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Alex Suzuki

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🇨🇭 Software builder, husband and father of two 👽 Sci-fi & fantasy book nerd 💻 Building https://strich.io and sharing some learnings on the way

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 11d

My take on on AI code generation:
alexsuzuki.com/posts/cretac...

Cretaceous Software Engineering

Why I don’t use AI to write code.

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 2d

I would like to move to Protonmail (hosted in Switzerland, privacy-focused, can talk to humans if you have an issue). But I haven‘t found the time yet and would probably miss Search.
proton.me

Proton: Privacy by default

Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2d

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 4d

Decided to cross-post my latest blog post on Why I don’t use AI code generation to Medium, as I still have a profile and a decent-sized following there. Turns out on mobile you can‘t even reply without installing their app. 🤦‍♂️ That‘s a hard goodbye now.

Screenshot of Medium mobile website steering the author to the app for something as trivial ad responding to a comment.

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 5d

„End of the year“? Please say it ain‘t so! Lots still to do. 🙂

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 5d

Thanks! Looking forward to incorporate some particle effects into the demo app. 🥹

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 5d

For the next iteration of strich.io, my JavaScript barcode scanning library, I‘m using animated SVG icons for switching cameras, zooming and flashlight toggling. It was fun to learn how to build these by hand, with the amazing Whimsical Animations course by @joshwcomeau.com. Highly recommended!

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 5d

Fall is probably my favorite time of the year. 🍂

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 5d

But it read your email *carefully*!

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 6d

There's an entire class of throwaway "device configuration" apps that would no longer need to be installed. Instead, an always up-to-date web-based install/config experience could take its place.

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 6d

💯 this. I remember the first time I flashed an Android phone from the comfort of my browser, as opposed to adb and fastboot… such an improvement.

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 6d

There‘s any number of reasons why complex distributed systems can f^H^H^H
It‘s always DNS.

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 6d

I hoped this would be a quiet day. But it seems a major AWS outage is currently ongoing (us-east-1).
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4564...

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 6d

"What is dead may never die." ✊

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Open Web Advocacy @open-web-advocacy.org · 16d

Safari bugs don't just make Safari worse, they make EVERY OTHER BROWSER on iOS worse. #AppleBrowserBan

Rick Byers @rbyers.net · 23d

One of my jobs on Chrome is quantifying overall product quality signals. This quarter we're taking a hit on crashes entirely due to iOS, which looks to be primarily due to WebKit and iOS bugs. When I try to check on the status of the current major one (bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi...), I get this:

Unformatted and nearly unreadable bugs.webkit.org webpage with console showing lots of 503 errors.

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 6d

It's for "security" 🙂

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 6d

The entire bug reporting experience for WebKit/Safari is so frustrating. The stuff I report or contribute to is typically related to Media, and it just feels like a black hole. If you're lucky, at some point there's a rdar:// entry, which is when the issue content crosses the event horizon.

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 7d

JFC…

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 8d

Charmingly quaint. I wonder if they used ChatGPT to generate the email...

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 11d

Appreciate the WoW reference. I had to think for a bit… it‘s been a while.
Leeeerooooooooooooooy! 🙂

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 11d

Having a lot of fun with @joshwcomeau.com new course "Whimsical Animations". Revamping some icons in my camera HUD. Hand-written SVG and CSS transitions, so much fun!

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Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 11d

My take on on AI code generation:
alexsuzuki.com/posts/cretac...

Cretaceous Software Engineering

Why I don’t use AI to write code.

alexsuzuki.com

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 16d

And the one in the video with the red dial is a ripoff of a Rolex Daytona…

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 17d

Well done!

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 18d

Let us know what you use! I‘ve held out on ad-blocking because I can‘t bemoan LLM‘s hoovering up the web and at the same time cut off publisher revenues.

Alex Suzuki @alexsuzuki.com · 18d

Thick legs. Damn…