Stefan Magnuson

UK-based Ruby developer, Computer Science PhD. Often in Japan, I'm always on the look out for challenging projects.

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

The addition of t-strings to Python is most welcome—this will be particularly useful for code which builds SQL queries, which I find myself writing a lot of these days

https://t.co/AuIgjOYOII

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

Given that course corrections are almost always required, getting responses quickly (even when they are problematic) is more valuable to me than waiting an age for a reasonable (but likely still flawed) response

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

Just tried o4-mini for coding, the results are reasonable but it's incredibly slow—for this task it would have been quicker to implement this myself. Will be switching back to Sonnet 3.7 which subjectively feels >10x quicker

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

Was curious how much effort it is to train a DreamBooth-style model using Stable Diffusion. Turns out it’s pretty straightforward to get started, made a video about it.

https://t.co/AiEzWNdv3r

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@_swanson Is hard_refresh_frame part of the core Turbo library? Just searched but couldn’t find it…

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

Recorded a video on running your tests at the speed of thought (or thereabouts) using vim-test. All feedback welcome! Think I've sorted the audio issues, for next time.

https://t.co/hO7UrkcPVo

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

I've been looking forward to @logseq releasing their own sync solution for a long time, and now it's finally here. Very happy to be a (somewhat) early adopter of this.

https://t.co/eFWWCevgQr

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@nateberkopec I would second the potential benefits here of the MobX approach—otherwise Redux works well, but involves a fair bit of work and boilerplate.

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@CasJam The past sets of @benxo
Drum and bass sets that have been fuelling my work for 10+ years.
https://t.co/LelWJtaNyE

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@davidstosik @RosePlusJapan I find it strange that a key ingredient of 青汁 is kale, but I’ve never seen kale in shops 🤔

I thought the story was that the creator of 青汁 wanted to find the cheapest foods with the highest nutritional value, and so landed on kale in particular.

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

Pleasantly surprised how https://t.co/mqousb3iFz has worked perfectly as a drop-in replacement for https://t.co/RUc1TbjSLC. Log streams don't interfere with one another, and best of all debugger sessions now work 👏

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@davidstosik I have a feeling no one saw it—your timezone helps a lot here! Plus if a message is deleted then really that’s it, I don’t think anyone would try to reconstitute it to pass around. Must feel stressful all the same though…

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@wolfejosh @Iceman_Hof What I find fascinating is how the body has no way to know how much oxygen it has, it reacts instead to CO2 buildup as you mention. This has lead to the tragic “happy hypoxia” covid cases which is why I’ve been recommending SpO2 monitors to friends/family in the past year.

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@wolfejosh 10 was comfortable, restarted Wim Hof Method (@Iceman_Hof) this year though, where 2-3 minute holds are quite normal.

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@philostar @iamjonjackson Similar experience here—PhD in a field of Machine Learning but since graduating I’ve focussed 95% on shipping deterministic software. Still quite unsure what intersection I might occupy, would love to know!

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@philostar I use @cronitorio to catch failing cron jobs (which can fail silently, when they do fail), works well for me. I don’t think I’d want a service that has access to databases for this purpose though.

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

“Frictionless note-taking produces notes, but it doesn’t - for me - produce memory”

Interesting take on a (possible) subtle effect of using more complex tools that do more for you.

https://t.co/NbJ7rw8gsa

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

@florinpop17 I’m a bit confused, as I have the opposite experience—much easier to justify buying books to myself than to justify fast food or Netflix. I do have Netflix, but I drop the subscription from time to time.

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

Regarding the motivation for this, I wasn't keen to expose non-programmer users to errors like "Variable '{{' was not properly terminated with regexp: /\}\}/". Curious to know how other applications are handling this kind of usability issue.

[Stefan Magnuson @styrmis]

Wrote a post on how to show friendlier errors to users when you let them edit Liquid templates in your Rails app—did I miss a simpler way to do this?

https://t.co/PGxtnSPEUw