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@BenGrahamUK 700 staff was the biggest shock for me

NCP has gone into administration. They’ve been running car parks since 1931, and somehow ended up £305m in debt. Surely the maintenance for a car park is simple: ticket machines, barriers, lights, and occasional cleaning. How can a business model literally based on people paying to park go bankrupt?

@LeahTCodes @mkcuriosity @markszymik @Laravel Any idea what caused it? We had another issue at the same time and let’s just say we’ve had better Wednesdays

@mkcuriosity @markszymik @Laravel The status page has been updated! The issue has been resolved and all systems should be operational on Forge now status.on-forge.com

@laravel Forge down? 🤔

@LegacySiu Michael Owen

Name a Ballon d’Or winner who has never won the Champions League. You can’t

Every Next.js dev eventually learns this : your app isn’t slow because of React, it’s slow because of how you fetch data. → Overusing client components → Fetching inside multiple nested components → Not caching responses → Forgetting to use revalidate or fetch cache: 'force-cache' Master data fetching in Next.js, and you’ll feel like you unlocked a hidden level of performance.

@Chris_Batchel0r @amplifytheedge @eubankslastpen I always think that there can’t be that many factories each making copycat cereal, biscuits, butter, pasta, etc for each supermarket 😂 but no, apparently Waitrose cornflakes are better than Aldi ones with a different picture on the box.

@jamescrooke @amplifytheedge @eubankslastpen I mean, Lurpak makes butter thats sold in pretty much any major retailer. Iceland, Farmfoods Aldi etc.

You're an absolute fucking twat mate 👍

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Do AI models get "dumber" over time? I can see why it might feel that way. But there's actually a simpler explanation: context! Understanding what context is and how to manage it will help you get higher quality output from models. And it's actually more approachable to understand than you might think! You can think about working with AI like cooking. For example, let’s say we’re making a soup. You have many inputs into the cooking process with all of the ingredients. You follow some path or recipe, keeping track of your progress along the way. And at the end, you have a tasty soup as a a result 🍲 Different chefs might add or modify the ingredients to their taste, and even if you follow the same recipe exactly, it might taste slightly different at the end. This is kind of like working with AI models! Let’s look at a similar example for coding with AI: 1. You can have many inputs, like your current codebase and files, and a prompt to tell the AI model what you want to achieve 2. You follow a plan, sometimes human generated or suggested by the model itself, which can then create a todo list and check items off as it completes tasks 3. And the end, you get generated code you can apply to your project Your inputs, as well as the model outputs, all become part of the "context". Think of the context like a long list, where the AI model can keep a working memory for the conversation. At the start of the list is a system prompt. This is how the tool creator can inject some instructions or style for the model to follow. It’s trying to help nudge the output in a certain direction, including defining specific rules to follow. Then you have the user message or prompt. This could be any directions you want to give the model. For example, adding a new route to manage user accounts. You don’t have to use proper spelling or grammar, as AI models are surprisingly good at figuring out what you meant, but it still can’t hurt. This prompt doesn’t have to be just text. Many AI products now support attaching images, where the underlying AI model can read and understand the contents of the image and include that result in the context. For example, tools like Cursor can include other relevant information in the input context based on the state of your codebase. For example, your open files, the output from your terminal, linter errors, and more. After sending the inputs to the model, it generates and returns back some output. For simple questions, this might just be text. For coding use cases, this could be snippets of code to apply to your codebase. Everything returned from the model is part of the output context. Your conversation may go on for many "turns" back and forth between you and the AI model. Every message in the conversation, including both inputs and outputs, is stored as part of the working memory in context. The length of this list grows over time. This is important to note! Just like if you were having a conversation with a human, there’s only so much context you can keep in your brain at one time. As the conversation goes on for a while, it gets harder to remember things people might have said 3 hours ago. This is why understanding and managing context will be an important skill to learn. Every AI model also has a different context limit, where it will no longer accept further messages in the conversation, so many AI tools give the user feedback on how close they are to those limits or provide ways to compress and summarize the current conversation to stay under the limit. Additionally, some models can "think" or reason for longer, which uses more output tokens and thus fills up the context window faster. Generally these models are more expensive and have better quality of responses for more complicated tasks. Okay, that's all for now. I hope this better explains what context is and how it works. Anything missing you would add? Additional things you want me to cover? 👀

@_Nayark @zack_overflow @github @bunjavascript You don’t even have them locally?

@zack_overflow @github @bunjavascript Am I the only one who doesn't have the repos in another env? If this happens to me, I'm done!

My @github account got deleted for no apparent reason and it deleted all my PRs and issues on the @bunjavascript repo

@coups_left_peg @MartinSLewis @nay6969 You can have more than £20k in an ISA, you just can’t pay more than £20k into ISA products per year

@MartinSLewis @nay6969 That works to be 16666 pers person per ISA. So clearly some have multiple ISA and it’s these people who should be targeted. Those able to save 1-2k per year won’t be impacted by any changes.

The suggestion I've made to the govt instead of cutting cash ISA limit... launch a "starter investment ISA." The thought behind cutting the cash ISA allowance is to encourage, especially younger people, to invest instead via stocks & shares ISAs (which in the long run is likely to be better for them and the economy). I think it's unlikely to work, if people want savings, they want savings. Its also unfair to deny older people, who have to be more risk averse when trying to nudge younger people. As the govt has repeatedly said none of this is about raising revenue, I've suggested an alternative concept... Launch a new "Starter Investment ISA" you can put say up to £1,000 in (whether lump sum or dripped in monthly) and as well as it being tax-free you'll get for example a 5% boost on contributions from from State (with the cost split between investment providers and the state) as long the money is kept in investments for a set time (eg 1yr). This is a sweetener to encourage people who've never invested to dip their toe in the water. Part of the issue is lack of education and guidance about risk/reward and investing, so doing this would enable it to be more talked about, and let people to take the plunge with less risk (ie some risk is offset by the 5%). It would be set up so you could use the same account to invest in a standard investment ISA too. So people can seamlessly add more funds to it (no bonus over the first £1,000 though) It could be capped at a set age (prob 40 like LISAs) if it needed to be targeted. Don't worry about the numbers or exact rules, its a conceptual suggestion. Thoughts welcome

@Elainebks @Liesl_RW @garygilligan That’s part of the problem nowadays though, the banks let people borrow more and more which just inflates house prices - if it stayed at 1.5x salary things would be sweet

@Liesl_RW @garygilligan When we got married, you could borrow 1 1/2 times one persons salary…

@WataruEndowed @AnfieldAgenda Real Madrid vibes

Can’t imagine Adidas is too happy about us signing huge players and unveiling them in Nike kits😂

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Some thoughts on Radix, component libraries, and shadcn/ui. We’re at that point in the web dev cycle where we’re talking about component libraries again. That’s okay. With Radix receiving fewer updates, it’s a conversation worth having. Let me start with this and I’ll bold it: The worst thing you can do right now for your production app is switch component libraries. Don’t do it. That’s not where your time or resources should go. Whatever bug you’re seeing with Radix in your app, you’ll likely run into more, including new ones, with something else. (No shade to anyone. That’s just how code works.) Yes, Radix is getting fewer updates. But Radix is still a mature, well-designed library, battle-tested and used in millions of production apps. Code doesn’t stop working just because maintainers move on. That’s the strength of open source. And what Radix does, it still does extremely well. Here’s what I’d suggest: - Already using Radix in prod? Stick with it. - Starting a new project? Consider Radix, React Aria, or Ariakit. All great choices. - Using Radix and thinking what's next? Keep an eye on Base UI (we are). It’s built by the same smart team that created Radix. They’ve done it once. Now they get to do it again and it’s looking really good (currently in beta). - Hit a bug with Radix and can’t find a fix or patch? Try testing the equivalent from Base UI. The APIs are very similar. - shadcn is built for this. Code you own. Code you can improve, rewrite or replaced. The most important thing: Use something that works for you and that you understand. Your component library should be stable. This isn’t where you want to take risks in your tech stack. Every new project (not just component libraries) goes through growing pains: bugs, API changes, missing features, incomplete docs. It’s okay to wait it out, especially for production apps. Now, where does shadcn/ui fit into all of this? shadcn (unfortunately named 😅) is not a component library. It’s an idea. It’s a combination of a few things: an open abstraction, great defaults, and a distribution system. - An open abstraction built on top of several component libraries. Radix being one of them. It’s code you’d write yourself, structured in a way that’s easier to work with. Loved by LLMs. - Carefully chosen defaults that handle the smaller things like focus states, animation styles, variants, and components that naturally fit with one another. Just enough to be a great starting point, and just enough to get out of the way when you’re ready to build your own design system. - A distribution system that makes it easy to build, generate, and share code. Built for AI. The component library is just one layer of shadcn. And if it ever comes to it, a swappable one.

#LFCParade #LFC #PremierLeague

I wrote a book on TypeScript. It took 9 months of my life. And I gave it away for free.

£29.5m for Jeremie Frimpong... 😎

@JBNINJANKDS @WeAreWST I was on for a 147 the other day until I got to 8

@jamescrooke @WeAreWST No he looked on for a 147 until he got to 81

Kyren Wilson looked ON for a 147! 👀 #worldopen

@branmcconnell @pacovitiello Origin UI is built on top of shadcn components 😂

@pacovitiello Looks amazing. Origin UI is honestly making it hard for me to default to shadcn. Any plans to ship to the shadcn registry to increase visibility and compatibility? Feels like the best of both worlds to me. What is Origin UI built on— Radix, React-Aria, Ariakit something else?

You asked, we shipped 🚀 Image cropper components are now available on Origin UI!

@BootsHelp Looks like it’s been taken offline now, so no worries 👍

@jamescrooke Hi there! Please can you DM us with more details so we can take a look into this. Thanks, Noor :)

@BootsUK are you aware of this elaborate scam site that is being emailed (quite convincingly) - b-i-dev.com/boots//survey.…