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The modern web has gone so wrong. This Forbes article had already loaded all the text and image content in the article. It is a simple...

The modern web has gone so wrong. This Forbes article had already loaded all the text and image content in the article. It is a simple article, no interactivity required. But when I scroll to a certain point some error occurs, and the SPA crashes and replaces all the perfectly working article content with this error.

This is just so stupid. Simple websites should just be markup delivered by webservers, they do not need to be interactive applications. #software #frontend #web

But I'm already not a number! 🤩

But I'm already not a number! 🤩

Why do I use Warp? 😅

Why do I use Warp? 😅

Rats enjoy driving around in cute lil rat cars...

Rats enjoy driving around in cute lil rat cars 🥹

https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught-rats-to-drive-their-joy-suggests-how-anticipating-fun-can-enrich-human-life-239029

In Jetbrains IDEs when handling a simple missing import, "Fix with AI" now appears higher in the context actions than the actual,...

In Jetbrains IDEs when handling a simple missing import, "Fix with AI" now appears higher in the context actions than the actual, simple, obvious solution 🤦‍♂️ And choosing that option just opens an advert to buy a new license.

O the brave #ai revolution!

This is the best news I've heard in in ages. What a wild ride this timeline is...

This is the best news I've heard in in ages. What a wild ride this timeline is https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/business/media/alex-jones-infowars-the-onion.html

These stretched pixels were bothering me. Now after two hours of effort on a Sunday evening, it looks marginally better in a way that almost...

These stretched pixels were bothering me. Now after two hours of effort on a Sunday evening, it looks marginally better in a way that almost no-one would notice 😅

Messing around with my voxel terrain project with #bevy #rust again. It now generates flat slopes rather than hard angled cubes which I...

Messing around with my voxel terrain project with #bevy #rust again. It now generates flat slopes rather than hard angled cubes which I think looks cool, but with all the same texture the geography does sorta turn into an indistinguishable blob. Adding some grass, trees, etc might help.

Messing around a bit with bolt.new, which is this "LLM to generate Typescript projects" tool. Surprised to say that I'm pretty...

Messing around a bit with bolt.new, which is this "LLM to generate Typescript projects" tool. Surprised to say that I'm pretty impressed - it can conversationally generate all sorts of quite complex apps if you describe the problem well. Seems to work well if you start with a basic foundation then incrementally ask it to add features.

I seem to have hit some of its limits in trying to get it to write a chess engine, though. When it wants to add a function to a file instead of printing the whole file it only prints the new function and adds comments like "// .. (keep the existing code)" but Bolt doesn't understand the context and just replaces the whole file.

Just got a voicemail from a robot voice just saying "to speak to an agent, press one" and nothing else. Good. Great. Love...

Just got a voicemail from a robot voice just saying "to speak to an agent, press one" and nothing else. Good. Great. Love technology.

Wow, the wonders of natural language processing 🤦(The first line is what I wrote, the terminal then interpreted it as natural language...

Wow, the wonders of natural language processing 🤦

(The first line is what I wrote, the terminal then interpreted it as natural language and the rest is the LLM's response)

I'm going to speak about #rust in #exeter! https://conference.techexeter.uk/speakers/mattsi-jansky/If you want to come drop me a line, I...

I'm going to speak about #rust in #exeter! https://conference.techexeter.uk/speakers/mattsi-jansky/

If you want to come drop me a line, I may have a discount code I can share 👀

Damn, this is crazy. Really basic stuff they got completely wrong. I recall trying Arc out but not getting past the first screen because,...

Damn, this is crazy. Really basic stuff they got completely wrong. I recall trying Arc out but not getting past the first screen because, why would I need to create an account to use a web browser? I'm glad I didn't go any further.

https://kibty.town/blog/arc/

Writing Typescript all day for the client leaves me missing #rust so badly. Not only does JS/TS have nulls it also has undefined, and...

Writing Typescript all day for the client leaves me missing #rust so badly. Not only does JS/TS have nulls it also has undefined, and different types of comparisons and a host of weird gotchas for when nulls or undefined are truthy or not and you have to keep this and more in your head at all times.

People say Rust is complex but it is honestly so much simpler than JS/TS

Sorta feeling like this will be the vibe of the UK tomorrow https://song.link/s/433PiGPmefjCy1VFRDflbk

Sorta feeling like this will be the vibe of the UK tomorrow https://song.link/s/433PiGPmefjCy1VFRDflbk

The tools created to protect people in Snapchat and the like are now being used to straight up spy on users, then. That was inevitable.

The tools created to protect people in Snapchat and the like are now being used to straight up spy on users, then. That was inevitable.

Google, stop tacking more creepy tracking stuff on my phone.It actually might be a nice feature but I feel like there should be consent...

Google, stop tacking more creepy tracking stuff on my phone.

It actually might be a nice feature but I feel like there should be consent involved here?? Am I crazy? Maybe start with "Here is a feature you might like, go here to turn it on if you wish" rather than "your phone is being enhanced, do not resist"

It is funny to think that when I, green young dev, entered the industry my boss warned me against using copy-paste. His point was that if...

It is funny to think that when I, green young dev, entered the industry my boss warned me against using copy-paste. His point was that if when you paste code you are necessarily less likely to think it through carefully and notice mistakes, than if you took the time to write it from scratch.

And now, ten+ years on, we allow glorified autocomplete (LLMs) to haphazardly spew out whole functions for us.

The vibe in #emfcamp right now: https://youtu.be/iozreu1yv0w?feature=shared&t=29A great camp this year folks!

The vibe in #emfcamp right now: https://youtu.be/iozreu1yv0w?feature=shared&t=29

A great camp this year folks!

The recording of my talk from Devoxx UK is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO4jJ1O3Cq4I'm really happy with how this came out, I...

The recording of my talk from Devoxx UK is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO4jJ1O3Cq4

I'm really happy with how this came out, I think I'm getting better at public speaking. Check it out if you want to learn more about #rust