alvin.codes
Developer Advocate: 🎧👨👩👧, prev: Unleash (feature flags), Contentful, WSJ
Front-end dev: https://alvin.codes/
Takes photos sometimes: https://alvin.gallery/
📍Manchester, 🇬🇧
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It's used widely enough that I often find myself accidentally downloading avif files and trying to drop them into Figma, which doesn't work
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I think this was one of the first podcasts I ever listened to back in 2014 ish
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Oh absolutely, 3.5 is still the best for me
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I always use 😄 for this reason
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Cursor just shipped yet another UI update there too
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This is an extremely slippery slope, and this probably should be regulated as hell (even if I hate regulations as much as anybody else)
I used a ton of these services as an early remote employee and most of these are sketchy af. Happy to talk about this.
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👀 can I DM you about this ?
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👀
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Scammers could still ask gpt to write something then do a find and replace?
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alvin.codes/writing
There's more than one if you count /books 😄
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is this raymarched ?
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but does the world need devs to build more chat apps ?
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I read "gf" as "girlfriend" for half a second there 😂
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Looking goood!
PS: Check your twixer DMs 😄
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It's a different model though 😄 this works in Cursor without the copilot extension
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There's a well-known story like this at InVision, happy to talk about it and point you towards "official" sources
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👋 Unsollicited pitch to grab a coffee 😄
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All I'll say is that the Minish Cap is absolutely gorgeous
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Cursor is a fork too ?
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I'm glad it's still maintained 😄
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The Podcast feed, which took way too long to find:
feeds.megaphone.fm/SBP4487706450
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OMG! 🥳
This Marvel + Stitcher all over again 🎉
Worth going to bsky today
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Even with everything else in the thread being true they could have put the conf in:
- Poland
- Spain
- Prague
- Another much, much cheaper place
and invited people without obvious corporate links...
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This is amazing!
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Can you fix *any* wrong tax code in the app now? 👀
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The income tax system!
If your employment is your only source of income you'll never have to fill out a tax form in your life
People in France/US/Canada are always surprised by this
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I bought a pre-made one 😅, I wasn't spending £8 on it