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Full stack senior engineer and CTO for hire. Plumbing the internet with Laravel, NestJS and Vue/React. https://slashnode.com
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Preordered!

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One of the unintended (but totally predictable) side effects of the USAID cuts is that a lot of very sick people in developing countries are about to lose access to medicine they need to live

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Good learnings here. The main takeaway is that native dev knowledge is key, even when using hybrid or cross platform frameworks. Also learned this the hard way over many years of trial and error (albeit with Ionic rather than RN) shopify.engineering/five-years-o...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Mac reformatted ✅ Desk cleaned ✅ Cables organised ✅ Ready for 2025 🎉

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

One of these things is not like the other…

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

new domi & jd beck performance on Japanese breakfast show 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4td...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

gearing up to reformat my main work computer over the xmas break... send hopes and prayers

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

"... one of the charms of computing: the hammer you reach for every day may have, in fact, come from a spaceship"

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

haven't used WP in several years but it's sad to see it and its community dragged through the mud by Mullenweg who, before this WP engine situation, always seemed genuinely thoughtful and benevolent. Hope he sees the light and turns this situation around

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

mood #russiancircles #postmetal www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_oY...

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

gonna end up at a show this evening

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

Key insight on LLMs: Language ability ≠ Intelligence. "You're not chatting to an intelligent agent; it's autocompleting your questions, like a sociopath getting under your skin by saying what it thinks you want to hear." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lxk...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

feeling targeted

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

I very much DO NOT envy HR managers having to sift through reams of AI-slop cover letters at the moment newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-genai-...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

it's nuts to me that in 2024 hardcore bands can not only chart, but appear on prime time talk shows I mean there's a freakin' circle pit followed by pig squeal vocals... on JIMMY KIMMEL! 🤯 kids these days are #winning www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYeD...

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Alternative title: The pendulum swings back

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

a friend in sweden just got this government issued pamphlet in the mail: "how to prepare for war" 😮 2025 is shaping up to be a real doozy

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

The problem with benchmarks is that they often make decisive claims about performance when in reality they say more about the benchmarking methodology than the tech used "Benchmarks are not numerology. Their results are not a divine revelation. Benchmarks are experiments." mrale.ph/blog/2024/11...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

“Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little stopping third parties from doing so.” techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/b...

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

An interesting dilemma on the business model of GenAI tools. Take AI coding tools. These are heavy usage and are sold at what are clearly subsidised rates: 1. *Assuing* there's a real efficiency gain, prices could/should be raised 2. But there's so much competition to keep prices down!

submitted 91 days ago • 13 comments

LLMs: score ~90th percentile on BAR, LSAT and GRE Also LLMs: "here is a 7 minute podcast on the topic of poopoo peepee" www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr4...

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