Posts by spolsky@blackrock.city
 (DIR) Post #AQmP3D7N4rRGdvZsCe by spolsky@blackrock.city
       2022-12-19T13:56:11Z
       
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       I wrote a blog post about the progress we’ve been making on the Block Protocol. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2022/12/19/progress-on-the-block-protocol/ What is it? Why do we need it? We’re also announcing a Wordpress plugin that makes it easy to insert Block Protocol blocks into Wordpress posts.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATscXBDMYota0F1SHA by spolsky@blackrock.city
       2023-03-22T16:58:12Z
       
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       In a world where developers can get a lot of help from Copilot, ChatGPT, StackOverflow, etc., there are still certain coding skills that characterize the best software developers. As just one example, real developers use data types in a way that makes their code cleaner and more reliable -- they define types like "heightInCm" or "widthInPixels" instead of floats and ints, and suddenly code is 10x easier to reason about.In your opinion, what are some other hallmarks of top 1% developers?
       
 (DIR) Post #ATsgAmNwavBqRSXu9Q by spolsky@blackrock.city
       2023-03-22T17:39:09Z
       
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       @mike Maybe - depends on the scenario - I try to use different types when assigning from one to the other is always an error.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATtDTS9rJtE1hKTBRI by spolsky@blackrock.city
       2023-03-22T23:52:12Z
       
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       @JaredCrookston yep! Although - as the tools (compilers and linters and unit tests) have gotten better, it’s less important to specifically make wrong code look wrong, and more important to generally just make the dang code look like it’s doing what it’s meant to be doing
       
 (DIR) Post #ATulriJAW5vSKuWY88 by spolsky@blackrock.city
       2023-03-23T17:50:59Z
       
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       @jbaert How do you mean? like, premature optimization that the compiler will do anyway?
       
 (DIR) Post #ATum3Jda4GTFIQbVGi by spolsky@blackrock.city
       2023-03-23T17:53:45Z
       
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       @dan Sure... but what makes them clean? Non-leaky?
       
 (DIR) Post #AUjnd3ajcFKzM58ieG by spolsky@blackrock.city
       2022-12-02T19:35:08Z
       
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       Is it just me or does the output of ChatGPT look like the super-low-value "blog posts" that SEO teams churned out by the millions from 2005-2020 to flood PageRank? Vague, repetitive, and padded out like a fifth-grader trying to get their essay to fill a whole page?
       
 (DIR) Post #AWECZGn0rhW2EB8H2G by spolsky@blackrock.city
       2023-05-31T22:34:44Z
       
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       @ratkins I just got it!!