Bob German 🥑

Retired; still coding

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

Saw this 50s Corvette today and for some reason thought of @vesajuvonen

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@codevsdev There was always documentation, usually better than today since it was so essential. And books. Things didn’t change as fast so it was easier to keep up!

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@JenMsft Left side. Reasons:
- 16x9 screens can spare more horizontal space than vertical
- nested remote logins keep the task bar in view

Thanks for bringing back this Win10 feature I really missed!

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@toddanglin I suspect the frequent press leaks in days gone by led leadership to keep most employees in the dark until announcements are public. I remember this one: https://t.co/EUWBmvvP9o

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@bdsams On premises server software with a permanent license and no upsell to the cloud or AI

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@burkeholland Here is the solution, but price has tripled since I bought one. Key markings are wearing off but I still love this, just take it to the kitchen and scrub all the gross bits away! https://t.co/87CKEfwD96

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@housecor I run a local model w/Claude Code

[Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin]

🚀 JS/TS devs! The new LangChain.js for Beginners course is now out!

The course teaches you how to build modern agentic AI apps:

✅ Chat models & prompts
✅ Structured outputs with Zod
✅ Function calling & tools
✅ Autonomous ReAct agents
✅ MCP integration
✅ Semantic search & agentic RAG 🚀

Every chapter includes clear explanations and real-world analogies, working code, and challenges so you can apply the concepts immediately.

If you’re comfortable with Node.js and want to add capable agents to your apps, this is for you.

👉 https://t.co/MzBxFATZ6o

Blog: https://t.co/n5CUSxp05U

[Microsoft 365 Developer @Microsoft365Dev]

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Earn your badges! You can be the next one 👇
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[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@burkeholland Javascript's scoping rules are an abomination; this is a workaround...

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@sandislonjsak Models, quantization, distillation will continue to improve. My local AI workstation can do more now than it could 6 months ago. Top frontier models will continue to excel in the cloud, but more and more workloads can run locally if desired!

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@housecor https://t.co/uEcQMvNG1U

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@waldekm Ancient wisdom: a picture is worth 1,000 words. People knew that long before computers or AI. It's probably more than 1,000 actually...

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@waldekm @climicrosoft365 A healthy measure of Linux isn't surprising but Other > MacOS?!
I'm trying to fathom what Other might be? And why would MacOS be so low?
🤔
Anyway- congratulations on a (another) successful grass roots product!

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@davepl1968 Yup. I bought passive earplugs at a music store, makes all the difference. Frequency balanced. Probably the air pods are too.

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@housecor @gagansaluja08 A good CS degree can help but a lot of people learn on the job. Experience building, shipping, and supporting production code is the key.

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@abrakjamson How do you measure this?
google/gemma-4-31b (19GB) (https://t.co/cWpvV7E7gh) seems to work well but I always wonder how well, and at what tasks.
Also I don't see anything in that size... ?

[Master.dev (Formerly Frontend Masters) @MasterDotDev]

What To Know in JavaScript (2026 Edition)

An overview of what's new in language features, frameworks, runtimes, build tools, testing, and more.

https://t.co/ilxaAjP9sX

[Todd @toddanglin]

Sliding scale of app difficulty (with coding agents):

🥳1: Local data, single user, single device
😄2: Remote data, single user, single device
🙂3: Local data, single user, multi device
😐4: Remote data, single user, multi device
��5: Remote data, multi user, multi device

And multi user features like “real time collaboration” or “user generated content” are multipliers on lvl5. 🥵

[Bob German 🥑 @Bob1German]

@toddanglin I'm curious how people are using coding agents. Are you asking it to write an app, or devising an architecture and asking it to build it up in small increments?
IMO the latter is required for human coded apps as you move towards level 5, and the same probably applies to AI, yes?