Josh Austin

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All things Java & Elm
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Josh Austin6h ago
Excited to be back in the Spring Boot space! Finally using Kotlin again for the first time in six years. Looking forward to getting up to speed with Kotlin 2!
Josh Austin6h ago
Show threadPamela Fox7h ago

Repo at: https://github.com/pamelafox/personal-linkedin-agent

Features:
* Playwright Python package to interact with LinkedIn webpage
* OpenAI-agents SDK to send calls to Azure OpenAI or GitHub Models with tool calling, to handle the accept/ignore decision
* Management of logged in state across Playwright sessions

GitHub - pamelafox/personal-linkedin-agent: An agent to manage my personal LinkedIn account, using playwright for browser automation.

An agent to manage my personal LinkedIn account, using playwright for browser automation. - pamelafox/personal-linkedin-agent

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Show threadJosh AustinJun 23

I can go on, but sufficient to say, I'm hooked on this for now. I've even let Rust and Swift fall by the wayside to spend more time on this.

Currently participating in an "Elm In Action" book club and gaining a deeper understanding.

Show threadJosh AustinJun 23
As long as the JSON contract is not changed, I've never seen Elm code crash in production yet for any other reason.
Show threadJosh AustinJun 23
The Elm Architecture (TEA) is straightforward, predictable, and (sometimes) accidentally concurrent!
Show threadJosh AustinJun 23
Even if it isn't updated for another 5 years, it is sufficiently feature complete for single-page and multi-page apps tied to REST APIs.
Show threadJosh AustinJun 23
Elm is officially my favorite programming language for frontend web development.
Josh AustinJun 23
I've now crossed the threshold of 6 months of Elm development at work. Thanks to great new hires on my team, I'm transitioning back to Java/Kotlin development very soon, but this really changed me. 🧵
Josh AustinJun 18
Robert RoskamJun 18

Found elsewhere: “upload the LLM-optimized book into your project”

Me: you do what now?

I get having an library of prompts, but the idea of writing specifically long form content _for_ LLMs is wild thought!

Josh AustinJun 16
Paul HudsonJun 16
Now do volume subscriptions for companies and schools – it would unlock a huge range of revenue opportunities, and wouldn’t require any app changes.
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