I've said it before and it's never been more true: software engineering should be a licensed profession and I should be the one who decides if you get a license or not. Retesting for renewal every 5 years. Capped at 450,000 total licenses globally.

wha..t...... www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/arc...

I need to start preparing my remarks now for the inevitable moment when someone shows me their Figma Make output if I don't want to get fired.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

the conversation we *should* be having with every business/institution leveraging AI to screw labor is: where's MY discount, now that you're cutting costs? why isn't tuition coming down? why aren't products cheaper? video games? movies? doctors? lawyers? push HARD on this, relentlessly!

Good point both within the context of the thread and also in general: we're well into the "why not both?" phase of malice vs stupidity attribution.

There are two kinds of busy people: - busy people, who are busy because there is just a lot on their plate right now - Busy People, who are by their nature Busy, and will become Busy even in the absence of many meaningful tasks to do The second kind is my mortal enemy.

America has deindustrialized so much they can't even manufacture consent

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

My favorite part of every behind-the-scenes restaurant video is when the Truffle Dealer comes by because every single one of those guys looks shady as fuck and like you could not waterboard the location of where they got these truffles out of them.

"we just use AI for ideation and prototyping, none of the generated content actually ships" you're lying. anyone who says this is lying.

Not gonna link to Vox but that "we're running out of ideas so we need AI to make ideas for us" article is giving me the worst case of secondhand embarrassment I've ever felt. Kinda telling on yourself there, eh, bud?

The paradox of our times: everybody in software talks about how “AI” ramps up productivity by an order of magnitude Meanwhile the software I follow, the platforms I keep track of, and the releases I follow keep the same pace as before except buggier, less usable, and more prone to catastrophe

The fun part of writing Christine Taxi with @conmaned.bsky.social was coming up with Twitter-length justifications for murder. Check it out! #Pico8 #Freegame postgoodism.itch.io/christine-taxi

wait a minute how are the "your body has gone soft from not eating the raw meats of your ancestors" guys also the "the computer should summarize the big scary email for your inadequate brain" guys

Sorry but if you're on camera holding a lav mic in your hand and you're NOT topless, that's illegal.

Thank goodness my phone decides to only charge up to 80%. Smart battery management like that is preventing something terrible happening, like, say, my battery degrading to 80% capacity.

It's wild to me how comfortable everyone got with giving away their code and performing free training labor for these LLM companies. Like, the thought actually physically disgusts me that I'm just enriching them further with no compensation if I use their products, but I guess nobody cares?

I'm in a user group for a collaboration app and they go buck wild every time there's an open thread for feature ideas: you get a bunch of incredibly tiny but righteous nitpicks, a bunch of "I want it to be a completely different app" type things, and zero what I would call actual feature requests.

I'm committed to moving off of Mac for personal computing by the end of the year, which means I'm moving a lot of what I did in native macOS apps to Emacs, which means that to whatever extent I was not already this guy, I am now 100% this guy: youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc?...

Well, you’re half right.

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Ope I have to update my stance that zero websites make good use of onscroll effects. There is now exactly *one* website that makes good use of onscroll effects: strangersbyspring.com

wait jesus christ this is *real*?? I saw the left image a couple times and thought it was a low-effort joke that someone had made.

wh....what the fuck? www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/d...

Hey where's the airbnb guy they made Chief Design Fascist or whatever, what does he think about this?

This could be the rule rather than the exception, but software development is a joke profession where clowns outnumber serious people 99:1.

"If LLM coding assistants were as much of a boost as is claimed, we should be seeing a lot more new features coming out" is asking the wrong question. LLMs clearly *are* making programmers faster, and I know this because the rate of embarrassing regressions in basic functionality has gone way up.

“Seems like everyone is sicker than usual this year,” a coworker types into Slack, triggering a quicktime event called “don’t be the Covid weirdo” for me

if u think about it, White Christmas is really a christmas movie

"HTML and CSS are totally commoditized, nobody needs to hire someone for that" —guy who is visually indistinguishable from every other guy who is making some kind of Tailwind-ass rent-seeking SaaS that is visually indistinguishable from every other one of those.

Palmer Luckey has my full support in his endeavor to go beneath Earth's crust.

oh hey new reason to dislike React Server Components just dropped

Could these rects BE any more rounded?

I've been using "is this made by a startup that is likely to be acquired?" as a heavily weighted negative input to technology decision making for several years, and it's led to me avoiding entirely at least a handful of what would have been serious migration problems.

With a record-setting 14 entries, we decided to split the celebration across two nights! Back tomorrow at 8 PM CST with the second half.

In one hour! Come celebrate the amazing entries to PiCoSteveMo 3 with us in the post-jam stream: www.twitch.tv/basecase And whether or not you can make the stream, please check out everyone's awesome games: itch.io/jam/picostev...

It's the final day of PiCoSteveMo and there are some amazing-looking submissions rolling in! itch.io/jam/picostev... I'll be playing through all of them for the first time LIVE ON AIR tomorrow, Dec. 01 at 8PM CST, over at www.twitch.tv/basecase

I made a tiny game for PicoSteveMo with @dicey.bsky.social ! ➡️ It's called King Stephen ➡️ You play as King Stephen (King of England 1135-1154) ➡️ It's a Reigns-like decision-making game ➡️ I did the writing + portraits ➡️ Made for a Stephen King game jam ➡️ It's very silly dicey.itch.io/king-stephen

I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.

What a great headline

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

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The only legitimate software development methodology: 1. Think very hard about an implementation 2. Don't do anything

If you make a webpage where elements animate in from 0 opacity as you scroll down instead of just already being there, you have committed a Web Crime and you are under arrest.

<explaining something I know they won’t understand to a toddler voice> iCloud, the reason your storage keeps getting full is because you keep reverting the settings I set.

I'm just over halfway through, so it *might* take a terrible turn for the worse, but I suspect it's actually just an incredibly well-made course from front to back. I've been writing CSS for almost as long as CSS has existed, and I'm getting lots of new ideas to incorporate into my own practice.

iOS, I literally never meant to type "Hi Mon," in Messages.

man it would be sick as hell to be part of a profession that took generational knowledge transfer seriously