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John William Davis

@johnwilliamdavis.com

Programmer - TypeScript, Rust and Go

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Maria Antoniak@mariaa.bsky.social · last yr.

My most common prompt critique is “this doesn’t make sense.” Sometimes people write instructions that are impossible to follow and then report that the model can’t do a task. Not really news to anyone, but liberal arts (writing, philosophy, logic, critique) training is good for this kind of thing.

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · last yr.

Many of the most important “prompt engineering” skills are just management skills: clearly understanding the task to be done and what information is needed to do it; explaining the task to the AI; giving useful feedback to improve outputs; & generalizing lessons learned into a process.

Scott Polhemus@polhem.us · 2y ago

Just posted a new article to my blog, basically gushing over Bluesky's AT Protocol as an antidote to the social media walled gardens we've all been stuck in for the past decade-plus and how exciting the project is as both a software engineer and a proponent of the open web.

Bluesky’s AT Protocol is the real “everything app”

The blatantly fascist owners of certain established-but-declining social networks like to wax poetic about a world where everything you do online might take place within their own restrictive ecosyste...

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William (Bill) Kennedy@goinggo.net · 2y ago

Starting in February I'm going to start a (free) new live coding series where I build a handful of these apps with a recent college graduate that works with me. I think it will be a great tutorial for people who want to learn aspects of engineering you don't get in school. #staytuned

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Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 2y ago

😮 So a while back, I shared my favourite icon package, Lucide. It’s a Feather fork, with *so many* icons (1500+). I just discovered Lucide Lab, a collection of 300+ more icons! It includes more-niche icons that may not be widely useful enough for the main package. github.com/lucide-icons...

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Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 2y ago

😮 Big React news: they’re adding first-class View Transition support! 🎉 This’ll make it so much easier to add transitions on route change, among other use cases. The PR was merged earlier today, so it may be available soon! github.com/facebook/rea...

Add <ViewTransition> Component by sebmarkbage · Pull Request #31975 · facebook/react

This will provide the opt-in for using View Transitions in React. View Transitions only trigger for async updates like startTransition, useDeferredValue, Actions or &lt;Suspense&gt; revealing from ...

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Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 2y ago

🌠 A long-requested CSS feature is the ability to transition height between a known value (`height: 20rem`) and a derived one (`height: auto`). A new global CSS property makes this possible now. 😄 html { interpolate-size: allow-keywords; } More info in thread 🧵

Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 2y ago

x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.

John William Davis @johnwilliamdavis.com · 2y ago

A nice list and some information on some interesting dev tools from @joshwcomeau.com. Two of them I currently use, a few I've heard a little about and some I just heard of from this thread 😀

Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 2y ago

🎊 Happy New Year! I discovered a lot of very cool dev stuff in 2024, from libraries to devtools to educational resources. Thought it’d be fun to share them all, to help kickstart your 2025! Let’s go through the list. 🧵