Software Engineer, lover of all all things web, tech, open-source & data viz
Portugal
Joined February 2012
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Guilherme Simões retweeted
Dark mode sounds simple. Then you add user preferences, animations, and browser history.
Turns out the bfcache (back-forward cache) restores old snapshots—including the wrong theme. Even Ars Technica has this bug.
guilhermesimoes.github.io/bl…
Guilherme Simões retweeted
BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard: “Edward Snowden broke the law... But he also released information that exposed egregious, illegal, and unconstitutional programs that are happening within our government that led to serious reforms that Congress undertook.”
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After 22 million views and thousands of death threats, I felt like I needed to take this post down for my own mental health.
This trailer was an EXPERIMENT to show my 300 friends on X how far we've coming in 16 months.
I'm putting it back up to keep the conversation going. 🧵
Guilherme Simões retweeted
David Attenborough is now narrating my life
Here's a GPT-4-vision + @elevenlabs python script so you can star in your own Planet Earth:
Guilherme Simões retweeted
These images came from a thread on our slack comparing Peacock from 1+ year ago with what we have in production now. I'll let the images do the talking
Guilherme Simões retweeted
Just saw the Will Smith slap. Anyone have a late night show I can borrow just for tomorrow?
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Man, I sort of saw it coming but bummed that @slashfilm has been overhauled into a click-batey site full of top-10 lists. I have to wonder if this is why @Slashfilmcast is distancing themselves. That's likely stupid speculation on my behalf but glad they did either way.
Guilherme Simões retweeted
Hot take: Optional chaining encourages writing brittle code.
Example (currently a stage 1 JS feature):
const data = myObj?.firstProp?.secondProp?.actualData
Instead, normalize object structures at the time of creation (in JS apps, that often means in API call response handler)
Guilherme Simões retweeted
People think game development means you get to play games all day, but they're wrong - it means you talk about geese
Guilherme Simões retweeted
When a company doesn't have a responsible disclosure Email/page....I have to choose an unexpected communication channel... :/
Please use security.txt @securitytxt #BugHunting #ResponsibleDisclosure
Guilherme Simões retweeted
I work in IT, which is the reason our house has:
- mechanical locks
- mechanical windows
- routers using OpenWRT
- no smart home crap
- no Alexa/Google Assistant/...
- no internet connected thermostats
