Christian Wyglendowski

Husband, father, Jesus follower, software developer, midwesterner, plays nice with others, and after 9 years Twitter finally supports the length of my name.

[Christian Wyglendowski @dowskimania]

@jamesacowling Yep, this goes for mobile apps too. The big ones I worked on do exactly this.

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Top? Bottom? Middle?

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@jullerino @drwilliamneves CONVEX_AGENT_MODE=anonymous should work when logged in with convex >= 1.31.3. It's new as of the last couple weeks.

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@chadwhitacre Hold on, are you swimming across another river at a conference to get to your hotel?

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@aarondfrancis Take that, neighbors with stone lions

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I made a small MacOS app for #Flutter devs creating cross platform mobile apps. It simplifies some of the steps required to launch an app. It's called Cross Launch.

https://t.co/FE83ANgkUC

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We at @tursodatabase have just done something unheard of in the startup world: we hired a person in prison. Not an ex-con: he is actually serving time right now.

If you follow us you may remember when we announced our full rewrite of SQLite in Rust, Project Limbo. It got a tremendous amount of attention, but by far, my favorite story was that of @PThorpe92: Preston is currently incarcerated for things he regret doing a decade ago. A model reformed inmate, Preston was given the beautiful opportunity by the Maine Department of Corrections to access the internet. He then found our project, and since it's not like there are many entertainment options competing for his attention in prison, he decided to pour his heart and soul into helping us rewrite SQLite.

I immediately fell in love with his story. Reading his old blogs, his Github profile. I prayed we would be able to hire him as soon as he was out, and make him a part of our team. But thankfully, things have happened in such way, that we were able to do it *even before* he was released. He's now given an opportunity to make a dent in the world, from prison.

Preston claims he is immensely thankful for this opportunity. It is certainly not an opportunity that comes often, and I understand him.

But when I read his story in his personal blog, where he mentioned how he clearly saw his life going downhill, had this sudden epiphany, saw clearly that he could do differently, and then started being showered with blessings, I saw the unmistakable markings of how our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, operates in the world.

I was an obnoxious Richard Dawkins-style atheist for more than two decades. I am not an experiential person, and I came to a change through the rational evaluation of the historical context of His resurrection. I am not the kind of person that feels the hand of God in my life, but over the years I learned to recognize his patchwork through those sudden, unexpected changes, where everything suddenly "just works".

And because of that, I am the one who's thankful. The Lord decided to operate such a drastic change in Preston's life. Clearly He has a great plan for him. I am immensely thankful for the opportunity to play a small part in that story. God, in his infinite power, doesn't need me to do any of that, and yet he gave me the opportunity to act. I feel thankful and blessed.

I am also very thankful to @LabsUnlocked , and entity helping people like Preston find a better life once they're out. If you feel inspired by their mission, you should reach out and help.

And if you want to hear from Preston in his own words, read the article he just published on the Turso blog:

https://t.co/xvp3j0Tnnw

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@TomHacohen @jamwt I think I'd spend 38 hours compiling for that

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@mereorthodoxy Hey, heads up that after I sign in to my account to read an article, the article text disappears. It just shows the author bio and comments.

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@FlutterDev I'm building a project property editor right now.

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@joodalooped This reminds me of the vision of hell that C.S. Lewis painted in The Great Divorce - basically people living alone in mansions after having annoyed each other so much that they drifted further and further apart

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@TheAlanNoble Also this sentence in particular was inspired by me having read some of your stuff:

"Should we say or do nothing, leaving each individual free/burdened to figure out what their own personal use of AI should look like?"

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@TheAlanNoble I wrote some words on this a few weeks ago. I'd be honored if you take a few minutes to read it and share your thoughts.

https://t.co/0IisCh4ggM

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@thechrisperry @jakemintz @dflieb @Stammy Ooh wow, TIL. I just kept mashing Use Classic Search on the AI page, didn't realize I could avoid that entirely!

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@ikhare 💯

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Sometimes life gives you a meme

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@TheAlanNoble I see them because I don't use the For You tab b/c I don't care to see a bunch of suggested content - it's not the default though so that probably means most link posts get lost.

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Fellow Jesus followers: how are your churches thinking about AI?

https://t.co/0IisCh4ggM

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@karpathy The team at @convex is doing some interesting stuff here. They're tackling lots of the items beneath frontend in your list, and they also have an evaluation of how LLMs do using their system.

https://t.co/MjXPyh36G8

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@Baconbrix hoping you can offer guidance - I'm trying to build Expo Go locally and running into issues on both Android and iOS. I have a thread in Discord w/ some details. The problem doesn't fit a GH issue template, hence the ping.

https://t.co/hisWDI3pHe