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Johnathon Wright

Johnathon Wright

@mustmodify

Experienced freelance web engineer. Ruby, Rails, React. I care about good interfaces and good process. Formerly ThoughtWorks, NASA. Loves the word 'Awesome'.

Asheville, NC Inscrit le Mayıs 2009
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Everyday Astronaut
Everyday Astronaut@Erdayastronaut·
Ok... I've got a big ask / question... Anyone out there happen to be driving a 3/4 tonne truck from TX to FL at the end of January or early February? 🤔 I'm currently looking to rent a truck and do the drive myself for Artemis II with our production trailer, but figure I'd ask!
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
I was hoping that when the removed "don't be evil" from their handbook that was not a sign but it certainly seems like they're hard-core evil now... since they locked my family out of our account and can't seem to find a way to let me pay for more storage to get back to normalcy.
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
I had a question / concern / complaint about my family's @Google domain account. I contacted support. I was transferred SEVEN times before finally getting a "nobody is available to help you" message. SEVEN TIMES! "I apologize for your inconvenience. I will transfer you!" AHHHH
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
@neiltyson Hey, that's not fair. You don't know that S. Clause didn't secretly confiscate a shipping barge and several kilotons of dirt per barge to create a floating pine tree wonderland. To answer your forestry question(s), barges go south for the growing season. Obv. 🎄🎄🎄
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson@neiltyson·
Not that anybody asked, but the Northern Arctic is just Ocean. So Santa’s North Pole Workshop has only ever existed on a floating sheet of ice. No fur trees. No hills. Occasional seals. And polar bears — for now.
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Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
@scaling01 I'm getting tired of saying this. Passing tests written in the past does not make an AI functionally good. Literally when I ask Gemini to call stores it starts telling me about their hours and where they're located and what their ratings are. It's just not functionally good.
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Lisan al Gaib
Lisan al Gaib@scaling01·
I'm getting tired of saying this: Gemini 3 Pro places 1st on Frontier Math Level 4 - the hardest questions within the benchmark
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Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
@scaling01 Optimizing for benchmarks is so cool. We'll see if it actually moves the needle on delivering useful content. Personally I find they all have strengths.
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Lisan al Gaib
Lisan al Gaib@scaling01·
Its so over for OpenAI and Anthropic. Gemini 3 Pro Benchmarks 37.5% on HLE 31.1% on ARC-AGI-2 2439 Elon on LiveCodeBench Pro 85.4% on Tau-Bench 72.1% on SimpleQA Verified SOTA everywhere except SWE-Bench Verified
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
Sometimes I notice that not even Google has their UI act together in terms of two features conflicting. It really _is_ complicated. :)
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
Asked GPT why "You are a teacher" is important. Surprised to get a response which will require research before I can get meaning. Paraphrasing: "it activates submanifolds, shifting which latent concepts are relevant in the embedding space." Oh. I ... see? 🤷‍♀️👨‍💻👨‍🔬👨‍🏫
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
I want to post about something that seems too nerdy for LinkedIn so I'm back here. Still refuse to call it anything other than Twitter. Like some resident of NYC who is angry that buildings change name when they are bought.
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
@SkyS1gn @Erdayastronaut I've been thinking about that. It feels like they maybe changed too much at some point. I don't think it was right after version one but didn't they make a huge change after like v3 or v4?
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
It feels like I'm talking to myself from 20 years ago, and telling me the things I'd wish I'd known about boundaries, tools, building a career, embracing ticket systems and source control, interfaces, where to put my energy, and avoiding burnout.
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
I have been mentoring a junior developer. This developer is not in my team or company. It is delightful to be able to educate and encourage. And it's clear I'm proving value. 30 minutes every other week
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
@OpenAI FYI. I doubt my vote for the option on the left is going to produce the signal you intended. Thanks for the good work and productivity boost. Please don't create Skynet. Just think pacifist thoughts.
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
@ChatGPTapp FYI. Not a bug but not the intended behavior. I doubt my choosing the left option is going to produce the signal you intended.
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
I have just reached the pinnacle of my career. I just created a temp file called html.html. Then... html = File.read('html.html') I am a 10x dev.
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
People are "so* against classes in JavaScript but they work really well in Ruby. I'm wondering if this is a cultural issue or due to javascript classes being not-fully-baked.
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
Recently I have learned that one of the most important skills and qualities that you need to intentionally keep sharp as a developer and a human is CURIOSITY. It can be easy to lose on accident. Particularly when you think you know the answers.
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
@dmitryv Oof! Yeah, I have stubbornly stuck with Rails. I admit most Rails work now is React but... better than no Rails work. :)
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dmitryv
dmitryv@dmitryv·
@mustmodify I’ve been stuck with Elixir for quite a while now and really miss Ruby/RoR and OOP in general, as well as mature libraries and JIT compiler 😅
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Johnathon Wright
Johnathon Wright@mustmodify·
When I'm working in JS, I really miss Ruby. Paticulaly: mixins, array conveniences (yes, there's _some_ progress with enumerables), and, to a lesser extent, blocks (I understand arrow functions are first-class and I see that value. But blocks are just a little more intuitive.)
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