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thomasapowell

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Mostly sharing thoughts on #webdev, #softwareengineering, #retrogames and humanistic aspects of tech. Old tech guy, UCSD CSE Lecturer, Author, pint.com founder, and person behind ZingChart and ZingGrid. 🤓

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thomasapowell, to ai
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Always a fun listen on Saturday to check in with Jason and Brian aka The Grumpy Old Geeks. This week lots of blow back news and typical big tech antics https://overcast.fm/+OYxG4zdKc

thomasapowell, to apple
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That is making an opt in choice continues to show me that out of the BigTech players they continue to be the most thoughtful of the bunch. Indeed they are also very imperfect around the web, right to repair, the App Store, and many other things, but they don’t default to user data abuse, pull products on a whim, change terms all the time, jump on every hype train, etc. it’s like their leaders actually think a little bit about consequences before doing things. 🤔

thomasapowell, to webdev
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Last lecture of the quarter tonight and I’m beat. Being a Prof is my second job and an Intro classes done well are hard, but also so rewarding.

CSE 110 students this quarter learned local first platform focused with appropriate agile team practices, wrote ADRs, practiced UCD, deployed CI/CD, and much much more. I think I broke many of them of code primacy and a wait for the ticket or spec accountability.

Tl;dr - go hire these folks you’ve got lots to work with!

danilo, to random
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BeefstickAI, which wants to build generative AI for dogs and doggy daycare providers, raised a $14M series A led by Gullible Ventures and LPSwindler (TechCrunch)

thomasapowell,
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@danilo also don’t forget

curbstomp.social the best platform for the alt-right. rugpullsr.us the leading alt coin marketplace and metaverseREmax.com the largest digital real estate play.

“These are double black diamond tech unicorns. Innovation from teams who saw Truth Social, Web3, and the Metaverse and knew they could do better.

Not since The Apathetic Ape Motorboat Party have we seen this kind of innovative excitement said Tech Meme Ride Home who full disclosure are also investors.

campuscodi, to random
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From this report: https://mastodon.social/@ravirockks@infosec.exchange/112555805013166419

"Including any given PHP library has a greater than 50% chance of bringing a security flaw along with it."

kek 😆

thomasapowell,
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@campuscodi now that I think fo r a second I note this has a log scale! It’s absurd on a linear one so they changed it but it’s pretty dishonest with a log scale

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