Chris Santoro

What's happened to kids' sports the last 20 years is happening now to kids' math and I don't really know what's going to stop it. Mathnasiums and other ‘centers’ (many owned by PE, like youth sports) have exploded in popularity. I recently watched parents at a math center grill 7-8-yo’s (who were not their child!!) on their competition performance and which class they placed into ☹️ It feels inevitable that the same drives that manifested pay-to-play youth sports will determine the options for all kids’ activities. The people on X worried about competing with China will be on here in a few years grappling with what it looks like to have academics turn into an all-consuming status competition starting from age 2. Worth noting that the basketball AAU leagues in the US made US players worse and more injury prone than EU players bc the US players become hyper-individualized, vs. being team players...

Recently there have been so many buggy plugin releases by new developers. It's killing the joy of checking out new apps for me. Some of these things have been vibe coded, others claim to be by 'real' devs. When I say buggy, I don't mean little glitches here and there. I mean, serious deal breakers which are found by users literally as soon as they start playing around with the plugin, right in the first minute or two. These are then reported to the dev and the dev can replicate immediately. Often hours get wasted in correspondence with the dev, reporting bugs. It often seems like the dev didn't do even the most simple testing. Didn't open the app in AUM and just start tweaking the most basic things, like any normal user will do when they first try a plugin. I'm getting really sick of that kinda thing. I'm sure many of you are too, if you're regular app buyers. Devs like that need to start testing stuff better before releasing to the public. Not to do so gives buyers a horrible first experience of the app. It sucks a huge amount of time. It is outsourcing labour to customers and it makes them feel like (unpaid!) beta testers, even though they're paying customers. It's insulting quite frankly, even if unintentionally. #AUv3 #plugin

100% true and many great coders are completely paralyzed in this kind of environment. But if you're able to get over it and stop whining about how shitty the shit mountain is, you get to build awesome stuff for millions of users (because all huge apps are shit mountains)

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America is headed for bankruptcy fyi

One innovation in input similar to this was back in 1991: Capcom's Street Fighter II made it easier to control by allowing activation of special moves on press and release; timing is more forgiving. Try it, you can hold punch, do the motion and then release do to a fireball.

The end game would be the ability to login to every Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu box on the internet. If it isn’t a state actor it should be…

code signing is a racket