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GitHub – src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/12

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – src-d/hercules: Gaining advanced insights from Git repository history.

This project, with the command-line tools hercules and labours is on my research list as it can get pretty good long-term insights on project health (the tool is programming language independent).

Especially the half-life of code is a good measurement, as well as the existence of code bursts (hello major version increments!).

This research part is important: [Wayback/Archive] Change Bursts as Defect Predictors – Publications – Software Engineering Chair (Prof. Zeller), by Nachiappan Nagappan, Andreas Zeller, Thomas Zimmermann, Kim Herzig, Brendan Murphy

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If you sunset things, at least remove references: Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/30

The sad thing about sunsetting useful resources is that usually a proper cleanup is not being performaned.

Take for instance QC: it died 7 years ago (Embarcadero QualityCentral is dead; man-decades of customer work down the drain) and is still mentioned in dozens of places including this prominent one: [Wayback/Archive] Finding information (IDE Tutorial) – RAD Studio.

This is just an example from a product I still love, so I know what is lost, but plenty of other companies forget they are the custodians of their own sites and leaving things rotting makes for a bad feeling of their overall behaviour.

It’s not hard to be not sloppy. Here are some 20+ more links to fix: [Wayback/Archive] “qc.embarcadero.com” site:embarcadero.com – Google Search

Note the next will be CodeCentral, which was annouced to get sunset 5 years ago:

People want to save this (see for instance [Wayback/Archive] EMBT: Code Central is going away – Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]), but regrettably companies aren’t going to do themselves it despite they owe it to their customers and their legacy.

--jeroen

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Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User https://t.co/VPEaaiOGId” / Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/24

Some good slide material (and even better further down this post) from [Wayback/Archive] Lou Creemers on Twitter: “Which of these software development books would you want? I loooved Blaming the User”:

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Dare Obasanjo on X: “If you’ve ever wondered why most business software sucks, it’s for the same reason as this cartoon…”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/23

[Wayback/Archive] Dare Obasanjo🐀 on X: “If you’ve ever wondered why most business software sucks, it’s for the same reason as this cartoon. The person responsible for buying the software isn’t using it in the way the end users are.”

Google Lens found back the original 2019 Russia comic via:

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Jason Levin on X: “Jira marketing team was like “what infrastructure is as inefficient and frustrating as us?” and then puts ads on the New York City subway”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/22

[Wayback/Archive] Jason Levin on X: “Jira marketing team was like “what infrastructure is as inefficient and frustrating as us?” and then puts ads on the New York City subway”

Picture via [Wayback/Archive] Tweet JSON:

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Decodering van code uiterste verkoopdatum op groenten en fruit (via Joost Schellevis Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/22

[Wayback/Archive] Joost Schellevis on Twitter: “het blijkt geen algemeen gangbare kennis dat dit de uiterste verkoopdatum is. in dit geval: c = woensdag, 31 = week 31. (a = maandag, g = zondag. dus e40: de vrijdag van week 40). staat op veel voorverpakt fruit en groente. weet je dat ook weer.”.

Oh ja:

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AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/17

LLM are just statistic text generators which depend on the texts they have been trained which and alleviating this usually makes things worse: [Wayback/Archive] AI generates covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect | Nature

Related:

Of course these issues are not limited to natural language LLM: artificial computer language LLM are also full of training issues that are likely very hard to resolve. What if covert organisations succeed poisoning LLM platforms with malicious code?

Via

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Five Geek Social Fallacies – Plausibly Deniable

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16

So relatable: [Wayback/Archive] Five Geek Social Fallacies – Plausibly Deniable

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ian Coldwater 📦💥 on X: “It has come to my attention that there are younger folks who haven’t heard of Five Geek Social Fallacies. It was written in 2003 and the social dynamics stay real. Once you read it, you’ll see them everywhere.”

--jeroen

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Need to check out the Windows AutoLogonSID registry value and other autologon security features in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16

On my list of things to look at via [Wayback/Archive] “AutoLogonSID” – Google Search:

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Documentation should be easily searchable (No documentation | CommitStrip)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/10

Nowadays software development documentation is usually sparse and distributed, which means it should be well searchable.

[Wayback/Archive] No documentation | CommitStrip

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