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AccordionGuy

@AccordionGuy@mastodon.cloud

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💻 Senior Developer Advocate for Auth0 by Okta
📱 Mobile/IoT/AR developer
🪗 Rock/pop accordion
🇵🇭 The Thrilla from Manila
🇨🇦 Canadian citizen
🎹 More of a social justice bard than a social justice warrior
🌴 Living in Tampa, Florida 🇺🇸

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AccordionGuy, to ai
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Do you REALLY want to get a feel for how GPT-4o does what it does? Just complete this poem — by doing so, you’ll have performed a computation similar to the one it does when you feed it a text-plus-image prompt.

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/05/15/the-simplest-way-to-illustrate-how-gpt-4o-works/

AccordionGuy,
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@gimulnautti Every analogy falls apart at some point — as you inferred, I’m just trying to describe the process simply.

As for responsibility and societal consquences, there are days when I worry that the actual human brains at some of the big LLM vendors aren’t taking them into consideration.

AccordionGuy, to Florida
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Firestorm Books is giving away 22,500 books rescued from the public schools in Florida’s Duval County (Jacksonville and surrounding areas). Find out more, order some books, and make “Meatball Ron” cry!

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2024/05/04/free-banned-books-for-florida-kids/

AccordionGuy, to random
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I’m working on my slides for my presentation at BSides Tampa, which happens tomorrow! My presentation, “xz made EZ,” is a layperson-friendly explanation of the narrowly-averted hack that might have put millions of servers worldwide in the control of a nasty nation state, and you’d better believe I’m going with BSides Tampa’s “Stranger Things” theme! (1/2)

https://events.bsidestampa.net/BSidesTampa2024

AccordionGuy, to random
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🐙🔥 NEW JOB ACQUIRED! 🔥🐙 It’s not just a new job, but a new adventure. I’m joining the startup Unified API as their Supreme Leader of All Things Developer Relations. I’ll help developers make the most out of the best unified API out there, with integrations with 150+ APIs and more on the way! (1/3)

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/04/04/my-new-job-im-unified-apis-developer-advocate/

AccordionGuy, to delhi
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Don’t forget that Tampa Devs’ Meet and Greet event is happening tonight at Thrive DTSP! If you’re in the St. Pete area and want to get to know people in tech, you’ll want to be there. The fun starts at 6 p.m.!

https://www.meetup.com/tampadevs/events/299644200/

AccordionGuy, to random
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Happy Monday, everyone! Do you know if you’re about to be laid off?

In part 16 (16!!!) of the “Laid Off in 2024” series, we dive into signs that you’re about to be laid off, split into 3 categories:

  1. Signs you’re about to be laid off in the next hour
  2. Signs you’re about to be laid off in the next 24 hours
  3. Signs layoffs are coming in days or weeks

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/03/04/laid-off-in-2024-part-16-signs-that-youre-about-to-be-laid-off/

AccordionGuy, to bapcsalescanada
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AccordionGuy, to windows
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So many things weren’t on my 2024 bingo card, including sudo — as in the Unix command that’s short for “SUperuser DO” — for 🪟WINDOWS.🪟

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-sudo-for-windows/

AccordionGuy, to technology
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I was one of the 400 people laid off from Okta last Thursday, and one of the ways I’m keeping busy is writing a series of articles on surviving layoffs (this is my 5th!) and what I’m doing. Follow me on my new adventure!

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2024/02/05/laid-off-in-2024-part-1-the-15-worst-minutes-of-2024-followed-by-15-more/

AccordionGuy, to hardware
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My PyGamer handheld game device arrived yesterday! It’s no Steam Deck, but for me, it’s better because it’s good hardware and programming practice, and costs a tenth as much! Looking forward to coding on it! 💻

#hardware #adafruit #pygamer #MakeCode #MakeCodeArcade #Python #CircuitPython #Arduino #gaming #games #gadgets

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/12/13/my-new-pygamer-device/

AccordionGuy, to twitter
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How low will they have to go before you decide the audience engagement isn’t worth it?

#X

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2023/12/11/if-youre-still-on-x-twitter-why/

AccordionGuy, to history
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Just a reminder that today — December 9, 2023 — is the 55th anniversary of “The Mother of All Demos,” the 1968 demonstration of technology that we all use today, but must have seemed like pure science fiction back then.

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/12/09/the-mother-of-all-demos-happened-55-years-ago-today/

AccordionGuy, to dotnet
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A SharePoint architect friend of mine is looking to subcontract to a .NET developer w/ some SharePoint experience for a quick gig that could pay up to 5K. Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll connect the two of you!

AccordionGuy, to tech
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I was at GDG DevFest Tampa Bay, and it was packed not just with panels and presentations, but also some hands-on labs, including one where you built a USB “Rubber Ducky” — a hacker tool featured in “Mr. Robot” — with a Raspberry Pi Pico!

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/10/23/scenes-from-gdg-devfest-tampa-bay-saturday-october-21-2023/

AccordionGuy, to ai
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Marc Andreessen’s “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” borrows the format and ideas from the Futurist Manifesto. “Futurist” sounds cool until you find out that they merged with Italy’s Fascist Party and their leader, one Benito Mussolini.

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/10/18/the-ugly-manifesto-behind-the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

AccordionGuy, to ai
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I had no idea there was an Algorithmic Justice League. I think I’ll join — I may be a mere dabbler in AI, but at the very least, I’ve had my superhero name since 1999!

https://www.ajl.org

AccordionGuy, to random
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They had puppies at Okta’s big conference, Oktane, and it they were a wonderful, welcome addition. More conferences should have them!

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2023/10/17/puppies-at-conferences-are-a-great-idea/

AccordionGuy, to Tampa
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AccordionGuy, to Tampa
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This slide (from my talk at tomorrow’s SocialCode x Tampa event) is so important that I’m “spoiling” it by posting it here in advance. Catch the rest of my talk, and Craig Bosco’s, and James Gress’ tomorrow!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-socialcode-x-tampa-embracing-the-ai-evolution-tickets-675043883427

AccordionGuy, to Weather
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Because a hurricane watch has been announced for Tampa Bay for Tropical Storm Idalia, here’s a quick explainer for the often-misunderstood terms hurricane WATCH and hurricane WARNING…but with tacos!

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2023/08/28/hurricane-watch-vs-warning-explained-with-tacos/

interfluidity, to programming

[tech notebook] Building an authenticated web service in Scala with tapir and JWT https://tech.interfluidity.com/2023/08/13/building-an-authenticated-web-service-in-scala-with-tapir-and-jwt/index.html

Thanks to, and riffing off of work by, @AccordionGuy!

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AccordionGuy, to programming
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In case you missed it last night: here’s a classic “Simpsons” scene, but applied to programming languages. I need to create a timeline of the different programming languages I’ve used for work (and fun) over the years...

https://www.globalnerdy.com/2023/08/06/every-programming-language-has-its-time/

AccordionGuy, to android
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Someone posted this to Reddit, asking if this programming exercise for a job interview for a junior dev position was doable in 4 hours. I’ll write more about this later, but here’s the short answer for now: 🚨HELL NO🚨.

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/152wfxp/interview_practical_round_it_is_really_possible/

AccordionGuy, to apple
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It happens on the last day of the month — we’ll code an iOS “Magic 8-Ball” app together. Think of it as your first step towards all kinds of Apple coding: not just the iPhone, but also iPad, Mac, Watch, Apple TV, and yes...Vision Pro!

https://www.meetup.com/tampa-bay-apple-coding/events/294775431/

AccordionGuy,
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@mlevison Let me see what kind of Zoom setup I can come up with.

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