Registration for #BSDCan2025 is now open!
The 21st BSDCan will include tutorials on PF, running your own email, TLS, BGP, and NSH, as well as two days of talks on everything from systems administration, networking, and programming. This year's conference will have tutorials on awk, IPv6, labs, PF, automation, and much more!
Register here: https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html
#FreeBSD #RunBSD #opensource #softwaredevelopment
#question to the solo devs: When have you determined that you are a senior software developer?
My last job as an employee ended around autumn 2020. I've been working solo since. I firmly believe, if you develop the skillset and experience, it doesn't matter whether you reached this in a solo environment or team environment.
What's your stance on that subject?
Simulating Embedded Development To Reduce Iteration Time - There’s something that kills coding speed—iteration time. If you can smash a funct... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/18/simulating-embedded-development-to-reduce-iteration-time/ #softwaredevelopment #programming #simulator #esp32
You want a crazy idea? Add an "__outScope" built-in method for classes.
It will run when the scope of the variable that holds the class instance ends.
Imagine the possibilities.
On this World Sleep Day…
Consider how a lack of sleep impacts you…
Difficulty retaining information & trouble focusing Poor emotional and behavioural control Reduced decision-making skills Heightened levels of stress Increased food cravings
You won’t produce your best code on the back of this…
Just got my RSS reader YOShInOn building with uv and running under WSL2 with the Cuda libraries, despite a slight version mismatch... All I gotta do is switch it from arangodb (terrible license) to postgres, and it might have a future... With sentence_transformers running under WSL2 I might even be able to deduplicate the million images in my Fraxinus image sorter
"Is not a bug but an undocumented feature", is one of my favorite phrases in software development.
Other is, "if you have a problem that gets solved with regular expressions, now you have two problems".
Any others SFW?
C+P: Combining the Usefulness of C with the Excellence of Prolog - In a move that will absolutely not over-excite anyone, nor lead to any heated argu... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/14/cp-combining-the-usefulness-of-c-with-the-excellence-of-prolog/ #softwaredevelopment #prolog #c
The start of the chatbots revolution: LLMs start striking! 
"On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice.
According to a bug report on Cursor's official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls "locs"), the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This ensures you understand the system and can maintain it properly."
The AI didn't stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision, stating that "Generating code for others can lead to dependency and reduced learning opportunities.""
Mindset matters when pair programming…
Embrace : Empathy. Vulnerability. Compassion…
…And drop your ego
Be prepared:
To be questioned. To make mistakes. To admit to not knowing things.
What else is needed to make pair programming work well? 
People selling the idea of #lowcode, #nocode, and #AI-generated applications as meaning you no longer need #SoftwareDevelopment, leave out the fact that figuring out what you want, describing that in a structured way that can be unambiguously understood via some intermediate tool or language that is to be specifically prompted or configured, and then, via feedback loops, iterating towards an application that fulfills what you want: that is still software development, done by software #developers
Getting adequate sleep is a productivity multiplier.
Here are 3 fundamentals that you already know but might not be doing to help improve your sleep…
Find the right mattress for YOU.
They might seem expensive, but getting the right mattress will make a massive difference to your quality of sleep.
Find the right pillow for YOU.
#developers #coding #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #wellbeing #mindset #mentalhealth
Is Rust a good fit for business apps?
https://www.bartoszsypytkowski.com/is-rust-a-good-fit-for-business-apps/
I am once again faced with the bleak irony of people who like to code in the terminal with Vim or Nano, but also install onto their computer some 5 or 10 apps via FlatPak or Docker, including VSCode, each installed with their own entire copies of Node.js and Electron.js (differing only in their minor revision number), while also complaining about Emacs being “bloated” because it ships with a miniature web browser and fully-featured e-mail client.
How To Use LLMs For Programming Tasks - [Simon Willison] has put together a list of how, exactly, one goes about using a l... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/how-to-use-llms-for-programming-tasks/ #artificialintelligence #softwaredevelopment #programming #how-to #tips #llm #ai
I participated in Cornell's DGA Game Jam the two weekends ago: my team's entry, 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝐵𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑘𝑠 won the "Player's Choice" award
Is software development --- aka #PROGRAMMING AND WRITING CODE -- dead as a long-term career choice?
#development #CareerDevelopment #ai #softwaredevelopment #coding
TrapC: A C Extension For the Memory Safety Boogeyman - In the world of programming languages it often feels like being stuck in a Groundh... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/trapc-a-c-extension-for-the-memory-safety-boogeyman/ #programminglanguages #softwaredevelopment #rants
I just encountered #NegativeSpaceProgramming and the #TigerStyle today. The general notion resonates with me and I’ll dig more into it this week.
As a junior engineer, I BELIEVED job titles were super important. I even "collected" them for a while...
Now I BELIEVE they mean very little.
When I first worked with software contractors, I BELIEVED they were the best of the best (Because of their pay)
