Dino 🇦🇷

web developer

[Dino 🇦🇷 @dinocres1]

Hey! I'm Dino 👋

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[Dino 🇦🇷 @dinocres1]

@thdxr @adamhearn do darklight

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I feel like we lost niche and creative sites. I feel most creative endeavors moved to platforms: TikTok, Pinterest, Instagram, Dribbble, and so on. Everything is up somewhere.

What I'm talking about is personal sites.

Quirky sites. Places on the internet. Experiments. Sites without a function. I feel nostalgia for the StumbleUpon days when you jumped from site to site, at random. I think there wasn't an algorithm, or at least, not one as optimized and predatory as the ones today.

I miss that.

I like creativity. I like to be inspired. I like other people's creations. But I feel the platform constrains that. A TikTok is always a video. Pinterest is a photo. Dribbble is mockups of the web. But a site is a whole expression. A blank canvas. You can do whatever you can imagine with it, and this is even more true today. It gives unparalleled power of expression to the creator and an accessible medium for the consumer. You just need a browser.

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@devagrawal09 @nkohari similar story for me, but from time to time it's nice to sanity check with a dashboard, so at that point you're basically rebuilding linear

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@tmikov Related: I think some of the PR boasting I've been reading about lately comes from agents pushing buggy, unreviewed code that itself leads to more bugs and therefore more PRs to fix them. Weird that they're flexing that but ok

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One of the most creative and timely talks I've heard in a long time.

While I can't say I'm through the grieving process yet, I did find the eulogy metaphor fitting.

It might take some time to get over the angst of what we've lost, but what's ahead of us is just as exciting as what came before. Stranger, yes. But we haven't lost the power to materialize our ideas into things people can use.

[Resend @resend]

Somebody should say a few words.

This profession has been lamenting in fragments for two years with a headstone that turns out to have the wrong name on it.

@davekiss delivered a masterclass at Resend Forward. Listen, grieve, and leave renewed with hope.

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@steveruizok @XWasim Great band

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@colinhacks I want to live on your mind a bit.

Super interesting!

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I get we can't edit chatgpt spaces on mobile, the tech isn't there yet.

But you can't select text either?

Can't wait until code is solveder

[Dino 🇦🇷 @dinocres1]

Dots feels as scattered as me.

I'm guilty of starting and forgetting stuff.

Planned the week ahead and told it to keep an aye on it. Besides the actual tasks that have deadlines, it just does nothing.

I started tracking a project, finished it and forgot to update it. Good thing I had it in my mind, but for Dot it just disappeared into the void.

I'd like to do things by itself. To check what's pending. If I have a task on todoist that's been due for a couple days, suggest a next action, or tune down the scope.

O told it I wanted to start practicing spaced repetition with Anki, it helped me set up a couple of books content. Of course I forgot, and so did Dot.

An assistant should be better than me.

Right now I have, for today, "book a medical appointment" pending on todoist. I did it already. But what if I didn't? What's the point of making super extra clear that's important. It knows, it can nudge me.

I guess this can be solved by being explicit. Telling it to remind me in a week, or that's very important and is paramount to finish it today. But I feel it can do it on its own. A little nudge.

@TheRohanVarma

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A refreshing read, truly.

We tend to dismiss the human-ness of what we create and consume. That trait is why we enjoy unoptimal chess played by imperfect humans, why we ick when we read AI text, and why we watch F1 even when the machine is the one doing the bulk of the work to accelerate the meat inside to 350 km/h.

Same goes for software. LLMs are the ones producing the bulk of code, but we're the ones on the wheels. The human struggle that made the software needed to be created is what unites the creator and the user.

[Good Boy Ninja @goodboyninja]

I listened to the latest @syntaxfm podcast episode with @wesbos about the new Adobe clones and I have some thoughts
https://t.co/CMMVHLpq0J

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pro prompt tip for codex: "<stop doing idiot stupids>, or i'll use claude"

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@nicolaygerold ah but they are not trivial! well, 84/86 are; but there are 2 sprinkled randomly that will take the code in the opposite direction you want if you answer wrong; just to keep things spicy

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I think openai should just fork mathematics and build a math factory

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@samhenrigold Agree. But by the third time I have to repeat myself about not extracting shallow single-use functions I start to lose if

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@hyprturing Doesn't make sense. But is it a good business? With streaming services everyone wanted a piece of the pie. Walled gardens agents can bring some juicy margins on tokens

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AI defaults to the safest and blandest option. Why?

I'm vibecoding (generous definition for sitting on the couch and using my dot) a site based on the highlights on the book I'm reading(*). I was vague and just told it to do whatever. It came up with some practical use cases, but boiled down to a set of cards...

It knows about the creative process, iteration, discovery, and all the design movements are on its training data and yet... cards on a beige background, with an italic highlight.

(*) the happiness trap

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@Stammy @pangram Can't say I have that problem, I follow very interesting people! The replies though are filled with bots.

I agree that AI content has something... off. The human backing is fundamental. Even if the idea is the same.

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we need to rethink permissions for the personal agent era. they need granularity.

i don't want unrestricted access to every password, but the most inconsequential sites are the ones that insist on logging me out every other day.

i want it to buy stuff for me, but don't want to risk it spending $400 because it misunderstood something I said.

i dont' want it to message everyone, but having access to some numbers can be helpful to handle appointments; and a read only mode will be useful to keep track of things.

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@tldraw @pidotdev Are you really a trillion million dollar company if you don't block @pid

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@devagrawal09 More benchmarks on how agents perform in evolving and changing code, like SlopCodeBench

https://t.co/CNW3HmmX5V