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Author of the @OReillyMedia books Head First Ruby and Head First Go. Developer with 20 years of experience. Moved to https://t.co/8B2jgs0JTO

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Head First Ruby: Simplified Chinese Edition! Trying not to geek out, and not really succeeding. :) Thanks, @OReillyMedia!
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@cooperx86 Yup, I could see that being unreasonably effective, even today. 🤢
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RT @vectorlovers: Walked carefree in the field, winter sun in blue sky, the dog chasing the wind. On return, a few minutes scrolling throug…
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@mcmire Same here. I like my code not to have subtle bugs in it.
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RT @iavins: Open Source, Not Open Contribution Contributing to SQLite is invite-only (I don't have a source). Only after you are invited a…
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RT @monteslu: IoT-based game dev directly on cheap retro handheld using @NodeRED :) #gamedev #WebDev #IoT #javascript #haxmas https://t.co…
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RT @Kawaiikochans: Hi, it's Kawaiikochans. As for these kawaiis, we've arrived at Bluesky with "Comic!" Please cont…
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RT @MoralAnxiety: I plan to start posting more, but it's time for me to give up on this place Twitter. I was hoping it would return to norm…
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RT @kepano: File over app File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can con…
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RT @StrongBadActual: Just a li'l 'ween short, just a li'l 'ween short. Nothin' fancy, nothin fancy. (flash version:
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@cooperx86 Have you played Hypnospace Outlaw? It's basically a love letter to websites of that era. Great stuff. Also, if you tire of hosting it personally, this would fit right in on
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RT @mollipen: I want to talk more about one of the really cool parts of this campaign—the companion website I built—a bit later, but for no…
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@cooperx86 So eldritch. (Seriously, that's horrifying. Were the supports algorithmically generated by slicer software, or did someone do that manually?) Result is awesome, though!
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@FilmCow Is the strike removed from your account? 😡 if not.
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@Yudou Of all the clips you've shown, this one is the most important.
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@cooperx86 That could be video-generative AI's Turing test. When you can drop generated scenes into Koyaanisqatsi and no one notices, it'll mean humanity is done and we can retire. (Or serve our new AI masters eternally, whichever.)
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RT @monkantony_tez: All love to the greatest, Vera Molnár, I hear a lot—and maybe many think—she is the first woman computer/generative art…
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@cooperx86 I've talked to one (a good guy that you may have heard of), and in his case he had to lay off staff and shrink scope of operations considerably. I'm sure a lot of others have had to simply find other types of work.
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RT @MoralAnxiety: Dear Travelers, It’s been two years since Roadwarden’s release. I can’t believe that over this time my humble game passed…
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RT @mcmire: I just watched Bret's 2018 talk. I came away feeling enlightened... and angry. We have been done a great wrong by Big Tech, who…
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