David Nelson @variableirony

Polyglot developer, but C# is my first love. Senior Developer at @GitLab. Ex-@ThoughtWorks. Organizer of @dotnetunboxed. Maintainer of @casperbuild. github.com/eatdrinksleepc… Dallas, TX Joined March 2016

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Tim Ottinger @tottinge

4 weeks ago

Often people say "abstraction" when they mean "indirection" -- and they're not the same thing. "Too much abstraction" usually means "too much indirection" or simply "too many unhelpful classes."

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Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster

2 months ago

slop | noun | unwanted and unasked for AI-generated content

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Maurice Ashley @MauriceAshley

2 months ago

White mates in 3. Oldie but goodie. G. MacKenzie - N.N., England 1981

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Owen Winter @OwenWntr

2 months ago

We were lucky enough to have our YouGov/The Economist poll in field when the US bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. You can see the partisan realignment in real time

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David Nelson @variableirony

2 months ago

When ChatGPT debuted, there was a lot of doomerism about AI resulting in human extinction. I was really annoyed at that, because it was just a chat bot. Obviously, no one would let a random word generator take arbitrary independent action without supervision…

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2 months ago

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David Nelson @variableirony

3 months ago

In a gold rush, sell shovels

Hayley @hayleyhalv

3 months ago

In a gold rush, sell shovels

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama

3 months ago

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

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Dave Farley @davefarley77

3 months ago

Can we stop using DevOps & Continuous Delivery interchangeably in 2025. DevOps is cultural, i.e. breaking silos. CD is technical, i.e. building deployable software with speed & safety. You need both. But don’t confuse them. PLEASE.

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Danny Thompson @DThompsonDev

3 months ago

JAVA AND .NET SPEAKERS! Would love to have more speakers from these groups for the Commit Your Code Conference. Especially if you are in the Dallas area. Just had a few drop over the weekend and want to fill these tracks up. Especially if you are in the Dallas area!

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Patrick McKenzie @patio11

3 months ago

As I've mentioned previously, solemnization is a sociolegal tripwire to say "There are many situations in society and in business where you're Just Talking and up until this exact moment we have been Just Talking *and after this point* We Were Not Just Talking. Do you get it?"

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Ricki Heicklen @tradegal_

4 months ago

a fun prompt for introspection is "what contribution to societal flourishing do you most crave to be recognized for" and mine is definitely my list of synonym-based puns Unparalleled Misalignments

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David Nelson @variableirony

5 months ago

Yes

JetBrains @jetbrains

5 months ago

Yes

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Swen Vincke @where? @LarAtLarian

6 months ago

So this is just me trying to give some counterweight. I think good single player games will continue to do as well as they have always done. They just need to be good and innovate enough.

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Aaron Stannard @Aaronontheweb

6 months ago

My basic thesis is: 1. Developers aren't nearly as fast as they could / should be because very few have intentionally trained on how to do things fast. 2. Faster --> better quality as a result of more iterations

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Aaron Stannard @Aaronontheweb

8 months ago

Extend-only design is one of those techniques that is: A. total life-saver for maintaining binary compatibility across most things B. very easy to implement and understand if you enforce basic organization C. Fought ferociously by midwit devs who don't want to be bothered by B

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David Whitney @david_whitney

8 months ago

All of the best people at a discipline occasionally subvert conventional form in design because regular form is the "best worst" and least contentious path. To subvert form, you must understand the most common form, and find a way to do better. Chesterton's fence writ large.

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Wemby @wemby

8 months ago

We need an NBA players only Chess tournament, proceeds go to the charity of choice of the winner

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8 months ago

We need an NBA players only Chess tournament, proceeds go to the charity of choice of the winner

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Patrick McKenzie @patio11

9 months ago

A contractor said something during this project which I thought was both compassionate and the sign that he was a skilled professional, and I thought I’d share: Scene: My mother, who has some mobility challenges, is sketching out what she wants in her kitchen. He listens.

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Angry Tom @AngryTomtweets

9 months ago

2. "Sora is a data-driven physics engine"

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Dr Helen Ingram @drhingram

9 months ago

While I nodded, nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently trotting, Trotting ‘cross my chamber floor. “Thou hast eaten,” I muttered, “I shall not feed you any more” Quoth the kitty “feed me more”