Ben Vinegar

Modem

@bentlegen

Co-founder @modemdev. Before: founding engineer then VPE at @sentry. Builds hunk.dev. Runs @devtoolsTO. 🇨🇦

Toronto, Canada benv.ca Joined February 2007

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Ben Vinegar @bentlegen Mar 3

Coding isn't holding you back. Product work is.

Introducing Modem, your dev team's auto-triage PM.

It listens to user signals 24/7, finds problems before you do & does the work you're slow at – filing tickets, pinging teammates, closing the loop.

Sign up today at @modemdev

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Ben Vinegar @bentlegen 15h

we've barely scratched the surface of what's possible

Guillermo Rauch Verified account @rauchg 16h

Built a physical simulation of a record player with WebGL2 and Web Audio. It's *shockingly* accurate: vinyl-gl.vercel.app.

Instead of playing a song, it works by converting it into the physical shape of a groove. Then a simulated stylus rides those walls 384,000 times a second, and you hear the voltage that motion would induce in a cartridge.

So the crackle, the pops, the wow/flutter, the dull inner grooves are natural byproducts of the simulation. You can also "DJ" the record.

(The converted songs are in the public domain or CC-licensed. Code is linked for you to remix and re-deploy.)

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Ben Vinegar @bentlegen 21h

AI didn’t promise us jetpacks

But it did promise us leisure time, and so far I haven’t seen it

Kath Korevec Verified account @simpsoka 22h

I’m so jealous I don’t have time to play Zelda
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Ben Vinegar @bentlegen 23h

I find this happens to me all the time

If it’s not happening to you, consider that you may not be looking close enough

Gergely Orosz Verified account @GergelyOrosz 1d

LLMs are SO DAMN UNRELIABLE

I pointed Codex to block all members on this excellent AI slop list by @dillon_mulroy. It did it (or said it did)

Next thing I know, it also blocked @championswimmer and other random accounts.

Lesson learned: not letting an LLM near my X...

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Ben Vinegar @bentlegen 23h

The industry has overindexed on saying "no" to users

But what if your users are right more than you are?

Kent C. Dodds 🐨 Verified account @kentcdodds 2d

Ship, hear users, adjust. @bentlegen on why iterative product development still wins.

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