Dan Okkels Brendstrup

@bewildergeist.bsky.social

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Web fanboy. A decade in the frontend dev trenches, now teaching new web developers how to navigate this crazy world we’ve built out of JS. Also 🦣 https://indieweb.social/@bewildergeist Once 🐦 https://twitter.com/bewildergeist

Screenshot of a pull request review performed by GitHub Copilot of a database anonymization script, wherein it correctly identifies a YouTube link as a Rickroll, and politely suggests avoiding "unintended humor" in anonymized data.
Snippet of chat with the Claude chatbot: “Would you like me to keep you updated if I hear any more concrete announcements about the new Remix direction?” “Yeah. How can you keep me updated?” “I want to be completely transparent here - I don't actually have the ability to actively send you updates about Remix's development, since I don't have the capability to reach out to you after our conversation ends. Since I've given you the impression that I could keep you updated, let me suggest some practical ways for you to stay informed about Remix's future:”
Prompt for Claude 3.5 Haiku: “Generate a small app for practicing guitar. It should have these features: 1. A BMP slider 2. Large-text display of a single note name (e.g. “C” or “F#”) that changes once every bar (4/4) based on the BPM setting. Randomly chosen from all chromatic notes. 3. Large text display of a fret number (0-16) that also changes along with the note name.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​“
The original Deno logo as hand drawn by Ryan Dahl
Screenshot of the React team webpage with a description of how to pronounce Sebastian Markbåge’s name.
Screenshot of GitHub app on iOS with an icon for Copilot in the bottom right corner.
Woodie Guthrie holding his guitar upon which he has written “This machine kills fascists”
A portrait of a dog — a Kooikerhondje gazing into the horizon.