John Sloan

@dwhitena @amacarthur I like how you guys think about technology, and you've both built successful apps. What do you think of this methodology?

@amacarthur I got back on Twitter hoping to find some wisdom from you about all the AI hype. Where's my content, man?!

@predictionguard congrats on the funding round! I love to see it!

@housecor @pawelhajdan I was thinking about local-first as I was reading this. If two offline users make conflicting changes, and that isn’t known until the changes hit the server, it seems like last write may be the best you can do. At the field level would be handy.

@pawelhajdan Yes, and as local-first becomes more popular I expect such patterns to be common

A bug I see in nearly every web app: Last in wins. Bug: If two users are editing the same record, the user who clicks save last “wins”. The last save overwrites the previous save. Two solutions to consider: 1. Notify. Notify me when another user starts editing the record I'm editing. “Warning: Bob is editing this record.” And notify me when I try to save a stale record. “Bob changed this record.” When this conflict occurs, I can copy my changes, reload, and integrate my changes into the latest version. Or, I can just paste my changes over the previous edit if mine should "win". 2. Lock the record. When someone starts an edit, disallow others from starting an edit. "Bob is editing this record." Time out the edit and remove the lock if it's not completed in x minutes. Anyone have a different approach?

@BoilerUpload @CBartleyRivals This article is fantastic! Very well written. Purdue is blessed to have Coach Painter.

Matt Painter isn’t standing still, he’s standing up to the portal tide, for now. ⁦@CBartleyRivals⁩ writes about Purdue’s head coach gamble that’s already paying off. But does the house always win? purdue.rivals.com/news/matt-pain…

@amacarthur @ChatGPTapp

Someone build a chrome extension I can install on my coworker’s computer that appends “lol” to every form they submit

@amacarthur If there is one or two lines and then a space to try to force me to expand the post, I keep scrolling. Then when I realize they’re all that way I remember why I hardly ever open LI, and close it.

I’ve decided to take a stab at some new rules of etiquette for posting on LinkedIn. Here’s what I have so far. Please let me know if you’d add any. Eventually I’ll share it there and see how many enemies I make. 1. No more forced narrative hooks to kick off a story that probably didn’t happen. If you don’t start a conversation with your pal before a casual game of pickleball, it’s no longer permitted here. 2. Make sure you’re familiar with the concept of a “paragraph” before writing anything. 3. Don’t you dare include a selfie. If you think you can skirt this rule by crying in that selfie, you’re too far gone and there’s nothing I can do to help you. 4. No need to end your posts with a footnote introducing yourself. We can see your name and headline on the post. I promise that’s enough. 5. Certain emojis are now off-limits. They include 💪, 🔥, and 🚀. 6. Your dad wants you to remove the fact that you love dad jokes from your profile. 7. Make sure you’re really clear on #3. 8. Resist the urge to turn every tragedy in your life into a profound tale of wisdom. It’s often forced and risks dishonoring the tragedy. 9. That “unpopular opinion” is probably something everyone already agrees with. 10. If your post starts to read like a slam poem, consider self-publishing it in a book instead of sharing it here. 11. No one’s more likely to share your quote if you post a screenshot of it.

@amacarthur I pop in occasionally to check up on you.

@JohnWSloan John you’re back!!

I am loving this

One of the great joys in my life is the ability to make myself laugh, even if no one else laughs with me. I find me hilarious.

@amacarthur Last year

what year is it? wrong answers only

@naipalmmm_ I came to the internet hoping someone else felt this way. I am not alone.

La Croix LimonCello tastes like CarMex original & I can’t untaste it.

@amacarthur When you do, I’d appreciate some talk about how the bits that are auto-destructured for you can be distinguished from other variables that are in scope directly outside the with block.

i’m not done with the `with()` thing yet. working on a blog post that’ll probably get me in trouble with reddit.

@amacarthur It’s the mixing of creating the context and destructuring that makes it less readable to me. I’m specifically thinking of Python right now. I like the with statement there. realpython.com/python-with-st…

@JohnWSloan why do you like it in other languages but not here? maybe the example here isn’t the best?

you're passing values into a function via shorthand property names. which approach feels more elegant -- object destructuring or a `with` statement? #javascript

Someone talk to me about @couchbase. With Capella, it seems like a great choice. Anyone have years of production experience or share?

@andres19_05 @GetInsomnia Whew. Now I can use it again until I get everything switched to some alternative. This was a really bad decision, @GetInsomnia .

If you've been surprised by @GetInsomnia update to v8 and "lost" access to your data unless you create an account, you can downgrade to v2023.5.8 (github.com/Kong/insomnia/…) to get it back. You may also want to disable the app's automatic update feature.

Who is the @alexbdebrie of @MongoDB? I’d like to get educated.

Wow, @larabar. The Orange Sorbet is ridiculously good.