Andrea Giammarchi 🍥

coincident/server on IoT via Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W? Sure! #readme" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/WebReflection/…

@TheAhmadOsman I love my DGX Spark though: I don't have Nvidia GPUs around to compare at the same time so ... am I naive to enjoy the DGX Spark capabilities, since I've bought one to play around AI and not much else? 🤔

Please stop saying that the DGX Spark or any Unified Memory machine competes with GPUs in any meaningful way It’s misleading Speak of the pros and cons of each, but stop misinforming your audience for whatever reason you’re doing it for

a 12yo with some AI ability ... gosh if I hope schools would educate kids around their *power* to change the world, in the most constructive way ... meanwhile, I had to "patronize" a bad practice around PRs and comments here and there 😢 github.com/WebReflection/…

@RobbieSpeed 'cause metered connections is something only privileged people would not consider when it comes to any AI feature that would scale, 'cause let's be honest, the smallest model that is 1GB would be laughable, from 4 to 8 GB we're talking and if you have any of those it's a waste!

@RobbieSpeed now, consider you have the "do not consider network cheap" option because you are traveling abroad and 4+ GBs of data means money of data you didn't account for ... but *some* model would be already available through your file system ... still naive about instantly available AI?

Google offers an AI API many developers would love to use and explore/exploit. Until few months ago it was cumbersome for users to enable such API, now it's "embedded". It's a win for progress and a lost for the Open Web, because other vendors either need to do the same or fade

AI "everywhere" is a cool topic ... but is there any "AI locally available" as feature detection project out there? Not even talking about Chrome only API to deal with AI, actually asking if we're able to feature-detect capable HW from incapable one out of a tokens/ps smoke test

on the other side, I took my time to read the whole report and indeed that's not exactly what I was expecting ... I am not saying it's "ill played" but I think, because AI is inevitable, it's right in the gray area it deserves for now but calling it "malware" feels exaggerated 🤷

AI on the Web is inevitable: * it super charges JS with dozen new possibilities * it allows in-textarea-reviews for grammar, spellchecks, hints, fixes, mistakes and whatnot * it allows text-to-canvas representation * it allows, well, anything AI easily allow we should embrace it!

There’s a famous Usenet story about a programmer (Mel) who refused higher level abstractions. It was the late 1950s, and even in that era, Mel was…well today we’d call him a boomer. Mel only wrote in raw hexadecimal. He didn’t approve of compilers, and refused to use optimizing assemblers. "You never know where it's going to put things”, he said. Everyone else in the company was moving on to FORTRAN, and they didn’t understand why Mel was so stubborn about using new tools. He *loved* self-modifying code. “If a program can’t rewrite its own code”, he asked, “what good is it?” Mel eventually left the company, and other engineers were tasked with understanding what was left. Mel’s hand-optimized routines always beat the assemblers; but some of it looked absolutely bizarre. One engineer took ~2 weeks to understand why there were loops with no exit condition…yet the program worked fine. I won’t spoil all the details, you should really read it, it’s short. But it’s a fantastic piece on “what defines a real programmer?”…which is becoming increasingly relevant in this vibe-coded era. I strive to understand computers as deeply as Mel! If we aren’t careful, we’re going to lose the “Mels” of this world to time. That’s part of why I go so deep in my youtube videos. I hope that younger viewers are genuinely fascinated by the inner workings of our machines, instead of handing everything off to higher abstractions.

@ElijahYilma last unrelated thought: this format feels like an awesome candidate for Steam platform, the translation layers might take care of all the details (but of course everyone prefers a native build). Consider that channel too: if it's playful and educational, it's ace (at least to me)

@ElijahYilma look at the bright side, you mentioned "unlimited updates" meaning you need to catch up with Unity future possibilities too 😇 🥳 thanks for the quick reply though, I personally don't need a so quick follow up, just maybe add/be clear/transparent around the fact Linux is not ARM

🚀As promised, it's here! The Universal Bundle and the Linux🐧port for the book are now live! The Linux build has been tested on Fedora, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Arch, ChromeOS, and Debian. Grab your copy at 👉 [cartesian dot app] DM me if you have any questions!

@ElijahYilma P.S. it's not about Windows ARM based devices, it's about all ARM64 based devices Linux based too (and before Windows devices).

@ElijahYilma market share in terms of "laptops" or "desktop" might not be still too relevant but anyone using ARM laptops or a perfectly fine Raspberry Pi 5 or similar as tiny machine will have issues. Unity offers that though 👍 unity.com/blog/engine-pl…

@ElijahYilma as example: for educational purposes Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 would do just fine but also other ARM platforms such as DGX Spark or the plethora of ARM based laptops to SBCs coming out every month at this point in time so I hope you can find a solution to read/consume this in there too

@ElijahYilma 1. just bought it for Linux, not because I don't know the content, rather because I wanted to sponsor your awesome work and, before that, great idea 2. the Linux is *NOT* ARM compatible, I think you should add that target or add clarity around that. ARM Linux machines are common.

someone wrote a 680 page interactive book on cs algorithms

@addyosmani @dhh We still need that to work in Workers because there’s so much still holding back no-build in there but “Hey” is definitely a great reference

@dhh Fantastic seeing apps at scale successful with #nobuild and so happy import maps enabled it!

What if the EU built GitHub?

@theo It’s coward to press red but the only choice if the goal is survival certainty, blue is for idealism and the fact this is just X, not a real treat to anyone 😉

If >50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives Red button pressers always survive, but they’ll get a “red button presser” badge on their Twitter profile. What do you press?