Alain O'Dea

Senior Director of Technology and Security @SequenceBio. Group leader with a strong background in security, user experience, and software development. he/him

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

I have a new, 4096 bit PGP key.

Fingerprint:
106E B1FA E15E 78A9 82DE  8DEA 460D CAF1 9A82 B546.

Also available at:
https://t.co/yff7oaWWFo

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

https://t.co/LJtGUGR6Ep

I'm repeatedly impressed by this book. Great when I first bought it in 2022 and it has stayed fresh and gotten better with each revision. Most recently massively updated to account for Go 1.22's improvements to ServerMux and router patterns.

@ajmedwards

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

Related. https://t.co/0kspCr9gyK

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

Bridge westbound on Pitts above TCH is blocked after TCH east exit. Not sure why. Police and highway enforcement on scene. #nltraffic

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

All traffic being redirected onto TCH east. Expect delays.

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

@nathanosman_dev @alexwiese_ @hillelogram This has deep TI-93 energy. I provided many cursed answers using that cursed device.

[Inactive; Bluesky is @hillelwayne(dot)com @hillelogram]

I have discovered the best possible use of ChatGPT

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

@scottastevenson @Krita_Painting I believe AI generated art will have an important place in creator pipelines.

I am not okay with drawing on source material without compensating creators unless material was explicitly CC0 or equivalent.

My take: Plagiarism is theft even if it is clever, automated plagiarism.

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

@art_spb @GoLandIDE My pleasure.

I'm particularly enjoying the flow of prototyping a client for an OAuth JSON API. Run a request and print it. Copy the JSON in, get a struct with idiomatic field names pre-configured to parse it. Repeat.

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

@GoLandIDE is an absolute legend 🏔️ An absolute joy to use. The first time I've found it *faster* to prototype in something other than Python. Just an excellent experience. Well done Jetbrains!

[neural oscillator of uncertain significance @mycoliza]

zfs is less of a 'file system' that you can format a 'block device' with, and more of a hypervisor that abstracts over virtual file systems on virtual block devices,,,,,

[Adam Mastroianni @a_m_mastroianni]

Science ran a big experiment on itself for the last ~60 years. It didn't work out.
https://t.co/1pNOSRrdNY

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

Announcing a collab with @impurepics 🎉
A series of @_yesbut_-inspired Haskell memes!

Part #1: A deceptive one-liner

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Today, I signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law.

We are reaffirming a fundamental truth: Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love.

[Irish Ranger (Sevvy) @VeteranIrish]

Did you know? ⚓️ 🚢

🧵 1/7. The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS. Phillips, the result.

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

I do my software estimates like Install Command Line Developer Tools. 1 year, no 45 days, no 26 hours, no 5 minutes. Okay it's done.

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

@cheswest4161 Absolutely go to The Colonial Building and have a tour when it reopens again in Spring. It is fabulous and the staff gave us an enthusiastic and deeply informative tour.

Bryn Mawr Cottage tho. That's a hard loss. Beautiful home. Tragic how it fell into ruin and then to fire.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This image was not generated by AI.

It's a 450 year old painting called The Librarian, by the wildly inventive artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

And his other paintings only get stranger...

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

@_rachelbraun Change noting (well, focus on kindness and others earlier). It seems very challenging now. It will get harder at times. You are well set up and need to stay true to yourself and the course you're on. The rewards (particularly the kids) are spectacular.

[Alain O'Dea @AlainODea]

@FellowProducts Ode Gen 2 Brew Burrs are a huge upgrade for my Ode. Actually shockingly good distribution rivaling my @1zpresso JMax hand grinder. Great work, Nick!

I use the JMax for espresso grinds and the Ode for brew grinds, so it's a great complementary pair.