Tim Rowe @tjsr

Software Engineer. Mostly harmless. tjsr.id.au Melbourne, AU Joined December 2008

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

4 weeks ago

@aas_ker Job security. You can push through a lot of you know there's no chance you'll have to face that kind of uncertainty about tomorrow. It frees you up to not have to put energy in where it could be instead used to improve your overall happiness and life quality.

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4 weeks ago

@YashHustle_22 A good developer with experience knows what to prompt the agents to focus on and pinpoint.

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4 weeks ago

@cosier @StatsWire 100% what I was going to say. The level of ineptness in not just government IT at all levels, and leadership/management in private companies is beyond insane. An AI agent being able to hack a government service is a pretty low bar.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

4 months ago

Is there ever a chance @kayosports are going to make their web view not utterly crap? For example, if I want to watch F3 like just now but 30 minutes behind live, the moment the broadcast ends in real time, it completely dumps me out, and I lose where I'm up to.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

9 months ago

@markdalgleish There's a big difference between people who just blindly take what AI says, and those who check the code it gives you. For the latter, it's just a faster keyboard and auto complete.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

10 months ago

@trashh_dev Please don't tell us you learned this lesson personally, from experience.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

12 months ago

@malinjr07 @vibingmonk I argued that repeatedly. They would constantly try to complete 5 or 6 major projects in a team simultaneously over 4-5 months, rather than letting us focus on 2-3 at a time for shorter periods. It made things so inefficient.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

12 months ago

@kamikaz1_k @theo Ugh, decorators, such an anti-pattern. We have inheritance for a reason.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

12 months ago

@Affinity @canva After all the announcements, I tried to give Affinity another go today: it crashes every time on launch, can't even open it. It crashes and exits even before I can agree to upload/submit the crash report! Not a good start.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

12 months ago

@AnxiousHolly Let's be real for a moment - SD can be SDIO. You could have a two-wire connector that breaks out to a 3.5mm connector coming out of the SD card slot. But let's take that further: Why do we need 3.5mm to physically connect? Why not a flat, SD-sized magnetic connector?

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

12 months ago

@vibingmonk @malinjr07 Towards the end of my last role, there were times where I had *19 different projects* open simultaneously - including the associated CI tasks, monitoring, logging, calendar events and meetings, wiki docs, and issues. That kind of crap needs to stop, yet has become 'normal'.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

12 months ago

@vibingmonk The industry needs to go back to being more focused, to being more collaborative, to promoting deep diving and really learning single, individual skills intricately. If that means you pay less, and hire five developers for the price of three, so be it!

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

a year ago

@chrisbward @theo Wait, is this the one that had the data breach?

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

a year ago

@Hesamation As a user of Windows since 3.1, trying to use a Mac is like a 50% cut in productivity just due to muscle memory and knowledge of shortcuts and how stuff works.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

a year ago

@OpenAI Every time I switch apps on Android and come back to ChatGPT. So you then have to wait close to a minute to see what you left it to think about, hoping you could come back to. Come on, this is a horrible UX.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

a year ago

@Affinity How not to do trial versions and lose a sale: Time limits that give zero consideration to actual use. Installed it a little over a week ago. By the time I found time to try to evaluate it, my trial had expired. Without ever opening it.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

a year ago

@notsky Simple, it's revenue. They spent $500m - there's your $500m revenue 🤣 Reality though - if it's adding $10/month subscriptions, call it $100/year, it only needs to sell 5m subscriptions. Not at all a difficult ask - especially if enterprise makes up a large percentage of that.

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

a year ago

Working on a new PoC app reminds me just what a hellscape the Node/ES ecosystem is - can the community *please* just come together and come to an agreement to abolish any and all CommonJS support in favour of ES by a certain date? :(

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Tim Rowe @tjsr

a year ago

@maxlaughton The only people I have ever heard - in any country or organisation using it internally - argue for first-past-the-post voting systems are very old people or very right-wing/conservative people.