Glen Daniels

Boston area technologist into food, music, games, and geekery. @[email protected]

[Juan Antonio Breña 🇪🇸🇪🇺 @juanantoniobm]

Should Mockito library be funded by a #JVM software foundation? Make sense?

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[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

An optimistic take on how AI could increase, though change the flavor of, knowledge-work jobs as it scales.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

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[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

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cc @gvy_dvpont

[Nate Smith @natesmithdrums]

one time for the legend, Zakir Hussain.

rest in peace and thank you for all of the music you gave us.

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[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You will learn that as a leader your best means of moving people in your direction lies in setting the right tone through your attitude, empathy, and work ethic.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Read to improve your writing. Write to improve your thinking.

Speak to improve your storytelling. Build to improve your understanding.

Give to improve your networking. Move to improve your healthy living.

Sleep to improve your mood and energy. Smile to improve your happiness.

[Jim Sproch @JimSproch]

Compose for iOS is officially in Beta! 🎉

Now you can write your UI in Compose for both iOS and Android, share widgets across platforms, and it compiles to a native app on both platforms! Amazing!

#JetpackCompose #androiddev #kotlin

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[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

@isabelunraveled Relevant:

[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

I guess that actually might have been an earthquake we just felt in MA?

[Veera Rajagopal  @doctorveera]

A mind-blowing paper has come out today in @Nature

In 2016, JC Venter Institute scientists trimmed a bacterial genome to its barest minimum required for life to synthesize what they called a "minimal genome" (https://t.co/Rk8oZJ0bUj).

Today, a group of scientists from Indiana University reports how that minimal genome evolved over 2000 generations in comparison to the non-minimal genome.

The authors found that even when you reduce a bacterial genome to its absolute minimum where every nucleotide matters, the genome undergoes mutational events generation after generation as much as the non-minimal genome. One simply cannot stop the evolution.

Just over 300 days of evolution (equivalent to 40,000 years in humans) the minimal cell has gained everything it lacked in fitness on day one in comparison to the non-minimal cell.

When comparing the evolved traits between the minimal and non-minimal cells, the scientists found something striking. The evolutionary process increased the cell size of non-minimal cells but not that of the minimal cell. But that is not the striking part.

The scientists were able to identify the key mutation that resulted in cell size evolution. And it turned out that the mutation that helped the non-minimal cells to grow bigger is the same that helped the minimal cells to stay smaller. Growing bigger had a survival advantage for non-minimal cells and not growing bigger had a survival advantage for minimal cells. So, the mutation had a context-dependent effect. This just demonstrates that the evolutionary effects on traits have no absolute direction. All that matter is what is beneficial for the organism's survival.

The conclusion of the paper is metaphorically a quote from the Jurassic Park movie:

“Listen, if there’s one thing the history of evolution has taught us is that life will not be contained. Life breaks free. It expands to new territories, and it crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but . . . life finds a way". (https://t.co/UlxRlb86CT)

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[Killed by Google @killedbygoogle]

When I say this is an unexpected move, I mean initially purchased https://t.co/2iNxUNjvuO using Google Domains for the irony factor in September 2018. 😂

[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

@streetsofboston @hulu_support We've cleared everything from that app, reinstalled it, and restarted the TV but the app just won't open at all. Are you saying clearing the caches for *other* apps helped you? Maybe I'll try getting the logcat... 🧑‍💻

[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

Hey @hulu_support, have you folks been getting reports about your Android TV app completely failing to open since about a week ago? Tried force-stopping, uninstall/reinstall, still won't open at all. Sad face. Fix in the works?

[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

Just makes you feel great about selecting Google as part of your technology infrastructure. 🙄

[Merab Tato Kutalia 🇬🇪 - Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 @TatoKutalia]

☠️☠️ Firebase Dynamic Links is no longer recommended for new projects. In the future, the Dynamic Links service will shut down, but you will have at least 12 months to migrate. Around the end of Q2-2023, they will announce more information.
#AndroidDev
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[J. Michael Straczynski @straczynski]

BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie

[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

@riggaroo Thanks, these look like something I didn't know I was looking for, will definitely try the recipe! ❤️

[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

@jimjag Have you tried ChatGPT for this kind of thing? It's like a targeted Stack Overflow that can actually write code.

[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

Great article, great vision!

[Kingsley Uyi Idehen @kidehen]

"..Any time you sign up for a new social app, you won’t have to rebuild your audience or re-find all your friends; your whole following and followers list come with you. Those things should be part of the internet, not part of an app."

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#ActivityPub

[Glen Daniels @gdaniels]

Sweeeet!

[Roman Belov @volebamor]

Hi folks, if you happen to be at #KotlinConf and are keen on in experimenting with Kotlin Notebooks in IntelliJ IDEA, I would be delighted to demonstrate them for you at the Kotlin booth. Looking forward to seeing you there!