Alex Kaehler

he/him ; web development in Java and TS ; open-source/decentralized web/solarpunk/hacker/crypto-sceptic ; infp/9w1

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

Awesome list of alternate FOSS software options!

[Fireship @fireship_dev]

Remember, for every paid SaaS, there is a free open-source self-hosted alternative:

Notion -> Appflowy
Zoom -> Jitsi
Jira -> Plane
Airtable -> NocoDB
Vercel -> Coolify
Heroku -> Dokku
Firebase -> Pocketbase/Appwrite/Convex/Supabase
Shopify -> Prestashop
GitHub -> GitLab
Slack -> Mattermost
Salesforce CRM -> ERPNext
Dropbox -> NextCloud
Mailchimp -> Mautic
Trello -> Wekan
Docusign -> Docuseal
Calendly -> Cal dot com
Datadog -> Prometheus
Google Analytics -> Matomo
Microsoft Office 365 -> LibreOffice
Asana -> OpenProject

what else?

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

Godot is closing the gap with closed-source game engines at an astonishing pace. You love to see it!

[Cory Petkovsek 🎮 @TokisanGames]

The long awaited Terrain3D 0.9.2 is finally released with new features such as... see🧵
#GodotEngine #madewithgodot

1. Paintable foliage instancing:

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

Make sure you've renewed your nerdsniping license first

https://t.co/9MJ2iEI9t2

[Emily @the_aiju]

apparently you can nerdsnipe an LLM by asking it if there are primes whose digits sum to 9 (the correct answer is “no”) ^^ every single one i’ve tried it on goes crazy trying every single prime it can think of, for some reason they are all convinced such primes must exist

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

@jbhenchman @Levviathor

[Joe Bishop-Henchman 🗽💸⚖️🚆 @jbhenchman]

Russia forgot to pay its chatgpt bill so a bunch of angry Twitter accounts suddenly went haywire

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

Poor thing's trying so hard too
https://t.co/jAXCn3gAjy

[Emily @the_aiju]

apparently you can nerdsnipe an LLM by asking it if there are primes whose digits sum to 9 (the correct answer is “no”) ^^ every single one i’ve tried it on goes crazy trying every single prime it can think of, for some reason they are all convinced such primes must exist

[Alex Clemmer 🔥🔥🔥😅🔥🔥🔥 @hausdorff_space]

95% of what we are doing in AI is stuff that's simple enough to explain to a child, made way over-complicated by mathematical-looking notation and unclear thinking. A short rant 🧵 using attention as an example.

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

*removes glasses* mother of god....

[json @JsonBasedman]

Software engineers on their knees, crying, throwing up

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

The world's best hackathon team! We're having a blast at @MSFTReactor learning how to build AI!

[autumn @adrusi]

i genuinely feel unsafe with the status quo practices in software development

npm/poetry/cargo/whatever install 600 packages by a bunch of randos, and then load that code in a process that can read all my session cookies and signal messages and keypresses

it's BAD

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

This thread rocks. Fundamentally, I'm an optimist. There are huge problems in the world, but there are also millions of courageous, hardworking people tackling those problems. We do a disservice to the heroes making the world better by pretending that everything is getting worse

[Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸 @GaryWinslett]

The “everything sucks” doomerism of the far left and right is wrong. Worse, it needlessly radicalizes people. Today is better than yesterday and tomorrow is going to be even better. So here’s a list of 50 areas where we're seeing progress. 1/

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

won't someone please think of poor sama

[Ana Mostarac @anammostarac]

I was just at Starbucks in SF ordering an iced latte. The cashier asked if I would like to "round up" my purchase to support a local non-profit.

The non-profit was OpenAI.

[Ryan Radia @RyanRadia]

You often hear about the fatality rate per 100 million or 1 billion passenger miles in transportation statistics, but over the last 15 years, U.S. airlines have averaged less than 1 fatality per passenger *light-year* traveled

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

There's a gorgeous book called How Computers Work by Ron White and Timothy Edwards that walks step-by-step from electromagnetism and 1-0 to RGB displays, all with LUSCIOUS illustrations. It's one of my top favorite books of all time.

[nihilism disrespecter @meaning_enjoyer]

hey tech nerds - here's a question

how many fundamental layers of abstraction are there between the output on my computer monitor and the little tiny on/off 1/0 switches in my computer

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

optimized my closet to O(log n) by doing a binary search and discarding half my clothes every time I need to find something

[ash @ashleyyjoelle]

“why do you have a messy pile of clothes in the chair?”

it’s L1 cache for fast random access to our frequently used clothes in O(1) time

[Sidney Buckner @shidonichan]

Still looking for another engineering position y'all!

Thanks so much for the help and support.❤️

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

🫡 the boys working hard to keep us (memory) safe

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

The reason why NSA suggests these specific languages is because this is the list of languages they already sneaked their backdoor in so a personal NSA agent can ensure that your program is memory safe in real time.

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

the branding to functionality ratio here is out of control

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Someone on the design team at Google needs to be fired this is objectively a 10x worse experience

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

I see this trap everywhere, and I'm certainly not immune to it. Some kind of bug in our psychology. A lot of humility, curiosity, and willingness to fail is all you can do.

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Something I think a lot about is how a salami company moved locations and suddenly all their product sucked. Until they realized a critical part of the curing was some old guy moving the salami between parts in the old factory taking forever. They didn’t actually know the recipe.

[Alex Kaehler @PlausibleOrange]

make sure to use your least-favorite hand