stephen wilson
@stephenwil
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Experienced Full Stack & Front End Consulting Developer / Technical Lead from Ayrshire, Scotland🏴 Ex-safety critical embedded software engineer
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Joined January 2009
Hey @BerrryComputer make me a game that I have to align and rotate mirrors with the object of the game is to fire a laser from the left side of the screen to hit a receiver on the right hand side. I only have a certain amount of mirrors that I can place.
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@lossdecay @k_flowstate Yep. I bet most AI devs would quickly recognize it as gradient descent. But I too prefer to think of Marble Madness, by Mark Cerny—who I’ve worked with. Brilliant guy.
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I’m not even Scottish but what a moment a what a bit of iconic commentary “Shoot, SHOOT!!” 😂😂
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Gemini 3.0 is breaking the internet. Users reported that this model is from another world. 10 unbelievable examples 👇
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Hooray! @ladybirdbrowser has passed the 90% threshold on web-platform-tests! 📈🎉 This is the arbitrary limit Apple says we must reach to be considered an eligible alternative browser engine on iOS. (+ other requirements) So proud of the team for getting us this far 💜
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I built an AI system that automates product video creation for entire e-commerce catalogs. (Saves $30K per collection shoot, increases conversion rates by 40% on sites) Here's how the automation works: → Firecrawl scrapes product photos from any e-commerce collection page →
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https://t.co/O2yo479kho Too heavy?
Take off to Tragedy in 59 Seconds ! The CCTV footage here will be critical in finding out what caused the #planecrash .
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“Is there a universe in which the United States could afford to lose its nuclear base in Scotland?” “No”. The basic plot mechanism of Netflix’s The Diplomat. You may now understand the media-political lock-out of a nuke-free Scots Indy
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I just build & deployed this multi-page Astro website. It includes lifelike content, looks great, and even has some subtle view transitions between pages! with bolt․new it took me 20 minutes 🤯 Some thoughts/highlights in 🧵:
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What if AI dev products (Claude, v0, etc) let you install packages, run backends & edit code? Introducing https://t.co/XXroNZNn7H, by StackBlitz: - Prompt, edit, run & deploy fullstack apps - Full dev env (npm, Vite, Next.js, …) w/ frontier AI - Free!
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Astonishingly, I'm told that Ash Regan's motion to make the next Holyrood election a de facto referendum on independence was defeated by *125 votes to 1*. That is, every single SNP MSP in the chamber voted against it, despite it still officially being party policy.
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@hosun_chung Your thread is gaining traction! #TopUnroll
https://t.co/YXArPpB7EJ 🙏🏼@jasiniaq for 🥇unroll
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@hosun_chung: This lady exposed the dark truth about recycling. She dropped an AirTag in her recycling bin to find out where it really went. Her experiment uncovered a sinister 250-ton secret......
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From Berkeley to the UK to Canada, similar investigations have exposed flaws in the global recycling system. E-waste in junkyards. Plastic dumped in Turkey. 'Recyclables' in landfills. The problem is everywhere. The hard truth about plastic recycling is sobering:
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