Regardless of my own view on these ethics, the quality of SQLite is for me a testament to the usefulness of truthfully adhering to a (sub)set of noble precepts.

A laptop with footnotes. Thanks, I would like a computer

The same reason I would not use a proprietary text editor applies to harnesses. It's enough of a constraint to use a proprietary service, for me the line is at the tooling. Sunk cost and all it's things.

Prompting AI feels a bit like that feeling I had when I was copypasting random javascript and java applets for my first website. The website had MIDI, a scrolling status bar on the bottom, particles that followed the mouse, you name it. Never understood any of it, nor made me deep dive because it was too complicated. But then at some age I reached out for fundamentals and that's when I started building things.

All this to say, no, software developer probably not. Script kiddie?

You can also inline python inside shell scripts, does that make them equal sets? :)

    life() {
      python3 << EOF
    print(42)
    EOF
    }

Well, at least I will be able to run my bash scripts in 5 years

I don't know Ruby, but chances are that your Python/JavaScript scripts are going to run in 5 years as well, if you stick to standard library.

Just don't use any NPM libraries (if possible) and you'll be fine. I personally wouldn't use typescript for this sort of thing.

Why not? You can have bun or even node these days run it directly.

I've been using node for a decade now and I've had to update NPM libraries a number of times as Node itself upgraded. I have a feeling it will get a lot more stable with ESM and the maturity of the language but if you're writing something you need to run 5-10yrs from now I wouldn't touch a library unless it's simple and has few of it's own dependencies.

Deno has used ESM from the beginning and it’s required on jsr.io. I agree about avoiding dependencies, but maybe it’s okay if they’re locked to a specific version.

and then your mamba changes

What's that even mean

no one knows what it means, but it's provocative!!

Fair. My bash scripts only broke 3 times over the years:

- when ls started quoting filenames with spaces (add -N)

- when perl stopped being installed by default in CentOS and AlmaLinux (had to add dnf install -y perl)

- when egrep alias disappeared (use grep -E)

>- when ls started quoting filenames with spaces (add -N)

Your fault: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs

Kinda tells you everything you need to know about the design of the system when using it the default way is utterly unsafe.

I consider luajit a much better choice than bash if both maintainability and longterm stability are valued. It compiles from source in about 5 seconds on a seven year old laptop and only uses c99, which I expect to last basically indefinitely.

Bash is not a great cross-platform choice. Too many subtle differences.

The best way is a scripting language with locked-down dependency spec inside the script. Weirdly .NET is leading the way here.

Stick to posix shell and it will run anywhere and on anything no matter how old.

Python with uv seems decent in here too.

Hard disagree... I find that Deno shebangs and using fixed version dependencies to be REALLY reliable... I mean Deno 3 may come along and some internals may break, but that should have really limited side effects.

Aside: I am somewhat disappointed that the @std guys don't (re)implement some of the bits that are part of Deno or node compatibility in a consistent way, as it would/could/should be more stable over time.

I like Deno/TS slightly more because my package/library and version can be called directly in the script I'm executing, not a separate .csproj file.

>Too many subtle differences.

Such as?

This entire list: https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/

How is any of that a subtle difference between platforms?

The tools you will call from your bash script differ in subtle ways between Linux, macOS, MinGW.

One good example is `uuidgen`

>uuidgen

That's neither a standard CLI utility nor a bash builtin.

Technically maybe, I don't know. But in practice, your bash will use tools like this and break if they are different / missing on a future build host.

If using a programming language with locked-down package dependencies, then all you need is the compiler/interpreter and your script will work.

For some quality of "run", because I'm hella sure that it has quite a few serious bugs no matter what, starting from escapes or just a folder being empty/having files unlike when it was written, causing it to break in a completely unintelligible way.

I guess we have wildly different expectatives of what a language is responsible for and what not.

Cries in DeaDBeeF

Portugal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

Brought to you by the creators (abstractly) of vibe coding, ralph and yolo mode. Either a conspiracy to deconstruct our view of reality, or just a tendency to invent funny words for novelty

It’s brainrot, that’s what it is.

I believe agentic coding could eventually be a paradigm shift, if and only if the agents become self-conscious of design decisions and their implications on the system and its surrounding systems as a whole.

If that doesn’t happen, the entire workflow devolves into specifying system states and behavior in natural language, which is something humans are exceedingly bad at.

Coincidently, that is why we have invented programming languages: to be able to express program state and behavior unambiguously.

I’m not bullish on a future where I have to write specifications on all explicit and implicit corner and edge cases just to have an agent make software design choices which don’t feel batshit insane to humans.

We already have software corporations which produce that kind of code simply because the people doing the specifying don’t know the system or the domain it operates in, and the people doing the implementing of those specifications don’t necessarily know any of that either.

We have programming languages because people don’t want to only write assembly.

Cool project. Here's some OT: where do people learn to make these videos? Fast paced but calm narration with chill music and sped up action mixed with regular speed. It's a matter of consuming a lot of this content until the form clicks, or you need to go to influ-school?

No influencer school, no video experience whatsoever actually

I watched TONs of youtube videos growing up and I guess I took inspiration from what I liked in each: fast pace, always shows what you are talking about on screen (no talking head), include tiny projects in the main one, explain the science, use an intro to captivate and an outro to nail the point, use music to drive rythme

I film and record audio with just my phone

Thanks! That kind of makes sense. It's always interesting to me when I see patterns that make videos work well, and I usually have a lot of questions about the production.

Another question that I hope is not disrespectful: does PCBWay and JLCPCB pay for brand placement during the video or was it just a tribute from your side?

Man iphones have come a long way

My wife has worked in marketing for years and setting up photo shoots/video shoots has changed massively. A huge amount of the video and pictures that don't require a specialized lense are just done with feature phones these days.

Yo. You have to make videos. Then, seeing videos that you like, you secretly try to “steal” those ideas you articulated.

Just don’t tell anybody you’re a copy-cat.

"Good artists borrow. Great artists steal." -- me