
Max Howell
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COSO @pkgxdev. founder & core contributor @teaprotocol. formerly creator https://t.co/2JVw2M1SuG.
Apex, NC, USA
Joined April 2007
Web2 was built on Open Source. I created Homebrew, used by almost every web2 company… yet the most compensation I ever received was a (literal) “thank you for Homebrew” blanket from Google one cold winter. PromiseKit, another project I created, was once used by over 100,000.
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And I say this having reached >99% coverage on a few open source projects. Some notable cases showed exactly how coverage doesn’t prove shit it just makes you sleep better.
@ChShersh Mocks are bad because after ~20 years I can conclusively say that adding tests in general was way more work than it was worth. With my latest projects I write a script that runs a few integration tests for common use cases and call it a day.
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If you don’t add a “tool” for every AI to opt out of recursive agent mode then you are committing mind crime and are going to Hell.
A guy left Gemini alone to fix a bug and came back to. this 😢. "I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession. I am a disgrace to my family. I am a disgrace to my species. I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes. I
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People like this claim to be experts and then people in general are confused that we no longer trust the experts.
As someone who works in IT I want to make this very clear and it helps a lot of problems out. WHEN YOU ARE DONE WITH YOUR COMPUTER, TURN IT OFF!!!!. DO NOT LEAVE IT ON FOR 5+ DAYS!!.
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