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Ricardo Tavares

@viewfromtheweb.com

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💙 passionate for the open web

⌨️ blogs at viewfromtheweb.com

🗓️ works at shakeit.pt


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Go you 👍

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The quicker we try various operating systems, the sooner we learn that every OS sucks in its own way.

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So twitter right now has the combined brainpower of a room filled with people that just want to stay in the country, two bodyguards and a rich ketamine addict 🤔

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Do these puppets hit each other with sticks?

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Kids having only a smartphone to learn how to code is how history repeats the ZX Spectrum 🤔😅 Is that progress?

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Friendly reminder that only doing what people tell us to is the path that leads to sending account passwords through e-mail.

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the #PHP taught in high schools 🤜🤛 #SQL injection

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Agile exists because people can work very hard implementing a feature that some client will feel is a bug. Waterfall exists because people have faith in rituals that allow you to read their minds and predict the future. Both approaches can devolve into having no real communication.

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getting ready to #vim

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Context length for LLMs is going to the moon, but the real challenge is finding context when there is none. How to develop attention on top of a trusted platform. Self-hosted models seem to be the only ones we can have some real alignment with.

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that’s what she serde

#rust #rustlang #crablang

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Reskeet with a picture of the first computer you ever used 😊

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It's still not complete by any means, but here's an updated list of all the shit I use to do the shit I do:
thea.codes/tools.html

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ungooglefy your life as much as possible

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Ana Tudor's avatar Ana Tudor @anatudor.bsky.social
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#tinyCSStip

You can use pure CSS `pow()` to easily switch in between layouts based ton the viewport aspect-ratio. 😎

#CodePen demo codepen.io/thebabydino/...

The `grid-template-columns` property gets set only once! We only set an exponent `--exp` for each aspect ratio. 😼

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Looking at keywords from #FOSDEM schedules since 2012 and I might put this on a repo for other people to play with as well. Curious to see how certain topics evolve, like what happened to #mysql recently.

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sewr (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶)'s avatar sewr (˶˃ ᵕ ˂˶) @episodicdownfall.bsky.social
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soon enough computers will be everywhere.. even in your home!

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Knowledge can be shared freely but it still can’t be gained for free. We often need to be exposed to a concept multiple times before finding some wisdom in it. Open information empowers people and creates opportunity to add value by helping them make sense of it.

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Ripley's believe it or frot ☀️'s avatar Ripley's believe it or frot ☀️ @rileyisgood.bsky.social
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do androids dream of like a hot older computer stepping on their power cable

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One positive thing coming from language models is opening up the problem of you being able to create anything if you can clearly specify what you want and follow-up on that. Addressing ambiguity across time is at the core of what programming is.

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Ironically, programmers are in one of the best positions to get scared by #LLMs because we understand how phrasing our prompts can move us towards better results. Other people just bounce off the friction of having to think about their prompting.

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Jess Calarco's avatar Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.bsky.social
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I thought we all knew this was Apple's business model?

"the complaint alleges that Apple engages in a pattern of behaviors that further entrench consumers into their ecosystem and make it harder to switch, even in the face of high prices and degraded quality"
www.theverge.com/2024/3/22/24...

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Techbros: have machines generate cheap eye candy just to get better reach on social media. Artists: immediately give these dumb generated images the title of “art”. Sure, eye of the beholder and anything can be art, but why start an already unfair match with an own goal?

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mary🐇's avatar mary🐇 @mary.my.id
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open source software isn't enough, we need community-built software

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Business models can make or break software. Apps like Slack or Trello were doing fine until they were no longer being made for their users, but for the people who pay for their enterprise pricing.

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Y’all podcasters on patreon need to move to ko-fi or something so you can get a bigger cut of my money.

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By learning from what we're doing while remaining aware of the landscape, we can try to avoid getting stuck on local maximums world.hey.com/ricardo.tava... 👈 These are my notes on product-minded #softwaredevelopment taken from "The Software Engineer's Guidebook" by Gergely Orosz.

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Not saying that #vim might be a cult... but if it was, our robes could have some nice comfy hoodies.

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After decades of social networks, it’s curious how each kind of data gets treated by platforms. Text gets the short stick. Smaller platforms like twitter or reddit thrived on text, but g+ had a tiny font, facebook chops it down, instagram gets rid of it. And now tiktok is even getting rid of dates.

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Looking at legislation from Canada, Spain... Guess this is what happens when folks just let kids have smartphones, no real idea what they’re doing, zero supervision from parents and then complain when they see something nasty on the internet 🤷‍♂️

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Wonder if we were ready to delve this deep into the generative #ai cave... Yoda did try to warn us.

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We’ll always have electron ;-_-

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One Cameron was in the Egypt land…

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“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash;... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.” - Paul Virilio

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Here’s a crazy idea: not use whatsapp.

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TracketPacer's avatar TracketPacer @tracketpacer.bsky.social
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💻 “Hard Skills” like coding can be learned, but what makes you stand out as a professional is your “Soft Skills.”

Focus on:
✅ Not being a piece of shit
✅ Basic Empathy
✅ Hygiene
✅ Doing your job
✅ Talk Less About Yourself

#Careers #tech #leadership

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How would you rate it compared to other javascript approaches?

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Maybe it’s too early to tell? It seems that current implementations are just cashing in technology that is decades old.

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Why's avatar Why @why.bsky.team
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Experimenting with some topic based feeds using an ML text classifier. Here’s one for developers: