Man, the AI bubble is going to pop so fucking hard thanks to... err... the Iran war? Not what I had on my bingo card but I'll take it

Two Pillars of (Engineering) Management www.zacsweers.dev/two-pillars-...

I wrote a long rant about "AI" today in which I described Jack as an "insepid Rasputin-drawn-from-memory and serial company-destroyer", but I'm not sure posting it on my blog is a good idea in this environment. Couldn't waste that burn, though.

Truly incredible the amount of damage Elon and Jack have done to the tech industry in a few short years.

This whole thread has made me quite sad. This industry is not what it was sh.reddit.com/r/Experience...

Today would have been a beautiful day for skiing but my skis are in the shop noooooooooooooooooooooooo

I was just talking about this with my manager and skip today. There's definitely a bit of a glass ceiling in these sorts of roles.

Not sure if unscrupulous business or North Korean espionage ops

New Epstein files = war in Iran after market close

It's incredible beautiful outside but far too cold for my cameras :(

I *despise* people using AI to write announcements at work. If you can't be bothered to write it, why should I bother reading it?

Please don't give your healthcare data to ChatGPT.

Watch product orgs that couldn't give a shit about KMP suddenly decide that cross-platform is the future docs.swifdroid.com/app/

Of course the real casualty in all of this is the integrity of the FIFA Peace Prize

Oh no I think I want a Leica Monochrom

And so begins my annual Christmas tradition of reading about Haskell, only to forget it all within a week of Jan 1st

Pro-res zoom is quite impressive right up until it creates Eldritch horrors

Remarkable that Spotify can't get something as table stakes as syncing changes in playlists between two devices right

Jesus this is a game changer, I had no idea this was being worked on. Thanks for the deep-dive, @skydoves.bsky.social!

"Few IT projects are displays of rational decision-making from which AI can or should learn. As software practitioners know, IT projects suffer from enough management hallucinations and delusions without AI adding to them." spectrum.ieee.org/it-managemen...

Some snaps from Japan in XPan format

Another victim of Google's shitty trade-in process. Box arrived empty, despite me sending them a video of me sealing it in the box + proof of postage. $0 and no recourse - can't even do a credit card chargeback as they'll delete your account. So that's nice.

Last day in Japan. Acquired a Fujifilm GFX 50R and a Mitakon Speedmaster 65mm f1.4. Pumped.

I have major FOMO about Droidcon London but I'm going to Japan next week so I can't be toooo salty

Onsite complete and cold acquired - I can't wait to go home and do nothing for the long weekend

Travelling for work feels very cool and grown up the first few times but eventually you realise it is absolute arse

We booked our honeymoon today 😊

I will never get tired of watching these little dudes. Fujifilm X-T5 w/XF70-300mm

Fuck no, Google android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elev...

Nine Inch Nails absolutely slapped, best show I've ever seen

Phones just aren't exciting anymore huh

We bought a 16ft sailing dinghy yesterday and I am ecstatic

Two hours after sunrise and the sun is still orange due to wildfire smoke. Who said the end of the world isn't pretty

Not really surprising. Yeah, it might get you 80% of the way there, but we all know that reading someone else's code and finding the issues takes much, much longer than just building it ourselves. It tracks that the last 20% takes longer than expected.

I hope Google are pleased with themselves - the technology to do this does not need to exist and is only going to be used to create 1) derivative junk and 2) misinformation www.cbc.ca/news/ai-gene...

Burning down the rainforest for a single sentence which could be trivially gleaned by reading a graph

When your beautifully designed piece of software collides with telemetry requirements

Wild to revisit System Of A Down in 2025 and realise 1) they were absolutely spot on, and 2) things have only gotten much, much worse. Also bonkers that their drummer turned into a MAGA tankie

I've seen a loooot of social media about the Fujifilm X Half but I've not seen a single decent photo taken by one yet. As much as I love the idea of the camera I think it's a miss overall

Lol, America

Judging by the setlist and the production we are in for a fucking treat in August lfgggggggggg

Some of my favourite snaps from a week in Chicago

I bet Google's design team have been having a jolly good laugh today

I cannot stop laughing

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Summer is FINALLY here in Ontario and we're going paddleboarding this evening and I can't wait

Interfaces are your best friend. Put wrappers around third party code, especially for data requests. It will be an immense help for testing and for changing data sources over time.

When the day's rise in your company's stock is offset by the fall in the value of USD

Union types coming to Kotlin is sweeeeeet