Gavin Baker

Digital artisan

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

What's far worse than code that gives totally wrong results? Code that gives only slightly wrong results.

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@Manixh02 Ideally a shared vault with 1Password, LastPass, etc.

If not, Magic Wormhole - secure direct file transfer. https://t.co/IlT1mQn2UE

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@mitsuhiko Using Neon Postgres you can create a branch for the db and run each test in isolation. https://t.co/VsqXFi4uxX

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@ThePrimeagen @SlutskyTom @jorandirkgreef I learned this early on from FLOSS as “Fail early and fail loudly”. Been repeating it ever since.

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@yiningkarlli ZMQ has some really good options if you need different strategies, topologies, fanout, pub-sub, etc. If it’s point to point then Protobufs/CapnProto is probably the easiest to pass structured messages back and forth. As @ragecryx points out, discovery is important and tricky.

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

Wrote a CLI tool in Rust and was blown away. Gave myself about 1h to solve a problem and within 2h I had a polished solution. Used clap, nix, Rayon, indicatif, and simplelog. Result was incredibly fast and reliable. Much better DX than C++. 🦀

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@TechCrunch Twitter is showing stealth ads (again).

#1. Clicked on a regular image to enlarge it and instead was taken to the AliExpress website and a product page for contoured pillows!

#2. Gambling post not labelled as “Ad” but menu reveals it definitely is an ad.

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@engineers_feed The hardest part is finishing what you started.

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@ConversationEDU @GrattanInst We already have a quality crisis in the building industry. Volume builders prioritise speed over quality and compliance, as evidenced by https://t.co/eD4S3d7HMD - we need to fix these fundamental problems first. Reg compliance is a minimum.

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@timClicks Which libraries are you using?

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@joebarnard The audiobook is extraordinary. Ray Porter does a phenomenal job of all the different voices and accents. I would recommend anything he reads!

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

The Wes Anderson quartet of short films on @netflix from an anthology of short stories by Roald Dahl is nothing short of cinematic gold. Exquisitely carefully shot, he employs many conspicuous theatrical devices & direct narratives which break convention and beguile the viewer.

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@jeffdl @engineering ???

That option is gone for me. 🫤 As to how and why it tries to download something when I select "Why this ad?" is truly baffling...

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

@tekbog Literally happened today fam

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

Literally just installed the latest version of Node.js and on the first run I get this. It's crazy how many components, packages and frameworks you need to just to get started. #webdev #wtf

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

Starting a side #webdev project. A million framework/host choices! Started with @Netlify for a quick result. First wizard didn't clone sample repo due to master/main conflict. Then some weird ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED error due to webpack version conflict. Not a fun start.

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

I don't want much. World peace. A cure for cancer. And a way to hide shows I've already watched in Netflix.

#wishlist #netflix

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People I've met who describe themselves as Software Architects: 24

People I would describe as Software Architects: 2

[Gavin Baker @gavinb]

Having a seriously bad IT Day where everything, even simple things, are going terribly wrong, usually for dumb reasons.

#death_to_popups

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Announcing the world’s first accessory for the Apple Vision Pro! Preorder now!

#VisionPro #AppleVisionPro #WWDC