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Rob Mensching

@robmen

@firegiantco CEO & Co-Founder | Benevolent Dictator of @wixtoolset | https://t.co/Irqq1LMRJj for more information

Redmond, WA USA Katılım Mart 2008
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
Going to take a break from here. Given the algorithm, I expect no one will really notice. :) Building a lot this summer. Be back when I have something to show for it. Given the algorithm, I expect no one will really notice. :) You can find me at robmensching.com
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
I find much of the discourse around GitHub discouraging. The world changed on them faster than most. They need to improve to handle it. They know they need to improve. Everything suggests they are working on it. Punching them while they do so is not productive, IMHO.
Mario Rodriguez@mariorod1

Being the foundation for millions of developers means our bar must be higher for availability, reliability, and security. I’m sorry it’s been a rocky stretch at GitHub. We know we need to do better. Today we published an update on two recent incidents: one on April 23 involving merge queue behavior, and one on April 27 affecting pull requests, issues, projects, and search-backed experiences. We’re taking this seriously. We’re listening, and you have my commitment that we’ll communicate more frequently about the work underway to improve reliability and scale GitHub for what comes next. github.blog/news-insights/…

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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
How does one post with such conviction and a completely flawed understanding about the fundamentals about which they are talking? I think I need to leave for a while. The state of things here makes me sad.
Brian Cardarella@bcardarella

This is such a complete misunderstanding of how complicated it was to do this within Microsoft when he did it. Plotting telemetery is one thing. Getting the largest software vendor, at the time, to coordinate that all software within needs to play nice with this one tool is not.

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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
@triathenum @kellabyte I'd argue ADO is designed for a scale few need and that gets exposed as complexity. GitHub has also come a long way since ADO was created so I expect intertia is the key reason ADO remains.
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Matt Matheus
Matt Matheus@triathenum·
@robmen @kellabyte ADO is also painful to use. GitHub isn't significantly better, but ADO pipelines are absolutely terrible.
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Kelly Sommers
Kelly Sommers@kellabyte·
Also why does Microsoft have two git products? Azure ADO and GitHub.
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
@vlad_mihalcea @YuriKushch I believe that Opus is not made available on free plans because it is 3x-7x more expensive than other models. Codex is very good for free.
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Vlad Mihalcea
Vlad Mihalcea@vlad_mihalcea·
@YuriKushch I got a free subscription for the Pro plan, and it's very convenient to alternate it with Claude Code
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Vlad Mihalcea
Vlad Mihalcea@vlad_mihalcea·
Sad 🐼. Looks like Copilot Pro has removed Opus from the Model list. Which one do you recommend using for software development? GPT 5.4, GPT 5.3 Codex or Sonnet 4.6?
Vlad Mihalcea tweet media
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
When I introduced the OSMF, people told me that enforcement would be my biggest problem. It wasn't and isn't. Procurement remains the biggest pain point. The challenge is that there is little I can do to fix the root issue. Instead, the OSMF serves as a simple forcing function.
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
@ClintRutkas Not a need, but it definitely reduced eye strain when I got one. I can't explain why except that it lights up the correct part of the room for staring at a monitor.
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Clint Rutkas
Clint Rutkas@ClintRutkas·
Someone explain the need for a screen light bar. Seems … unneeded
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
I'm not big on DDD but defining the Ubiquitous Language and mapping Bounded Contexts is a hugely valuable process to go through when designing a large system with LLMs. It helps organize your thinking and improves the chances you and your Agents start on the same page.
Matt Pocock@mattpocockuk

I'm starting to think that DDD might be the answer to all of my problems - Model not doing what you want? Shared language - Can't navigate a massive codebase? Bounded contexts with global mapping - Don't know why a decision was made? ADR's It's just so freaking elegant

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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
@awakecoding Interestingly, you can implement a UI that is fully accessible. So that's definitely the wrong reason to move away from MSI.
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Marc-André Moreau
Marc-André Moreau@awakecoding·
The underlying reason is that MSI installers are not accessible, screen readers can't interact with them properly. MSIX has the required accessibility features, but lacks capabilities required for many advanced scenarios involving system services and loading of shared libraries
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Marc-André Moreau
Marc-André Moreau@awakecoding·
PowerShell is deprecating its MSI installer in favor of MSIX, despite current known limitations that prevent PSRemoting scenarios, or execution from system services, like the Task Scheduler. PowerShell 7.7 will *not* ship an MSI: devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/pow…
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
I'm "stuck" testing codex at FireGiant. I asked Claude to double-check some code and test coverage. It first said the code was designed and implemented well (thank you very much), and Claude found 4 cases where test coverage was missing and offered to fix them. Cool. Make it so:
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Kenton Varda
Kenton Varda@KentonVarda·
I find I can't bring myself to use the term "clanker". I mean, I know logically it's fine. AIs aren't people. I don't judge anyone else for saying it, in fact I think it's funny when they do. But when it comes to me saying it, something in my brain says "no".
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Rob Mensching@robmen·
That is all. Have a nice day. :)
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
> Do these tests pass, or is there a specific variation you'd still like added? Uhh, thanks, Claude. Yeah, they pass. That's why I asked you to review the code, not implement it. codex has never done that... but I do prefer the way Claude communicates. Subtly better, IMO.
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Rob Mensching
Rob Mensching@robmen·
@Aaronontheweb @indy_singh_uk @AkkaDotNET I'd guess this (plus the privacy) is the real answer. We see similar behavior from our customers (totally expected/encouraged), but our OSS project gets way more bugs reported directly. There are a gazillion squared edge cases. The world is not kind to installation technology.
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Aaron Stannard
Aaron Stannard@Aaronontheweb·
@indy_singh_uk @AkkaDotNET in a lot of cases, customers don't actually discover a bug - they just report weird behavior and send us a giant log dump. We often are the ones who discover and file the bug report based on what happened.
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Aaron Stannard
Aaron Stannard@Aaronontheweb·
Mentioned this during our @AkkaDotNET community standup yesterday, but the bulk of new + critical bugs we find are almost all entirely reported by paying support customers - we do some get some FOSS user reports in our Discord / GitHub, but it's a ratio of 10:1 paid to free. Why?
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Rob Mensching@robmen·
@wesbos @syntaxfm My project was called an "insignificant geekware tool" back in 2004, which is probably fair. :) But what may be interesting to you today is the OSS sustainability model that we're trying. github.com/wixtoolset
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Wes Bos
Wes Bos@wesbos·
What are you working on? Send me your project. OSS, Paid, whatever. We're doing a @syntaxfm Syntax Highlight and we will review and/or roast your projects
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