I’ve been toying with the idea of introducing speed limits. Max number of lines of code you can produce in a week. More LOC != better features faster
dax@thdxr.com · 6mo agoeveryone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code here's what things actually look like - your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping 1/4
This meeting could have been an email? Yeah well This email could have been a prompt
How do you think we get to good, wide spread AI etiquette? Is it even possible? I feel like it only takes a small minority “playing the numbers game” to ruin it for the rest of us
Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 7mo agoI’m hopeful that most people will figure it out pretty quick, when they see that nobody is reacting well to their messages. And hopefully we start establishing some norms around AI etiquette.
🙋♂️me! I really don’t see the appeal in “spec driven development”. I love the feeling of hand typing 1000 LoC and having it work first try. I love the feeling of fighting the linter or type checker or borrow checker to get that def just right. I love landing on an elegant api design. I like coding
Chris Krycho@chriskrycho.com · 8mo agoI know, it’s crazy, right? But it’s true: v5.chriskrycho.com/notes/some-o...
“AI optimism requires you to see yourself and your loved ones as safe from AI; as the passengers in the self-driving car, and not as the pedestrians it might run over.” Please read this. And send it your AI optimist friends and family.
Josh Collinsworth@collinsworth.dev · 8mo agoI have a lot of thoughts on AI. I've been working on this post for a couple of months now. It's very personal, characteristically lengthy, and sure to be at least somewhat controversial. Take it (or don't) as you will. joshcollinsworth.com/blog/sloptim...
That cancelled TV show you’ll never stop thinking about
Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com · 8mo agoThat cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about.
Every bad use of AI: getting AI to do something you *can* do but *don’t want* to Vibe coding, cheating in school, the fucking neo robot Every good use of AI: getting AI to help you do something you *want* to do but *can’t* Curing diseases, predicting weather, learning new skills
In an interview this week, when the candidate couldn’t answer any of my questions they said “I don’t know syntax, I use AI to do all that.” When I pressed him on that he assured me he always gets a second AI to check the first’s work. I wish I had this thread to give him in that exact moment
Josh W. Comeau@joshwcomeau.com · 8mo agoHere’s a question I get a lot: > “Now that AI can generate front-end UIs for us, what’s the point of learning CSS ourselves?” I think there are lots of reasons, including that you can use AI much more effectively if you understand CSS yourself. But is that actually true? Let’s discuss. 🧵
A lot of folks know me for one or two posts, and might not know I've created nine (9!) visual explanations of computer science topics, aimed at practitioners. If you're looking for things to read this Thanksgiving, I think you'll love them. Computer science is a lot of fun, when explained well. ❤️
Dear applicants to my Full Stack Web Dev job posting: jQuery is NOT a full stack framework 🤦♂️
ADHD is just one continuous parade of doing your best to keep up with everything and every week you learn you've forgotten to do something crucial
We need to stop saying JavaScript was originally designed in 10 days. Todays JavaScript is basically unrecognizable from the first version in 95. Thats ignoring the 30yrs of work gone into it. Its a living language constantly evolving. Why do you think you have to keep updating your goddamn packages
TEDx Talk - Tech promised everything, but did it deliver? youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
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14. money only matters until it doesn't only focus on making more money until it stops being a constant source of stress (e.g. grocery store math, scrambling to make bills). beyond that, money only matters as far as it helps you live a life you enjoy. dying on a giant pile of cash sounds miserable
This take is needlessly inflammatory. Yes misinformation from LLMs is a problem, but misinformation has always been a problem. ChatGPT is different in magnitude but not different kind. We’ll get through it with media literacy and research skills not by outright rejecting the technology
If you have childhood memories of putting your tongue on this growing up, give it a RT! 👅⚡️
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Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid
a group of cartoon characters are standing next to each other and smiling .
Alt: A group of cartoon characters from the 90s show Recess are standing next to each other. They all look at TJ expectantly who is standing in the center. He grins mischievously and nods. The rest of the characters all take the signal and run off in separate directions
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Indie Book Spotlight@bookspotlight.bsky.social · last yr.Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid.
Hoping to release it in a couple of weeks, but first I have to spend many many hours on easter eggs that most people won’t find 😂
Not movies but ⭐️ - Infinite ⭐️⭐️ - 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ - guardians ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - reach, odst ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - ce, 2, 3
Summearl of '26@breakabone.bsky.social · 2y agoPick a movie for each of these star ratings ⭐ - ⭐⭐ - ⭐⭐⭐ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ -
Boss made a dollar, Grandad made a dime. But that was a poem From a simpler time. Boss made a thousand, Gave my Dad a cent. But that coin paid the mortgage, Or at least it paid the rent. Now bosses make a billion, And give us workers jack. Then smugly blame society, For the labor that they lack.
Web dev friends: What was your "aha!" moment in web dev? What revelation or scenario made you a senior? What made you find out "how the sausage is made" that fundamentally changed your view on web development? (Please boost for reach 🙏)
Reminder Superman is not a power fantasy, he's an altruism fantasy. The idea of someone with godlike powers using them solely for good (with an antagonist who is a billionaire, who by definition do the opposite) was dreamt up by Jewish kids in the 30s and its just as if not more relevant now.
Tech is: - a very small world, always be kind😊 - full of opportunity, open every door🚪 - cyclical, please be patient⏳ - challenging, collaborate and learn in public🤓 - rewarding & fulfilling, don’t burnout😌🧘🏽♂️ - dumpster fires followed by HTTP 200s ✅ - for everyone, regardless of where you came from🫂
This is so perfect cuz the parks in that city skyline are from when you actually went out and touched grass
Martin Woodward@martin.social · 2y agoIf you want to see your GitHub contributions in physical form, check out the new gh skyline command line extension. github.com/github/gh-sk... - love to see pictures of what yours looks like #github #skyline #3dprinting
