Erik Hellman
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Erik Hellman
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Drinking coffee and pair programming with a cat.
How about a compromise? ;)
February 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Go home U.S.A.

You're drunk.
January 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
An interesting take on "Eat the rich"
“Will pay any amount.”

Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.
January 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Jag vill inte påstå att det hänger ihop, men igår kollade jag på Järnvägskollapsen och idag gick mitt tåg sönder mellan Tranås och Nässjö sönder så jag fick vända om och åka hem till Stockholm igen.

Lärdomar av detta är att inte titta på TV och inte åka tåg.

www.svtplay.se/video/Kv1Ynd...
Hur fan hamnade vi här? – 1. Järnvägskollapsen
Den svenska tågtrafiken slår rekord i usel punktlighet, resenärerna blir allt mer missnöjda och underhållsskulden närmar sig 90 miljarder kronor. Komikern Messiah Hallberg granskar olika delar av vårt...
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January 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Erik Hellman
”För oss är det djupt oroväckande när svenska politiker reagerar starkare på vår kampanj än på det faktum att palestinier i Gaza förnekas rätten till vatten, mat, vård – och liv", skriver Amnesty.

www.etc.se/debatt/amnes...
Amnesty: Omvärlden måste reagera när Israel begår folkmord
”För oss är det djupt oroväckande när svenska politiker reagerar starkare på vår kampanj än på det faktum att palestinier i Gaza förnekas rätten till vatten, mat, vård – och liv", skriver Amnesty.
www.etc.se
December 31, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Happy new year!

2025 is going to be the year for Linux on desktop!

Also a HL3 release.
January 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If you want to do some more advanced data visualization, is it still D3.js which is the go-to solution or do we have something better these days? #data #dataviz #developer
December 29, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Apparently Space Karen thinks we should stop donating to Wikipedia.

You know what to do.

donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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December 27, 2024 at 12:15 PM
I was playing around with Ultrawide Band (UWB)to test out some ideas I have. However, only the top tier Android phones (Pixel Pro and Samsung Galaxy S) have support for this.

Meanwhile, the iPhone has supported this since the iPhone 11.
December 26, 2024 at 5:47 PM
This is an amazing story!
Punctuation matters. Way more than you think. Bad punctuation can be devastating.

Don't believe me?

Alright, then gather around, children, because I'm going to tell you a short true story about how not understanding ONE punctuation mark once cost a company millions of dollars in a lawsuit.
December 24, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Alla offentliga upphandlingar som TietoEVRY, Oracle, Accenture, och gänget har vunnit...
Så, det här är du. Vad är det som får dig så här uppspelt, vad pratar du om? Vad redogör du för? Vad avslöjar du? #theplotthickens #mysteryunveiled #conspiracyuncovered
December 21, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Erik Hellman
”Det är din mormor. Hon är 91 år. Hon gav din mamma liv. Och snart är hon antagligen död.”

@fjalalvand.bsky.social frågespalt i @sydsvenskan.se
December 21, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

My favourite Scotty.
December 21, 2024 at 9:32 AM
I don't think there's anyone who has used Bluetooth that would say that it's a nice technology from a user perspective.

But why is this such a bad user experience and why has it not been fixed in the 25 years it has been around?

The only exception is Apple, so it is possible to get it right.
December 20, 2024 at 12:05 PM
A question for my #iOS and #Android followers:

Those of you who have apps using hardware features like Camera, Bluetooth, NFC or similar; are you writing integration tests for these features that you run automatically on your CI pipelines? If so, what's your setup for this?
December 8, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Reposted by Erik Hellman
Fun fact: If someone quotes a post of yours in a way that is unwelcome (as is commonplace on Twitter/X) there is a tool to combat the unwanted attention. Simply click the three dot menu on the quote post & click "Detach quote". This removes your post from their quote post. Useful to know, do share!
November 12, 2024 at 2:19 PM
Reposted by Erik Hellman
A few months ago I shipped a bug that broke a feature that users hit at app launch. When fixing it, I added a feature flag to disable that feature entirely if needed.

I had to use that feature flag today. Use feature flags, my friends.
December 2, 2024 at 11:24 AM
Any experts on #LLM who can shed some light on this?

As we now can use ChatGPT and such to generate code for an entire application/system, why do we have to go through a high level language and not just generate machine code directly?
December 2, 2024 at 8:01 AM
Reposted by Erik Hellman
Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why.

Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social

🧵
December 1, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Reposted by Erik Hellman
I think Jupyter notebooks and SQL are really similar. Both are screwed up in really obvious ways but both are very useful and ubiquitous.
December 1, 2024 at 1:36 PM
November 30, 2024 at 6:09 PM
November 28, 2024 at 11:42 AM
I'm making a conference talk with the title "Bad Kotlin Advice".

Dear #Android and #Kotlin community, you know what to do. Reply with the worst Kotlin code possible. :)
November 28, 2024 at 6:06 AM
Läser krönikan av @emmabouvin.bsky.social i DN och inser att jag alltför sällan uppmärksammar när en journalist skriver något riktigt bra.

Så om Emma ser detta; jag läser nästan allt du skriver och det är alltid toppen och mina vänner skulle säga samma sak. Tack för allt!

www.dn.se/varlden/emma...
Emma Bouvin: Jag har undvikit att skriva den här texten
Terapeuten säger att det är viktigt att vara beredd på publik avhyvling. DN:s Emma Bouvin är omgiven av hantlar och svett när stunden verkar vara inne.
www.dn.se
November 28, 2024 at 6:04 AM