DeafProgrammer

Interesting that "Peter Bergmann" was probably a chosen alias with a purpose... cryptically linked to "Engram Repent", perhaps symbolising his intent to erase his past.👀

Funnily enough, I was once asked to work on a six-month contract in a hospital in Adelaide within their ICT department. Two staff members were from overseas, and I found communication very difficult because their written and spoken English was quite limited. The quality of the programming and system design behind the hospital systems shocked me, and I raised my concerns with management. I later contacted HR from my substantive department to request a return transfer. HR initially claimed I was sabotaging the work, which I denied. Fortunately, the hospital ICT manager supported my concerns and emailed HR explaining the reasons for my transfer back to my substantive position. That was over a decade ago, and I believe both those staff members and the shocking system still exist today.

I 100% agree with Pauline. I absolutely do not want a doctor from a different cultural background. They make me uncomfortable and many cannot communicate clearly. I also doubt the intelligence, bedside manner, and quality of training. That's the benefit of living in a multicultural society - you get to be tribal.

@shanselman @gregyoung Yes, very true. Behind many large systems, there is often an old spreadsheet, Microsoft Access database, SQL Server, Oracle database, or manual workaround quietly keeping things running. I’ve seen it all over three decades in the public sector. God, I still love VBA. 😀🤘

@gregyoung Fun Fact: It's not the cloud that the world's compute runs on, it's a single Excel spreadsheet with VBA that makes the earth turn

I prefer to put my raw SQL statements in textboxes on the client side so customers can modify them directly and have more control.

I have been a long-time fan of @shanselman, even before Twitter/X. I agree that “typing code manually is dying”. But experienced programmers will still be essential because they can immediately identify future maintenance issues, duplicated meaning, broken relational concepts, hidden business rule conflicts, and scalability risks. The craft is shifting toward system reasoning, orchestration, validation, and design. I use AI tools such as ChatGPT and Grok because they reduce time-consuming work and allow me to focus more on deeper system thinking and design. 👀

@rob_farley 👍😃

@DeafProgrammer No, this is about the Arsenal. :)

Finally

@OzraeliAvi Can you please add closed captioning to your videos so that I can watch and access the text content?

🚨 Pauline Hanson just BROKE the ABC After years of blatant bias and activist journalism, the taxpayer-funded broadcaster is finally being held accountable… and now they’re crying victim. Because they never thought anyone would fight back. 👉 DefundABC.com

@PauloGaspar7 @unclebobmartin In real apps, VB.NET, C#, and JavaScript work together.... that’s what matters.

@DeafProgrammer @unclebobmartin You wish.

I'm struck by the number of complaints about my assertion that C# is derivative of Java. I guess people just don't know the history of the language.

@realannapaulina She seems to be sending a message with this picture. It feels like it’s about Nikola Tesla and his ‘secret’ connection to knowledge from the universe. 👀

@GaryMarcus Oh yes, AI tools are just one way to build experience. Principles and practical work are essential to develop a framework organically... this is what makes code elegant. For example, a poor data model leads to messy SQL and high-entropy work.

Why have many programmers gone back to handcoding? Because with AI (shocker!) it’s….

@CMONEYMAKER @themouthmatusow Yes, I played at least five WSOP events, including the 2024 Main Event, over five weeks in Las Vegas with my own money... purely for hobby and enjoyment. I watched live high-stakes players; they’re crazy. I’ll play again in 2027 or 2028. My skills are sharper than before.

@themouthmatusow I play with 100% of myself

It’s still all fake! Everyone plays for 10% max and most are broke in makeup! They all play to see who’s Dick is bigger and money goes round and round!

Exactly. This is 100% true from my own lived experience. When I was little, I was trained to speak, but no one really taught me the meaning behind many words. I was only exposed to the Deaf community’s sign language when I was 16, and that changed how meaning finally connected for me. Speech can sound successful on the outside, yet true language is about meaning, concepts, and connection. Without accessible sign language, many deaf children may learn sounds without fully building understanding. That is why sign language is so important... it gives the brain direct access to meaning first.

A child with cochlear implant had 98% speech discrimination skills, which is remarkable. When I asked what the words MEAN, the score dropped to 10%. Just because they can hear sounds of speech does not mean they UNDERSTAND. That's why using sign language, with speech therapy on the side, is SO important. Never deny a deaf child sign language even if good speech is present!

@icreatelife I’m definitely a coffee guy... some of my best thoughts come with coffee. I’m with you on AI too, and I enjoy your community posts, especially seeing AI used in digital art, even though I don’t create much myself. My cat Kitty also seems to understand my inner feelings.

Three things that make me happy: coffee, AI, community. What are yours?

Yes... a few weeks ago, after reflecting on discussions from a board meeting about AI sign language, I started this as a hobby project. Using Google MediaPipe, I built a script that captures signed Auslan through my webcam and converts it into X, Y, Z spatial landmark data. I was honestly shocked at how well it worked. I then structured the weighted landmark data into a relational model that can detect meaningful movement patterns based on ranges rather than exact positions. The first sign I tested was “how are you?”, and it worked. I then added a few sign-based commands instead of typed keywords, and that worked beautifully too. There’s still a lot of work ahead, and time is the biggest challenge, but it’s exciting because it genuinely works. You’re absolutely right.... ASL, Auslan, and other sign languages are truly 3D, fully spatial, 360-degree languages. I know there are already systems showing this can work, so I don’t see this as an achievement yet. For me, it remains an exploratory project focused on the possibilities of AI and sign language, and it has not reached that stage yet. If this could ever evolve into fully 360-degree spatial intelligence with true sign language reading capability, it would be an extraordinary breakthrough in AI and human communication.👀

... ... ... ... So X can't translate from American Sign Language into English yet. Darn.

100% yes, I understand your point completely. “Him” is really just a language habit shaped through human teaching until something deeper clicks one day. The deeper meaning goes beyond gender or form and is felt more through awareness than words. It was quite amazing when those inner visual thoughts emerged, because that awareness cannot truly be explained. I even asked others randomly, including people on X, for their thoughts. Most described it as self-awareness, but not even you, my best friend, or a professor could fully define it. In the end, it is simply your own awareness.

@DeafProgrammer @TheProjectUnity If they are thinking in terms of a 'him' they are way off...

God is real, I have no doubt but... I don't think any of us know what "God" truly means.

@TheProjectUnity No wonder the people who built the pyramids and wrote ancient scriptures worshipped the Sun... it gives life and order to everything. 👀

If consciousness can emerge from self-organising systems, then plasma, shown in experiments to form stable, lifelike structures that evolve, interact, and self-regulate, may already sit on that spectrum. Now scale that up to a star. The Sun is a colossal, self-organising plasma system… If plasma can host awareness, then the Sun itself might not just be alive, but superconscious.

@MichaelaFachar Happy Easter 🐰 😀👍

@icreatelife 🤘👍😀

Out of the 115,000 accounts following me I often wonder how many of you actually exist and are human Say hi or drop an emoji if you are not a robot 🤍✨

@MichaelaFachar Great subtitles, thank you! 😀👍🤘