Erald Calaj

Developer.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Ваша гідність вшановує хоробрість українського народу.

Будьте сильним, будьте сміливим, будьте безстрашним.
Ви ніколи не будете самотнім, дорогий Президенте @ZelenskyyUa

Ми продовжимо працювати з Вами заради справедливого і сталого миру.

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

@sirmajed 👌

[Njeri Lapsit @48ofMyLaws]

Urrejtja nmes femnav nvenin e punes osht sen per studim

[Santiago @svpino]

Scrum is a cancer.

I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does.

Some anecdotes:

1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game.

2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing.

3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention.

4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint.

5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software.

6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points."

7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this.

8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously.

9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind.

I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile.

We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it.

The result was always the same: It didn't work.

Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control.

But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team."

Sure it is.

[4rtofficially1ntelligent @4rtofficial]

👇1/25 Midjourney - Photographers Styles
♻️RT & Bookmark📷

I experimented with 50 photographers styles so you don't have to - These are the results 🤗

The full free 54 page PDF & prompts is in the 🔗 my bio

If you found value in this thread follow for more like this ❤️

[Chase Lean @chaseleantj]

The biggest compilation of what ChatGPT Code Interpreter can do

Code Interpreter is hands down the most powerful version of ChatGPT.

I spent 3 hours compiling the best Tweets on this feature.

Below are 20 amazing examples of how people are using it right now:

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

Twitter can't do that as they're just a small indie company

[Jared Palmer @jaredpalmer]

In response to bot traffic and scrapers, we (@vercel) have been using our AI apps, examples, and starter kits as security honeypots to develop new anti-bot + fingerprinting + rate limiting techniques. In tandem with our WAF product, we've since cut our daily OpenAI bill by 100x while still allowing free anonymous usage.

We haven't fully productized this yet, but based on conversations I've had with several large AI providers, our solution is quite promising. If anyone is interested, feel free send me a DM. Happy to chat.

[Jared Palmer @jaredpalmer]

In response to bot traffic and scrapers, we (@vercel) have been using our AI apps, examples, and starter kits as security honeypots to develop new anti-bot + fingerprinting + rate limiting techniques. In tandem with our WAF product, we've since cut our daily OpenAI bill by 100x while still allowing free anonymous usage.

We haven't fully productized this yet, but based on conversations I've had with several large AI providers, our solution is quite promising. If anyone is interested, feel free send me a DM. Happy to chat.

[Joey @joeyexplore]

Types of Daylight 🌧️☀️🌤️🌥️

I've tested various types of natural light in #Midjourney v5.2. Also added a description of what it 'should' do.

Have fun with this thread!

Oh yeah... I was tired of using people as models 🐶

#aiartcommunity

[proper @ProperPrompter]

The base prompt is: seamless vertical split portrait, half hero, half villain, simplified and stylized, comic art, clashing intense color fields

This will create images like the first grid.

With a few changes though, we can make some really fun images.

[4rtofficially1ntelligent @4rtofficial]

🧵1/25 Midjourney - Styles
♻️RT & Bookmark✅

I experimented with 50 styles so you don't have to - These are the results 🤗

Same prompt + seed

The full free 54 page PDF & prompts is in the 🔗 in my bio

If you found value in this thread consider following for more like this ❤️

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

@Variety 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

@Earth_Updates Ok England next thnx👍

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

@Jonnyboy975 @EskayOW Says the guy buying a blue check mark🤡

[JLarky @JLarky]

I was a bit surprised this is not covered in new React docs

[Sam Selikoff @samselikoff]

Simple little example showing a spotlight effect. Built with Framer Motion + Tailwind CSS.

Coming to YouTube this week!

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

@dafran How?

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

@PlayOverwatch Reported

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

@languagesimp 🥲

[Erald Calaj @CalajErald]

@Vesna_SRBIJA @Intetyst 🤡