I can’t speak for other professions, but in software engineering expertise is key for effective use of LLMs. LLMs have certainly increased my productivity, but they’ve also produced some very bad responses to relatively straightforward topics that required my expertise to guild it back on track.

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

If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models. Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.

Taking a break from your social apps seems like a really healthy thing to do. Hacker News even has a setting ("noprocrast") that lets you block yourself from using the site too much. The legacy apps don't have this functionality because of their incentives (ads) but Bluesky apps could do it.

Vitest 3.0 is here!

Announcing Vitest 3.0

Vitest 3.0 Release Announcement

vitest.dev

pixelfed.org

Pixelfed - Decentralized social media

Learn more about Pixelfed, the free and open-source decentralized photo sharing social media platform

pixelfed.org

Tramaine G.@tramaine.dev · 2y ago

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Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can someone make a BlueSky but for photos ?

Worth the read. 👇🏼

Melissa Murray@profmmurray.bsky.social · 2y ago

Jimmy Carter Appreciation 🧵: As we mourn Carter's death, there will be lots of discussion of his presidency and his post-presidential exploits, including his work with @habitatforhumanity.bsky.social and the @cartercenter.bsky.social. But I want to talk about Carter and the federal judiciary....

This one’s easy. By Reese’s 👋🏼

Editor In Hoodie Szn 🏈 💨 🍃 🍂@wcwpoet.blacksky.app · 2y ago

One has to go

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Matthew Phillips@fancypenguin.party · 2y ago

Claude is limited to writing code that runs in a single file, but I'm supposed to believe my job won't exist in 2 years.

My favorite superhero. 🔥🔥 (And they actually managed to make the John Williams theme work.)

Superman | Official Teaser Trailer

YouTube video by DC

youtu.be

#Superman #trailer Thursday.

I prefer Chicago style first and Detroit second. But if I had to base my decision solely on these pictures, I’m picking Detroit style. In general: 1. Chicago 2. Detroit 3. New York I can eat thin crust, but definitely not my preferred style.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

You can only eat one for the rest of your life, which one you picking?

Senior software engineers are not paid to simply do what they are directed to do. They're paid to take it a step further—to assess and provide feedback on what they're directed to do. They're paid to be proactive in identifying challenges and helping to conceive solutions to those challenges.

Happy Friday Bluesky.

I had no idea that Common dropped a new album this year, produced by Pete Rock. Yeah, Pete Rock still got it. 🔥🔥🔥 (I know what music I’ll be listening to while coding today. 🧑🏽‍💻) #BlackSkyOver40

Today, I was reminded once again that the biggest challenges organizations face are people problems, not technical problems.

Tramaine G.@tramaine.dev · 2y ago

Over the course of my career, the biggest challenges that I’ve seen organizations struggle with are people problems, not technical problems. Software problems are easier to solve than people problems.

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Kumail Nanjiani@kumail.bsky.social · 2y ago

My favorite social media personality is “person who’s always getting betrayed.”

This one is hard. ❤️

Nikki Giovanni, Poet Who Wrote of Black Joy, Dies at 81 (Gift Article)

As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.

nytimes.com

I stopped drinking sodas several days ago, and these daily headaches are annoying . . .

Happy Monday Bluesky. It’s a rainy morning here in the DMV.

We've always been a fan of blueskies.

Astro 5.0 is here. Content layer, server islands, simplified prerendering, type-safe env, @vite.dev v6. All stable. Go see what you can do 👇 astro.build/blog/astro-5/

Astro 5.0 | Astro

Astro 5.0 brings exciting new features like the Astro Content Layer for seamless content loading from any source, and Server Islands for effortlessly combining static and dynamic personalized content.

astro.build

React v19 is now stable! react.dev/blog/2024/12...

React v19 – React

The library for web and native user interfaces

react.dev

Work etiquette. We don't have to like each other to speak to one another. One thing I'm going to maintain is my professionalism.

I was introduced to functional programming by Dr. George Harrison as an undergraduate at Norfolk State University. Scheme, a Lisp dialect, was the language we used. Scheme also happened to be my introduction to dynamically typed programming languages.

I’ve spent the last couple of days assessing use of software testing over the course of my career. System testing has been effective at finding software defects. And unit testing has been effective at improving the quality of the design of code. (I’ve found more defects with system vs unit testing.)

Back when I had hair (with thick waves)? 3, 6, and 8. I had family members that used 2 and 12 also.

Yapzilla_ 🐝👑🖤@iihandsiismacku.bsky.social · 2y ago

🫠 #Blackskyover30 #Blackskyover40

Hmm . . . I think the first JavaScript framework I used was Ext JS. The second was jQuery.

Dillon Smart@dillonsmart.bsky.social · 2y ago

What was the first JavaScript framework you used ? #javascript #buildinpublic

- AWS CDK to manage infrastructure - Amazon DynamoDB as the data store - AWS Lambda for compute using the Node.js runtime - TypeScript for the backend app tier - Amazon API Gateway for REST integration

Dillon Smart@dillonsmart.bsky.social · 2y ago

Share your stack 👇 I mostly use LAMP stack 🙂 #buildinpublic

Bluesky connections on Discord are live! 🦋

Slow day at work today after the holiday. End-of-year compliance training, coding refactoring on a software feature I’ve been working on, and a pull request review. Now back to learning Rust on my own time. 🦀 And then finishing the episode of Dune: Prophecy I fell asleep on last night. 😏