Andy Ide

@willmcgugan I love the rich library mate! I use it daily!

Ain’t gonna lie, maintaining Rich is a pain. One vocal group insists I need to change something. I change it. Another equally vocal group is furious with me because I changed it.

@mathsppblog @textualizeio

I guess this is a good time as any other to let you know that sadly I’m no longer working at @textualizeio They found out I don’t know Python and I was just using a combo of ChatGPT, Co-Pilot, and Portuguese charm 🤪 Next steps include teaching Python online & at companies.

@VCBrags You don't necessarily need VC - depending on the business type.

What’s your unpopular opinion about venture capital that will have you like this

@ChefReactions Who the hell cooks and egg like that?

@ChefReactions I love the range of emotions that chef goes through on this one!

@adambspencer @lyft Wait till Jan 2038!

A stray 0 in a @lyft press release sends shares skyrocketing! A more disastrous 0 occured in 2005 when LA Air Traffic Control lost voice comms with 800 flights The 32-bit software required rebooting every 2³² = 4,294,967,295 millisecs (~ 49 days) It hadn't been rebooted that month & ran to "0" - all comms lost. Thankfully a default system deployed before any accidents occurred. smh.com.au/business/compa…

@__mharrison__ To help me write code for a new feature on my SaaS. It saves me 1-2 hrs per day!

@simonw Thanks very much for all your articles this year Simon. It has been amazing to see how LLMs have changed things so much this year.

Here's the table of contents for my 2023 in AI roundup

To round off the year, I pulled together some notes on "Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023" We figured out a lot! simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/31/ai…

Truth.

@driscollis It sucks big time !

It's really interesting how much my reach here has been gimped. Last year when I did giveaways they were completely out in five minutes or less and I'd get dozens of DMs This year they can last for more than a day and no DMs

@willmcgugan Mate - you are giving the Stripe docs a run for their money! Well done!

I am once again bragging about our docs. You can try out the #Textual tutorial application directly in the browser! 🧙‍♂️🪄

@s_gruppetta_ct I would be happy to show the course to my lads :)

Do you know any teenagers interested in learning to code in Python? Perhaps they're complete beginners. Or maybe they've covered some basics and want to go further. Maybe they've struggled with Python at school but really want to try again. I'm looking for a group willing to try out my new video courses for young adults (coming out very soon) and provide honest feedback Reply here or DM (or send an owl or pigeon…) and I normally never add this to my posts, but I will in this case: Please share for increased reach –– after all, some teenagers around the world are going to get some free Python courses!

@willmcgugan Wow. Python is fast!

When I started Textual, I didn't know if it would be possible to do something like this in the terminal. i.e. rendering a Markdown document fast enough to animate it at 60 frames a second. All in pure #Python

@simonw I get the titles of my chat changed to Italian - even though I'm Aussie.

Has anyone else experienced this bug with ChatGPT voice where it occasionally decides I'm speaking in Welsh and switches to speaking Welsh back at me?

@czue horserecords.info is me :)

Who is building a Django-based Saas? 🙋‍♂️

My latest post on aiming for consistency in image generation in #chatgpt and #dalle djangoandy.com/2023/12/01/kee…

@willmcgugan To me a key line is a 1px stroke around a section in an image. Keyline is a printing term I believe. Please feel free to correct me.

What does the term “key line” or keyline mean to you, in web design? How would you define it?

@pydanny When I went to write my SaaS, I looked at Flask and then at Django. Flask needs you to make choices that as a beginner you don't know. With Django you know that sane choices have already been made. I went with Django. I discussed this at djangochat.com/episodes/horse… at around 7:50

I have to admit to being jealous of how perfectly this articulates what I've thought about Flask (or FastAPI) vs Django for years when it comes to beginners. bitecode.dev/p/beginners-sh… TIL: I love Flask and FastAPI, but don't believe they are beginner tools.

@FKhnopff @JosieMcskimming @Optus @abcnews And here's me thinking is was DNS.

@JosieMcskimming @Optus @abcnews It was a failed network software update. Telcos can have risk-averse, robust testing before updates. Or they can save money and take a chance there are no bugs in the update. Very hard to undo a flawed update.

I’m not interested in interviews with cafe or gym owners, I want journalists to find out what the hell happened at @Optus. Malware? Monumental stuff-up? Please dig around and give us something useful. @abcnews

@s_gruppetta_ct Wow - did not know this! Thanks mate!

I wasn't aware that space was a format specifier for Python's f-strings when displaying numbers. Here's an example from my latest article. Can you spot the difference between the first and third examples? And it looks even more weird when the space is the only format specifier: