nicksnell

Software Developer based in London.

[dax @thdxr]

anyone talking about their custom setups to make ai more effective isn't doing anything useful

coding used to be manual labor. typing the code out, doing large changes, jumping between files. a fancy, bespoke setup could make a difference

but it's not like that anymore, you have a magic box you can say stuff into and things happen

people haven't understood this, they're still spending their energy tinkering with what's behind the box. the underlying tone is always frustration. they're clearly not happy and maybe even on a burn out path

the best people at this are doing the best work of their life all while happier than ever they could do this even on a vanilla setup

the box can already do amazing things. it can even produce the best code of your life. it's limited entirely by the person using it and their creativity and their ambition

and you're not gonna get that in a skill file

[LonelyGoomba @LonelyGoomba]

I genuinely believe this is the worst era of the Internet in regards to the user experience.

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

@boristane Surprising how much resistance there is to this, even when using serverless. Big mindset shift.

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

This!

[Matthew Phillips @matthewcp]

Unpopular opinion: Don't use http verbs PUT, PATCH, DELETE. Just use POST for everything. Reasons:

- <form> doesn't support the others. Frameworks that allow it do so through hacks.
- URLs are free, you don't gain anything by overloading them.
- Purity < practicality

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

Typescript has a lot to answer for 😱

[Cory House @housecor]

Poll: Imagine your team has to build a project with either types or tests. You can't have both.

Which would you pick?

[Jimmy Wales @jimmy_wales]

The government are ramming through this Online Safety Bill even though it is a travesty of justice which will make the UK Internet obviously less safe. 1/

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

I know it's supposed to be inspired by the Magic Roundabout but all I can see is the Brussels Atomium #stfc

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

@boristane Going to have to share the wealth here!

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

Github status page might be better to just say "everything is down"

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix]

If you're having trouble finding a bug in your Python code, I recommend adding type hints and doing static type checking. It won't help you fix your bug but it will give you a bunch of busywork to distract you from the problem!

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

@ben11kehoe This is excellent 👏

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

These AI powered articles are getting weird… https://t.co/XUBVQl8xsk

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

This is the way.

[Luc Tielen @luctielen]

Data and functions is all you need.

No inheritance.
No dependency injection.
No classes.

You will be rewarded with code that is both easier to test and maintain.

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

AWS is having a partial SNS outage in eu-west-1 right now

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

The AWS Lambda UI for Versions & Aliases has Big "How can I reuse as many UI elements as possible regardless of the UX" Energy

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

@MailchimpStatus Seeing lots of sporadic 504's connecting to Mandrill, is the issue from the 30/3 fully resolved?

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

@boristane I thought you could get/set the format via the API Gateway API?

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

This. I’m yet to see a practical use for types in python, always workarounds, always frustration.

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

We clearly don't have agreement on the costs and benefits of typing of Python code at @getsentry but the amount of time wasted in getting shit typed at Sentry and how ugly it looks afterwards make me mad. And it does not even catch regressions.

[Vic 📠 @VicVijayakumar]

Way too much engineering effort is spent on edge conditions that will never occur.

Most of us aren't building rockets. It's such a waste of time to solve for what ifs.

Write code that fails gracefully, add alerts, and move on with your life.

[nicksnell @nicksnell]

This is probably going to go down as one of the biggest own goals ever https://t.co/Ds5ILcZRj0