On my blog: Developer Diary, World Refrigeration Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/26/refrigeration.html #programming #project #devjournal
@prologic@twtxt.net The hackathon project that I did recently used openai and embedded the response info into the prompt. So basically i would search for the top 3 most relevant search results to feed into the prompt and the AI would summarize to answer their question.
On my blog: Developer Diary, Juneteenth https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/19/juneteenth.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Day Against Child Labor https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/12/child-labor.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Environment Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/06/05/environment.html #programming #project #devjournal
“Sam Altman’s AI Hype Roadshow”
“The project of Altman and his merry band of doomsayers appears to be to capture power and create obfuscation by making new myths and legends”
“It assumes that no one will pull back the curtain and expose it as a market-expansion strategy”
Yes.
On my blog: Developer Diary, Day of UN Peacekeepers https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/29/peacekeepers.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Biodiversity Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/22/biodiv.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Nabka Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/15/nabka.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, WWII Remembrance https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/08/remembrance.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, International Workers’ Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/05/01/workers.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Fashion Revolution Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/24/fashion.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Lena Massacre https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/17/lena.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Siblings Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/10/siblings.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Yuknoom Yich’aak K’ahk’ https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/04/03/yuknoom.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Theatre Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/27/theatre.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, International Day of Happiness https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/20/happiness.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Aztec New Year (Belated) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/13/aztec.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, European Day of the Righteous https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/03/06/righteous.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Marathi Language Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/27/marathi.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Day of Social Justice https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/20/social-justice.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Radio Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/13/radio.html #programming #project #devjournal
I needed something to help with a morning schedule for two kiddos. It highlights the current 5-minute block as it goes. I think this was my first time reaching for JavaScript for a personal project. https://sidequest.club/stages.html
@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.
Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.
Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.
I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.
The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?
On my blog: Developer Diary, Day against FGM https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/02/06/no-fgm.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Fred Korematsu Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/30/korematsu.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/23/freedom.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Martin Luther King Jr. Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/16/mlk.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, Hōonkō https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/09/hoonko.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Diary, National Science Fiction Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/01/02/scifi.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Journal, Boxing Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/26/boxing.html #programming #project #devjournal
An interesting read about testing code using nullable states instead of mocks.
https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/testing-without-mocks/testing-without-mocks
On my blog: Developer Journal, International Human Solidarity Eve https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/19/solidarity.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Journal, Kanji Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/12/kanji.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Journal, Repeal Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/05/repeal.html #programming #project #devjournal
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org im talking like some JS projects i have seen with 1-2G node_modules dirs. though yarn is quite vast in its modules because it does a LOOOOOOT of stuff in the background.
On my blog: Developer Journal, Lā Kūʻokoʻa https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/28/kalahui.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: Developer Journal, Mayflower Compact https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/21/mayflower.html #programming #project #devjournal
Hi, I am playing with making an event sourcing database. Its super alpha but I thought I would share since others are talking about databases and such.
It’s super basic. Using tidwall/wal as the disk backing. The first use case I am playing with is an implementation of msgbus. I can post events to it and read them back in reverse order.

I plan to expand it to handle other event sourcing type things like aggregates and projections.
Find it here: sour-is/ev
@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org
The problem I have with the vast majority of social movements, left or right, is that they often lead to projection instead of introspection. Instead of person A trying to decide how person B can treat person C better, person A should try to decide how person A can treat person C better.
I might be in the minority on this, but given what small Web projects like Gemini aim to achieve, I don’t like the idea of establishing standards for Gemini capsules purely for the purpose of aiding automation.
I’ll likely take this down soonish as I think it’s pretty bad for usability, but as a fun hack, one of my weird side projects web pages now has monitor burn-in: http://txtpunk.com/index.html
I realized my twtxt client isn’t validating what it pulls once it gets a valid response when a domain started returning js-heavy parking pages for every URL. Oops. Weekend project, I guess. 🤦🏻
@prologic@twtxt.net yeah. For commercial use even. Just need to put an attribution note in the project README
Good weekend for random tech projects: this rackmount server I got free boots Plan 9 without issue, and my ttl adapters and wii nunchucks just arrived. Now where can I find a serial modem?
Only 1 day of activity so far, but I’ve started a new project log for whatever the heck I end up doing to this Monroe 425 I got. http://a.9srv.net/monroe425
On the blog: Developer Journal, Byrd Antarctic Expedition https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/29/south-pole.html #programming #project #devjournal
On the blog: Developer Journal, Albanian Alphabet Anniversary https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/22/manastir.html #programming #project #devjournal
No on gitlab. If its self hosted gitea is best in class.
I can see hosting a mirror on github if only for the redundancy/visibility. Some projects will host but then direct contributions on their self host. Like Go does.
I would suggest using a vanity domain that can redirect tools like go get to hosting of choice. And not require rewriting all the packages any time it gets moved.
On the blog: Developer Journal, Geography Awareness Week https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/11/15/geography.html #programming #project #devjournal