Going to dip my toe into @ziglang today. And, for almost entirely poetic reasons, I'm going to do it with Zed. Zzzz

Messing around with some D3 animation stuff today and came across a really nice recording approach from @adamrpearce which means I don't need to faff around with screen recorders.

Still a novice when it comes to D3 though! Baby steps.

Is it true that @Nespresso don't publish exact caffeine content for their pods? Surely this information must be available somewhere?

Sub-text: Feel so alive this morning. Smashing out code and assuming it's something to do with the new pod...

Hot Take: Embrace the micro-plastics. Ingest as many as possible. Become the 3D Printer you always wanted to be.

1/6 Out of 155 followers, 90+ were bots! Pretty annoying. They're gone now and I have a clean slate to start from.

What really shocked me is how easy it was to identify them. Seriously, a few simple heuristics would capture almost 100% of cases.

Is this something @XEng can help with?
🧵👇

Spotted some weird activity in terms of follower-count this morning - dug a little deeper

Didn't realise a lot of bots will unfollow after a few days of not receiving a reciprocal-follow-back. It's apparently a bot evasion technique to stop the following/follower ratio getting too out of line.

My @Jetbrains subscription just expired, and I'm torn on renewing. VSCode doesn't quite do it for me, and whilst I enjoy @Neovim, it hasn't matched the productivity boost I get from Webstorm or Pycharm.

Most likely, I'm probably just gonna renew and call it a Christmas gift to myself.

If you want to mix things up a bit, adjust your favourite LLM prompt to answer you in Yoda-styled language.

"Hmmmm. Clean the npm cache first, you must. If fail it does, then node_modules AND package-lock.json, delete together you shall. Only a Sith Lord deletes package-lock.json alone, yes, mmmm."

My wife has suggested we get rid of our Roomba as we never use it, it's very old and it's quite damaged.

I know the responsible thing to do is to sell or donate it but I just really, really, really want to hack the software/firmware and turn it into a battle-bot to guard our apartment.

Thinking of launching BritGPT, exactly like ChatGPT except:

• Apologises for every response
• Adds 'with all due respect' before each correction
• Calls every runtime error 'a bit of a pickle'
• Weather complaints in all error logs
• Adds the letter 'u' to words generously

Who's with me?

It's kinda wild how little time people spend crafting good prompts as a percentage of their overall AI usage.

It takes like ~1 hour to skim through, say, the @AnthropicAI prompt engineering guides and ROI on that time is insanely high.

Pull request count by programming language 2012-2024.

Now 2024 is over, I thought it would be fun to look back over the Github archives and see how many PRs have been raised in each language

bsky has a 60s limit on video so I've linked to the full version here for now ...

x.com/LostAndFound...

Ending the week with Issue 2 of Lost And Founding.

Happy weekend folks!

Reason I'm getting so much from @bsky.app is that it's a fresh start & chance to connect with folks working on things I'm interested in - not a time-suck of political controversy

Not saying it will _never_ happen but I'm trying to curate my feed in favour of doers rather than political commentators

Felt like it was only right to add Bluesky username monitoring to handlehawk.com! And, I had a spare afternoon so why not?

Could be useful for anyone who wasn't able to get the username they wanted first time around.

Just updated my username to use my lostandfounding.com domain. Nice.