Finally got into that sweet, sweet @ivory TestFlight. Happy New Year to me! 🎉
Kevin Pfefferle
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Code writer. Software creator. Ember specialist. Ski instructor. Musician. Always a beginner at something. Atheist. he/him/his
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Glad to see this happening to Elmo
Darius KazemiIn advance of deleting my Twitter account, I made this web page that lets you search my tweets, link to an archived version, and read whole threads I wrote.
https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/
I will eventually release this as a website I host where you drop your Twitter zip archive in and it spits out the 100% static site you see here. Then you can just upload it somewhere and you have an archive that is also easy to style how you like it.
Derek PriorI've read many requests to add Mastodon links to GitHub profiles for verification and discovery purposes.
My team is working on allowing you to add a number of social profile links, but given upcoming holiday vacations, it won't ship until the new year. We don't want to rush something out at the potential cost of disrupting what is generally a quiet time for our engineers.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't talk about in progress work on social media, but y'all seem like you can keep a secret.
Justin SearlsBeing on a software team is more like being in a band than working on an assembly line. If two members don't click, you'll get a worse outcome than if one worked solo. In fact, it's far from likely productivity would be halved—it might even increase thanks to less conflict and rework.
And yet almost every software team is assembled as if it were a landscaping crew. Far too little regard is paid to the importance of rapport, creativity, inspiration, positivity, and the overall vibe in the air.
ringmasterPlease don't use clever names for things unless it's obvious to literally anyone why the name makes sense. And if you think it will make sense to everyone, you're probably wrong, so just name it what it does. </killjoy>
Aaron Patterson ✅
Arne BrasseurFinally, some of my own thoughts. I firmly believe that the value that #chatGPT and similar models deliver to society is negative. Being able to generate at the press of a button plausibly and smart sounding content that might be wildly but subtly incorrect, with no citations, no sources, no indication of providence, is a recipe for poisining the information environment.
I see programmer types concluding that this will "replace programming" and "make us obsolete". I find it shocking that folks have such a low view of their own profession. The worst, most dangerous code isn't code full of bugs. It's code that "works", but that is incorrect in ways that are pernicious but not obvious.
The job of a programmer also isn't to reproduce some algorithm, it's to understand and model the world, to understand and anticipate user needs, it's to collaborate and shepherd a code base over a prolonged period of time. No language model will do these things.
To quote someone who's very dear to me: "PEOPLE AREN'T USING THEIR BRAINS". Please, use your brains, and be grateful for all the things it can do that a pattern matching model can't.
I think that once I get into the @ivory TestFlight alpha, I'm going to try out life without Twitter 😕