Ben Briggs

Software developer. Views expressed here are my own.

[Ben Briggs @ben_eb]

@tweeting_keith Stale bread for all! 😁

[Jarred Sumner @jarredsumner]

Introducing Bun - an incredibly fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime.

https://t.co/Yt6tAcnBQs

[Ben Briggs @ben_eb]

@jevakallio I can relate 😅

[Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH]

github copilot is incredible. it just sells code other people wrote, but because it's an "AI" it is apparently allowed to launder that code without it being a "derivative work". lol. lmao. what an amazing grift.

[Jonathan Neal @jon_neal]

Don’t forget to play with your code.
Don’t forget to do weird stuff in CSS.

This is genuine code written in CSS.
Change the code or the selector.

And don’t forget to play with your code.

https://t.co/plpnhu0ZHv

[James McKinven @jmckinven]

Excited to launch my latest project https://t.co/H1Q3tHj8zj 🎉

Doing my bit to stop the madness that is the Blue Yeti.

[Morwenn @Morwenn_Ed]

My clothes storage be like

[Ben Briggs @ben_eb]

@fasterthanlime That would be Murphy’s law 😅

[Yishan @yishan]

I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter.

So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out)

(long 🧵)

[Stately.ai @statelyai]

What software development is really like…

[André Staltz @andrestaltz]

A problem that is endemic to the whole developer community is the urge to "rewrite everything". It is the one of the most harmful practices in software engineering.

Why? (thread)

[Dave McNally @davemcnally]

Please excuse the dust, I just put this together quickly out of necessity but still, I have something of a portfolio online now! https://t.co/VrVSqAXmeK — Appreciate sharing for those looking for a remote UI/Product Designer!

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

🔥 TypeScript Tip #10 🔥

Using a crazy trick I picked up from @AndaristRake, you can throw detailed error messages for type checks.

Here, I move a runtime check in a function to the type level, meaning you get a detailed error if you use it wrong.

[Maria Pevchikh @pevchikh]

I would like you to meet Polina Kovaleva. Polina is a 26-year-old glamorous Russian girl from London🇬🇧. She lives in a huge apartment in Kensington and loves to party, her instagram feed looks like a non-stop holiday. That’s not unheard of, but there is one small detail…(THREAD)

[Laurie Voss @seldo]

Strongly seconded. Web development is hard, because we are constantly raising the bar. The tooling is a symptom of that, not the cause, and we should be glad it's there.

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

Whenever I finish a task I've been procrastinating on for ages that is ultimately done in less than 5 minutes, I'm like, "wow, that was amazing, I need to just do things sooner next time!" but I know I won't

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Looking at Amazon's quarterly financials, it would be easy to mistake the company's $31b ad division as a serious shift in the online advertising industry, but that would be a huge mistake. You see, Amazon's not really selling *ads*. 1/

[Ben Briggs @ben_eb]

@stefanjudis This is me but I can’t even see the text on the tabs in Chrome anymore! 😅