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Sorry, one last tweet before I go. This is the worst intentional user experience of all time. Someone links you to their profile, you click follow, and then Mastodon tells you to open your server, copy and paste the link into a search box, and then click follow there.

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Having watched the escalating descent of Elon drama over the last few weeks I’ve decided to take the week off from tweeting to see how it feels. It’s not even a moral stance, I’m just not enjoying tweeting much. If you want my silly bite-sized thoughts… @...

All those and more count, and just wait until they start shipping new features. Software breaks with change, and there hasn’t been much change yet.

Also people keep saying “well if the engineers were so important than why isn’t the site blowing up?” Have you noticed timelines and tweets randomly not loading? Have you seen how shorty the trends page is without curation? Have you been getting more spam DMs?

You know, I’m opening this app less and less and making peace with it. I’ll miss everything I’ve been able to learn by being on Twitter, but it isn’t that fun anymore when I watch new management lie, berate, and publicly shame my former coworkers by posting out of context quotes.

I took a nap and dreamed that I was laying in bed scrolling Twitter, it may have been the most realistic dream I’ve ever had.

Messi is the king of short kings.

Astronauts are always having a blast.

Orthodontist managers are great at retaining talent.

ChatGPTweet composed this message.

Twitter’s trends have become a complete train wreck since they fired all the curators who worked around the clock made it usable for 100+ million people, surprising result.

I’m in a bit of a reading rut, what’s a great article you’ve read lately? It doesn’t have to be about tech, current events, or the zeitgeist, but it should be something that’s shaped the way you think in some manner.

If it helps this is my “reading list”....

6/ That’s how both sides are wrong, but both sides are also right. I think this is a problem of kind, not class. There are a lot of options to fix this, toggles that can be adjusted to reach equilibrium, but both sides are receding further and further into their own corners.

5/ And capitalists ignore that capitalism is particularly good at at maximizing short term incentives, ignoring long-term consequences. There are many means to measure progress, to not avoid being stuck in status quo bias, but a higher GDP is not an end all be all of success.

4/ People who focus on the ethics of technology dislike that there’s no pause in the process for introspection. People are not going to stop innovating because there are too many incentives not to. With technology moving so fast, you need to resort to draconian measure to do so.

3/ That’s why you constantly have capitalists and the “ethics class” at each other’s throats about whether a certain technology should exist. We’ve seen this play out with Twitter, the internet, and it’s currently happening with ChatGPT. Each side is both right and wrong.

2/ The answer isn’t pausing technology, but deriving consensus on the role of technology in our society, with input from people, government, and organizations. That means slowing down sometimes, but also not sitting around and pretending that technology won’t move forward.

1/ Somehow I’ve never tweeted this but my long-held belief is that technology is running about 20-50 years ahead of society right now. We don’t have answer so it can feel like things are out of control is because we’re not looking for them, and in that void technology runs wild.

A programming problem that looks easy but ends up being hard? The ol’ bait and switch case.

I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why /hello worked but /token/exchange didn’t. Admittedly not having internet on my flight meant I couldn’t look up the docs, and this is why programming is hard for everyone.

In case you’re ever embarrassed about your code, I spent 6 hours debugging why I couldn’t send data to my Vapor server running on localhost.

Turns out their routes look like this:
<a href="http://http://app.post("token"," class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://http://app.post("token", "exchange”),

Not:
<a href="http://http://app.post(&quot;token/exchange”)" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://http://app.post("token/exchange”)