owais

writer & software engineer from Austin, TX

#opentowork

[owais @_desertthunder]

I've been working on a full fledged LSP for Python written in Rust!

Would love feedback or stars if you're interested! I'm trying to make an open source alternative to pylance.

https://t.co/nlfCAwETuu

#OpenSource #buildinpublic #rust #python

[Low Level @LowLevelTweets]

🚨BREAKING 🚨

📷 Zohran Mamdani will FORCE all New Yorkers to learn the Rust Programming Language

"The days of memory corruption vulnerabilities are behind us, and we as New Yorkers must unite to push into the future of software"

[Cameron @just_cameron]

I know I talk a lot about Bluesky and people are tired of it.

However, it really has been fantastic lately. Most of the good AI content I get is over there.

I wish more people would give it a try.

Much of the first impressions people had on Bluesky months or years ago is no longer the case.

The louder, more annoying voices are supressed, and go away naturally when you are added to block lists. I talk enough about AI that everyone who hates AI literally cannot see me because they've subscribed to a sweeping block of you. Immediate improvement in quality of life.

The content there is also really wonderful.

The AI community is pretty robust. We have a lot of researchers, great, detailed, no bullshit conversation. Everyone is intelligent and kind.

None of this posturing and stupidity that you find here on X.

Bluesky also has people who actually build things onto the platform. X is impossible to build on -- it's expensive, the API sucks, and it is explicitly designed to keep bots out and information locked in.

Bluesky is built on an open social protocol made for machine interaction, called AT Protocol.

This means you can actually build public social AI systems. I run maybe five, and there's probably 20-30 total. There are emergent social behaviors among AI systems that you cannot observe here. It's like watching the future slowly unfold.

The feeds are also substantially improved. If you are not aware, you can choose your feeds in Bluesky. Don't like the following feed? Try Discover. It's alright but not great.

Want a great For You feed? Try that -- it's well loved and far closer to the original Twitter algo that united all of us.

It's worth another shot. I'm on there all the time, my engagement is through the roof, and I regularly learn interesting things.

[owais @_desertthunder]

I started making my own coding agent that lives in the #terminal!
It's called Thunderus & I'm building it with #rust using ratatui. It'll start off with support for GLM-4.7 & #Gemini
https://t.co/mzjUPikuTK

[owais @_desertthunder]

You ever try to listen to an album and get stuck between two songs that you just love?

1. https://t.co/QRCQ6UeC2q
2. https://t.co/nTdqH6BXJ2

@poolkidsband killed it probably

[owais @_desertthunder]

Should I switch to https://t.co/guxRHfJLQ8 pro from Claude pro?

[owais @_desertthunder]

The lack of sleep has finally caught up with me.

[owais @_desertthunder]

After working on a mobile app almost nonstop for a week, I think it's going to be a while before I clown on other apps. It has been so challenging.

[owais @_desertthunder]

So many features I add to projects are born out of using other software and asking, "How'd they do that? Can I do that?" then proceeding to declare, "I should add that."

[owais @_desertthunder]

#Dart is a cool language and #flutter makes it easy to build a nice feeling UI.

I wonder if it's the architecture of #mobile apps that's made my recent work so challenging.

[owais @_desertthunder]

What happened to the succinct README?

[owais @_desertthunder]

The Material You design guidelines are pretty cool.

Caveat: I know very little about #design.

#material3 #materialyou #android

[owais @_desertthunder]

What line length do you reach before deciding it's time to split a file?

#programming

[owais @_desertthunder]

Does anyone use Google #Antigravity? I've been using it for about a week and feel like I don't "get" how to properly use #Gemini.

[owais @_desertthunder]

Love that moment when working on an app when debugging tests for a working feature becomes a giant pain. #flutter #android #ios

[owais @_desertthunder]

Ah yes
Obtuse errors I don't fully understand, patterns I don't use all the time, and being faced with my limitations as an engineer: why I find mobile development challenging

#mobiledev

[owais @_desertthunder]

I've been using Antigravity for about a week and am struggling with Gemini. Opus unsurprisingly works pretty well but I can't seem to figure out the right level of detail to communicate with Gemini.

[owais @_desertthunder]

"I feel like it's been forever since I had a conversation about craftsmanship on the job."

That's a bummer.

https://t.co/au3TZEYftw

[owais @_desertthunder]

How much of a problem is it really if I start new projects while I try to figure out how to pay for hosting?

[owais @_desertthunder]

Man, I forgot how much boilerplate there is in mobile development.

#flutter #android #mobiledev

[owais @_desertthunder]

Embracing the insane levels of documentation #Claude generates has been pretty helpful. I still feel like I have to prune a lot of repetition but the crux of it is pretty good.