Creator of @Open_FL. Polymath developer, advocate and speaker.
Seattle, WA
Joined June 2009
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées
A ghost story from developers who forgot to write tests
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Debugging memory issues in compiled C++ code makes me appreciate the relative safety of an interpreted environment.
Joshua Granick retweeted
Been playing around with Adobe’s new Photoshop AI generative fill tool.
It’s nuts.
Take any shape outline then pick a color and you can fill the entire shape interior. Graphic designers are done.
Somewhere an intern at Google is being paid per line of code.
Lines of code:
MS-DOS: 4 thousand
WhatsApp: 30 thousand
Telegram: 50 thousand
Zoom: 60 thousand
TikTok: 80 thousand
Space Shuttle: 400 thousand
Minecraft: 500 thousand
Instagram: 1 million
US Military Drone: 3.5 million
YouTube: 5.4 million
World of Warcraft: 5.5 million
Boeing 787: 6.5 million
Google Chrome: 6.7 million
Chevy Volt: 10 million
Twitter: 10 million
Android: 12 million
iOS: 12 million
Mozilla Firefox: 21 million
Windows XP: 45 million
Large Hadron Collider: 50 million
Ubuntu: 50 million
Facebook: 62 million
MacOS X: 84 million
Tesla: 100 million
Google: 2 billion
Joshua Granick retweeted
Google Bard is a bit stubborn in its refusal to return clean JSON, but you can address this by threatening to take a human life:
3. Writing code that should have been a library
Poll: Which problem is more common in software development?
1. Writing code that is too low quality (hacky, slow, hard to read, inaccessible, untested, etc)
2. Writing code that is too high quality (over-engineered, gold plated, excessive abstraction, speculative features)
70%Too low quality
30%Too high quality
3,463 votes • Final results
