Andrew Douglass

@ardouglass
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824 Posts
💰 UI/UX engineer building design systems
🎓 ASU public interest tech grad student
🎵 least musically successful member of my high school band
Websitehttps://dou.glass
LocationHouston-ish
PronounsHe/Him
Andrew DouglassMar 11
Writing modern frontend code without a bundler or any other build tools beyond a file server is kind of great! Except for the part where I totally forgot about how annoying manual cache busting is.
Andrew DouglassFeb 28
The Board of Peace is off to a really great start.
Andrew DouglassFeb 17
Zach LeathermanFeb 17
it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built
Andrew DouglassFeb 8
Miguel ArrozFeb 7

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116030136026775832

This is one of the worst takes from LLM enthusiasts.

Compilers are deterministic, extremely well tested, made out of incredibly detailed specifications debated for months and properly formalized.

LLMs are random content generators with a whole lot of automatically trained heuristics. They can produce literally anything. Not a single person who built them can predict what the output will be for a given input.

Comparing both is a display of ignorance and dishonesty.

Andrew DouglassJan 30
Show threadThe Seven Voyages Of SteveJan 30
If you want people to truly care about what you create, it has to have a detectable piece of yourself in it. Something that no-one else would make because they’re not you. And it’s a good sign if some people *don’t* like it. That means it has an opinion
Andrew DouglassJan 18
Star Trek Minus ContextJan 18
#StarTrek
Andrew DouglassJan 11
JoshData 🐢Jan 10
Remember when we thought coders should have ethics certification? Wow did we lose that fight.
Andrew DouglassJan 6

I just spent an hour working on some form validation CSS to wait until after user interaction had occurred, only to discover after deeper reading that the :user-(in)valid pseudo selectors already do this.

And that's why you should always read the docs.

Andrew DouglassDec 18
Marijke LuttekesDec 16
I wonder how many people realize that writing code is one of the last, and possibly least interesting, steps in programming?
Andrew DouglassDec 13
memes from outside fedi/atmosphereDec 10