Absolute banger of a post today - go read about the importance of process knowledge with a glorious tumbler post as the centerpiece

I don't know how anyone else feels about this, but to me, sharing a screenshot of chatbot output to make a point of some kind is an excellent way to undermine any credibility that might otherwise be granted to you in the context of whatever you're trying to say.

@quiche.industries I think I customised quiche so much that all of my settings buttons are gone 😣 is there a url scheme or anything to get back in?

Bad news, team: showing people a raw transcript of your chatbot/agent session is like telling them about the wild dream you had last night. I know it was amazing for you while you were in it, but we're not there anymore.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Look it’s only Tuesday and it’s been a hard week so I want you all to know I’ve been calling this baby toy the “disco turnip” and I was only recently informed it is a BEET BOX

This is a good post: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h... As someone on the other side of the world, this is the most usable part of that post: www.standwithminnesota.com Contribute to rental assistance, food, legal funds.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

last-minute gift idea if anyone's still looking

I hope they mean like this, that'd be sick as hell

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

Excellent advice for job seekers from Abigail Haddad, succinctly summed up by an amazing tl;dr title: Make Things, Tell People presentofcoding.substack.com/p/make-thing...

jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2025/t... Highly relatable for anyone that has ever written a line of code used by other people Lovely little post from @jacobtomlinson.dev

Wearing a zip-up vest every day until a company notices and decides to hire me to sell B2B SaaS.

Physics Insight xkcd.com/3154/

E-scooter rental is a complete commodity to me - I'll use whatever company services whatever city I'm in. But because there are like 10 different companies, you have to open 10 different apps to see if anything shows on the map. My kingdom for JustWatch but for scooters

Imagine buying out every ad space in the NYC subway or whatever when you surely must know @vicmsong.bsky.social is gonna get your ass because your thing doesn't work www.theverge.com/column/79101...

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and

When you’re on your fourth merged PR for the week

I put it to every one of you that no one has ever, EVER, wanted to click on an email address in a spreadsheet and have it open the email program. Ever.

Blog Writing for Developers rmoff.net/2023/07/19/b...

Usborne Publishing sure knows how to make kids' books

Orange telephone lets goooooo

Too many quotes to pull from this piece by @pedramnavid.com, but "The cost of thinking has been offloaded to the consumer, not the producer" really hits databased.pedramnavid.com/p/the-cost-o...

Learning more about the intricacies of EXIF data than I expected to during my parental leave, ngl The birth photographer's pictures didn't display in the right order even though they ostensibly had the right timestamps.

A simple design framework that will massively improve your slides and your public speaking clauswilke.substack.com/p/slides-tha...

different day, same internal struggle

"'you can just talk to the computer' is being a little underestimated by AI skeptics, and 'this one technology can do literally every single thing' is being wildly overestimated by AI boosters" is maybe a better formulation

This is a banger post going into the details of JetBrains' hyper-focused single-line code completion model newsletter.vickiboykis.com/archive/my-f... (As ever, @vickiboykis.com rules)

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TIL: "The industrial production of paracetamol involves turning benzene compounds into phenols, which can then by turned into paracetamol. Benzene, the starting material, comes from petroleum". E.coli bacteria can recycle PET to paracetamol. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The 1 billionth GitHub repository has been created and it’s absolutely perfect.

One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

oh whoa javascript tells you where the text-insertion cursor is huh

Just when you thought the OTF fuss had died down and you could get on with using Iceberg (ok ok, or Delta), DuckDB goes and puts the cat (duck?) amongst the pigeons with DuckLake: rmoff.net/2025/06/02/d... #dataBS

Elias is a great presenter, and the audience is definitely vibing with him - big tone shift in the chat

It’s been fun watching the unlikely rise of MCP as a standard, which is open and messy in a way that mimics the dynamics of the good parts of Web 2.0. Maybe something interesting will happen! www.anildash.com//2025/05/20/...

Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with... How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb

If you missed the live dbt Labs State of Analytics Engineering virtual event yesterday, no worries - you can catch the recording here: www.getdbt.com/2025-state-o...

Hi #DataSky 👋 The Data Angels 2025 Mentorship Program is now open for sign-ups for its 4th cohort which will run from June to December 2025! If you’re interested, sign up for Data Angels and join the #mentorship-community channel where you'll find the mentorship program details and interest form!

An Apple Intelligence update where the keyboard knows I never end emails with "Thanks, hotel" and puts my actual name in instead

I've got a 16 hour layover in SF this Saturday (22nd), so I'll be heading into the city. hmu if you want to get a coffee! #databs

what are your timelines for AGI? now, what are your timelines for when a robot can cook up a chicken noodle soup from scratch using the ingredients in your fridge and the appliances in your kitchen? are they the same or different?

this is great www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

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As someone who works at an open core company similar to Preset / Superset, this post really resonates with my experience. Buying a “hosted version of an open source library” made by that libraries creators has more benefits than “just” the hosting. preset.io/blog/running...

Bubble Sort in C