Software

Programming and software tools: code, apps, devops, note systems

A topic in the tpot Community Archive, drawn from 10,088 posts.

Trusted voices in Software

Ordered by the trust Software's own network concentrates on each poster, most first.

  1. DefenderOfBasic — trusted by 137 posters here
  2. visakanv — trusted by 143 posters here
  3. patio11 — trusted by 98 posters here
  4. xsphi — trusted by 101 posters here
  5. eshear — trusted by 119 posters here
  6. eigenrobot — trusted by 106 posters here
  7. exgenesis — trusted by 113 posters here
  8. __drewface — trusted by 93 posters here
  9. mechanical_monk — trusted by 95 posters here
  10. Malcolm_Ocean — trusted by 92 posters here
  11. goblinodds — trusted by 87 posters here
  12. DanielleFong — trusted by 83 posters here

Top posts in Software

Ordered by the recorded like count from the source corpus; a like is not an endorsement.

  1. hello i made a thing it allows you to fetch a list of someone's follows, followers, or mutuals, or combine two such lists from two users, and export the results to CSV or JSON below i'll list some… (mechanical_monk) — 32 likes
  2. it’s my 31st birthday today 🥳 I am grateful to be here ❤️🙏🏾 my bday wish is that you take a sec to reach out to somebody who has helped you: a friend, a mentor, or even a podcaster or youtuber… (visakanv) — 30 likes
  3. hi everyone. I made a chrome extension that shows you the tweets that two people have made to each other over the years. In theory this is great and lets you find great conversations of the past. In… (bashu_thanks) — 30 likes
  4. git: 'gud' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. what am i doing wrong (eshear) — 28 likes
  5. today is my birthday! thank you all for being a part of my life and imagination!! I am happier for your presence. (christineist) — 27 likes
  6. GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! ThreadHelper is now available! You can go get it at https://t.co/vI0KWAfUny Here is what it looks like and what it does: https://t.co/etHq4r5sXc (nosilverv) — 25 likes
  7. I gotta be honest, I’m excited about Vision Pro and AR stuff for one reason, and one reason only: The human mind works best spatially, great ideas happen when we have universal basic… (the_wilderless) — 25 likes
  8. ran it like 4 times and keep getting the same glitch wtf https://t.co/PuTt7QSIzH (michaelcurzi) — 24 likes
  9. feels a little like all the people I know who've done enough somatic/emotions/woo work, have stopped enjoying coding jobs are there any people who've gone deeply into this sort of thing, but who… (ElodesNL) — 24 likes
  10. i was so confused by this tweet until i found out that samsara is a tech company in the bay area https://t.co/CXizSJWgL2 (visakanv) — 23 likes
  11. actually insane that solar panels and semiconductors are basically the same technology. turns out that halfway up the technological tree for teaching sand to think you also get to turn light into… (cis_female) — 23 likes
  12. building hot new app to match 19 year old college students who need alcohol to 27 year olds who need academic library access (demiurgently) — 23 likes
  13. visa was having trouble uploading his archiveit turns out one tweet (out of 260,000) from 2012 had an invisible null unicode character, which postgres specifically doesn't allow lol (exgenesis) — 23 likes
  14. time estimates from software devs actually make sense if you think of them as "this is how long it would take me the second time if i did this twice in a row" (mechanical_monk) — 22 likes
  15. a personal finance app should obviously give you a sankey diagram of your income + expenses right https://t.co/c87yfJaCoA (br___ian) — 22 likes
  16. I'm going to be building a personal app that allows me to permalink to all the tweets in my archive, to keep them alive even if, somehow, I lose everything here. if you're interested in helping, or… (__drewface) — 21 likes
  17. i would like it if someone build a very good app for walking & thinking out loud. 1. put airpod in 2. press record 3. lock & pocket phone 4. talk for a long while 5. stop recording (or… (_brentbaum) — 20 likes
  18. aella's made this public now. so anyway stay strapped https://t.co/3OKQDEaFVR (eigenrobot) — 20 likes
  19. holy shit in 1784 when edmund cartwright saw the mechanical turk play chess he was like "fuck it, if machines can play chess, they can weave" and then invented the mechanical loom (natural_hazard) — 19 likes
  20. i fantasize about being kidnapped, about being imprisoned, forced to do manual labor, to break rocks in the sun with my bare hands, forced to come back into contact with the ground, anything at all… (QiaochuYuan) — 19 likes
  21. today I met someone who's been programming for 25 years and specifically values "high-efficiency, low-tech" tech tech that "gets people off of it, and back into the physical world" and also… (relic_radiation) — 19 likes
  22. thinking is easy, information architecture is hard (visakanv) — 18 likes
  23. imo this is good actually one of the things about switching from one system to another that's maybe counter-intuitive is that it can be worthwhile to take on higher switching costs for a bit for a… (visakanv) — 18 likes
  24. someone needs to invent a drug that turns you into a good housewife. you would think it either adderall or estrogen would do the trick, but both of those just turn you into a software engineer (xsphi) — 18 likes
  25. playing around with a Zen Mode for Bluesky: - 1 post at a time - just the text - you can drag the posts around your workspace to connect ideas (soon) - you can like and reply, but you see no social… (__drewface) — 18 likes
  26. imo this sort of “comment your code” principle generalizes far beyond this. i recommend writing little notes to yourself and others like this about literally everything. gotta be microreview maxxin’… (visakanv) — 18 likes
  27. I have tried to explain to a few women how to torrent & invariably this is the step they can't wrap their minds around. 'What do you mean that one of these Download buttons works fine and the… (michaelcurzi) — 18 likes
  28. Devin, build me a better Devin 🙂 Devin 2, build me a better Devin Devin 3, build me a better Devin Devin 4, rollback to Devin 3 Devin 5, rollback to Devin 3 please devin6 rollback —v3 kill -9… (kindgracekind) — 18 likes
  29. baby's first line of code https://t.co/DvtsSIspp9 (Prigoose) — 18 likes
  30. Proposed software term: a ladybug -- a glitch that clearly isn't a feature, but is harmless and sparks joy so it is allowed to stay (xsphi) — 17 likes
  31. two new wins in my life: 1) just landed a software gig where i'm actually doing nitty-gritty algorithms work, not web dev -- and it's my first contract dev work 🔥 2) i'm working for a friend from… (__drewface) — 17 likes
  32. ✨ requesting help from yall ✨ it's been the coolest and strangest year and a half of my life. now savings are running out and it's time to make money again i'm looking for part-time and/or contract… (natural_hazard) — 17 likes
  33. im wendy, a pm in big tech, and im going to walk YOU through a day in my glamorous life https://t.co/PMxy3779aa (eigenrobot) — 17 likes
  34. This is by far my favorite robot ever. So simple, so elegant. Can do some key things humans can but not because we modelled it after a human unnecessarily. Minimalist cybernetics.… (Malcolm_Ocean) — 17 likes
  35. Me: Hey Liam how would you like to make your own video games with me this summer? Liam (7): Oh I can’t do that. Me: Why not? Liam: [Minecraft YouTube says] that takes programming. Me: I started… (patio11) — 17 likes
  36. it's pretty crazy how much better I think in a plaintext document (Obsidian) vs in an outliner tool (Tana) a paragraph has a different quality from a bullet point not everything is hierarchical.… (m_ashcroft) — 17 likes
  37. one of the most popular tools I ever made was this thing to explain how JPEG images are created out of these mathematical patterns made in a couple hours for a talk, didn't even bother trying to… (DefenderOfBasic) — 17 likes
  38. Imagine you’re talking to a time traveler back in 2000: “Oh some good news: America does have end-to-end supply chain for high-value electronics.” “Really?” “Receivers for worldwide geosynchronous… (patio11) — 17 likes
  39. but in software employers have to compete with employees for their time. building software is dramatically more efficient alone, which offsets a lot of the inherent advantages of capital. 1… (xsphi) — 17 likes
  40. the software tech ladder the rung below you is easy and boring and the rung above is black magic might be especially interesting if you're near the bottom and want an idea what you're climbing… (xsphi) — 17 likes
  41. I'm sorry but I can't get over how fundamental computer science seems to be (not about computers, about information transforming and solving problems) - it just seems more general and dare I say… (exgenesis) — 16 likes
  42. What happens when 90% of the training data available for AI image generators is the output from other AI image generators, and nobody knows how to filter it out? (xsphi) — 16 likes
  43. it's a little-known fact that god actually didn't die until the widespread use of pseudorandom number generators by modern computers, each use a small act of divination, exhausted god's ability to… (QiaochuYuan) — 16 likes
  44. I feel like it’s not obvious to consumers how monumental and expensive regular software is. iOS cost about as much as the Manhattan project (~$20b). Google search cost about as much as the ISS… (cis_female) — 16 likes
  45. start a software development cooperative with me!! https://t.co/FNRNpawJtT (__drewface) — 16 likes
  46. the energy in silicon valley is unmatchable the old capitol--a living necropolis--laughs. but it is the dry rattle of a lich zucc turned his foibles into an empire. how long has it been since any… (eigenrobot) — 16 likes
  47. I have copied @RichDecibels and added 3 buttons to my website. link: https://t.co/xp2fkLi9q8 https://t.co/w7BDaMbCQm (Malcolm_Ocean) — 16 likes
  48. Weird maybe-update from healing attachment stuff: Maybe the "meta crisis" is… fine? Maybe there's no meaningful risk of a Big Bad happening to civilization? The logic I know doesn't change. But… (Morphenius) — 16 likes
  49. oh no i was so excited to find coconuts at the store and i unwrapped it and i don’t think i can do this https://t.co/phN8fWybne (_brentbaum) — 16 likes
  50. What if we put in this amount of technical effort to summon some god who isn’t the machine god (TylerAlterman) — 16 likes

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