Andy Newport

Building good things and teams who do good things ✨ Purveyor of code and opinions ✨ CTO @CoGo_NZ

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@DyIanReeve MIT tech review recently wrote a short piece on the impending exhaustion of quality data to train LLMs. Apparently the state of the art is to just lower the bar for the content we feed them, the article implied one team was considering 4chan posts fair game in the future….

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

Oh dear… The extract is pretty damning. AI tooling is getting better at an astounding rate but we’re still in the “teaching computers to copy/ paste insecure GPL code” phase. Buyer beware.

[Senior Oops Engineer @ReinH]

Does using an AI assistant (like github copilot) lead to more secure code? No! In fact it is less secure! But those users _believe_ it is more secure! LMAO! https://t.co/TTmj5Qe4FF

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Its been like a decade but I still wake up some days (like today) and look around at the web we've built and can't believe we effectively lost RSS. To check if my fav tech writers have content I now have to check multiple sites with a non-linear timeline and no inbox.

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@sanityinc "There goes the siren that warns of the all-hands!"

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

This generalises more than you'd think. I know a few technical decision-makers who have gone to battle with their CFOs to avoid "A once-in-a-lifetime deal on hosting" entirely for this reason.

[Ron Amadeo @RonAmadeo]

lol. The self-fulfilling prophecy is complete.

Nobody bought Stadia because they assumed Google would kill it, and Google is forced to kill Stadia because it's unpopular.

Google's reputation for killing services killed a service,. I'm not sure how the company ever fixes that.

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@aotearoa_ben @mexisme I’ve been trying out “forecast” over roadmap when talking delivery, doesn’t apply in all situations but can help frame certain discussions really well.

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@aotearoa_ben We often talk about the "plan to beat" - as it's expected that there's a better plan but we need to start somewhere.

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@TroyHammo Great stuff Troy, sounds like an awesome decision for you and yours - hope you get more time doing the bits you love

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@josevalim @elixirlang I get the semantics and syntactically it feels perfect to me when it’s defined multi-line similar to a case/cond statement - I just can’t love the single line version. Perhaps it’s the lack of do 🤔 It’s definitely one of the trickiest things to teach people coming from {} langs.

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@josevalim @elixirlang 3, Ruby’s block syntax is explicit and terse. Of existing options, I prefer 1 because it’s more understandable for readers who don’t write Elixir often, that said the decision to combine punctuation (->) and words (end) to define a syntactic block will never feel right to me.

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

Today I met with officials in Helsinki, which has had a ~75% drop in road deaths over the last thirty years (including recent years with no ped/cyclist deaths at all).

Me: “How much of a role has IT played in reducing crashes?”

City official: “Zero. We simply slowed down cars.”

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

The thing most hot takes about the "hot new JS infra company job ad" that's going around now is that you only get so many takes at building a good org culture. People are right in saying it's bad for engineers, but it's also a really terrible deal for leadership in the long run.

[Chris McCord @chris_mccord]

Verified routes coming soon to a phoenix 1.7 project near you. Thanks to @peregrine for complaining at the right time, and @josevalim for the idea! This feature is 🔥🔥🔥. I love it so much!

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@mwgnz @chron9 People that want to hear long and self-aggrandizing tales about turning off databases are probably an underserved demographic TBH

[David Bernheisel @bernheisel]

GitHub supports Hex security advisories now!

#MyElixirStatus

https://t.co/wzLfYiphmS

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

FYI Today's a good day to take (another) look at Nomad 👍 Hashicorp continues to deliver the goods

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Nomad 1.3 has built-in service discovery, so you can get service discovery out of the box in a single binary without adding on something like Consul. This should make adopting Nomad much easier, and especially helps smaller scale use cases. 😍 https://t.co/hyS8fCGQTS

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@hautaulogy @rakyll 👀 neat!

[Bilgin Ibryam @bibryam]

🤯 This is just mind-blowing 🤯
ServiceMesh evolution towards Sidecarless with eBPF 🧵

[Andy Newport @newportandy]

@electrik Happy birthday!