Nick Coughlin

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If I had started using infrastructure as code two years ago my GitHub heat map would look so much better.

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@ChosfoxMK Do you have any plans to stock Chocfox CFX transparent white 1u Homing Keys and transparent white 2u Keys?

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@slicknet The solution is probably walling off some features behind a paywall. The sad reality of open source software is that it’s basically charity work for maintainers. Can’t have any expectation of return.

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@codyschneider From the perspective of someone who follows you:
Spams tweets all day. Constantly promoting unethical marketing methods. Misc stream of consciousness garbage. You can have success like me if you spout garbage all day.

Congrats on your followers I guess. Your image is trash.

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@RajatRulaniya @kunalstwt I write notes in Markdown and then publish them online. Markdown is the future proof format that can easily be shared.

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@EvanSwanson_FBA I haven’t, but I just wrote an extensive guide that is probably going to teach you better for free https://t.co/aJ79WPTbZP

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@wesbos I did a tech talk on this problem. If everyone self hosted we would all be so much better off.
Here is a link to the content from the talk:

https://t.co/fnbkZ8oByP

Explains why and how.

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Has anyone ever actually gotten in trouble for not having GDPR privacy pop up on their site?
Is that a real thing?

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@fireship_dev Working right now on a site with mdx and I am loving it.

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@RichPotts20ten Additionally several Amazon PPC software tools also charge a percentage of ad spend. The conflict of incentives is wild.
I understand people need to find a way to scale pricing, but there are better ways.

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Daily reminder to shut down your SageMaker instances before you close your browser. Those puppies run up a bill fast. #sagemaker #aws

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#MachineLearning
Anyone know of a way to run machine learning models on demand like a lambda function instead of having a server just sitting there racking up bills?

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@codyschneider Does Google not look down on this and yank your SEO?

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@ATechAjay Is 0 truthy or falsy?

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@vykthur I thought I had a really nice personal website and then I just came across Victor Dibia's https://t.co/51OHNvUir6 ...
Now i'm fighting the urge to drop my current project and redo my own again.
Is this a publicly available gatsby theme or did he custom make?

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@vlad_mihalcea I mean… it doesn’t have rounded corners or drop shadows, but the controls are grouped into categories and arranged in a grid that fits perfectly. Kind of beautiful in a purely utilitarian way.

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@davidwalshblog Funny story about you David. I got a survey from Google a while ago asking what my favorite programming blog was. I was thinking of you but had a brain fart and entered “Matt Walsh”. Seconds after submitting I googled that name to check and 😬 yikes. wrong Walsh!

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AI tools are garbage for software development and always will be until AGI.

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Quote tweet this with your spiciest web dev take

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@csaba_kissi I tried bootstrap and didn’t like it. But then found that creating my own set of utility classes was very useful. So for me it’s a smaller set of custom utility classes and pure CSS mixed. You write the classes as you need them so there is no learning curve on what they are.

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@timokonkwo_ Worked both daily for last three years. It depends entirely on the goal for either. Frontend: centering a Div? Easy. Writing a performant custom D3 chart in React. Hard.
Backend: creating a new API endpoint? Easy.
Automated CI/CD on anything with Docker. Kill me.