It takes a moment for them to reach the main topic of the podcast, but it's really good!!
Feeling of Computing: A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design by Felienne Hermans https://omny.fm/shows/future-of-coding/a-case-for-feminism
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Give Django your time and money, not your tokens
This article really resonated with me.
https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/
Especially this part:
If you do not understand the ticket, if you do not understand the solution, or if you do not understand the feedback on your PR, then your use of LLM is hurting Django as a whole.
Django contributors want to help others, they want to cultivate community, and they want to help you become a regular contributor. Before LLMs, this was easier to sense because you were limited to communicating what you understood. With LLMs, it’s much easier to communicate a sense of understanding to the reviewer, but the reviewer doesn’t know if you actually understood it.
In this way, an LLM is a facade of yourself. It helps you project understanding, contemplation, and growth, but it removes the transparency and vulnerability of being a human.
For a reviewer, it’s demoralizing to communicate with a facade of a human.
Emphasis mine.
It puts into words exactly how I feel about the latest spate of AI generated content, and why I push so hard (sometimes offensively so) for the human behind the PR/work to be revealed.[...]
Random Geek
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Perl was weird, messy, brilliant, and absolutely foundational to the early web.
Before modern frameworks and JavaScript everywhere, Perl powered CGI scripts, forms, counters, search tools, admin panels, and the kind of text processing that made the first dynamic websites possible.
A lot of people remember Perl as a joke. History says otherwise.
https://linuxexpert.org/perl-the-strange-language-that-built-the-early-web/
#Perl #Linux #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #CGI #Programming #SoftwareHistory #SysAdmin #LinuxExpert
Perl was weird, messy, brilliant, and absolutely foundational to the early web.
Before modern frameworks and JavaScript everywhere, Perl powered CGI scripts, forms, counters, search tools, admin panels, and the kind of text processing that made the first dynamic websites possible.
A lot of people remember Perl as a joke. History says otherwise.
https://linuxexpert.org/perl-the-strange-language-that-built-the-early-web/
#Perl #Linux #OpenSource #WebDevelopment #CGI #Programming #SoftwareHistory #SysAdmin #LinuxExpert
Programmers, can you inform me why people still use github? Its owned by Microsoft, promotes AI garbage, and that alone kind of makes it shitty as a place to host open source stuff in my book. As a simple plebian, am I missing something? I don't code, so does it offer something that other platforms don't?