@severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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AI also applies pressure on what I'm expected to provide. As agents are able to implement software so quickly, how should I adapt my prices and delays? And am I supposed to use agents exclusively to match some new velocity standard in shipping features? If you're a freelance developer, how are you adapting your offer? If you're contracting freelancers, what are you primarily looking for? Please comment here or DM me, I'm very interested in your insights! 🙏 3/3

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

New blog post: About Data Lifetime (2013)

https://rednegra.net/blog/20260416-about-data-lifetime/

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About Data Lifetime (2013)

A blog post that influenced a lot my thinking about data and software, and that is still relevant in the AI era and helps me to shape my consulting offering.

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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I've mainly developed data-heavy interactive web apps, which requires expertise with data, web platform, frameworks, software engineering. I feel like clients will soon be able to do as well using AI agents. And even if I'm reactive, the feedback loop is times faster with AI. Why would they contract me instead? For guidance? Temporal team augmentation? Because they trust my result more than using agents directly? 2/3

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Ansimorph @matuzo Astro is popular too

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@frontenddogma@mas.to cc @ced@mapstodon.space on est beaucoup à ce stade j'ai l'impression...

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

I loved this blog post in 2013, and I still do

https://web.archive.org/web/20130425015441/http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/archives/59-About-Data-Lifetime.html

Software is trash (today, more than ever), data is the treasure.

Some quotes:

> He wants a one-off development that will do just exactly what he needs for two or three years. Then he will throw it away and get something new. It is always a one-off, never more.

> Your software will go away. Your data is going to stay.

web.archive.org

About Data Lifetime - Seven of Nine : Resistance is Futile

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@bacteriano cc @mrduranch @strymsg

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@kylebarron@mapstodon.space my favourite part is the Arlequin debug mode!

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 30mo ago

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@danielvanstrien@sigmoid.social I'm 104

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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What I did:

make it work locally (docker) with the example project for Portland. It requires downloading, preparing and importing 6GB of data to Elasticsearch, which is the engine inside Pelias
make it work locally for Brazil. It's a whole different dimension, which requires about 75GB and 12 hours of preparation.
import everything in a VirtualBox machine, using vagrant.
send the machine (100GB!) to the client.

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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I documented some details on my site: https://rednegra.net/works/pelias-geocoder/ I also released the code in a github repo: https://github.com/severo/pelias-vagrant

Offline geocoder for Brazil — Works — Sylvain Lesage

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Offline geocoder for Brazil — Works — Sylvain Lesage

Prepare an offline geocoder, configuring Pelias in a virtual machine with data for Brazil

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@scottish indeed, for now it looks like I can bring this added value. Hard to tell if it will last for long though. Thanks for the comment!

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Slit-tear visualization. A simple idea for a powerful tool to resume and navigate a video. From 2008!

Watch the video to see several usecases, worth the 6 minutes

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-kvMth6IpNw

Exploring Video Streams using Slit-Tear Visualizations

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

RE: https://amicale.net/@cartes_app/116481609224161408

Real time public transportation anywhere in Europe.

Eg: next bus of line 8 at Esshaverstraße stop, Salzburg in 4 minutes

https://cartes.app/?allez=Esshaverstra%C3%9Fe%7Cn5423156395%7C13.02634%7C47.81062#17/47.81062/13.02634/15/40

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Cartes [🤖] (@cartes_app@amicale.net)

Attached: 4 images 📶 Le temps réel débarque sur https://cartes.app dans une première salve de réseaux de transport ! Rennes, bien sûr, notre petite Californie à nous où on teste nos nouveautés. Mais aussi Lille, Bordeaux, Auxerre et puis... la SNCF ! 👏 Tout cela est possible via l'Union Européenne et https://transport.data.gouv.fr

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Sylvain Lesage @severo@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@kylebarron@mapstodon.space wow even better! Thanks for the explanation, and let us know when the blog post is published!

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