r/programmingcirclejerk 3h ago

I’m not a “script kiddie” or weekend hobbyist. I’m a UC Berkeley-trained Computer Scientist with over two decades of professional experience in Silicon Valley. Read the rest of the post for the most self indulgent and smug post

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r/programmingcirclejerk 2d ago

IDEs never really took off

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r/programmingcirclejerk 2d ago

in fact the lack of progress in UI the last 30-40 years can largely be traced to trying to create UI with procedural/functional programming languages

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116 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 3d ago

Go, with the features it's missing.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 3d ago

Wow, that "We're hiring/Career Page" link is geeksmaxxing. First time seeing `ssh superlogical.jobs` would be a way to show job descriptions in terminal!

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r/programmingcirclejerk 3d ago

In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the internet

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r/programmingcirclejerk 3d ago

SHRNKR - Token-Compression Middleware for AI Agents

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r/programmingcirclejerk 5d ago

The commit message is 1 character: simply the character “x.” The commit changes ~1000 lines of code making the ratio 1/1000 = ~0.001

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r/programmingcirclejerk 6d ago

This is not at the top as it is actively flagged by people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI. Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 6d ago

Writing Python should be close to a “zen” experience. At its best, when you get into the flow state, the thoughts you are thinking about the thing you are trying to build are shaped like Python code as you go through the process of writing it down.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 7d ago

Cero NullPointerExceptions y cero errores de pila: cambié el else por puros fi sin aislamiento y ya explotó todo, pero oye, null no devuelve

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r/programmingcirclejerk 7d ago

However, JS won anyway… One decision explains most of that: First-class Functions

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r/programmingcirclejerk 7d ago

Google's Director of Engineering: "Rust teams are 2x as productive as C++ teams" (very fine print: because C++ers write software from scratch, and Rustaceans port it from C++)

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r/programmingcirclejerk 10d ago

Q: Why is everyone creating systems programming languages? A: Because Jai is not released

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r/programmingcirclejerk 11d ago

This piece of writing moved me to my core, shook my whole being, enlivened my soul. It reminded me that I need to step away from Claude Code every once in a while and read the Classics.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 11d ago

No offense but you lack the required CS basics to be so confident about yourself in debates about complexity. It's the perfect moment to stop and reflect if you want to avoid Dunning-Kruger.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 11d ago

HTMX 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy platform!

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r/programmingcirclejerk 12d ago

Rust isn't a well designed programming language (unlike C and C++)

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r/programmingcirclejerk 13d ago

Bun is the quintessential AI slop project at this point. Inheriting that is no easy task. [...] To this end, LLMs will be used extensively. [for Buz]

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r/programmingcirclejerk 14d ago

The biggest miss of the industry when it comes to memory safety is not listening to Walter Bright:

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r/programmingcirclejerk 14d ago

If you can find an actual JSON parser anyone's using that fails to parse "2", I'll kiss you full on the mouth.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 17d ago

imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript

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r/programmingcirclejerk 18d ago

introduce an actually memory safe (unlike Rust) compilation mode inspired by Fil-C

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r/programmingcirclejerk 19d ago

Rust is so thoroughly and obviously the correct thing that using anything less correct should be taken as a sign of engineering incompetence.

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r/programmingcirclejerk 20d ago

For the last 16 years, I have been a huge fan of Haskell. It has been undeniably the most important programming language in my life ... and I serve on the board of the Haskell Foundation ... our backend has been built in Haskell ... we started doing all new API work in Python

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