This is "fun". www.truesec.com/hub/blog/500... There's a self-replicating worm spreading on the npm package repository which is, basically, what underpins all of web dev. And if a half-assed cryptocoin malware can do this, who knows that state actors have accomplished unnoticed?

Proud to announce that I’m going to be swimming 5K for the Endometriosis Foundation of America’s End Endo 5K! Endo is something that I, along with 1 in 10 people with a uterus, live with. To join me in supporting Endo research and advocacy, tap the link below! give.endofound.org/MaraWilson5k...

Failure to ugly cry over a dead podcaster now a Federal offense.

in light of the current supply chain attacks, I've just published a @github.com action to detect packages that _lose_ their provenance. 📦 supports pnpm-lock.yaml, package-lock.json, yarn.lock (v1) 🎨 inline GitHub annotations ✅ JSON output + configurable 💪 published in TS with zero deps

True story: my friend actually got vibe coding cleanup specialist freelance job www.404media.co/the-software...

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Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

giant lego discworld a'tuin, elephants and all

RT if you can hear this in your head without turning up the volume.

Wild to me that a CEO sets goals about outcomes that have nothing to do with the business (are customers more satisfied? Is the product more reliable? Etc.) Setting the goal of what % of code should be AI-generated is as useful as setting the goal of how many lines of code devs should write per day

If I was an engineer at Coinbase and heard this mandate, I’d just start to review AI code less rigorously and let it rip. The stated goal is to increase AI generation numbers, and nothing about quality, maintainability, correctness, lack of duplication - right? Give devs a goal and they meet it

Another "where's the AI code?" question: where's the shovelware? If AI coding is so hot, we should be seeing a flood of crappy little apps, and we aren't. mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the... note this post is from a huge AI bro too

I will never understand why so many engineers are so viscerally against “top down” direction/strategy? How are you supposed to evaluate & make the right bottoms-up decisions if the end goal of the work isn’t defined & agreed upon by the people at the top who control funding & staffing?

What designers think UX is: sick ass animations that tap into 300% of your CPU to perform the perfect element transition that's keyframed for the most delightful ease curve What UX is: make the text bigger and let people hold the thing

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

I haven’t heard the term pluralistic ignorance before but I have certainly experienced it! There is vulnerability, but also power in being the person who speaks up and asks the question or makes the point everyone else is afraid to say for fear of looking stupid

A new article! And it's written in plain language, not explicitly political and probably safe to share with your boss, even

My masshole heart just died a little bit to see Dunks on this list

Just to be clear, if you cancel every special education grant that mentions "inclusion," you will cancel NEARLY EVERY SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANT. www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

To mark the launch of GPT-5, and the fresh wave of people talking about this technology as if it's capable of thinking like human and even if it's not, it will be soon and it's inevitable and it's not actually stealing people's work, it's just learning like a human. Here's why it's none of that.

shares on this would be a big help, sales have been down lately and having a bit more money gives me a bit more flexibility for getting premade food when my back's out of service

**New article** Outcomes Over Output: Design Systems and AI bit.ly/45dap3e ...where I gather my takeaways from Episode 059 of The Question and share some fun quotes and insights from last week's deep dive! #ai #designsystems

All in favor of allowing someone who had a moistened bint lob a scimitar at them replace Donald Trump. 🙋‍♂️

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

Okay so this is the most I’ve ever laughed at a technical specification in my life! Thank you @ericwbailey.website for a moment of joy ericwbailey.website/published/yo...

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Hey wow, Today is my 1 year anniversary at Square! It’s been a wild year, but I’ve been so impressed with the kind and thoughtful humans I work with and their dedication to engineering excellence. It’s been lovely to be respected and trusted as a leader, thanks for a great year!

I have yet to read a single story about men adopting AI at work (without being told) at a higher rate than women that presents it as anything other than men being smart. Not one story about how it implies they're lazier and less ethical. Because that's not the narrative that's being pushed about AI.

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"Don’t worry about me: I’ve just been looping Jimmy Carter speeches and majestic whale sounds on my Golden Record while thanking my lucky stars I’m over fifteen billion miles away from you bozos."

When someone asks what parenting be like… 😂🤣 🐵 🥰

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

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I see that we are talking about women in tech after quite a long break in the tech community I'd like to invite men in tech who genuinely care and want to make tech more welcoming to join Diversify Tech's newsletter for allies dei.diversifytech.com/subscribe

The truth about all the time spent solving leetcode problems.

what the study doesn't appear to account for is the time spent weeks later when you're trying to augment or fix code that no one on your team wrote Me vibe coding: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me vibe debugging: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

My colleague Kirill passed away last week, far too young. I didn’t work with him a lot, but I knew instantly that he was one of the good ones: a brilliant engineer, thoughtful, funny, kind, but took no bullshit. I never really told him how much I admired him, so I’m telling the world. RIP

My grandmother, who grew up in the depression and lived through WW2 taught me this lesson, and I too strive to pass it down despite not being religious. “There but for the grace of god go I”. I wish more people understood that.

I wish jrr tolkien could do just a little bit of haunting just to fuck up those tech guys who keep naming their shitty companies after his lore

No rule or system that allows a few people to have all the resources for vanity and power while billions suffer and millions die should be respected or recognized; the rule is far more dangerous then ignoring it ever could be; the system is far more dangerous than replacing it ever could be.

Went to two frontend conferences in as many days, and learned a lot; not all of it what the presenters hoped I'd take away: infrequently.org/2025/06/conf...

This incident could have ended in tragedy. If you are going to the beach, get a new beach umbrella with an anchor designed to withstand stronger winds. Look for a label that says, “MEETS ASTM F3681 FOR WIND SPEEDS UP TO 30 MPH.” We wish this lifeguard a full recovery. www.nj.com/monmouth/202...

The path for Democrats is very clear: have good ideas, believe in them, state them clearly, stick to them, act decisively in support of these ideas, speak to the young half of the electorate, support other democrats who do these things. Follow Mamdani and Lander's example or fade into nothingness.

Take this as your sign to primary every appeasement-obsessed do-nothing motherfucker who looked at you sideways, gang.