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David Nelson
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@variableirony

David Nelson

@variableirony
Polyglot developer, but C# is my first love. Senior Developer at @GitLab. Ex-@ThoughtWorks. Organizer of @dotnetunboxed. Maintainer of @casperbuild.
Dallas, TX
github.com/eatdrinksleepc…
Joined March 2016
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  • @variableirony
    David Nelson
    @variableirony
    Sep 9
    It’s amazing how much of the regression in software development of the last three decades can be traced to this one idea.
    @pvncher
    eric provencher
    @pvncher
    Sep 9
    Replying to @krzyzanowskim and @thdxr
    Distribution via url is worth that limitation
    2
  • @variableirony
    David Nelson
    @variableirony
    Nov 7, 2025
    Re-upping this for no reason in particular
    @variableirony
    David Nelson
    @variableirony
    May 3, 2022
    Replying to @variableirony
    And possibly the most important PSA of all: maybe the people who portray every issue as black and white and everyone who disagrees with them as idiots at best and evil at worst are not the best people to voluntarily delegate your authority to in this democracy. (fin)
  • @variableirony
    David Nelson
    @variableirony
    Jun 24, 2025
    When ChatGPT debuted, there was a lot of doomerism about AI resulting in human extinction. I was really annoyed at that, because it was just a chat bot. Obviously, no one would let a random word generator take arbitrary independent action without supervision…
    @pierceboggan
    Pierce Boggan
    GitHub
    @pierceboggan
    Jun 24, 2025
    New in @code Insiders: Control which terminal commands can run without explicit approval in agent mode with an allow/deny list.
  • @variableirony
    David Nelson
    @variableirony
    Jun 11, 2025
    In a gold rush, sell shovels
    @hayleyhalv
    Hayley Halvarsson
    Stripe
    @hayleyhalv
    Jun 9, 2025
    In May 2024, 25% of @atlas founders said they were building an "AI company". Last month: 40%
    Quote
    @patrickc
    Patrick Collison
    Stripe
    @patrickc
    Jun 9, 2025
    It's hard to definitively attribute the causality, but it seems that AI is starting to influence @stripe's macro figures: payment volume from customers that signed up for Stripe in 2025 is tracking way ahead of prior years. (And ahead of even 2020, when the lockdowns triggered a
  • @variableirony
    David Nelson
    @variableirony
    Apr 9, 2025
    Yes
    @jetbrains
    JetBrains
    @jetbrains
    Apr 9, 2025
    If you’re not using Spring in spring, are you even doing Java right?