Interesting data: browsers used by visitors of The Pragmatic Engineer Blog the last year.

Surprised to see that Safari is 5-6x as popular as Firefox or Edge. Especially that visitors are much more likely to be software engineers.

Chrome dominance unchanged.

Source: x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1843189276852232289

Recently learned about an upcoming sponsor's YouTube channel.

I have been watching for 2 hours straight. It's SO good.

Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1843172121457111400

Capitalism is truly the most beautiful thing made by man thus far. It’s truly enough to make one cry. What an elegant engine for channeling human ingenuity.

Source: x.com/Valuable/status/1843199119957135392

"You, the people have the power!" - Elon Chaplin

https://video.nostr.build/771d8d97371c3c9391392ddec63ec56132018705ec46e0ee23a5ea35aa1e2a58.mp4

Source: x.com/nfkmobile/status/1843083155366105591

This could legitimately save Halo

Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1843141397282689497

Elon Musk vs Mark Cuban (In Simulation version 420.69)

https://video.nostr.build/e6ff1402eefadf1587f30835e95ad9229654cf0d794fbb4a77fb6aa4db4841ec.mp4

Source: x.com/nfkmobile/status/1843097142770225632

Quantum chess anyone?

Source: x.com/BLUECOW009/status/1843095531209597278

so i'm making a box

and the box needs to count how long something is inside of it

which yes i can do pretty easily with a timer and a contact

but i want it to look really cool with a high refresh rate display

it has to have a display. a really big one

what are my power options?

Source: x.com/yacineMTB/status/1843104962362142884

One way to start the hiring process is to ask for a cover letter in the advert where the candidate explains why you should hire them. No letter? No interview. AI-created? No interview.

Source: x.com/allenholub/status/1842996417213702197

Not fully sure why all the LLMs sound about the same - over-using lists, delving into “multifaceted” issues, over-offering to assist further, about same length responses, etc. Not something I had predicted at first because of many independent companies doing the finetuning.

Source: x.com/karpathy/status/1843005000206909856

A year ago, I sensed bootstrapped companies could become more popular (as VC funding was drying up.) Talked w 5 such companies founded by devs, to collect things that work *for them.*

The last year, I'm seeing some successful VC-funded startups operate more akin to these:

Source: x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1843018573595234514

don’t want to bloat the COF:reACT agent with task specific instructions, but I also don’t want to hand chain api and LLM calls (even though it’s more reliable…)

Only practical way I see forward is a self-reflection agent

Source: x.com/yoheinakajima/status/1842967692095164567

Time to talk about serverless servers (LIVE NOW)

Source: x.com/t3dotgg/status/1843028269807050803

My daughter is the only one who doesn’t have to wear a life jacket in her swimming class.

She’s absolutely mogging those other kids.

Source: x.com/TheJackForge/status/1842956309307769160

File this question under "Unintended Consequences".

How much of our electricity would now be generated by efficient and safe Nuclear power plants if the environmentalists, and the government, hadn't mucked everything up?

Source: x.com/unclebobmartin/status/1842963904881983579

Truth.

Source: x.com/Valuable/status/1843065462189629936

ba’al

Source: x.com/Valuable/status/1843070310972825956

100k barely makes you to the end of the month in the East Coast…

Source: x.com/BLUECOW009/status/1843042804848787785

only do things from scratch to learn, when choosing a system to work with, choose the best system overall with the best optmizer and performance for your project, never build a system around a framework, build a framework around a system.

Source: x.com/BLUECOW009/status/1843043621693771868

Gn

Source: x.com/BLUECOW009/status/1843045641133638005