Ian Carpenter

Ian Carpenter

@iancarpenter.dev

Down this road...

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Another absolute banger from Safia

Safia Abdalla@captainsafia.com

Another winter break coding side quest... I created a CLI tool called "burrow" for managing local secrets, inspired by `dotnet user-secrets`. But, itโ€™s a standalone executable and it uses SQLite instead of JSON as the backing store. Check it out at safia.rocks/burrow/ ๐Ÿฐ

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Episode 1000 of RunAs Radio is coming up and will be a Q&A show: send questions on the topics, the show itself, even specific guests! Record an audio file or write and send it to info@runasradio.com. If we answer your question, we'll send you a 1000th episode RunAs mug!

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I just wanted to say, Iโ€™m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything Iโ€™ve ever done so Iโ€™m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

youtu.beTech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortlandYouTube video by TEDx Talks

Ian Carpenter reposted

It's super inefficient (and expensive) to have an LLM work on your data and files (CSV, markdown, whatever) directly. Have it create a script for you instead. I made a video about "compiling" markdown to one of @adamwathan.com's new Tailwind templates this way: thenext.dev/blog/creatin...

thenext.devCreating a Markdown CompilerOne of the most powerful things that AI can do for you is to create a script that does a thing you don't want to do. Mind-numbing, boring tasks, like compiling markdown documents into a format for a d...
Lily Ray ๐Ÿ˜@lilyray.nyc

The past 2 weeks with ChatGPT Me: please take this CSV file and do this basic thing with the data ChatGPT: no problem, done Me: this is bad. Most rows are empty and you didnโ€™t do the thing I asked ChatGPT: โ€œyouโ€™re absolutely rightโ€ (Yes, Claude or Gemini usually work better)

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Our Build closing keynote was so fun - watch to find out if we get a robot to fetch Scott his diet cokes:

Scott Hanselman ๐ŸŒฎ@scott.hanselman.com

Our closing locknote (keynote opensโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ”’) with @markrussinovich.bsky.social is up! Absolutely insane and tense series of entirely live demos! May have been our best talk ever with a nail biting finale youtu.be/KIFDVOXMNDc?...

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Plenty of things to dislike about the UK government, but its digital services are not one of them. Weโ€™re incredibly lucky to be served by people that care as much as the folks behind gov.uk do. This page is a goldmine.

Joe Lanman@joelanman.com

All the cool stuff GOV.UK provides to help people design and build services www.gov.uk/service-tool...

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โœจ It's new samwho visual essay o'clock! โœจ Reservoir sampling is one of my favourite algorithms. It allows you to sample from a set without knowing the size of that set. I try to assume no prior knowledge, and use no scary math notation. Just beautiful visuals. Let me know what you think! โค๏ธ