Today at work I finally got a response from another team about a bug in their code, but all they did was paste in some slop from Claude code that was irrelevant. I know it was AI for a couple reasons * It was a bulleted list of plausible code locations to look at where sometimes the line […]

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116036344569392356 s/long term/currently happening/

RE: https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep/116041977621268570 I'm definitely feeling this decline in AI productivity even as the tools seem to get better. The fatigue and decreased productivity isn't just from using the AI tooling directly, although there is that. It's largely with how I can […]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040136897752985 It's always hard for me to accept that the kind of people that actively profit off the misery of others not only exist, but how much overlap there is between power and these kind of psychopaths

https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/ It makes me sad to see the inspirational developer platforms and tools that I've used during my career dying like this, and enshittifying like GitHub. In the past I'd say it's part of the natural way of things because competitors came along that […]

I made a little silly word game yesterday. Introducing PIVOT: https://leahey.org/pivot/

Yesterday’s Alex Pretti memorial ride in Portland ended by passing the Portland ICE facility and of course ICE tear-gassed the crowd, including kids on bikes. Thursday in Salem, Oregon, feds tore a US citizen’s rotator cuff yanking her out of a car window. The Minneapolis surge really is […]

At a student protest with my kids https://nationalshutdown.org/

My high school age daughter went to a student walkout ICE protest yesterday afternoon, and we had to talk about the fact that ICE don't obey the law and it can be unsafe just to be around them. They are a government sanctioned domestic terrorist force. I can only imagine the fear that minorities […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/115918492043065088 I love seeing Cory's essential talking points showing up EVERYWHERE lately. A small part of me is tired of reading the same thing over and over again since I've been absorbing it for years now. But I know that's what society needs to […]

Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI? I've had 4 different senior engineers in the last week come up with absolutely insane changes or code, that they were instructed to do by AI. Things that if you used your brain for a few […]

The news recently motivated me to rewatch Inglorious Basterds. Never thought in my lifetime I'd think of Nazi related movies as something that might apply directly to my timeline, but here we are, seems more relevant every day

I'm so tired of being embarrassed by my country's leadership

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/115853846892653135 I feel like criticizing people who remain on platforms like Facebook all the time, but remind myself that not everyone can leave communities and connections as easily as I can without repercussions. But there's gotta be a line […]

Firefox should really strip down the browser to the core, make that performant and secure. Maybe even improve extension interfaces and then deliver whatever "AI" nonsense they want through extensions. Would make it so easy to stop having to talk about kill switches and how "hard" those are […]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115848569226300580 It amazes me how much software developers are still rewarded in most companies for shipping LOTS of code, regardless of its utility. They get called 10x engineers while they leave a maintenance burden for everyone else. AI has definitely […]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115749141707385603 I voted in most of the rounds, and gotta say, some matchups were tough decisions. But it feels like the number 1 seed of the tournament won

Fun to see @pluralistic speedrun his enshittification sermon on The Daily Show last night. https://youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?si=zeuSalpXhXt9irmJ

I've had 3 recruiting pings in the last month, which is probably the same as I've for the entire year before that. Maybe the software job market is picking up again? It's weird to think how frequent and annoying recruiters were a few years ago. I certainly don't miss the noise, but at least the […]

It's so wet, grey and dark in Portland that the plug that automatically detects when to turn on my outside Christmas has been on all day. My solar array has produced 0.6 kWh for the entire day. I'm popping vitamin D like candy and using my SAD light for way longer than normal. I'm gonna need a […]

I've been in Portland 18 years, and despite all its flaws it's still one of the most hopeful and progressive places in the US, and I'm often proud of it and the people https://youtu.be/wt5erQekFWs

Ugh, it's so dark in Portland today, which I suppose is normal this time of year, but I'm already tired of the wet dark and we're not even to the solstice yet. It might not be a good thing that with my solar data I can now obsess over how dark it is based on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

They replaced a power pole down the street from my house today and told us we'd lose power, and I was excited to see my new battery + solar system take over. But we never completely lost power, just the amount we could draw from the grid dipped to about 1kw […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.” That's because at the time, food accounted for 1/3rd of a household budget. Now it's 5-7% of a household budget. So the poverty line shouldn't be 3x food. It should be 16x food […]

There's a beep happening every 2-3 minutes somewhere near my office, but I can't find it. Thought it was a smoke detector, but I've stood near every smoke detector and the beep is somewhere else. It's driving me insane

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@phillmv/115520781380582845 > I’m mourning the future I grew up and came of age thinking we would have So much of this hits hard for me

I just gave to Oregon Food Bank and you should too. SNAP benefits (formerly Food Stamps) could be put on hold, putting thousands more at risk of hunger in our communities. Your gift helps Oregon Food Bank fill this urgent gap and provide food to our community […]

It's finally here! Took me 20 minutes to buy Silksong because all the stores were crashing. Finally got it to purchase on Nintendo Switch 2, even though I intended to play it on my Steamdeck. Oh well. Will probably end up playing it on multiple systems anyway […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I don't always appreciate the perspective of Casey Newton's Platformer newsletter, but kudos for elevating the voices of Trust and Safety workers, who I'm sure have been some of the hardest hit in the tech world's current political capitulation, to the detriment of us all […]

> You're right! Using actual test data is much better than stubbing Probably the number 1 thing my AI coding agents end up saying to me, after I tell them for the 100th time to stop stubbing everything

There are plenty of things to complain about wherever you live, Portland OR being no exception. But there are enough things Portland and Oregon are doing including ranked choice voting, trying to figure out how to effectively decriminalize drug use, proportional representation for city […]

I don't post often, never have on any platform. But I love Mastodon for feeling like the old school Internet I remember where I enjoy every few days / weeks catching up on posts from a relatively small group of people I mostly respect, instead of a constant onslaught of hot takes from […]

Today's internet outage(s) might make Tuesday's big day of outages look quaint https://mastodon.social/@mmrobins/114661593871548478

It's crazy how much using AI tools is like gambling. It can constantly produce garbage, but occasionally it'll be really useful, and that dopamine hit will make you want to keep using it despite all the time it's pure crap.

I just called a pharmacy, got a real person on the phone, and they dealt with my issue, all in under 5 minutes. Amazing, didn't think that was possible anymore. Empower Pharamacy

Seems like a day of major outages https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/gj9d2m9x4mff https://status.openai.com/incidents/01JXCAW3K3JAE0EP56AEZ7CBG3 Was gonna link to the Heroku incident, which now they say is resolved, but their status history page isn't working Based on what I've seen of how […]

One of the better, short pieces on AI I've read recently https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/06/My-AI-Angst I especially like this little tidbit, as I find myself zoning out far too often lately for obviously AI written slop > What’s the genAI world’s equivalent of “Tl;dr”? I’m […]

AI is no match for a well-established bureaucracy

Just got to the 46th room in the new game Blue Prince. This game sucked me in. The randomness/ rogue like room picking mechanic occasionally frustrated me, but was so interestingly combined with puzzles and well balanced that I couldn't put it down. I'm sure there's more puzzling to be done […]

Hard to tell, but I don't think today's hands off protest was bigger than 2017s women's march. But it was a close. Just depressing we're back here doing this again, feels like the world hasn't moved forward in a decade

I got a job recently after 1.5ish years of what I called sabbatical (having enough money I wasn't scared that I had to work) because it felt like the world was headed for bad times. I hate when I'm pessemistic and right. My net worth since Trump took office is now down by more than I'll make in […]

Why does it seem like every AI assistant demo involves making a restaurant reservation? I almost never reserve a restaurant, and I doubt most people do either.

I guess today's my day Wordle 1,356 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

*They AI-magically automated all the code production, but now the software breaks like it was 3DPrinted out of cheap plastic https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-70-problem-hard-truths-about

I'll never understand developers who post screenshots of terminal text. It's text! Copy it, paste it. It's 100x more readable, searchable, and easier to copy and paste into my own terminal or text editor.

First time in 5ish years doing barbell squats. Couldn't do them for awhile because of an injury to my hip, but I'm about 4 months post hip replacement surgery now, and it's awesome that I can do stuff like this pain free again. We'll see how pain free my […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pride in ignorance feels like it's been growing in my lifetime despite it being easier than ever before to be able to dispel that ignorance

Just saw Kevin Nealon at Helium Comedy. Great show. Can't believe he's so sharp and funny and is the same age as my parents.