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Jess Martin

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Jess Martin

@jessmartin

🌻 Inventing tools for a better tomorrow 👨‍💻 @sociotechnica @elicitorg lifebuild.me 📝🚵‍♂️⛷️🎸🎹🎾✝️

Fuquay-Varina, NC

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Joined September 2007

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Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Jan 27
2026 is the year we will stop hand-writing code and fully mechanize software engineering. This might sound like hype. And certainly there’s a lot of hype going around! But something substantial lies underneath the bluster. Here’s how I’m thinking about it.
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Aug 30, 2024
I'm trying a new thing today with @cursor_ai. I'm just writing user stories with bulleted list of requirements and then having Cursor implement using Composer and I basically QA it and then accept. This will be a thread of user stories + time to implement.
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Dec 20, 2023
Thinking of replacing my home page with literally this except interactive
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Aug 9, 2024
It brings me no pleasure to say this, but Svelte is dead because LLM base models are better at writing React.
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Dec 5, 2022
Holy wow. The new 3D flyarounds in Google Maps are 👀 In a browser, go to Google Maps and search for Manhattan. Hover over the Flatiron Building or the Empire State Building. Enjoy! Appears to be 3D depth models + photographed texture maps, like Street View but from the air.😳
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Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Jul 4, 2019
I rant about how great mastery-based education is @LambdaSchool, but it gets real when you have to tell a student “you haven’t got it yet - I need you to try again.” Especially when “trying again” adds months to their education. It’s effective, but it is NOT easy.
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Oct 6, 2023
It seems that there are just three approaches that "knowledge management" apps take: - Document-first (Notion, Obsidian, etc) - Spatial-first (Miro, Muse, etc) - Table-first (Airtable, Tana?, etc) ...and then they try to add the other two. Is there another way?
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Oct 18, 2024
Replying to @emollick
it seems to me an expert in a domain is able to leverage an LLM to much greater effect than a domain novice due to: - ability to "fact-check" - ability to chunk problem into smaller tasks (due to knowledge of the domain) - ability to actually do the work when LLM fails
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Jul 26, 2023
"Users must once again design their own environment. Only then can they feel competent, responsible and mature. They know their own needs and the particulars of their own problems better than any professional designer. Every act of building must be thought of as repair of the
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
May 27, 2024
Replying to @kentcdodds
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Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Apr 2, 2024
Taking one idea very seriously: Software should only have to define the schema of data in a single place. From that singular schema, all the other aspects of the software system should be able to derived: from the user interface all the way to the storage layer.
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Aug 13, 2021
Wanted: The History and Possible Futures of Computing, a cohort-based course. Weekly projects rebuild landmark past systems: - SmallTalk interpreter - SketchPad in a browser - Alto on an FPGA - DIY HyperCard Capstone: build your own futuristic computing environment
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Mar 21, 2024
Alan Kay's advice for inventing the future has a surprising nuance: build it quickly. Here's the detailed roadmap: 1. have some "woowoo" intuition about a future technology 2. identify a "favorable exponential" that will make the intuition possible in the future (moore's law,
Jess Martin
@jessmartin
Jul 7, 2023
why is it so strange to want dedicated screens for my common computing experiences? hanging on my wall I want: - kanban task board - google calendar - dashboard of current project analytics dedicated device for: - reading web articles / PDFs - watching YT video - social media