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1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · over 6 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Boomy mentions (14)

• What do you think about AI music tools? Have you used them to create music for games you've worked on?

  I'm an AI researcher working on generative music algorithms, which I guess has gotten a lot less attention recently compared to generative art applications. They may not be as well known as Midjourney and Stable Diffusion for images but there are several platforms/tools out there already for generating music with AI such as (in no particular order): AIVA, Beatoven, Loudly, Mubert, Soundraw, Boomy, Riffusion, and... Source: about 3 years ago

• Open Letter calling for pausing GPT-4 and government regulation of AI signed by Gary Marcus, Emad Mostaque, Yoshua Bengio, and many other major names in AI/machine learning

  Alright, let's. Comparatively with what AI has already shown it can do, writing a song is not necessarily a computationally intensive task. It's just a matter of quality. Imagining that songwriting models with weights of that quality are widespread enough (i.e. There exists no monopoly), you have a situation where AI churns out music, and music of the best quality per your assumptions, in an extremely speedy way.... Source: over 3 years ago

• Generative AI Music Contest, win $200

  I got an email from the AI generative music website Boomy.com about a contest and figured I'd share it here:. Source: over 3 years ago

• So now apparently we can Prompt Music?

  I found this website called BOOMY that uses ai to generate music, from prompts. Source: over 3 years ago

• What are you using AI for these days?

  Boomy is a generative music company building AI-powered tools that creators use to make original songs. Source: over 3 years ago

DEV.to mentions (649)

• I turned a Claude Code-only web reader into a normal MCP server

  Python -m pip install unlimited-search Unlimited-search read https://dev.to --max-content-chars 1500. - Source: dev.to / 3 days ago

• JavaScript still can't ship a full-stack module

  While developing Wasp, a JS full-stack framework, we keep researching other ecosystems (Rails, Laravel, Django, etc.) and finding ways how they figured out developer productivity. We kept finding these reusable legos, so we gave them a name: "full-stack modules". Let's define what we mean by that exactly. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

• What We're Seeing After 8,000 SEO Audits

  If you want to see where your site sits in this distribution, run an audit — it takes about 12 seconds. - Source: dev.to / 15 days ago

• How to Get Your First Tool Online

  Getting a first thing online is a milestone worth not reaching alone. A MLH hackathon is the perfect place to try: build, break, and deploy alongside other people over a weekend. And DEV is always here for the other parts, open all the time, where a new coder can post the project, ask for feedback, and read how someone else cleared the same hurdle. - Source: dev.to / 16 days ago

• AI slop and the content treadmill every developer is on

  Same idea. Four rewrites. Four character budgets. Four hashtag policies. Four mental models of an algorithm I do not control and cannot see. And that is before you reach Mastodon, Threads, Reddit, a newsletter, dev.to, and whatever launched this quarter. - Source: dev.to / 18 days ago