João Gonçalves

@Dispropoganda SecondLife, anyone ?

Mark Zuckerberg launched the metaverse in 2021. He spent over $73,000,000,000 on it. He even changed his company's name from Facebook to meta. Yet the metaverse was so bad even FB's own employees didn't want to use it. Now its considered as one of the biggest corporate failures in business history. The metaverse was the only thing Mark Zuckerberg didn't steal or buy from others, but actually developed by himself.

@adnansahinovich if there was no distinction between expo and rn people would complain about it that they wouldn't get proper granularity, now that they are separate, people complain about it... it's just impossible to make everyone happy

The interesting part isn’t Flutter being #2. It’s Google separating React Native and Expo into different categories. The ecosystem became so large it now competes as multiple platforms 😭

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

@matumarci @AdamRackis did he not ?

@AdamRackis please don’t use Jesus’ name like this.

Now that Bun is moving off Zig ... will we ever hear about that language again? Bun was the only thing I'd ever heard of using it, and it's moving to Rust. Hard to imagine anyone being eager to build on Zig at this point. Am I missing something?

Announcing the second version of Bagaço. 37GB of European Portuguese text. 33 million documents, ~9.3 BILLION tokens. Completely open 😉 duarteocarmo.com/blog/the-large…

@itshanrw @Tailscale you're killing it

Baguette via @Tailscale not bad?

🚨 BREAKING: 84 TanStack npm packages were compromised in an ongoing Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack, adding suspected CI credential-stealing malware. Socket flagged every malicious version within six minutes of publication. This is a developing story.

@dexhorthy @MichaelArnaldi @DominikTornow because it would scare people from it, ML, FP, Monads, Algebraic types, all sound like Hantavirus

@MichaelArnaldi @DominikTornow Can’t believe you haven’t been branding it as ocaml for typescript this whole time

Algebraic Effects are one reason why OCaml deserves a serious look as an AI target language. From concurrency to deterministic simulation testing, all wired into plain business logic.

@peterpme is it a situation where there are no immediate benefits for the user but will eventually translate to added value to the end users down the line ? E.g. as unblocking new features

upgrading to the new react native architecture was the most miserable project of my career no clear end state. no obvious user facing wins. sometimes worse performance consumes your best engineers in deep, low level work and nobody outside of the react native bubble cares i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. good riddance!

@Mykre Fucking fuck cancer! I'm cheering for you and your fast recovery, truly hoping for you to keep strong and sane because the rest will come for your recovery! a big and warm salutation from another continent and fuck that cancer!

On my way in for another chemo session. I don't think it will ever get used to these, but it looks like I'll be doing this for a while. #cancer #fcancer #fightingcancer

@hxxwhite how does it differ from github.com/facebook/flipp… ?

We gave the iOS simulator Chrome DevTools. Performance, networking, and logs from your app - in every test report. Slow launch? Failing request? Poor performance? Find out why!

@mjackson Similar to Kotlin ?

Zig's async model is one of the most elegant designs I've ever seen. Most languages bake async right into the runtime. JS has an event loop. Go has a built-in scheduler. Zig splits it out. The new I/O model is a pluggable. It allows you to express async primitives, like an async function, and then pick the execution model. So e.g. if you want multi-threaded, you just plug it in. Or you want an event loop, you can plug that in too. Async primitives are just values (Futures) and the execution model is pluggable (Io). So good!

Disturbing israeli footage of 60 Palestinians being inhumanly crammed & transported into israeli custody using a waste-disposal rubbish truck

@micLivs this is neat! 👏🏼

6/ it gets weirder. pi_prompt lets you send prompts to pi and get responses back as sql rows. pi_generate generates structured data with ai and returns it as queryable json.

1/ if there's code mode, there's also query mode. github.com/Michaelliv/dri… 💧 npm install -g dripline introducing dripline, turns any API, CLI, or cloud service into a SQL table. install a plugin, clanker writes a query, get rows back. joins, aggregations, window functions and duckdb handles the rest. ultra easy to extend, repo includes 13 plugins, 61 tables. github, docker, pi, brew, kubectl, cloudflare, vercel, and more. obligatory @badlogicgames pi-dripline-context extension that injects all available tables into your agent's context so it knows what it can query: pi install npm:dripline

if your skill depends on dynamic content, you can embed !`command` in your SKILL.md to inject shell output directly into the prompt Claude Code runs it when the skill is invoked and swaps the placeholder inline, the model only sees the result!

A positive side effect of this whole AI software revolution is that knowledge is now shared freely in an easy to consume and succinct format (Skills) while before people would sell books or monetize via blog posting but in longer formats.

The children were 5 and 7 years old. They shot them in their car. I don’t know who still needs to hear this, but murdering families for sport is not normal.

In the past 3 years, I haven't noticed any uptick in release speed for software I use. If productivity is increasing, I can't tell as an end user. I have noticed decreases in uptime, increases in bugs, and a HUGE increase in people bragging about how many PRs per day they land.

Not Americans but international teams developed convnets, alexnet, attention, AlphaGo, neural LMs, AlphaCode, AlphaFold, transformers, RL, etc, etc. This war mongering CEO does not represent the Americans who helped develop AI either. They have greater ideals. It is sad that my colleagues and I developed the science and tech being used by these money and power hungry despicable people. We need a moratorium on AI weapons. And international institutions that can enforce it.

@krzyzanowskim precisely. That's why this is such a good tool for Anthropic, it's a money printing machine :D

@Chuckytuh because it doesn't "know" that. it will juggle different matches. give it enough surface and there's infinite matches possible

Only people who never run "Review the codebase" in a loop on the very same codebase and see constant "High" finding for few hours are surprised it takes $25 of tokens. $25 is actually cheap for that setup.