John Kurkowski

Web dev. Cocktails. Hip-hop. From simple building blocks, infinite possibilities.

[John Kurkowski @Bluu]

Open source as selfishness: so I never have to reimplement the solution again https://t.co/MDvJRc599k

[John Kurkowski @Bluu]

The Tyranny of the Marginal User https://t.co/HigRkfkRJS

[John Kurkowski @Bluu]

@Kno My 1st CL show was almost 20 years ago, visiting NYC. Outside, I asked you to tour my home, the PNW. It was great to see you out here last night 🔥

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@CurtBarnard A different take on the Birth & Death of JavaScript, eh https://t.co/ktFZMdtck0

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@CurtBarnard +1 Yahoo

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@andybudd @threadreaderapp unroll

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix]

While I wait for the GPU to churn through 2*26^11 possibilities, a brief recap of how we got here. It started when I noticed this bit of code in the @GitHubCopilot Visual Studio Code extension that detects naughty words in either the prompt or the suggestions.

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@educatedbarfly Vesper Bar

[🔎Julia Evans🔍 @b0rk]

I get so excited when a bug reveals a big gap in my understanding.

I get to learn something new! And I have a practical way to test if I actually learned it (try to fix the bug!). I think it's my favourite part of programming.

[Yehuda Katz @wycats]

Users who use assistive technologies are a stress test for whether our apps run on the many different ways that people interact with the web content, and the future of devices that don't even exist yet.

[John Kurkowski @Bluu]

Which generation controls the senate? Chart
https://t.co/MFdUuCjRSC

[Marissa Goldberg @mar15sa]

"I love remote work but I miss the serendipitous moments in the office when I caught up with a coworker while getting coffee and had a breakthrough."

Okay, let's talk about this. Starting with:
Those weren't truly serendipitous moments 👇

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@kyleshevlin Totally! I get that same feeling in my in-person group classes. I hope you get that feeling back somehow 😕

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@kyleshevlin I hear you. Group HIIT? Slightly more competitive than solo. With the right coach, surprisingly flow inducing, for my puzzle brain. My gym is still going, outdoors, masked, and distant

[John Kurkowski @Bluu]

@jasonbrennan I was messing around with a synth piano recently. My point wasn’t to produce piano music. Still I lingered on the instrument a long time. Something so elemental and fun about the piano.

I can’t think of anything computers are an elemental expression of

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@RandallKanna Yeah. You can bet the C-levels and VPs aren't having similar meetings.

Something about Agile manifesto originally being for a tight team. Not for a bunch of different levels working on different projects.

(I think I stole this from @daedtech Developer Hegemony)

[Dan Luu @danluu]

On essential and accidental complexity: nearly every prediction Brooks made was wrong.

This was inevitable because the concepts, as defined by Brooks, are, if not meaningless, pretty much impossible to reasonably use in practice.

https://t.co/rjXc7u4izE

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@zkat__ Right. Even Python’s built-in, Java-inspired, class-based self.assertEquals. Then you try pytest, and it’s the assert keyword all the way 😌

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@AminiNedda Right. Is that a snowclone? “X does not solve 100% of the problem. Therefore don’t do X.”

[Oscar the Grouch @OscarTheGrouch]

This holiday, I’m gonna stay home in my trash can and avoid people.