Front-end Engineer. I make tutorials https://xitter.cf/t.co/pEN5uGVmf1 I wrote a book https://xitter.cf/t.co/lFxdYTgAME. I'm available for consulting https://xitter.cf/t.co/7oVugPZPcG

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So I have a new reason to continue using Firefox. We still have perfectly working iMacs from 2012 - my parents use it - but they can't be upgraded past MacOS 10 Catalina, and the Chrome and Safari browsers stopped supporting the older MacOS versions. But not Firefox! Good ol' Firefox still delivers the latest updates to our old machines. Tis the only browser I can use to ensure my parents are browsing safely. 😄
‼️ BREAKING: The private keys of 8 certificates from Indian certificate authority eMudhra were compromised, Mozilla says. Firefox blocked them within 3 hours. Each key should be a 116-digit number, but one was just 4. Anyone can guess them and forge HTTPS certs for any website.
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What if we figure out the only way to stop the clanckers from taking over is to go back to dial-up internet. Just slow down their method of communication to a crawl.
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I want to be Amish, but with 90s technology.
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I don’t want ai! I want intentionally bad Photoshop!
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Elon himself shared the fake LLM slop story. How are we supposed to stop AI bots when the dude in charge is too narcissistic to notice?
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Emotions are history speaking to us, in the only language it knows. Listen & discern.
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I tried ordering a dishwasher through @BestBuy and it has turned into a comedy of technical issues. They completely lied about the installation date, and when I called about it, the support guy said, "well, you can wait for an unknown amount of time, or just cancel the order"
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And trying to sign in to cancel is a mess, but at least I got through it without having to call and talk to their junk AI agent that stopped responding on one phone call, and then started repeating itself in another.
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Kevin retweeted
"The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life." — Derek Walcott, "Love After Love"
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it should tell you something that the most bleeding edge ai-pilled technologists are not letting AI write for them
i love writing. i never let agents write for me. whether it's docs, or tweets, or shitposts, or even prompts (okay maybe that one's harder as agents manage other agents) there's a simple reason for that: i still strongly believe that writing is thinking. it's a skill i hope to never give up. it's also important to me that whatever i say is always authentic, mistakes and all. my favorite posts are the ones that i just full send without any editing i suspect it also helps with prompting. being able to clearly express what i want, and knowing the vocabulary i need to be able to direct my agents does seem to make for more effective usage of agents. in the same way that engineers have an advantage when we prompt agents to write code, because we are intimately familiar with the words that make up the discipline knowing the right word incantations to get an agent to produce a desired goal almost feels like spellcasting. as models get more capable, and that input box looks more and more like a magic box that can output anything, words become the interface between you and the genie there may come a time when we give up the keyboard in exchange for brain-computer interfaces. but until then, i'm writing every word.
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No. Searches turn up no named engineer, interview, or record matching the age-62 Shuttle veteran, ankle-weights line, 18-hour Raptor part, or “I got faster” quote. The post cites none. Documented NASA alumni at SpaceX, such as Garrett Reisman, do describe far shorter idea-to-test cycles and less process. The exact tale remains unverified.
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Dude got caught making up quotes with an LLM, admits it, and just... leaves it. I'm getting so f'n tired of LLM generated writing.
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Actually, I'm not convinced the admission wasn't an LLM response.
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Why does is he'll like we're running towards a cliff, sprinting faster and faster, and the only reason we don't stop is no one wants to be in last place?
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*feel, not he'll Should have had an LLM review my post. Must sprint faster!
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Kevin retweeted
“you will not be able to find employment as a software engineer in {12-18 months from now}”
software isn’t dead, but it’s certainly solved. you will not be able to find employment as a software engineer in 2028.
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Replying to @fedesimio
Tbh mate, I think this could’ve been two separate posts. * One dedicated to the layoffs and those affected * One dedicated to the product roadmap I’m sure it wasn’t intended, but announcing layoffs and immediately pivoting to everything you’re going to ship reads kinda cold.
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This is a crazy way to post about laying people off, especially people who are "excellent". Making a victory lap post about how great the layoffs are is not it.
Today we’re laying off a large part of the Airtable team. This is not a reflection of their work but a reflection of our deep belief that small teams ship more and better. For Airtable, better is about to look like: - A new Core team shipping your top requests monthly (already 30+ shipped in 3 weeks) - Upgraded Omni, Airtable Canvas, a stronger MCP, and BYO agents, coming soon - New Performance and Infra teams focusing on speeding up bases and increasing limits on records, fields, and syncs To everyone leaving: thank you. If you’re hiring, these are excellent people and worth a call.
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I was telling my son this weekend that it'd be fun to make an adaption of Stardew Valley that's Hatchet-themed. A bit more survival, more wilderness, but still with the charm of SV. Maybe the player decides to move into the back country, though, versus being stranded there.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is developing a movie adaptation of "Hatchet," Gary Paulsen’s 1987 young adult survival novel. • The film will be written and directed by Derek Cianfrance, best known for films such as “Blue Valentine” and “The Place Beyond the Pines.” • Per the synopsis: “Hatchet” follows “13-year-old Brian Robeson, who is stranded alone in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash with nothing but the hatchet his mother gave him.” • Paulsen later expanded the story into a five-book series that included “The River” (1991), “Brian’s Winter” (1996), “Brian’s Return” (1999) and “Brian’s Hunt” (2003). wp.me/pc8uak-1lHWxk
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Listen. We can tell when you have LLMs write things. We 100% can tell.
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And I swear the models are getting worse at it.
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