bradly

il y a 10 joursdiscuss

I can't speak for other streaming services, but at Apple Music we did pay musical industry professionals a lot of money to do human evaluation of specific searches. We had people with specific deep knowledge of genres and niches. At least in my little corner Apple that was quite a bit of effort put into this.

bradly

le mois dernierdiscuss

Gift cards do not expire because laws were passed to prevent it. No such laws exist for AI credits, so companies will do what is most profitable.

bradly

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

  Location: San Diego, California / Lopez Island, Washington

  Remote: Preferred.

  Technologies/skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git, Turbo/Stimulus, TailwindCSS/TailwindUI, AWS, Kamal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, people

  Resume/CV: Ruby on Rails professionally since 2008 at Shopify, Apple, Intuit and a bunch of startups as well. 

  Email: [email protected]

Open to consulting/contract work or salaried positions. Please reach out for specifics. More info at https://bradlyfeeley.com

bradly

il y a 3 moisdiscuss

Location: San Diego, California / Lopez Island, Washington

Remote: Preferred.

Technologies/skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git, Turbo/Stimulus, TailwindCSS/TailwindUI, AWS, Kamal, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, APIs, people

Resume/CV: Ruby on Rails professionally since 2008 at Shopify, Apple, Intuit and a bunch of startups as well. Open to consulting/contract work or salaried positions.

Email: [email protected]

More info: https://bradlyfeeley.com

bradly

il y a 5 moisdiscuss

  Location: San Diego, California
  Remote: Yes. With travel up to one week a quarter.
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Git, Linux, Tailwind, Hotwire/Turbo, SQL/Postgres, Cloud infrastructure, people
  Résumé/CV: Seasoned Rails developer with extensive experience at Shopify, Apple, Intuit as well as many start ups. You can read more at https://bradlyfeeley.com
  Email: [email protected]

bradly

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

> 2020 they had $2m+ ARR

You've got an extra "R" in there. In 2020 their only revenue from was non-recurring lifetime software purchases. Like SaaS if you had a 100% churn rate.

bradly

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

  Location: San Diego, California
  Remote: Yes. With travel up to one week a quarter.
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Git, Linux, Tailwind, Hotwire/Turbo, SQL/Postgres, Cloud infrastructure, people
  Résumé/CV: Seasoned Rails developer with extensive experience at Shopify, Apple, Intuit as well as many start ups. You can read more at https://bradlyfeeley.com
  Email: [email protected]

bradly

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

I’ve had swiftbestpractices.com forever and still haven’t done anything with it. Meanwhile I’ve been going ham on my latest purchase of myfacespacebook.com. It’s weird the things that actually motivate us.

bradly

il y a 7 moisdiscuss

If anyone would like to add some Christmas lights to their site I made a little web component to add a little cheer to any site.

https://github.com/bradly/christmas-lights.js

You can see it in action at https://bradlyfeeley.com and https://birdymusic.com

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Thanks, I’ll check this out!

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Dang… I don’t even use React and it still brings down my sites. Good beats I guess.

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

I recently implemented dark/light mode for the first time and was really surprised to find that in order to add a toggle I had to duplicate a both of vars/styles and use JavaScript. I'm looking forward to not having to deal with that cruft in the future.

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Would be interesting to hear from Cloudflare the extent of exploitation before today. I'm assuming they can see if/when this started being exploited.

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

> Also, the "Sub bass" link might be broken

Thank you! It is now fixed <3

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

I did not! Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Is there a way to see the source for the sounds?

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

One of my best and most productive work situations was remote with a week[0] together every quarter. Key to this was scheduling the next trip while we were together to make sure it was on the books. We got to meet new team members, share some meals together, work through new architecture designs with a whiteboard, and plan. Not much got done during that week, but we sure got a lot done each quarter.

[0]: This was actually Monday-Thursday with travel on Friday

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

That does make sense given the prompt "What is the current year and is 2026 next year?" provides the correct answer.

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Good question. While I had a fairly narrow view of a very large system, I'll give my personal perspective.

I worked on systems for evaluating the quality of models over time and for evaluating the quality of new models before release to understand how the new models would perform compared to current models once in the wild. It was difficult to get Siri to use these tools that were outside of their org. While this wouldn't solve the breadth of Siri's functionality issues, it would have helped improve the overall user experience with the existing Siri features to avoid the seemingly reduction of quality over time.

Secondly, and admittedly farther from where I was... Apple could have started the move from ML models to LLMs much sooner. The underlying technology for LLMs started gaining popularity in papers and research quite a few years ago, and there was a real problem of each team developing their own ML models for search, similarity, recommendations, etc that were quite large and that became a problem for mobile device delivery and storage. If leadership had a way to bring the orgs together they may have landed on LLMs much sooner.

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

LLMs would help a lot, but there was a lot of low hanging fruit. During my time at Apple I worked on some of the evaluation of Siri's quality and saw first hand how the org issues affected Siri's path forward.

bradly

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

Thanks for sharing. I've been on a path of algo music with JavaScript (I also do not enjoy JavaScript) and have mostly just guess-and-checked my way through it. I'm going to work through this as my advent of code project.

Yesterday I put up a little dictionary of synth sounds that I'm building out to help me on my journey (https://synthrecipes.org). The goal to be able to export any particular sound in a format for different live coding environments. Sounds are defined in a JSON format like https://synthrecipes.org/recipes/acid-bass.json. I'll open source it today so other can submit sounds.

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Edit: I've open sourced the repo so others can improve existing sounds and add new ones. https://github.com/bradly/synth-recipes/tree/main

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