🦋 Jared Forsyth
@jaredforsyth
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follower of Christ. feminist. mormon. type theory, building kipos https://t.co/8skbe4jcU2 dev @KhanAcademy he/him @jaredforsyth.com on 🦋
St Louis
Joined February 2008
10 years ago, I thought "programming is too hard, I'll make tools to make it easier" 5 years ago, I thought "I'll make a new language to make it easier" now I'm working on tools to make "making new languages" easier 😂
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We’ve reached a point where any mix of solutions to our nation’s economic problems is going to involve the wealthiest Americans contributing more.
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There’s no getting around this if we want to avoid the deficit cliff ahead.
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One of my goals when building @elbobooks was to be able to generate beautiful custom mazes based on any theme a kid might dream up. But mazes are a pathologically difficult case for AI image generation. I learned a ton about mazes and wrote about our solution (link in reply)
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Heyy anyone in my network want to join @khanacademykids? Fullstack, SE II, remote (US/Canada). It's a super fun team building amazing things for kids, with a strong emphasis on helping under-resourced kids reach their full potential. (RT for reach 🙏) Link👇
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typescript really was like "stringly typed? I'll give you stringly typed!" and now we suddenly have all this insane magic
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I had three months of paid leave and a wonderful husband with some paid leave of his own. I took my babies places because I like my babies. And my grown up friends!
i want a lot of you to admit that you did not have adequate maternity leave, childcare, support, or a co-parent available, so you had to take the baby everywhere.
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People without kids showing off the stuff they can do without kids are not dunking like they think they are. Everyone who's had kids knows what it's like to not have kids. So it's the kidless who don't know what it's like to have them.
When you watch stuff like this as a parent, you realise how truly empty and meaningless all of those things are.
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Stop fighting GLSL strings in Three.js 🥊 TSL (Three.js Shading Language) lets you write shaders in JavaScript with actual IDE support, proper debugging, and the ability to seamlessly extend existing materials. Learn more in my latest blog post 👇🏻 https://t.co/wmAVKk1uS3
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The world needs honest and courageous entrepreneurs and communicators who care for the common good. We sometimes hear the saying: “Business is business!” In reality, it is not so. No one is absorbed by an organization to the point of becoming a mere cog or a simple function. Nor
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wow big news
NEW: St. Louis, MO has just passed a resolution to divest from corporations complicit in human rights abuses (including occupation, apartheid, genocide, or racism) within the city and abroad. Becomes the biggest city in the US to pass such a resolution, according to organizers.
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normalize decorative first letters in code snippets
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it's all fun and games 'til you have 1300 lines of horribly organized codeslop that you now have to read through & clean up in order to make it do the thing that the LLM has completely failed at.
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