Josh Yudaken

@keegan_csmith Spit / Speed. Its a fast two-player card game based more on playing speed than strategy - works quite nicely with multitouch

@marcog it seems like the "No" year olds are winning with 182 votes compared to 176

@rbranson I read that as two bytes, minimum length of 1 as if you're not allowed empty strings

it also seems to know that varchar(255) has a 1-byte minimum overhead

i asked GPT-4 to for help reducing the disk space of a table, based on it's schema. On #1: this is wrong. reducing below varchar(255) is a no-op. On #2: it recommended smaller int types even though it seemed to understand these were FKs (impressive!) in other answers

Starting to release things again, for now here's a demo of what we built at Smyte finding spam on Twitter: websqrl.vercel.app/twitter

@MdLazarus Aah, must have pocket tweeted? ... and since I barely do I'm guessing it got pushed to everyone

@floydophone @dan_abramov Some tests ensure invariants about the code that are promptly forgotten. I don't think I could ever trust a sizeable piece of code (especially one I've written) if it's original tests were gone. Implementation side is painful but doable. Answer depends on quality constraints?

@dan_abramov I answered "tests", then I thought about it for a little bit. If I have a working implementation I can probably use generative testing to create reasonable tests, right?

@floydophone Another of my thousand+ ideas: a package registry that adheres to a security and quality bar (via code review). Charge corps to review packages when their devs want them. Reject duplicate and unmaintained projects.

Now is a great time for an aspiring entrepreneur to start a competitor to npm. The haphazard ESM rollout might be the straw that finally breaks its back, but it’s only the latest in a long string of issues stemming from npm’s “anything goes” attitude.

@mxgxw_alpha @RealSexyCyborg @signalapp They're actively working on removing this requirement, but it's an extremely difficult technical challenge to do so while keeping it secure and user friendly. They'll get there...

@RealSexyCyborg @signalapp In my country you need to provide a government-issued ID to get a simcard. We have a long history of telecom interventions to dissidents by the government. I don't like the that you need to provide a number to register, neither that the app notifies your contacts when you do it.

Sorry folks- to clarify, @signalapp is still the best choice for 99% of people. This specific issue we are talking about pertains to activists and people who (rightly or wrongly) suspect the authorities might take an interest in their activities.

@Rainmaker1973 Saw the same rocket *from San Francisco* that night (it was the 7th)

Under specific conditions, the exhaust gas plume of a rocket can put on an amazing show of light and clouds, like this SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying the SAOCOM 1A mission on October 8, 2018 [full video: buff.ly/2NxTdu3] [explanation: buff.ly/38aNyFD]

@bros3phina Sure, it looks like Apple just removed it because my developer license expired (they charge $100/yr for the privilege of having your apps in the store.) I'll try sort it out tonight.

@qix is there any way to get the Spit (aka Speed) game back on the App Store? i'd pay for it. or a link to your freeware Spit game? the link was broken on your site.

@Tech4Africa I've spent some time writing iPhone games

@RobertKoletka Not entirely true -- a lot of my friends complained that an advert 'randomly' appeared on their profile

@marcog You can try @keddey for one of the Google ambassador peoples

@JaneSarahRosen Consider playing Spit a.k.a. Speed on/with the #ipad. I've been told its alright :)

@jonathansmit / @darb: PayFast has been on the todo list or almost six months now :(... Consider it bumped up a few notches.

@darb You might want to check https://github.com/snapbill/snapbill-pyapi - we've been working on one ourselves :). Its also pre-beta though.

@wesleylynch Have you considered SnapBill? We're local, growing fast and we also recently got multi-currency running :)

@feylian We not seeing the same error you are. If you can send browser details / where it occurred to support@snapbill we'll take a look.

@andybudd Maybe some the more UX-focused startups weren't at seedcamp? :) (snapbill.co.za) #tech4africa #snapbill - but there is more to do

@pixelprodigy the R2+8% fee is due to us acting as a middle man - we're working on ways of allowing users to use their own gateway accounts.