Marcus Buffett

Programming, chess, board sports, fantasy and sci-fi. Working on the next generation of early education!

[Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos]

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

[Primer @Primer]

A real-time, transparent view into your child's academic progress.

Available now for every Primer family.

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

@EarnWhere 14 years, absolutely having fun with the new “how well can you wrangle an alien intelligence to do your bidding” meta

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

I've never been more thoroughly owned than when I ordered a shake in the company Doordash order, it exploded over the other items in-transit, and @delk called it a highly asymmetric downside play

[Ryan Delk @delk]

8yo [to 5yo precariously balancing her cup on her plate]:

"That's literally asymmetric downside. Like dad talks about."

[Chessreads @chessreads]

Best bed-read chess books:
https://t.co/OL3ioEZdLt
https://t.co/iG6UWie5dm
https://t.co/bE6xnigHkZ
https://t.co/qqCQNBeSSl
https://t.co/wov4PIGijr
https://t.co/e3JFI5nIdj

@ilan_ruby @SJPressInc @capakhine

#chess #chesspunks #chessreads

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

I can't get Opus to understand a single basic instruction right now

Sonnet 5 confirmed for tomorrow

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

Think about this a lot

[Nate Solon @natesolon]

Don't worry, you're not bad at chess. You're actually bad at everything. Chess is just one of the only things with a good rating system.

[wael attieh @AttiehWael]

If you're a #chess adult improver (below 2300 online) and have never worked with me, I have a great offer for you which extends till the end of December! DM me to know more about the discount and let's train hard and get that rating moving up! #chesspunks #chesscoach

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

@thdxr Yeah team variables here, not everything needs to be context. My state store is like this too. It's also nice that you can access these things without having to be in a component.

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

@Mukherjea @natesolon Maybe I should have said vanishingly small ratio instead. I think it’s the minority of adult improvers that are, well, improving

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

@dhh Dying for M4 support over here, along with a handful of people I know. I’m actually excited enough about Omarchy that I’m going to buy a Beelink, but would be even better if I didn’t have to buy new hardware. I get it’s challenging though.

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

@Ra1kshit 👀

@chessbookcom

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

I'll never financially recover from this

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

Decades of Clean Code obsession has poisoned AI training

When you say "simplify this", they hear "move this stuff around to other places"

Guaranteed net-positive lines of code via any AI "simplification"

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

95% of X ads engagement is fake, because advertising posts react on tap start instead of tap end, so they accidentally activate all the time while trying to scroll your feed.

This is both terrible for users (me), and advertisers (also me) @nikitabier

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

Every day we stray further from god

[Marcus Buffett @MarcusBuffett]

GraphQL is pretty cool until you start making 3,000 database queries in one request

[Seb ⚛️ ThisWeekInReact.com @sebastienlorber]

👀 React Native 1.0 is finally on the horizon

Announced at React Universe Conf, they will share the plan to reach 1.0 soon!

RN recently:
- improved its release process (6x/year)
- stabilized and clarified its public APIS
- introduced workflows to catch breaking changes