I’m not using X anymore. I find it boring. Here is a list of my last tweets:
You know that the Perl regexp you wrote 20 years ago is quite complex if it breaks the VSCode syntax highlighter.
Yes, it’s true.
We are continuously compressing, changing the aspect ratios, recording screens, and recording other people’s screens. And using AI to remove all the artifacts over and over. Maybe there will be a time when finding the 1:1 real source of an image/video will be impossible.
Yes, it’s true as well. We are losing sources of information.
On the first days at my new company, during a meeting, they asked me: you are a super-hero. What are your superpowers? I answered: know all Git CLI flags.
This happened at Automattic, where I work now.
Light takes 1.3 seconds to travel from moon to earth. This lag will generate some weird video calls once they open that luxury hotel in the Sea of Tranquillity.
Isn’t it strange?
Imagine a world where `echo` becomes a function in a new version of PHP.
It’s impossible, or a +20 years waiting.
The back sheet theorem: If you write a program that helps people replace a workflow focused on Excel sheets, then this program will eventually have an Excel export sooner or later
I call it the Excel win-win-win.
What is the biggest challenge in modern IT? “10ⁿ ML”? A new TimSort? A standard for comments in JSON files? No. Reinventing the SMTP protocol. A lot tried, but everybody failed. And chats don’t count.
You can try it, and you won’t be able to do it.