Jack Frosch

Senior coding architect. User group founder and organizer. Former conference speaker. Traveler. Dog & cat lover. Imperfect Christian. Married with 4 grown kids.

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

We are fortunate to have visited many countries, but two of our favorites are Australia and New Zealand.

If you ever get a chance to visit these places and spend time with the delightful people there, don't pass it up. You won't regret it, and you'll have a lifetime of memories!

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

This is a 30” exposure of Orion, using nothing but my iPhone and some of the native editing tools.

Tomorrow I’m sharing this same region, but shot with a custom-configured camera rig designed for multi-night long exposures.

Secrets of the Hunter will be revealed!

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

Meta's crawler hit his small site hosted on Vercel 11 million times, likely harvesting data for its AI training. In contrast, Google crawled the site 1M times.

This exploded his monthly Vercel bill from $30 to ~$2000.

We've always willingly accepted the web-crawling tax as the price for our site to be discovered.

Now, web crawling feels more like data and service theft, with little benefit to us.
https://t.co/OBXy5OvdKu

[agrim singh @agrimsingh]

https://t.co/I6mRRqeQWT

[Mark Pauley @unsatchmo]

Folks, Ralph Wiggum is the real thing.

I just poured 200 bucks and some change of tokens into a project and I swear to god ralph + opus 4.5 finished about 1 to 2 months of engineer work with like minimal guidance on my side.

Opus wrote the Wiggum harness itself even. WTF

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Did you know you can observe the rotation of planets yourself? This is one of my best timelapses of Jupiter, captured during ideal conditions with my 11” telescope

This sort of astronomy can be done from any city in Earth, light pollution is irrelevant

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Captured last night- probably the coolest comet shot I've ever gotten. I've never seen such a dynamic tail on a come. Incredible active, and moving quickly, which makes photographing it a challenge.

See how it moves in the reply.

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

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My brother was born on July 20th, so I occasionally get him moon-related gifts.

I got him an autographed photo of Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon a few years ago.

I got him your framed ISS over Tycho photo for his birthday this year. (I hope he doesn't see this!) I worked on the ISS project, so it has an extra personal connection.

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

Our Abobe monthly subscription, which is really an annual commitment paid monthly, another Adobe scheme, just ran out.

We've installed the free trial of Foxit on a Windows machine for a real-world test of editing a PDF. If all goes well, that'll be our Acrobat replacement.

For illustration and page design, we've bought the Affinity suite for a very affordable $165. (One time, no subscription) https://t.co/u5OAbQAzyf

We don't do that much video and audio stuff, but we'll be buying DaVinci Resolve 19 shortly, currently at $295. (One time, no subscription) Truthfully, the free version would probably suffice for us, but we want to support them. https://t.co/ZWyewOQyEg

These are not 1-for-1 replacements and will come with a bit of a learning curve, but dammit, Adobe seems to hate its customers.

Adobe's change to their ToS to include (paraphrasing), "You WILL let us use your creations and intellectual property in our AI training," was the last straw for us.

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

After years of paying for Adobe subscriptions, we've canceled all of ours.

The subscriptions were annoying enough, but their new ToS giving them rights to train their AI against their customers' creations was the final straw.

We want no part of Adobe's schemes.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨ADOBE CLAIMS RIGHTS TO YOUR ARTWORK FOR AI TRAINING

Creators were stunned by Adobe's new TOS update, which allows the company to access and use their work for AI training.

The update, revealed in a pop-up, locks users out of Photoshop until they agree.

Artists like Sam Santala are outraged:

"Adobe is locking me out of Photoshop unless I agree to give them full access to my work."

Source: Lifehacker

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

@foxitsoftware @MarioNawfal We installed the free trial of Foxit on a Windows machine for a real-world test of editing a PDF.

If all goes well, we'll be a new customer for you.

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

@Wicky_dubs_WX St. Charles, Missouri at 9:17 pm

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

Beautiful red aurora in the St. Louis area tonight. @SunWeatherMan

[Josh Long @starbuxman]

It’s been more than a year since @java leapfrogged Python, JavaScript, C#, Rust, PHP, Ruby, etc., for non blocking IO ergonomics/scalability, and I still don’t see these languages trying to improve. I’m sure users of these languages are so accustomed to waiting for Java to catch up, they never even think to see if they have catching up to do. But they (finally) do. Catch up!

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

This is a great thing @Vercel has done.

The One-Request / One-Lambda model is great for CPU-bound requests, but it's too costly for IO-bound workloads.

Hopefully, concurrency becomes a core capability of AWS Lambda and other FaaS solutions.

Thanks for leading the way, Vercel!

[Vercel @vercel]

Serverless servers: Node.js with in-function concurrency

• Node.js optimized concurrent execution model for Vercel Functions
• Private beta customer @madeonverse reduced their compute cost by 50%
• Available today as opt-in public beta

https://t.co/iB3qvHiacz

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

@MCCCANM I was flying one of these four Phantoms over the Atlantic, getting some gas on our way back to Germany from South Carolina, after finishing up a Red Flag.

Refueling from a KC-10 was an amazing experience and so much more modern (for the '80s) than refueling from a KC-135.

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

@Connellybooks It's like saying goodbye to a longtime friend or coworker. We understand their need to move on, and 100% wish them the best, but it still leaves an ache in our hearts.

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

Hey @Expedia, while chatting with your customer service rep about an issue with a Hertz reservation I made for my wife, your rep kept referring to her as "your wifey."

While I might call her my "wifey" (I don't), I definitely prefer that some rando customer service rep doesn't.

[Jack Frosch @jackfrosch]

James (@uknowthen), I recently came across some YouTube videos you did on SQLite for @mycelial.

I want to compliment you on both your content and your instructional style. What a pleasure it is learning from you. Thanks!