Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

Master of Disaster. Mutation testing. Dynlang Exorcist. Expat German. Domain in PostgreSQL. Domain IO in Rust / Haskell. Creative consistent typos. DMs open. github.com/mbj /dev/urandom Joined June 2010

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Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

5 days ago

I had "dynlang exorcist" in my bio here for a long time. Now I need to find space to add schemalessdb exorcist! There are rare nosqls that re fine so I cannot say that (they can still have an enforced schema, its rare but exists).

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Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

5 days ago

To me its funny that rust haters and fanboys focus so much about the memory safety as the big elephant in the room. The best feature IMO (compared to many other compiled languages) are the ADTs. Sure its not GADTS and I miss them from Haskell, but having a production ready…

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Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

2 weeks ago

There is a very very cheap unit test that has almost 0 carry cost: Called a type! x.com/CFDevelop/stat…

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Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

3 weeks ago

Its annnoying github actions is worse than shell scripting (no ahead of time type checks etc). And all the ${{ }} based interpolation are basically *dynamically generating a shell script*. So its basically a dynlang with metaprogramming...

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Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

3 weeks ago

Proactively splitting a DB into many in the fear of future scalability and management problems is causing even bigger consistency and development problems today. Dont. Sure your DB will grow and with that its importance, but I tell you from experience: DB management is hard,…

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Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

a month ago

I'm apparently now in the age group that gets ads for 'cementary insurance'. Its over ;)

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Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

a month ago

As I'm coming from Haskell I think Rust compiles really fast ;)

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Markus Schirp @_m_b_j_

2 months ago

What if LLMs turn out to be glorified bloom filters, not getting us anywhere close to AGI? Where do I buy shorts on the bubble please?

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Dan Kubb 🇨🇦 @dkubb

2 months ago

I think AI will do more for static, strongly typed languages than anything else in history. Agents that can use the fast feedback of a good type system will be able to write solid code much faster than dynamic languages even with the same number and quality of tests. Being able…

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Tom Sydney Kerckhove @kerckhove_ts

2 months ago

@_m_b_j_ Story time: I once estimated a project at what they understood as X months. (eventhough I said something else) Immediately afterward, the entire spec, team, and goal changed and the project ended up taking X months and a week. I was then praised for my estimating ability.