I've wasted my life...

I have given advice to developers that the single most important monetary investment they can make for their own interests is to own their own computer. Working off the machine work loans to you is dangerous. But, remember, for most of us, “minimum viable” is a potato, not a MacBook

The team that made Destiny deserved worlds better. This shit sucks.

Bring back magnetic core

Dear managers who are now 10+ years out from being developers: You cannot vibe code the user interface. And you HAVE to fucking test it. A password field is not a verification code field is not a contact field. You have to get this shit right, and that takes testers who can tell you to fix it.

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Delighted to see that Keith David leveraged that stint as Vice President to his advantage!

Me, every time I've taken some gen AI stuff for a spin to see if it's better than the last time I checked.

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

Who wants to hire us to make the D2 Dating Sim that Bungie was afraid to? Obviously we’d need to file the numbers off, but I think it’s still a great idea

A joke that will always live rent free in my mind, right next to the stack of “The Treachery of Images” jokes.

It 100% is. Most “common knowledge” about who can or cannot handle technology comes from a group of people who chafe at the idea of bothering to make technology *for* people. Sexism, racism, and their own sense of superiority are part of that mix.

Mysterious effects happening today POST makes you hot pass it on

This is an absolute *banger* of a bundle. I have 3/4 of these games and love them. Spirit Swap is balm for the queer soul. Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion III is *laugh out loud* funny. It’s also meta in the most earnest way. Titanium Court would love to know your truename, for reasons. ;-)

I think it’s *fascinating* but not ultimately surprising, that the version of this idea that has succeeded with people is the version that didn’t come out of a VC-funded venture or big company.

I've been quietly relishing a thought for months. The only way LLMs replace ANY human labor in software is if human devs pivot exclusively to: - Requirements discovery & ticket writing - Unit & integration test suites Most of the devs I've worked with would sooner launch themselves into the sun.

if your dad sucks let me—an actual dad—use father's day to tell you what I think every child deserves to hear from their parents: I'm proud of you, and so glad you're figuring out how to survive this messy world. The world is better with you in it. This is extra true if you're trans.

Press Y to bite

did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...

ive seen half my timeline repost that culture crave post about the backrooms and reddit and i cannot stress enough how much culture crave fucking sucks

people are out here just stacking genders on top of one another like they're putting together a roguelike build

this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...

Anyway! If a stranger pops into your replies and weirdly restates your post with a gooey lil semi-insight, it might be a human but probably not. @stechlab-labels.bsky.social labelers are like They Live goggles for spotting dumb automation, highest recommend.

Happy Bloomsday to all who celebrate

"So, if I use ChatGPT you think less of me?" Yep. Hope this helps.

I think every media person who has spent the last 3-4 years warning everyone that AI is a scam should, when the bubble bursts, get one billion dollars each to run our normal businesses for the next 1000 years. seems fair.

Hi! It’s me! I’m ready to build a CMS that works! Let’s talk!

Here’s the podcast episode covering the OpenAI financials podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

This post really gets into it: ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwa...

When I was 15 I was using social media to learn about abortion rights, LGBTQ identity and history, and of course blog up to 8 hours a day about Supernatural. I demand the next generation have the same rights I did

Fascism's a fever you break with shit like what happened in New York last night. Create more excuses to feel things like that together.

As someone who lives in Bald Eagle country it’s really important to me that they are in no way the stoic, elegant animals fiction makes them out to be. They’re big doofus dinosaurs that will absolutely eat trash and regularly hit the water full-on when hunting fish.

Once you realize that “monads” aren’t just a word a professor uses to make sure you feel dumb and are literally just shit like Redux or React Hooks, you’ll never think fp is for smart people again.

I am approaching levels of vindication that I have only ever dreamed of

scream it from the mountaintops

You love to see it

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

They're gonna try their hardest to normalize this. And I can get why; video game consumers yelled and complained about phone-home DRM, day-one DLC, a lot of consumer-hostile shit. But in the end, they bought the games anyway and eventually just got used to it. Frog-boiling works.

boosting to my fellow haters

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

New incredibly infuriating website construction that I just fought with: The site had a footer with important links, but *also* had an infinite scroll thing to load more stuff in as you go, so the footer would scroll into view and then pop back down below the next content load. Sigh.

Spending part of the day setting up a pi-hole appliance for a customer. Thinking maybe we should advertise (locally for obvious reasons) a sort of misc computer setup/help service.

TLDR: Work by Sara Bana and co-authors finds that a handful of AI hiring platforms can define the job market trajectory of thousands of candidates because they don't update resume scores. Let those platforms be biased, and guess who bears the brunt? Black and Asian people.

>.<

Quick note: the rainbow in the logo isn’t for June. We’re gay as hell year round.

I’m shocked. This is my shocked face.

This is fantastic news.

the AI revolution continues to go wonderfully