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VP Developer Relations at @llamaindex.bsky.social. Previously: Data at Netlify, co-founded npm, awe.sm, started lgbtq.technology. Married to @jovo.design. He/him. 🇹🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸🏳️🌈
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Formerly liberal commentators who now find themselves hanging out at the Nazi bar find it necessary to construct explanations for themselves to justify why they do so. They are safely ignored.
What if he gives a live press conference and croaks mid-sentence
Okay, so now we agree that it *could* happen and merely disagree on the timeframe in which it might happen. I think it's already happening, you think it might never. Agreed?
Code is certainly not yet fully abstracted away but can you at least agree that it conceptually *could* be?
I do not understand how chips work past a very superficial level. I do not understand how my operating system kernel works. My understanding of what a browser does with my code is pretty rough. And yet I am totally capable of making websites. Some things get completely abstracted away.
There is more to development than the mere ability to type out code.
I don't think that's true right now. LLMs are too unreliable, they will still need to learn enough code to verify the outputs. But even if eventually the code becomes abstracted away then they will learn other aspects of programming, like structured problem solving, repeatability, scalability, etc.
On that we continue to disagree.
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
Thanks for the inaccurate ad-hominem.
Do you think somebody should not be allowed to make web pages until they learn about accessibility?
I think the jump from "we should be welcoming to newcomers to the field" to "therefore accessibility doesn't matter" is not supported by what I said.
The face of a dog who is about to roll all over a dead bird.
how do i explain to my kids two women being married?? how explain sun go away at night but come back next day? how explain magic rectangle show people talk??? HOW
Why is this labeled as "graphic media"?
Some days you go for a lovely windswept walk on the beach, other times the dog rolls in dead seagull guts and you have to do two emergency baths.
The system works!* * the purpose of the system is to extract 15 bucks from you indefinitely
I can't believe we have to write this down but here we are.
They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING
The sentence would be forced vaccination.
Sigh.
Did they filibuster?
Was there a filibuster and I missed it?
I'm in the senate and failed to filibuster?
If I were king this kind of thing would be illegal.
Somebody told them they could take more risks this season and they have decided that means trotting out every garbage episode format from TNG.
This week's episode of Strange New Worlds is absurd.
RFK was confirmed by the senate.
You hired him, motherfucker!
They're not off :( They're giving them until mid October to appeal to the Supreme Court where the judges stopped doing their jobs. They'll most likely do nothing legal. So probably no change. Just more stupidity.
Trump's justification for imposing tariffs on most of the world has been held by an appeals court to be illegal: www.axios.com/2025/08/29/t... So uhhh... are the tariffs all off again? What the fuck.
Both Mastodon and AT provide the bones of independently-hosted purely "social" (as opposed to professional or romantic) networks. Mastodon's hostility to unified search makes me prefer AT.
Gosh, I wrote that a long-ass time ago. I'm not sure I still agree with my assertion back then that unified identity is desirable or that cross-communication between networks that represent disparate facets of identity would be useful (do I want LinkedIn people to see my Bluesky posts? I do not.)
lol
A key aspect of fascism is the declaration of some people as not people.
It's a Honda. They don't make them any more though.
They operate all over the place, smearing the windshield with gunk as they do.
The type of car we have is called a Clarity and this is weirdly ironic because while it is a pretty good car overall, its most notable flaw is that the windshield wipers are useless and the wiper fluid reserve is tiny, so the windshield is often very difficult to see through.
If the result of banning guns is a dramatic increase in bear-related fatalities we can address that later. In the meantime, nobody gets guns.
The safety of an entire nation's children cannot be contingent on you maybe needing to shoot a bear. The cost-benefit isn't there, it isn't remotely close.
I am rolling my eyes at you.
They don't.
Guns do not make people safer. They make them less safe. There is a mountain of evidence to that effect.
I think that's a foot in the door to too many other things.
Nobody should own guns. Nobody.
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
4chan is suing the UK government over its age-verification law and its opening page will startle anyone who remembers that the web was invented in Switzerland by a British man.
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
I have never anticipated anything by Ed Sheeran in any capacity.
No because they are not as talented at writing songs.
I am a bad person because I cannot wait for the amazing songs on the Taylor Swift divorce album.
Everyone told me to expect that but I didn't have any noise before that I was aware of and still don't have it now.
A thing I have learned since starting GLP-1s is that I used to use eating as displacement activity when I was procrastinating. Now I no longer have it so sometimes I just stop and stare into space for a few minutes.
These men are traitors and the leopards will come for their faces. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/s...
The LLM makers are going to keep having to cough up for the copyrighted works they consume. news.bloomberglaw.com/class-action...
A side effect of having spent multiple years with negative net worth is that I check my bank balance at least daily, sometimes more than once a day, even when I have no reason to expect it will have changed. Why yes, I do have anxiety, why do you ask?
Gosh that's long, it will have to wait until after the work day for me to respond :-)
Will he just die already.
I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.
I agree that there are certainly huge differences in how a professional a developer can be, but I don't think there's any minimum level below which you're "not a developer".
What is the difference between coding and developing??
Pritzker: This is not about fighting crime. This is about the President and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.
You mean the same thing where I'm still correct 😛
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
"are you a web dev" or even "are you an artist" is a much less interesting question to me than "am i welcoming learners", "is what i am saying loving or kind?", and "do my posts result in more or fewer great works being made?"
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the last one they come for before they come for you.
The corruption of the US Supreme Court has arguably been the most serious single contributor to the US's transformation into autocracy
Quibi liiiiiiives! www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Looking forward to Peets locations where all the coffee is just squeezed out of pods while customers angrily smash the furnishings.
The same company owns both Dr Pepper and Keurig for some reason and since that makes no sense they will be splitting up into two companies again, while also buying Peet's Coffee and making it part of Keurig, which also makes no sense, so they can undo that later. www.wsj.com/business/keu...
With the exception of a nurse, where there are actual professional credentials, I think those are all true.
Me and @jovo.design at basically all times:
Israel continues to target hospitals, which remains a war crime, while denying there is a famine they created, which is another war crime. www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...
Everything? Is this a trick question?
54 people in an unreviewed study is not what I would call reliable evidence.
The model makers should be paying for everything they used, as I have said many times.
As I hope you know, I have tremendous respect for you as a thinker so I'm surprised to find ourselves on opposite sides here. I think LLMs are a new way for web developers to become web developers. I think more web developers is a good thing.
Well, I think vibe coding is software development. And I think using LLMs is a way to learn, not a discouragement from learning.
The next generation of web developers are all going to on ramp to the discipline using LLMs as a standard tool of the trade and stigmatizing that or excluding them would be a terrible thing.
Because LLMs are going to be the on ramp for a whole new generation of web developers, and it's important we don't discourage them.
I think you become a web developer the second you start reading the generated code and trying to understand what it does, which is to say immediately.
I simply don't understand the connection you are trying to draw here. I am trying to make a case against gate keeping in web development and you are... I don't know.
I understand that perspective but I think the vast majority of people using LLMs are using them as tools, not as totally autonomous servants. I think using a tool to make web development faster is still being a web developer.
As a queer person I think that's a pretty offensive equivalence.
My point, which as you note I have been making for years, is that as soon as you start on the road to being a web developer, you are one. LLMs are a foot on the road. Any other position is gatekeeping.
Is there some minimum level of knowledge at these skills you think is necessary before somebody can call themselves a web developer? Or are they a web developer the moment they pick up any of them?
That definition is pretty circular. What is the "skill" of web development? What specifically?
How do you define "knows how to build websites"?
So what's your definition of a web developer?
What's your definition of a web developer?
So what's your definition of a web developer?
Like I said, the only qualification to be a web developer is that a website gets created.
Also true.
Disagree. People who modify Squarespace templates are absolutely web developers.
Consider whether this objection amounts to gatekeeping.
No. I'm explicitly saying that people who are good at using LLMs to prompt websites into being should apply to web development jobs. Not only will it happen, it's good.
Yes.