I'm a software engineer, coding since the '80s and building web apps since 2001. I love simplifying complex & messy legacy systems. I still help clients that emailed me decades ago.
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Last Notes npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner https://assets.toot.cafe/media_attachments/files/117/493/853/741/799/689/original/ee188d6ea8a054a2.png npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner It's much more enjoyable to go from a blank page to detailing out your ideas and how you want things to be, than to take some completed version of it from someone/thing else, reviewing it, and deciding how and where it differs from your ideal and trying to explain how and why you'd want to change each part of it. That's why it's so tempting to just say "Looks Good To Me!" npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Shout out to the quiet middle on here who don't like AI but use it because it lets them do things they wouldn't otherwise be able to do due to time and financial constraints, but can't talk about their experience without getting hated on by everyone else because holding two opposing ideas in your head is really hard to do. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Any major security vulnerabilities today or can we get back to working on normal things again? npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 🫛 🥔 🌽 npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I think it'd be fun to get a DVB-T modulator to basically run a tiny home television station and stream video throughout my home without wifi. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I'd never send an email written by an LLM, definitely never without reading it first, and that's why I'd never deliver code to a client without at least having read and edited it first. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I'd never send an email written by an LLM, definitely never without reading it first, and that's why I've never delivered code to a client without at least having read and edited it first. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Some company set up a bot net and programmed it to go hack servers across the Internet including government servers. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Yet another damaging about generative AI is that it allows people to make complicated things without caring. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I'm currently writing a very critically important piece of infrastructure, a multi-cloud autoscaling controller. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I'm currently writing a very criticall important piece of infrastructure, a multi-cloud autoscaling controller. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I guessed a lot of people had legacy software at work that nobody knew how to change. But a third?? npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner It's so obvious when a business doesn't care about its customers or its products and only cares about money. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Talked to a business owner today who wasn't sure what data they needed, because their product just dumps raw data into Claude and asks it to come up with insights and trends to report to their customer. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Anyone doing autoscaling in production without Kubernetes and without a cloud-provided autoscaling solution eg. AWS AutoScaling? npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…thy7 Coding with Jesse was my label for teaching coding, but doesn't make as much sense for my freelancing business, and I use my website for both. So I figure my name will always be applicable no matter what I write about, less confusing. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I've officially switched my blog & website over from codingwithjesse.com to jesseskinner.com. Mixed feelings but I think it's the right move for the long term.. 🥲 npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner It's funny how people from countries with amendments tend to speak as if everyone lives in countries with those amendments. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Typewriter ad, seen in Victoria Albert South Kensington, London. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Getting this error sporadically in the past couple of hours on a mission critical bucket in AWS S3, spooked me but it's a false alarm: npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…hzas thanks! npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I wrote a new page to my site explaining what it's like to work with me, would love any feedback: npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…40t9 maybe "projected seasonal average" will become a new thing.. based on climate change trajectories. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner To make nodejs date-related tests work in multiple time zones, here's a little trick (hack?) npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…yz28 I know a couple non-developers for whom vibe coding is the only option. There's no practical way they're going to suddenly become expert developers managing these massive slop codebases. I worry what'll happen to their products & businesses when the economics inevitably change. I'll be able to say told-you-so, but it still won't be a happy ending. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Intelligence (artificial or real) isn't in the words themselves but in the knowledge and meaning and insight and wisdom that the words symbolize. Words are the finger pointing at the moon. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…wmzr but how fun would it be to trick Reuters into publishing the headline "Scientists think aliens may be communicating with us through our dreams". 😏 npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…wmzr totally, and that's why it's such a fun example of the cluelessness of science in this area.. that they can seemingly get away with saying the wackiest stuff here because we have so little idea what consciousness is. I suppose you could literally say "maybe it's ____" with your craziest idea and get that published because why not? npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…wmzr actually the most interesting bit was the idea that maybe we share a collective consciousness with all the alternative versions of ourselves.. multiverse theory or not, I've never heard this before and it's also a fun concept to think about (even if silly/impossible). npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…wmzr yeah it's so unscientific, and the news articles that picked this up really didn't capture that. I think it's fun to "dream" about what it could all be, maybe that inspires someone to come up with experiments which can explore this better. Surprised to see this published. The peer reviews are actually pretty interesting to read too. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner "Dreams might also function as conduits to alternative dimensions or elevated states of consciousness, suggesting a more profound and expansive role than traditionally conceive." npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner "Dreams might also function as conduits to alternative dimensions or elevated states of consciousness, suggesting a more profound and expansive role than traditionally conceive." npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🎆 npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Shout out to all the developers out there resisting the pull to become a project manager of a team of LLMs. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Shout out to all the developers out there resisting the pull to become a project manager of a team of LLMs. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Was listening to some Alan Watts on YouTube. He kept saying "Not A. Not B. C." and "It isn't A, it's B." that is so typical of LLMs. So I was thinking I better adjust my AI detection because obviously this recording from the 60s isn't AI. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…6qkm lol "Layoff announcements" npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I've been trying to minimize my use of LLMs, but as a software engineer there are some tasks that are way easier, so it's hard to cut out completely. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I wonder if one day "If you could pass the salt, that would be great." will be shortened to "Pass the salt would be great." and eventually "Begreat pass the salt." or something, the same way that saying "please" comes from "if it pleases you" but now we just say "please pass the salt". npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Wow, a cacheable POST. Or is it a GET with form data? Makes total sense. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner The best and worst thing about LLMs is that they take all the text in the world and compress it down to a few gigabytes of data. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…jjxk Monster Energy's got what plants crave. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…u8fp but that would scare off all the billionaires! npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Oh wow, my recent blog post was discussed on a podcast..! That's definitely a first for me. Very weird and cool. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Learning vim motions is so over-focused on the hjkl arrow keys at first, but it's funny because once you learn the rest of the motions, you barely use the hjkl keys at all, because there are better/easier ways to move around. #vim npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner TIL you can show a notification from inside a terminal (Ghostty, and a few others) with the following command: npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner "As it's all electricity in the end us in the hardware side will keep whittling away at the useless state machines and VMs programmers hallucinated up as essential when they’re really just outdated relics of an era of less performant hardware. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner This is a first.. my latest blog post pissed someone off enough that they wrote me an anonymous email through my website: npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner It's fun to blow up on the front page of hacker news once in a while, but god damn there are some cruel folks on there. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner "My team is so good at using Claude & codex, they don't even read or write code anymore!" npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Originally published at: https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/rockstar-developers/ npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner If you find yourself lost, unable to understand what the LLM is doing or why, tap the brakes. It's okay to move slower, to ensure the software you're generating is high quality. It's also okay to prevent over-engineering, to simplify and simplify until the architecture matches the complexity of the problem. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner There are many ways to use an LLM that don't allow it to act like a rockstar. You can lead the engineering, and guide the LLM to generate small snippets at a time. You can ensure that the software is written in a way that everyone on your team will be able to understand and work with it easily. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Sitting down with a pile of slop isn't as fun as cleaning up after a rockstar. At least the rockstar had some kind of design in mind, and was trying to do their best. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner (Though I believe it'll be those who let LLMs write all their code who will ultimately be left behind.) npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner The AI has a toolbox of best practices that probably don't apply here. It insists on the "belt and suspenders" way of doing things, even when the complexity outweighs the benefit. When asked to review your code, it comes up with a long list of improvements, many of which you disagree with. The bar has been raised for everyone, and many feel they need to use LLMs or else they'll fall behind forever. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner The agent doesn't remember anything it did yesterday. It happily generates tens of thousands of lines of code in minutes. It works to complete tasks as fast as unhumanly possible. It doesn't care whether this code will fit with all the other code in the system. It also doesn't care whether the system is becoming more understandable, or worse. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner In the past years, most teams have been overwhelmed by an army of rockstars. Every time someone starts a new chat, there's the risk of adding a rockstar to the team. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner As I've gone through the process, I've seen some patterns. These rockstars absolutely love coding, learning, and using new paradigms, and it shows. They're always pushing themselves to the edge of their abilities, writing the most clever code they can. They are focused on moving as fast as they can. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I've worked with many teams and agencies who needed me to clean up after these rockstars. I actually love the challenge of trying to understand and rescue a messy codebase. It's like sitting down with a box of tangled string lights, and pulling it apart until they're usable again. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner You tried to tell your boss that you think the code needs a rewrite. They didn't believe you, because it was written by the rockstar himself. As you waded through the slop, you browsed job postings and fantasized about leaving. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Suddenly, you were asked to take over the rockstar's projects. You dug into the code, and you found yourself buried alive. The flow of data was so hard to follow, it seemed like someone was trying to cover up a murder. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Everyone else was moving a lot slower in comparison. Everyone was struggling to keep up, to learn the new libraries, and to do things the rockstar way. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner They rewrote most of the company's core architecture. They introduced new build processes, new tools, new languages. They rejected most pull requests, raising the bar on what was expected of everyone else. Nobody understood the code they wrote but nobody would admit it. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner https://www.codingwithjesse.com/blog/rockstar-developers/ npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner If LLMs are writing all your code, you're going to be left behind! npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…tqjm @nprofile…vzzc really cool idea! npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I seem to always have at least one service not set up "properly", where it was a quick demo that turned into a production service, where I have to: npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…eew3 got in trouble in grade 8 for changing the PROMPT to something funny on the only DOS computer in the school, the one in the library with Carmen Sandiego on it. Librarian just knew it was me and dragged me out of class to go change it back. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner "Most phone programs were equipped with cos- metic video subprograms written to bring the video image of the owner into greater accordance with the more widespread para- digms of personal beauty, erasing blemishes and subtly molding facial outlines to meet idealized statistical norms." npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Wondering if anyone knows of any good active virtual tech meetups? Like zoom calls, or maybe discord voice etc.. Anything related to #programming, #linux, etc. etc. I'm open to hearing about any and all. They seem hard to find.. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I learned all the #vim motions last evening, dreamt about them all night, and used #neovim for all my work today! Why didn't I do this sooner?? npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…jqlq "You may run Syd as a regular user, with no extra privileges, and you can even set Syd as your login shell." npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…jqlq yeah I was looking at Qubes as an option too, but came up with using user accounts as like a cheap version of a similar approach. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner With all the supply chain attacks, I'm looking at isolating my dev environments. The obvious choices include Docker/Devcontainers, VMs, using a VPS in the cloud.. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner With all the supply chain attacks, I'm looking at isolating dev #linux environments. The obvious choices include Docker containers, VMs, using a VPS in the cloud.. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I'm learning vim motions tonight, because I'd like to get rid of vs code and switch to nvim. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner 👎 Articifial Intelligence npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…fhvz signed up - much appreciated!! npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…fhvz yep that'd be perfect - thanks! npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Does anyone have an extra lobste.rs invite? 🙏 npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Made with no artificial colours, flavours or intelligence. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner "Artificial Intelligence" is to "intelligence" what "Artificial flavour" is to "flavour". npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner "Artificial Intelligence" is to "intelligence" what "Artificial flavour" is to flavour. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner They're calling it a "technical recession" which is, technically speaking, a recession. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner I realise this sounds either Utopian or dystopian, but I want to clarify that when I say industrial revolution, I mean it with all the good and bad that came from it. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner AI today is similar to the industrial revolution, but I think LLMs are like the first steam engines, filthy things barfing out massive amounts of waste and noise and pollution to do very little useful work. A brutal, rough proof of concept. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…easc I looked it up and it suggested we log out and log back in with the 2nd one to install it, then some other steps I forget. When we tried that I got a "Explorer.exe Class not registered" error and nothing worked. Pretty brutal for a fresh install of a brand new laptop! npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…easc we created a new account for him for the laptop specifically. But he also already had an account he uses for Minecraft, and that second account is the one that owns a copy of Minecraft. So I tried logging into the Microsoft store with the 2nd one and it said Minecraft was "owned" but wouldn't let me install it. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner My ten-year-old got his first laptop. Windows install was a nightmare, the Microsoft account nonsense meant we couldn't even get Minecraft installed after 2 hours of working on it. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner This audiobook is free on Spotify premium. Thinking about running it through speech-to-text to convert it into a free ebook. 🤓 npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Is your business AI-ready and built for Internet scale? npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner The high egress data fees at #AWS make it a black hole for your data - once it goes in, its costly to get it out again. At very high volumes of data, it's an expensive mistake. There are better options out there! npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Ultraman: How to Train Your Kaiju npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner @nprofile…3h02 so often I'm using one of these thinking I could definitely help the company make this better. Sometimes I even try reaching out, but I'm always dismissed or ignored, probably because I get lumped in with all that spam like "need help with SEO and fixing your website?" npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Shout out to all of those who go extra hard on the MagiQuest at Great Wolf Lodge. You're my people. 🪄🧙♂️🧙♀️ npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Originally posted at: npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner By keeping things simple for my clients, I took on a lot of complexity. I went further down this rabbit hole than I had to, but I'm glad this legacy web application ended up being modernized in the process. npub1aj2sj6thre0tdc2ad0qh49c3rt4wkyygsgahgklzyg6y7xp97ccqcw2k4y Jesse Skinner Simplifying things for my clients
