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Blaine Bublitz

@phated@fosstodon.org

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Awesome projects & weird stuff.

Gulp lead maintainer / Grain core team member.

I write: ReasonML, ReScript, OCaml, JS/TS, Go and Rust.

Previously:
- Arcjet founding engineer
- Tidelift maintainer relations
- IcedDev co-founder
- HackPHX co-organizer

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Joined December 31, 2022

GitHub:

https://github.com/phated

Grain:

https://grain-lang.org/

Gulp:

https://gulpjs.com/

Sponsor my open source:

https://github.com/sponsors/phated

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

Turns out that Netlify suspended my account because some bullshit company filed a fraudulent takedown notice. No email correspondence from Netlify or anything.

Luckily it only took me the time for DNS propagation to migrate to @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems's Grebedoc. 🙏

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@whitequark/116541056166825577

I chose to go from 6 figures to 0, so that 🤷

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ (@whitequark@treehouse.systems)

i wonder how much is the current salary premium for senior engineers if you state that you want them to use AI when hiring (equivalently, how much of their salary would an engineer give up in exchange for a genAI free workplace)

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 8mo ago

I'm back to consulting!

I'm an expert at solving hard problems and reducing tech debt. I'm excellent with anything WebAssembly, open source, Rust, or CI/CD.

Reach out if you'd like to touch base about your project.

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 8mo ago

This article articulates my thoughts on LLMs probably better than I ever could.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/the_problem_is_culture

deadSimpleTech

The problem is culture | deadSimpleTech

Which raises the question: what if the people on the other side of the divide aren't more trusting, less curious, less experienced or otherwise less suited or less capable of making use of the tools? What if they're simply humanities people? Or worse, mechanical engineers?

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/116520252059894695

In which Iris hits on many of my same thoughts around genAI tools! Highly recommend.

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Iris (@iris_meredith@mastodon.social)

Well, I tried Claude Code. It's less bad than GLM, but alas, I didn't get the "Hallelujah! I see the light" moment that would let me become an AI grifter. Pity, really. I did notice an interesting thing though: the people who get the best results from coding agents tend to be the people who think they're awful, which says some interesting things about engineering judgement. Read the article here: https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/engineering-judgement-claude-paradox

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

I was interested in buying a couple of video games/consoles at an estate sale today, but instead I got a glimpse into the vulture culture of online resellers. 🤮

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 5mo ago

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems is there a way to publish a subdirectory on grebedoc? I am lazy and don't want to flatten old repos

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@ludicity@mastodon.sprawl.club About 90% of the time, so goes Sturgeon's Law.

Blaine Bublitz @phated@fosstodon.org

· 44mo ago

Replying to

@surma@toot.cafe oh no, do I have to write FFI bindings to a ton of binaryen functions now 😭