Frederic Thevenet
fred@social.fthevenet.eu
<p>I'm the operator of my pocket calculator.</p><p>Gen X. French. He/Him.<br>Software engineer working on <a href="https://social.fthevenet.eu/tags/openjdk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenJDK</span></a>.<br>Author of <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.binjr.eu/@binjr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">@<span>binjr</span></a></span>, a FOSS time series browser.</p>
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All 666 functions were compiled because no usable IPDB/IOBJ from previous compilation was found. Oh my... Should I be worried?? 😨 #softwareofthebeast
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With my apologies to Sun alumni (and my thanks to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social for the inspiration). #vibecoding #slop #technicaldebt
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Today's #303day so it is very fitting that TIL about Charanjit Singh's Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat; a 1982(!) album of classical Indian ragas entirely performed on #TB303, #TR808 and a #Jupiter8 synths. It was pretty much forgotten everywhere -- including in India -- until re-discovered around 2010, and then credited as the first Acid House record, since it predates Phuture's Acid Trax by five years! I've listened to it twice in a row today, grinning all the way through it! :acid_...
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Hi software developers! Quick question, especially for those of us most keen to indulge in those sweet, sweet company provided encouraged mandated Claude, Gemini, or ChatGPT subscriptions: you do remember the race to "pivot to the cloud", right? How everything had to be moved to AWS or Azure or whatnot yesterday, or we would all be left behind? And you also remember how, a few years down the line, after we'd done exactly as asked, an alarmed CFO would come down on us urging to sl...