Brian Rieck

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Mandolin and guitar hobbyist in Longmont Colorado, USA.

From the Hacker News discussion of the story:

"Professional prompt engineers: journalists, police interrogators, detectives and private investigators, most people working in sales, most people working in the judicial system, politicians, many people working in "HR", ... maybe "tech jobs" will no longer be a meaningful designation anymore in a few decades?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34947153

Tech’s hottest new job: Prompt engineer | Hacker News

Finally a starry night here on Waiheke. I took a few photographs, using a Pixel 6 and a tissue box as a makeshift tripod.

One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.

With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:

@[email protected]

EDIT: I Should have tagged the project's creator: @vincent

bird.makeup - Home

Well, rather than just deactivate my account over in birdland I think I'll see about getting perma-banned. Think I'll impersonate @kathygriffin and see if anyone notices or cares.
May as well use my 6 year old pinned tweet as my first post here.