Matt Wilson

Why is there a boat sticking out behind the moon?

Even assuming there's nothing in it (which I am doing), just the fact that the US are making statements like this just blows my mind.

Vance scolds Denmark during Greenland trip as Trump says US must have island- updates The vice-president says Russia and China have increased footprints in the area and the world cannot

"Vance scolds Denmark during Greenland trip as Trump says US must have island"

Sorry, wtf is happening?
Am in purgatory?

I feel so lost right now.

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I've read a lot about this approach - don't fix bugs, rewrite it entirely - and I'm in two minds as we're entering a new era.

You can't compare to a traditional rewrite though.

It was directed at @jasongorman.bsky.social but caffeine is still en route.

Rob with 21st century sweat shops having toddlers writing code instead of children in textile factories.

You've only worked with poor junior developers. Some are capable and driven, or great problem solvers, they just don't have the experience to make consistently good choices - hence the title.

That's it, we've gone full Zoolander.

"Speed of lightness"

WTF.

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Anybody who ever thinks war is cool should go see the War Remnants museum in Ho Chi Minh City, and the genocide museum in Phnom Penh. My god.

It's like an insanity wolf meme...but better?

Backpacking through Vietnam and saw this cracking picture in a coffee shop. Sums up the Vietnamese approach quite well. Must adopt.

- Deployed on Railway
- Almost entirely written by Cursor, albeit with a lot of guidance when it did silly things
- AWS Transcribe for audio transcriptions
- AWS S3 for audio storage
- Sentry for exception reporting
- Twilio for WhatsApp comms

So I wanted to build something with Cursor entirely from scratch with minimal code editing from me.

I'm impressed. In minimal time I've built a WhatsApp to Notion integration that will take any text or voice note, and add it into a database or page.

Give it a go, message +447862118768 to start!

OBSERVED EFFECTS OF UBI No significant reduction in labor supply (38 studies meta-analysis) Increased self-employment (301%) and part-time employment (17%) Slight decrease in alcohol and tobacco use (31 studies meta-analysis) New mothers extend their maternity leaves Birth weights improve due to better maternal nutrition Graduation rates and educational outcomes improve Hospitalization rates decline (8.5%) Crime goes down (15%–42%) especially illegal hunting (95%) Domestic violence decreases (30%–51%) Trust increases (13% in politicians | 6% in other people) Home ownership rates increase (17%–26%) Food security increases as does consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables Improved cognitive functioning (43%) and personality traits (31%) Savings go up, debts go down Source: scottsantens

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world.

This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

Also skeptical about Brad Pitt too. Either of them could be Lucan at large!

Just putting it out there, but has anybody considered that Lord Lucan might have reverse aged, moved to the States, and started a band in honour of his home land?

Just sayin'.

I never do resolutions, only goals, but for 2025 I am not ordering anything from Amazon. It's time for change.

They may be right. I would like to see more engineers looking at the context of a situation more though, rather than a "one size fits all" mentality that I often see in people that have been taught software engineering. Is that experience, or personality? Not sure.

Definitely no right and wrong.

...and yes, I too get paid for this and it's unlikely it'll ever get any better - particularly with the adoption of AI coding tools that (for now anyway) create truly awful code.

Academic learning is not industry training though. There may be overlap, but they aren't the same thing and I don't think they should be.

Why should it though? There is limited space in every curriculum, and a module on "production ready code" or "software engineering teams" is only going to be prioritised against many other important topics.

If you want software engineering, take it.

I love the plane story, it's such a great example of thinking differently. I imagine very few people didn't have the same thought process when going through that story for the first time.

Computer science isn't there to teach "industry practice" though. There's a clue in the name, it's a wide field with so much to cover.

My favourite learnings that were useful and/or fun were compiler design (flex and co - useful), and a deeper understanding of 3d graphics maths (fun).

Has anybody *ever* had a good delivery experience with Evri/Hermes? Genuinely interested.

This has been popular in the UAE for years. I first used it for something like ordering bread, and felt a bit weird. Then quickly realised it's amazing.

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Best use of AI yet - youtu.be/RV_SdCfZ-0s?...

How's it going?

Hands down my best idea for 2024. Let's make 2025 great.

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