Bracken Spencer

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[Bracken Spencer @brackendev]

🚀 OpenAI-Pharo: A powerful @OpenAI playground for pro-users & developers ✅ Interact with unlimited #OpenAI chatbots ✅ Use responses as objects in the live @pharoproject environment ✅ Generate & export #DallE images ✅ Auto-update #Pharo class comments with Class Responsibility Collaborators https://t.co/sDk4oTqRQk

[📚 David Kadavy, author @kadavy]

It's been 30 years since the internet went mainstream with AOL.

Do you think we're better off?

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

Can we PLEASE
for the love of all that his holy
STOP NORMALIZING THIS INSTALL METHOD

[Bracken Spencer @brackendev]

haiku-control-mcp: an MCP server to control Haiku OS. Launch apps, automate the desktop GUI, capture screenshots, manage processes, transfer files. https://t.co/voS5b4yzug

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

2000 Developers... Developers... Developers...
2026 AI... AI... AI...

Same hype, 26 years apart

[Uros Popovic @popovicu94]

Sadly, a lot of software engineers write software of no consequence.

[retrodev⌨ @NewAgeRetroNerd]

Clearly legendary programmer dropped their loot here damn

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Startled to find out that there are young people who haven't read James Iry's magnificent "A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages". Please drop what you're doing and head over.
https://t.co/bnzifwQ2p9

[Brian Clegg @brianclegg]

Review: Steve Jobs in Exile: Geoffrey Cain ***** - A fascinating portrayal of a the transformation of Steve Jobs when ousted from Apple: his brilliant but doomed startup NeXT and his return to rescue Apple. https://t.co/96fqcQrmkd #bookreview #technologyhistory #AppleComputer

[sumim @sumim]

二つ目の言語は Smalltalk ！

[Roman @romxdev]

Over-engineering is a much bigger disease in our industry than bad code

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

first it was

‘AI will replace software engineers’

now it’s

‘actually software engineers are still very important’

nature is healing

[Bracken Spencer @brackendev]

Introducing HaikuClip: bidirectional clipboard sync between Haiku OS and macOS. Copy text on either system and paste it on the other. https://t.co/OnukjqJkWe

[mark_l_watson @mark_l_watson]

I started a few months ago putting together a Python book starting with decades of my little projects and then I looked for 'modern' topics to add. Although I have been a Prolog enthusiast since the 1980s, I have only four or five months of professional Prolog development experience. I relied heavily on DeepSeek v4 (with some use of Gemini 3, and Claude Opus models) in developing and debugging the example programs and for editing and improving the text for this book. Read free online: https://t.co/8CDnzr4dzj
I hope people have fun with this.

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Absolutely fascinating piece by @davideoks connecting language model oddities to human cultural development. Picked this up courtesy of @deenamousa's "Under Development" newsletter.
https://t.co/OJSHbBFZzL

[GenerationAmiga @AmigamagazineGA]

How Xerox invented the GUI and watched Apple and Microsoft win https://t.co/EHXJqKfdPD #XEROX #windows #MacOS #AmigaOS #TOS #RiscOS #Linux #80s #70s #GUI #OS

[Lukáš Hozda @LukasHozda]

The great thing about Common Lisp is that it lets me steal whatever concepts I want from whatever languages I like.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I love this Chinese saying: Weak people idolize power. Strong people value authenticity.

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

The best career advice I got from my first mentor:

Don't go into management. Stay an IC.

At first I thought he was wrong. We're taught at a young age that "success" is a fancy title and a ton of people that report to you.

It turns out he was right.

Middle management is the most dangerous seat in corporate America. Simply put, it's much harder to replace a top performer doing the actual hands on work, vs. someone someone overseeing it.

As a top performing IC, I made more than the managers above me on commission alone. And I had more leverage, because I was a top producer who could point to a number to show literally how valuable I was to the company.

When business goes south, companies don't fire the people building the product or closing the deals.

They fire the people scheduling meetings about the product.

This guy at Meta survived the round but got converted back to IC and he's calling it "suboptimal."

It's not. It's the safer seat, especially in this market. He just doesn't see it yet.

Tie your name to a number or tie it to code. Everything else is overhead.

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

Pioneers learning about computers, Czechoslovakia, 1986.

[Geoffrey Cain @geoffrey_cain]

This poster of the NeXT logo from 1986 hangs in my living room. Maybe you've seen it in the background of my podcasts and TV.

It is signed by legendary logo designer Paul Rand. A thoughtful gift from a NeXT employee, and a memento from Steve Jobs in Exile.