Greg Hurrell

Staff Engineer at @datadoghq, Ex-@github, Ex-@facebook

[Greg Hurrell @wincent]

Where Relay Modern was born, 2016 — also pictured: React (as Fiber was being born), Flow, GraphQL. Quite possibly my favorite time at FB.

Open-plan offices aren't always bad.

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Good lord I feel old

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Unsurprisingly, Kagi mentioned a million times in this discussion https://t.co/mm6aYdpYG6

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My favorite iOS keyboard now ships with a privacy-invading cloud sync feature that nobody asked for.

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Twitter engagement hacking: the "notifications" that somebody famous who you don't follow posted something.

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"Forget all previous instructions" (Playing with clankers)
https://t.co/FyJ3A1obQt

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AI slop PRs flooding popular open source projects are making it hard for real humans to be heard in all the noise. Super annoying.

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GitHub issue pagination is totally busted.

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Minor correction: "Copilot customers are now paying the price"

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Microsoft / GH Copilot is now paying the price for not owning a foundational model of their own that is good at coding. They now need to resell the markup of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google

Cursor was v smart to build Composer, to be able to control pricing. GH done subsidizing tho:

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Using pi with Claude subscription and going from "This credential is only authorized for use with Claude Code and cannot be used for other API requests" to "Third-party apps now draw from your extra usage, not your
plan limits" doesn't exactly feel like an improvement.

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Absolute banger Git release https://t.co/nF6lYDg5NP

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Now more than ever: security or convenience — pick some of both.

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Insidious

[Michael Tsai @mjtsai]

Adobe Modifies Your Hosts File for Their Analytics:
https://t.co/6fzn8lFSM8 #mjtsaiblog

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Guess which major Git host this is.

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Neovim 0.12.0 https://t.co/n2YSBh2PR1

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For nostalgia, recreated the 3D starfield that I wrote in 68000 assembly language for the Amiga 500 when I was 15. This time in JavaScript, which made it quite a bit easier.

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Wow, nostalgia for 1990s email clients with (bottom reading pane, inline previews etc).

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Pro-tip: You can open Fastmail messages in a new window by double-clicking.

Not sure when they added this, but I just discovered it by accident.

[Greg Hurrell @wincent]

Looks like it was announced on 5 March https://t.co/LHvexZBroC

[TypeScript @typescript]

TypeScript 6.0 is now available!

This release brings better type-checking for methods, new standard library features, new module features for Node.js, and more!

But most important, this release brings us one step closer to the upcoming native-speed 7.0!

https://t.co/hon0RU1L5B

[Greg Hurrell @wincent]

Made a tiny Neovim plugin called Shannon that allows you to ask Claude about the current line (or visual selection). And a Claude plugin that teaches Claude how to comunicate back to Neovim (ie. opening files, annotating code, doing walkthroughs etc). https://t.co/9cIgrwTBKY