i’m @swyx from twitter (see twitter bio location to verify). the mastodon accounts on other instances are NOT me.
PSA that Twitter is still my "main" network, but it is clearly on the diepath so I am committed to frequently checking and replying here. F*ck Elon.
| about | https://swyx.io/about |
| ai blog | https://lspace.swyx.io |
| devtools blog | https://dx.tips |
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TIL "Dark Matter Developers". It's a fantastically important concept to bear in mind as we #DevRel ourselves giddily through our echo chambers.
😯 The *vast majority* of developers aren't even listening/watching/reading this stuff online.
The term traces back 10+ years to Kate Gregory (http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/05/17/the-dark-matter-of-programmers/) and @shanselman (https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99).
@swyx has a nice article about it too in which he puts some useful numbers against it as well https://dx.tips/whats-your-dark-matter-strategy
Kate Gregory said in an interview that she likes to call C++ programmers the dark matter of the software development world. They're not visible — they don't attend conferences and they don't buy a lot of books — and yet there are a lot of them. I've thought the same about those who write code
Really insightful advice here from @swyx ! Sometimes the audience of a blog post/video/stream is only ourselves. It's important to us and just us. Next step, I need my brain to absorbe this. Probably the best way to start is to implement some of James Clear's advice
two types of reactions to twitter going down:
1) people just shrugging and going back to work
2) us addicts who switch to mastodon
This article came out of nowhere. I have never heard that this feature is something that browser engineers are working on, and all of a sudden, @jhey drops this bomb. Very well explained with tons of less and more complicated examples. I am excited about being able to do it without JavaScript, but at the same time rapidly growing scope of CSS scares me.
Tether elements to each other with CSS anchor positioning
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/tether-elements-to-each-other-with-css-anchor-positioning/
Oops, You Wrote a Database
{ by @swyx } from hashnode
Dear Sir, I am afraid to inform you that you have written a database. I know you just wanted some "simple persistence" and that "a basic key-value store will do". Maybe keep it in memory as an object, or read/write simple JSON files on disk or to a c...
🆕 More goodies for Latent Space Demo Day:
Members from Team Ghostwriter @Replit will be onsite at SF location on Friday (ask anything!) and all IRL participants will get free Beta access to the new Ghostwriter Chat.
Come see the future of AI + Code!
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RT @Replit
Announcing Ghostwriter Chat.
The first conversational AI built right into your IDE, complete with a proactive Debugger.
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https://twitter.com/Replit/status/1625916916593463296
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