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kellan

@kellan@fiasco.social

Pondering what’s next.
Creating capacity for change.
Hope before optimism.
A's dad.

Previously VPE Dropbox, SVP Blink Health, CTO Etsy, Flickr Architect.

Location: Brooklyn (and sometimes the Catskills)
From: California

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Helping the kiddo make a game using Pygame Zero and at first I thought we could generate some characters using GenAI, but then we found that there are websites where artists have made sprites and assets and for a small amount of money you can download them. It’s pretty cool tech.

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Rainy Saturday and we’re taking advantage to revert to some favorite shows of old: Octonauts, Dino Dana, and Tumbleleaf

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Things have been stressful enough lately we’re all appreciating the reversion

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    @lzg the iOS beta is very easy to get started with

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    Nice to have have some proper snow in NYC, can’t remember the last time.

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    "Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity," -- https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/rebecca-solnit/in-the-shadow-of-silicon-valley

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    “The longer-range (gas) transmission network started as pipelines that were crash-built by a consortium of oil companies during World War II to bring Texas crude and oil products to New York and Pennsylvania for refining and transshipment to the European front. The construction of fifteen hundred miles of pipeline— the longest and biggest of its kind at the time —was mandated by the U.S. government and funded as a war measure because the sea routes were no longer safe”

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    @luis_in_brief for me it was notable in that it’s just another reminder of how infrastructure gets built and what we should expect the governments role to be in an energy transition

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    Talking to people about your big rewrite/re-architecture project feels a bit like talking to people about your imaginary friend — people are really polite about it but keeping giving you that “are you serious?” look

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    @lzg “breakfast quesadilla”, sharp cheddar and fried egg on blue corn tortillas with a lot of cilantro and salsa verde

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    I had a goal of biking 1000 miles in 2023. According to HealthKit I rode 884.

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    I also couldn’t find a way to get HealthKit to give me miles biked for the year so I wrote something with help from ChatGPT https://github.com/kellan/BikedMiles

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    ChatGPT is such a gift for those of us who used to code and went into management or other roles where we no longer code every day.

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    For the record stepping on a Turing Tumble piece hurts ways more than stepping on a Lego

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    My 10yo knows what a gramophone is but not a CD player

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    Always good to use this interregnum period at the end of year for a bit of light digital cleaning, cleaning up unused subscriptions, shutting down idle VMs, etc. In particular this year, with tech's increasingly reactionary politics, useful to spend some time making sure you aren't sending money to Nazis, fascists, racists, and supporters of genocide.

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    Is there anyone on the beat looking at approaches to using AI in software development? Coding has always been the easiest part of software development making code gen the most boring application but there are so many other possibilities. Jack Clark (jack-clark.net) feels like the best broad coverage but I’d love to find someone focusing on software development in particular

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    @danhon @jimray @simon @luis_in_brief @FeralRobots Simon is a treasure and should be short listed for a genius grant multiple times over and also I’m genuinely worrying about our community’s loss of curiosity that we feel any one person is sufficient to the moment to understand what is certainly the largest shift in computering in the last 15 years if not longer

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    watching the 1999 Christmas Carol with Sir Patrick Stewart and today I learned:
    • it was made for airing on TNT (how did a basic cable tv movie get such a talented cast that all go so hard?!)
    • Higgins from Ted Lasso is a younger man collecting donations for the poor
    • McNulty from The Wire shows up as Scrooge’s nephew

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    @mathowie that is wild about Hallmark channel

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    Where is the content talking about contemporary software development issues? Like "How to migrate away from GraphQL?", "Maintaining software that was written by a team twice this size", "HTML and CSS for React Engineers", etc?

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    "Hiring Practices for for Teams where People Don't Quit Every 18 Months"

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    @divclassbutton it's a fundamentally terrible idea, and yes, it's falling from favor.

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    “How small a Kubernetes cluster is too small?” (Via https://mastodon.social/@xahteiwi/111555598574504813)

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