Ross Duggan

Bit flipper. CTO @clearwordcom. Previously worked @barricadeio, @EngineYard, @boards. [email protected]

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[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Publishing the code for that little stock/crypto/other display I've been tinkering away with for the last couple of weeks https://t.co/Gd1kcYJ3Mx

Finally, breaking the cycle 5+ years later https://t.co/oZndePqv7Y

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Raspberry Pi project development cycle:

1. Have cool idea for project
2. Buy Raspberry Pi
3. Never do anything with it

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

@Tanakaisfired hey Joel, I'm a huge Fast Karate fan – actually still listen to old episodes I kept copies of because I am basically a 39 year old teenager. I was never really the send fan mail type, so before I lose track of both of you entirely just wanted to say thank you!

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

@conzy_m I'll take a dozen!

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

I've noticed that I'm very susceptible to the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect with ChatGPT - I scoff at its technical incorrectness in one conversation then proceed to use it like some sort of sentient wikipedia on topics I don't know anything about.

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Enjoying ChatGPT but when it comes to software sometimes it's like talking to someone who is absolutely blind drunk.
Frequently invents things that it then apologies for when you point out that it is pure fiction.
Good to get the creative juices flowing though!

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

@Suhail Can even put together a Github Action to run it (even if it's a little out of date in terms of the actions being used)

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Riffing on @Suhail's IAM Policy writer, writing the Terraform boilerplate via ChatGPT is also impressive. At this relatively small scale, it could be a really useful way to improve your ability to teach other people what you know: have AI write out examples, explanations, etc.

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

@ncremins Technically it's more like for every one person outraged there's two rejoicing.

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

@ciaran_lee From what I hear, people (e.g., Cloudflare https://t.co/EaanAZisgI) lean on https://t.co/N1GOw4fCgn as connection proxy. Haven't used it yet myself, but it's on the list!

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Weird to be directed to Jira's product roadmap from within the app, and the first random "roadmap" item I click on is a feature announcement for a discontinued product

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Love a good thread about handling spaghetti codebases. Somehow I manage to find myself agreeing with every opinion at once (write tests / bad code leads to bad tests / never rewrite / rewrite is the only way).
The cognitive dissonance is immense https://t.co/9cIaewUWCK

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Spent most of my day in pdb (which I've never used directly before), teasing out what ended up being a tricky SQLAlchemy early transaction termination issue that only manifested during FastAPI's JSON serialization, only in production, for one (reported) meeting.
A great day!

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Handy little hack to use TouchID for sudo on macOS https://t.co/5kfmOYZKtJ

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Before Covid, visiting startups meant visiting offices full of midcentury modern furniture in buildings near Market Street. Now it means visiting an apartment containing a baby, a dog, and 6 coworkers who haven't met in person for a month.

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

https://t.co/MsTV41a0E7

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

@donal_cahalane

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

@kelseyhightower I used to have to make my Mac look like a Linux box. Today I have to make it look like an AWS region instead.

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

when Figma is down you can create your very own emo status mac

[Molly White @molly0xFFF]

Molly White, a 28-year-old software engineer, documents the failures of the cryptocurrency industry on her blog “Web3 is Going Just Great.”

https://t.co/g6wE6Q5Rsi

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

The most cursed Python codebase: everything annotated with Pydantic types, but all of the types are Optional[None]

[Ross Duggan @duggan]

Some books really catch you at the right moment — I think @tfadell’s Build is going to be something I keep coming back to. Lot of inspiration, wisdom, and no bullshit :)
I feel pumped every time I read a few pages 💪