space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

DevOops Engineer @amazon / $AMZN mert.akeng.in Luxembourg Joined April 2012

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

3 hours ago

people get promoted for heroism and putting out fires, not for preventing fires; and people get promoted for shipping features, not for doing critical maintenance work and bug fixing from danluu's blog

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Zed @zeddotdev

3 days ago

You asked for it. A lot. So we built it.

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

4 days ago

> Turkey's complex vehicle tax system includes a special consumption tax and value added tax. The combined rate, ranges from 50% to 284%. finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-sal…

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

a week ago

> Figuring out the simplest solution requires considering many different approaches. In other words, it requires doing engineering. seangoedecke.com/the-simplest-t….

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

a week ago

Good one, another would be: Compiler/IDE that sends notification to your manager when the compilation/test-runs have been finished successfully but no interaction have been recorded for more than a minute...

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

2 weeks ago

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449698…

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

a month ago

Code that nobody understands is tech debt. It takes a lot of time to understand unfamiliar code enough to debug it, let alone introduce new features without also introducing bugs.

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

2 months ago

"it starts with OCR and ends with tears" > morphik.ai/blog/stop-pars…

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

2 months ago

you might now be dropped into the unfamiliar terrain of AI-generated code and asked to fix it: a much harder and more stressful task than working to fix something you have built up a mental model of and have some familiarity with. jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/07/01/you…

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

2 months ago

For one thing, it seems likely that those with ADHD are going to become less satisfied in an environment where it’s hard to achieve “flow” and doesn’t reward that sort of hyper-focus. On AI agents at work from jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/07/01/you…

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

2 months ago

It’s 2021, over 6.5 years since writing this tutorial. I now work on operating systems in C for a living. I just wanted to say that I still do not remember how to declare a function pointer. I still need to Google it every time. ↩ brennan.io/2015/01/16/wri…

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space+latte (🪐+☕=🚀) @_space_latte

2 months ago

Some will tell you to avoid reinventing the wheel, but they’re wrong: you should build your own wheel, because it’ll teach you more about how they work than reading a thousand books on them ever will.