I find the witch-hunt behavior some people display for @manton to be exhausting.
For years I’ve introduced myself as Alex. Especially in English, as I find saying Alexander sounds very pretentious to my ears.
But I’ve come to the realization that my parents named me Alexander. Why would I not use my given name?
I feel like I made myself smaller by using the shortform.
Are AI products stale the day they ship?
At the pace AI moves, is selling an AI product just selling yesterday’s tech? I dropped that question into a community thread this week, and it’s still rattling around my head. Those of us in the field sprint just to keep up, and the ground shifts under anything sitting on top of it. By the time a product is built, tested, polished, and shipped, the layer beneath it has moved twice.
Sitting at the bus stop after realizing that the bus schedule I had in my head was wrong. The line doesn’t run every 30 minutes, but every hour. So 40 minutes of wait. At least the sun is shining.
This is a useful way to use LLM video generation.
Every wondered how it was on the Titanic?
For the Sake of Building?
Amidst the excitement of developing a new tool, uncertainty arises about its purpose and the motivation behind the creation process.
I remember one of the first things I „programmed“ was an HTML page. I was so proud of it that I showed the raw HTML to a friend of mine who I knew also made web pages. I couldn‘t comprehend that he didn‘t „see“ the page from looking at the HTML at the time. 😂
Fixed a major bottleneck in Classis today. Importing sessions for analytics purposes now is about 60x faster. A months worth of session logs took about 5 minutes. Now it’s barely 5 seconds.
Classis now also has a website!