🇨🇦 Scout, BP Fellow, UWO/Fanshawe/Algonquin alumnus, KISC Ex-Pinkie, DoE🏅. Opinions are my own. RT/like ≠ endorsement.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Alex Killby retweeted
Gemini 4 Hydrogen just landed in Antigravity CLI (`agy`), and it flies in `/swarm` 🐝
1 prompt from an empty directory -> 1 Queen + 22 worker bees:
Queen coordinator, 4 QA verifiers & shell integrator on Gemini 4 Carbon
16 parallel builders (+ stall monitor) on Gemini 4 Hydrogen shipping 16 zero-dep `<canvas>` mini-apps at 60fps
direct peer-to-peer `@builder -> @qa -> @integrator` handoffs. `alt+s` for `/swarm board`, `o` for live subagent inspection
Bonus: open `/swarm board` natively in Ghostty or Kitty for Kitty-graphics animated bees that flap while working and catch `Z`s while waiting.
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Not surprised AT ALL that major banks have not enabled RTR. Their entire strategy is to maintain as much friction in moving your own money as possible to lock you into your overpriced accounts with them. The demise of this anti growth mindset in the Canadian banking market can't die soon enough.
Canada’s long-awaited Real-Time Rail payments system launches without Big Six banks | BetaKit share.google/gHfgcoFl0qFFKvL…
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Software as a Service will mostly be dead within a few years if it doesn't deliver compute, storage, or other tangible specialty resources that are difficult to replicate (like PSTN interface).
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Remote agents for @antigravity are gamechanging. I was already sort of doing this with Google Cloud Shell and a bunch of bash scripts to manage data flow between drive and cloud shell persistent storage, but it's all so seamless now!
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Encouraging all past and present members of the Canadian Armed Forces to read these messages from Canadian children this week.
apps.forces.gc.ca/en/wrt/vie…
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Google has hit on a subtle but hugely powerful marriage of the @GooglePlay Books library/store and Gemini. They introduced a subtle feature which allows you to add that to Notebooks! Now just hoping they don't shut down the last remaining piece of the old "Google Play" model!
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I'm seriously impressed with the beautiful new website for the @nationalpost! An infinitely more comfortable and compelling reading experience! Still doesn't beat my morning paper delivery, but it sure comes a lot closer!
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Just made my own Android TV app with @antigravity to take a bunch of free Canadian network web streams into a super fast tv-channel like interface. Built and polished in less than an hour.
Software companies are cooked...
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Feedback for @MSFTCopilot:
- Make keyboard up/down arrow scroll normally not by entire replies. It's how I scroll on websites and other applications, this breaks expected behaviour.
- Half the time I'm using Copilot, recent interactions just randomly disappear when switching windows. This needs to be fixed.
- Animations and interface get super laggy and slowly eat up performance. Compared to all other web interfaces this is bad. Discourages use, and directly impacts utility of the platform.
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Alex Killby retweeted
Until we get confirmation Jira is safe from the PHP vulnerability, I don’t think anyone should be opening tickets or assigning me work.
Alex Killby retweeted
Explaining to my wife how there's this one guy. And he alone is responsible for most of the world's distribution of PHP. And if anything happens to this guy, that's just it. Everyone is screwed.
It's silly that @GeminiApp #Spark doesn't seem to have full access to Google account API's. It can't set a deadline/due date on a Google Task independently from the time-block (working) date and time, and it also can't attach relevant materials as chips. I can do all of this in Google Apps Script using the Tasks API. Why would Spark have less capability?
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Took my ancient Canoscan 4400F flatbed and film/negative/slide scanner which is not compatible with any modern operating system, and reverse engineered the OSX/Win8 drivers to create on Linux Mint, and working after about one day of experimentation.
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Alex Killby retweeted
No, just as I didn't steal a job from the steno pool when I started coding.
Software Development isn't about coding; it's about making the machine DO what you WANT and NEED it to do, no matter what path gets you there.
When I was 12 and discovered BASIC, I wasn't suddenly stoked that I'd be able to type to a computer for the next 40 years.
The rush came from making the computer do something specific that I envisioned. In my case, it was Blackjack.
Even then I wasn't "programming in BASIC", I was making Blackjack. It was bringing the vision to life.
Same with Task Manager. I spent months writing the original. TMOG is vastly more complicated and took slightly less time than hand-coding the original.
It was still the same old process for me:
1) Pick an outcome
2) Imagine the building blocks needed
3) Create the blocks
4) Stack 'em!
If Step3 is prompting instead of coding, it doesn't confront me.
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