Alexander Lockshyn

Seasoned software engineering manager, urban traveler, gamer, guitar player.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

@okhomenko It was a better coder till GPT 5.5. Now they are on par IMO, but each have its own quirks. Codex sucks on creative tasks - even if it figures out the strategy was wrong, it will continue. CC sucks at finishing tasks - it says "done" randomly.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

I've tried ChatGPT 5 for code generation, using the same complex prompt I use for other chat LLMs. And the results are more or less on par with their older GPT O1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro, maybe the code is marginally cleaner. So far Claude (both Opus and Sonnet) is the best for me

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

@borschtbeltemo Грибница фараона!

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

@borschtbeltemo Прилетай к нам на Торонтовщину, покажу намного лучше, чем KK ;)

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

Wow, I love this concept art! https://t.co/EPHU5SWqwv

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

@yurevich Сколько я помню, они тупо хотели чтобы их ещё раз Apple в featured apps внёс и ради этого решили разделить. Одно из худших решений в истор��и продакт менеджмента.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

@yurevich А начался закат с того что эти гениальные люди когда-то решили разделить Foursquare и Swarm.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

In grocery stores, some prices are per LB, while others are per 100g or per 1Kg. Cooking instructions could use both cups/tbsp or grams. Soda water and gas are measured in ml, but an orange juice in gallons. And US gallon is not equal to Canadian gallon.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

One of the most confusing things about living in Canada is measurement units: you have to operate both metric and imperial systems.
Air Conditioners use Celsius, while ovens use Fahrenheit. Your height in driver's license is in cm, but in clothing store - feet and inches.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

@ignart Please elaborate! Which tasks do you use it for? What are the inputs?

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

I'm very fascinated by the Pongo (https://t.co/vQRY6n0csu) and the FerretDB (https://t.co/rTkYQJdXnF) projects. That let you work with a mongo-compatible document database, but use Postgres under the hood as a storage engine.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

Wow, Davey Perkins' art style looks like 1980s cyberpunk anime! https://t.co/pI89wN0ar3

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

I've heard a new dev BS excuse today - "dependency injection is complicated and only large projects need it", that was in the context of Go. Yeah-yeah, that's like "we have no time to write unit tests".

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

@mkashkin @Medium What I hate the most is getting some email subscription, that refers an article under a paywall like that.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

I don't play F2P mobile games, don't need a subscription for online courses or meal kits, don't need another VPN. I don't care about left vs right bias on major news sites or about the data brokers having my PII data. And those are 90% of paid promos on YouTube.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

I consume most YouTube videos in an audio-only mode... and would like to switch more to Podcasts instead. Simply because podcasts have less useless ads, and "please like and subscribe" self-promotion sections.

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

Did I misunderstand anything or the whole Android 15 is basically a gimmick to show the potential of Google'sGemini AI?

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

@leopard_me Just tried it... and uninstalled it 10 minutes later. I thought it was impossible to make a UI worse than Obsidian, but Simplenote showed it is possible! ;)

[Alexander Lockshyn @ld100]

Could you recommend a cross-platform note-taking app, that works offline on mobile? With the Markdown support or at least rich text formatting. I've used Obsidian, Inkdrop, Joplin, OneNote, Evernote - they all suck, but in different ways.