Errol Schmidt

reinteractive delivers a comprehensive App Review for Ruby on Rails. Needless to say over the years we have found some incredible things here are my top 5 good and bad (all real examples for production apps!) (a thread)

@joseph_h_garvin Even if it can run that long it shouldn't. Their is an inevitability of bugs that need to be found by manual testing. Test after every ticket and you will save time (nothing has changed in this regard)

Claude code rarely runs for longer than 15m without stopping and asking for input from me. How do all these stories of people letting agents run overnight work? Custom harnesses? Yelling at Claude in all caps to keep going no matter what?

@CuriosityonX Lucky humans don't have the brain size of a fish

The invisible Glass experiment Scientists once placed a transparent glass barrier inside an aquarium. On one side was a fierce pike, and on the other side were several smaller fish swimming freely. When the hungry pike saw the smaller fish, it immediately rushed forward to attack. Bang. It slammed straight into the glass and bounced back. Confused, the pike kept trying again and again, but every attempt ended the same way. The repeated collisions injured its head and knocked off some of its scales. Eventually, the pike became frightened and retreated to a corner of the tank. After some time, the scientists quietly removed the glass barrier. The smaller fish now swam freely throughout the aquarium, even brushing against the pike’s mouth. But the pike never tried to eat them again. Even though it was hungry, it refused to attack. In its mind, the invisible wall was still there. A few days later, the pike reportedly died of starvation, surrounded by food. This phenomenon is often referred to as the Pike Effect or Pike Syndrome. It’s often used as a metaphor for how repeated failure can create invisible limits in the mind.

@DemoniacoASX Or ban them in casinos first?

$1.1m lost every hour Pokies need to be banned outside of casinos. They are a plague on society. Literally nothing good comes from them. smh.com.au/national/nsw/1…

@zilasino If you're using mostly AI tools, it is also the safest

Is Rails still the fastest way to build a serious MVP in 2025?

@VigilantFox Carlson' s entire bit is using semantics to make people look bad

A reporter asks Tucker Carlson if Israel has a “right to exist.” Tucker flips the question right back and asks her to define what “right to exist” means. And then this happened.

@CyrusShepard that's google.com - been done already

Using AI to create a website that contains every possible sentence in the world so I can rank in Google for everything 🤯📈

@chinafutureclub Nope - I'm in Melbourne and the roads were packed today. Shopping centers are full as well

Friends in Australia telling me petrol prices are so bad the roads are quiet. Is this true? The war only started 3 weeks ago!

@nikitabier @WallStreetApes Nikita with the receipts

@WallStreetApes In the last 48 hours, you got 12.3 million impressions. You also posted 118 times. There are other posters that we sometimes need to give visibility too.

I love it when Codex tells me that a bug was real. It's as if it was prepared for me to have been making the bug up as user error, but was surprised to find that it was actually a real bug

@LinusEkenstam Amazing technology, but whats the use case (don't say food delivery pleeeeease)

No just have 1000 of these chasing you down…

@jespr stopped paying $60 per month and built my own

Does anyone have some accounting software they like? I'm currently using QuickBooks and it's not ...great - i feel like half the stuff i search for shows up half the time

@nikitabier My experience is that articles already get les exposure on X than a regular post. Now we are reducing them down to just a post anyway. What's the point?

We’re rolling out summaries for Articles now. Just tap the Summarize button if you want to know if it’s worth your time to read it (or if your attention span is 12 seconds).

@jtimsuggs Imagine they are tree tops further away down hill, so we only see the tops. When the reverse angle happens we are positioned between the trees and Luke, so the trees being behind the camera are out of shot. That's not what happened here, but it might help :)

Forever obsessed with these bushes in the original Star Wars film from 1977 that magically disappear in-between shots

@Shpigford But was anyone cooked?

the fact that anyone thought i was serious is a perfect commentary on the state of this site.

@kyrylo ever typed git pull instead by mistake?

Always git push, never git psuh

Google eSign - replaced the whole workflow. The problem with eSign products is that you need something that is backed by confidence. There are plenty of businesses doing it better and cheaper, but since no one has heard of them they offer low confidence - you might as well sign a PDF in acrobat.

What are we using instead of paying Docusign $65/month now?

@davidhdev @stitchbygoogle Someone told me yesterday that the purple to blue gradient is the design equivalent of an em dash

Just one-shotted this design with @stitchbygoogle. You’re not ready for this level of design.

@OfficialLoganK @GoogleAIStudio Using the term 'vibe coding' is off putting for serious and professional developers. Can we call it something else?

Tomorrow we will unveil the all new vibe coding experience in @GoogleAIStudio, the team has spent 4 months rebuilding it all from scratch and smoothing out rough edges to help everyone bring their ideas to life. This is a big step forward, but just the start : )

This is the tool that Codex and Claude are missing: I suggest trying it out.