Alex Gwyn

Sometimes I hope that the youtube PM who decided that after 10 search results you will get completely unrelated videos is having a bad day.

"Embrace AI tools or be left behind" says tech visionary who is selling AI tools

Gonna tell my kids this was the first version of chatGPT

@slateauto.bsky.social not intentionally throwing a steel ball through their car window is an absolute miss in virality

But do you have, the box?

bsky.app/profile/bide...

Hard to win a game of poker against TSMC when they literally have all the chips

Does anyone know what the tariff rates are for Gradle imports?

Poor in money, rich in doomscrolling

How to spot an android developer

A screenshot from the video game ClueFinders 4th Grade

Video games peaked here and there is no evidence that can prove otherwise.

And please don't make commits take 30 seconds to run.........

Git hooks (pre-commit, pre-push) should be a nice-to-have for your coding and commit pipeline.

They should absolutely not be an integral step of your process. Don't try to run code-gen or enforce formatting in hooks. Hooks are optional, CI is for enforcement.

I really can't get over that people think government debt is the same as normal person debt and is therefore inherently bad.

Super bummed that a $500 machine has this severe of a problem right out of the box. I like having an open and rootable machine, but I think it's ridiculous that printing a reliable circle requires a full teardown of the machine.

It can also lead to a lot of problems with wall lines not connecting and much weaker prints.

There are a few fixes that involve taking some compressive springs that pre-load the bearing out at the expense of more slop.

Otherwise you're looking at a full teardown of gantry to clean/replace parts.

The consensus online is that there is too much friction on the x-axis bearing slide, and I can confirm that the static friction on mine is really high. This causes any X-moves to flatten out at the very beginning, resulting in non uniform circles.

Picked up a #Creality K1C 3d printer over the long weekend. The first few days it was great but then I noticed that circles were squashed into ovals. Even worse was that the squashed direction depended on the rotational direction of the line path.

Turns out this is a relatively common problem: 🧵

It also makes it way more underwhelming when you find that "custom firmware" is just some hacky python scripts running on startup

I'm probably late to the party, but one of my favorite things I've found recently is that 'firmware' for almost every device is now just a Linux OS. It’s so much easier to tinker with hardware when you have a full OS to build on top of.

Putting formatting and linters in a pre-commit hook? Straight to jail.

Don't make commits take literal minutes.

Pretty crazy that with 64Gb of RAM you can run a 70 billion parameter LLM with the distillation of all human knowledge, or a moderately sized project in any Adobe program

Revive computer magazines with type-in programs, except they are now just 40,000 pages of LLM weights

Watching a side project slowly build inertia is one of the best feelings

Slack could add a block button they are just choosing not to

Society wasn't ready for speakers on smartphones

Still amazed every time I fly JetBlue that their entertainment screens seem to be running over analog video and that the touchscreens probably have to round-trip to an onboard server.

I grew my B2C SAAS startup MRR by 2600% in just 8 months. Here's my secret:

Start low.

I only made $5 the first month. By strategically keeping initial revenue low you can advertise huge percentage increases with only small increases in actual revenue.

Can confirm I haven't been back to a Twitter office

Obviously too early of a beta to have been released.

Let me know when it can also search Zillow and put an offer on a house in Des Moines while ordering groceries

As someone who spent a lot of time trying to make Twitter good, it's kind of a bummer to watch its well deserved downfall.