@kelseyhightower.com - Kelsey Hightower bsky.app

Crypto. No ethics. No integrity. Just money.

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I did not create this memecoin nor do I endorse any memecoins.

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I just don't get it. Someone help me understand. How is this not a Ponzi scheme?

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It seems the crypto community has found a new way to extract money from people. They are creating tokens for popular open source projects and inviting maintaine...

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Google + Apple resulted in Google's search expanded reach. Now we're adding AI to the mix. Apple still controls distribution of the entire Apple ecosystem.

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Yes, we need code reviews.

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When the bad guys win they become fixated on rewriting history and reframing themselves as the good guys.

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This makes sense to me.

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I bet code review pipelines are on fire. We were barely able to keep up when people were writing the code.

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In some ways tool mandates feel like an industry norm. For years companies have restrict their developers to only using Windows laptops, GitHub for version cont...

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How do people feel about the usage of GenAI tools being mandated at work?

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Every few months I take GenAI tools for a spin. As my experiments get more complex, this is what I expect to find, but I feel it's super important that I gain t...

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This is why I use the block button with little hesitation. Why do people talk to each other like this?

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I refuse to call it vibe coding, but I prompted my way to a command line tool, written in C, that converts millimeters to inches and vice versa. A few prompts l...

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This is the part about LLMs I don't like. Seems some of the people behind them don't mind stealing from others.

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I'm in Richmond VA, and as a fan of public transportation, I'm pleasantly surprised to learn all buses are zero fare! Free WiFi too.

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I want this next generation of software development tools to run on my own computer. Vim and Emacs helped democratize software development and made it accessibl...

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