Michael Callaghan

In April 2020, right after the world shut down for COVID, I read "Loserthink" by @ScottAdamsSays. His chapter on not being afraid of being embarrassed had a profound effect on me. It gave me the courage to publish my first book.

I was using Cursor to do a code review today and it kept referring to my "BFF." It took me a long time to realize it meant "Backend For Frontend" API layer. 🤣

@_AndrewMortimer Hehe, no. 🤣

@walkingriver Did my fiancé send you this screenshot? 😂

A coworker just sent me this picture. No, those are not my books. You have to search for Michael D Callaghan to find my stuff. 😬

@twwilliams Not a problem I've had so far. This one was new to me. ☺️

@walkingriver Ah. I thought this was going to be about people re-publishing your work and putting their own names on it. Even authors who work with publishers have problems with this on Amazon.

@itsolelehmann Interesting. I do the exact opposite. "Tighten this email to reduce my rambling, removing anything that isn't necessary to make a decision." (For example)

I hate it so much that people now send you documents that are 10x longer than they should be (because of AI) it used to be that being lazy= sending very short emails/docs but now being lazy means not cleaning up your LLM outputs and puking 10 pages of slop

@Fletch911 I've heard about it from the victims' perspective but never from the PSAP. I'm glad to see they're working on the problem from that side.

Swatting has changed. It is no longer just a false 9-1-1 call. Today’s incidents may involve spoofed info, false identities, bad location data, digital breadcrumbs, and threats designed to force immediate action. The call may be fake, but the response is real. Register: nena.org/events/EventDe… #Swatting #NG911 #NENA

@codewithmercy We always make sure another AI does a thorough code review. 🤣

Are you fully reading AI-generated code, or just trusting the output and moving on? 😭

@twwilliams I have had great success (or failure, depending on your perspective) listening to my writing. I get a lot of "why did I write that???" moments.

@walkingriver I have heard that one of the best things to do is to read your writing on an unfamiliar form factor, or at least on a different one than where you wrote it, to spot things you wouldn't see otherwise.

I began reading one of my books last night on my Kindle, as if I'd never seen it before. Lots of thoughts, but mostly positive. I did find a bunch of phrases and sentences, and even a few entire paragraphs, that I highlighted for review and deletion.

@defense_of_fam Some of my best friends are tares 🤣

The Lord will cleanse His own house. That is not our responsibility. It is His. The wheat and tares will grow together until the end. We know this. Our responsibility is to be disciples of Christ—to live His gospel, to teach it to others, and to not be deceived.

15 years ago today. Hard to believe.

@defense_of_fam Ordered a bunch of cashews from Target. The packages were all broken open and the nuts strewn about the box.

POV: You order a graham cracker crust from Amazon. I knew I was taking a risk, but wow. Just trying to make a gluten-free pie for my sister. Lesson learned. 😂

One of the biggest AI productivity boost I've gotten lately is to make sure the full-stack source code is in my workspace and visible to Cursor, even though I only work in the UI. Cursor can trace bugs back through the entire stack and figure out where the root cause lives.

@SantoshYadavDev @LyalinDotCom I also learned this the hard way, but I was in my 30s. Took me three years and a friend taking a chance on me at his start up before I was coding professionally again.

One career mistake I made in my 20s, not being nice to people, I was ambitious and wanted to grow faster, which sometimes means burning bridges. When I was having a chat with @LyalinDotCom he also mentioned you should never burn bridges, be nice to people even if you hate them and move on. Tech is very small and you will find those people in some part of your career, also remember most of the time, people are nice and they act the way they do because of their situations. That doesn't define them as a person, look for positivity in everyone.

Today's LLMs can manage this complexity quite well. I believe we are about to see a renaissance of a simpler web.

@catalinmpit I'll take it even farther than that. Most public apps can probably get away with plain HTML + CSS, sprinkled with JS where necessary. Routing can be handled with files and URLs. Every page is an index.html in its own named folder. State is managed with session storage.

FINALLY! I've been saying this for a while. Most apps would be just fine using React, Vite and TanStack Router/React Router. Sadly, people love to overcomplicate things.

@BYUFlorida You’re a few months too late for the Big XII Tournament

So this is Texas

@baskarmib @housecor I have three different subscriptions, but tend to work separate my use of each one by project. So, I use Cursor for one project and Claude for another. I probably don't have to work this way, but it keeps me from getting confused when I move back and forth.

@mikecallaghan @housecor So how the experience been when you switch across models?

Poll: When your AI is down (Claude often is), what do you do?

@housecor I'm fortunate to have subscriptions to Cursor, Claude, and CoPilot provided for me.

@mikecallaghan Great point. Good reason to use multiple providers.