My university just announced that it’s dumping Blackboard, and there was much rejoicing. Why is Blackboard universally reviled? There’s a standard story of why "enterprise software" sucks. If you’ll bear with me, I think this is best appreciated by talking about… baby clothes!

Meet your community on their terms - if they only hang out on discord, good luck getting them to join your slack. Maybe in-person is best, or maybe it's a waste of time! Experiment and find those passionate early adopters wherever they hang out, and start NOW!

While messing around with OpenAI APIs, I ended up creating a tool to generate taglines and images for long-form content: postly.dev

What are some ways you show appreciation for your teammates? On my team, we end our daily standups with everyone saying "I love you".

Wow. Substack experimented with pricing, reducing it by 1 cent, so e.g. instead of $10/month, do $9.99/month. The result? A significant decrease for the pricing ending with .99. Which goes against conventional pricing wisdom!! Why it's worth running experiments!

When signing up for a new developer tool, how do you prefer to log in? Please RT so answers are not skewed to my twitter in-group.

Today, we lost a visionary. Gordon Moore, thank you for everything.

Hear me out: avocado+parmesan+teriyaki sauce. Sounds weird but it's tasty

marek kuczyński 🌻 Rafal Wilinski Surprisingly, I haven't written a blog post on this! But I do have a YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=zgFT0X…

Game idea: Middle Seat Simulator VR

I'm going to start making weird hand poses in photos so people wonder if the photo is AI-generated

Questions that show you care about a software engineer's work. Wrong answers only. I'll start: "Was this all generated by ChatGPT?"

This is art

I’ve been working with Amazon Web Services’s #Bedrock service for a couple of months now at Caylent, and I’d like to share some of what I’ve learned. 🧵

I'm hiring for a Full-Stack JS engineer! Position is available in TX, NY, WA, or VA. Check it out and please RT amazon.jobs/en/jobs/258191…

What's your favorite feature flagging solution/service? why?

I don’t think the reindeers actually pull Santa’s sleigh. Hear me out: There are ~2.3B children worldwide, with ~2.5 kids per family, that’s 920M families with kids. Let’s assume 30% of them set out some sort of treat for Santa, like milk and cookies: that’s 276M serving of