intentional and I am not saying that EU regulations are without fault.
I just become increasingly suspicious of people who advocate for slashing them.