Bruce Abernethy

Help teams build software and guide products. Tinker, physics/science geek. Music. Faith. Community.

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

Heading over to @BeerCityCode for the next few days. It’ll be good to learn new things and see some old and new friends. #beercitycode #bcc24

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@Commercial_Crew @readwise save thread

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@cwoodruff I liked the one with the red shoes better ... is there an option of one with a ball cap?

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

Does anyone have any contacts left at @Pluralsight that might be able to help me with the labyrinthine process to end our subscription - won't let you leave online, won't respond to requested e-mails, and now blocking the exit like a gym membership, etc. Only a few days left.

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@cwoodruff I had a manager complain once when they had an issue with some code I had written - though I didn't remember it, I had a look. It ended up being from 1996 and had been running on a server (that was well past EOL) for 15+ years. He was right, the code wasn't perfect ... but ...

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@biz84 There is, and always has been, a tension between "clean architecture" and "continuous delivery of software to production" AND "maintenance of software" - both "clean" and "fast" software can be a bear to maintain down the line - "overengineered" vs. "unengineered"

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@remi_rousselet It's like the discussions between some of my friends who love comics and argue that DC is better than Marvel and that they love one or hate the other. When any objective person would step back and look at either and be amazed at how cool they are - you are a flutter superhero!

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@mhadaily But, perhaps I'm thinking from a more experienced developer standpoint - the more complete history could be helpful for someone who is starting from a more novice standpoint and could use the more complete and comprehensive foundation and explanations. I will buy a copy!

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@mhadaily But if the text was something that was intended to be tight and tailored for more modern Flutter development only, getting right to how you'd do things today in just Dart and Flutter, and skip over the past stages of application development evolution, it might more consumable.

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@mhadaily They are, historically and progressively, interesting patterns of making web applications and desktop applications, and certainly topics that still appear in some interviews and development discussions. So, if the text was for a full-scale development course, perhaps.

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

Are others getting @pluralsight security errors and getting locked out of Pluralsight entirely all of a sudden?

[Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. @iScienceLuvr]

The Dawn of LMMs: Preliminary Explorations with GPT-4V(ision)

Link: https://t.co/m8u4wSGGzN

A 166-page report from Microsoft qualitatively exploring GPT-4V capabilities and usage. Describes visual+text prompting techniques, few-shot learning, reasoning, etc.

Looks like it will be a must-read for GPT-4V power users 👀

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@SteveAndrews So is the opposite of laissez-faire capitalism backed by libertarianism some form of state socialism? Is there an economic policy that allows for private ownership that enables some personal freedoms while still having important aspects of justice and the common good?

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

ChatGPT can offer some very "shady" Code Suggestions that can seriously impede usage - How to reduce the bad number significantly by using Custom Instructions - heavily inspired by a recent thread by @ardalis and wanted to summarize https://t.co/ICuFRneR1t

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@ardalis If all features are immediately available to all users upon deployment, then these could be identical. But more commonly nowadays, features are deployed partially complete, or complete behind flags, or released to a subset of users (beta), so then split release from deployment.

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

When you're going to talk to some college computer science students about "artificial intelligence" and want to cover some of the many emerging topics that literally keep changing and evolving each week ... anything big I'm missing?

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

In discussing how AI and automation are being used and impacting the software development industry, it is important to define some basic terms and concepts - talking about the “Laborer, Craftsman, and Artist” and the distinctions between them. https://t.co/HzJ00nAiOZ

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@ardalis So ... I also added, "Whenever possible, add a quote from Star Trek, Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings that is related to the context of the conversation" - just for fun ... OMG ... the next few questions did not disappoint ... will probably remove, but fun on a Friday :-)

[Bruce Abernethy @babernethy]

@ardalis This is a great tip ... I added these ...
* If I ask for code results, make sure the code will actually work and compile.
* Make sure code is in the latest framework available
* Make sure the code does not include methods that are depreciated