danuker | freedom & tech

I recently tried agentic coding for real.

Tired of manually looking through clover patches to find 4-leaf clovers?

Let's say you want to start losing weight or working out, and want to motivate yourself by tracking progress.

Sunt în căutarea unui apartament (dar nu mă grăbesc), și prin urmare încerc să învăț cum se evaluează unul.

I have recently seen a video by Wendover Productions about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

A year ago, a Black man was arrested for theft.

Acum aproape 3 ani am postat despre prețul unui sandwich.

I recently made SymReg.

Update 2020-09-26 23:24: E mai complicată legea, locurile nu se distribuie proporțional cu voturile.

Take Uncle Bob's Clean Architecture and map its correspondences with Gary Bernhardt's thin imperative shell around a functional core, and you get an understanding of how to cheaply maintain and scale software!

Isso is a self-hosted alternative to Disqus (comments on websites).

Sunt un programator.

Updated 2020-09-03: Statement on coupling I was recently blown away by watching some of Uncle Bob's Clean Code presentations (make sure to check out his blog).

In my review of cryptocurrencies, I mentioned that Bitcoin Cash offers "relatively less security compared to Bitcoin".

I argue that VPNs are bad for the user, especially if the user is a dissenter from the status quo.

Knowing that the next Bitcoin "halvening" will shrink inflation to half yet again next month (I estimate it'll be the 23rd of May), I was curious to see what's in store for the price of Bitcoin.

A search engine has an immense influence upon the searcher.

When disaster strikes, like a fire, flood, hurricane, or an epidemic, and utilities and supply chains get disrupted, you might see much higher prices for goods that yesterday were cheap.

I shared my previous post on Reddit, and I got some very useful feedback which pointed out the irrelevance of what I was measuring (and also a scientific paper pointing out many statistical errors in a "real" GitHub study).

I decided to review some programming languages, by comparing their popularity with their Rosetta Code implementation terseness.

Să zicem că vrei să lucrezi în România.

On the surface, CDNs (Content Delivery Networks) present a great way of speeding up the loading of websites.

If you're an Android user, you've probably seen more and more "glitches" lately, where you get delayed notifications, events, or even alarms.

Am luat fiecare candidat în ordinea inversă a semnăturilor, și am săpat să văd cum și-a folosit puterea, dacă a avut-o vreodată.

Am refăcut analiza de la partea a 2-a a acestei analize, și am dus-o mai departe.

În continuarea postării precedente, voi continua să analizez ce fac partidele.

Am încercat să îmi dau seama eu cu cine votez... hâc!

Hello again, dear reader!

A friend of mine recently asked me about cryptocurrencies.

Thermal shutdown I started playing some games on my Debian laptop.

The Venus Project is a vague "solution" to current problems of civilization.

Updated 2019-11-18.

Apple denies any possibility of data recovery after your device is not bootable.

The EU Parliament recently adopted a new copyright directive which makes a site owner responsible for what the site's users post (Article 17 AKA former Article 13).

The more I think about tech giants, the more I want to use self-hosted services.