Keeping things light around here to get into the holiday spirit

Red Lobster never released a commercial with a jingle that went “Shrimply having a wonderful Fishmastime.” That’s why they went bankrupt.

Jack White is the king of “indie dudes love sports too” representation matters baby

PEBKAC

Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry

DESPITE ALL MY RAGE LET'S CIRCLE BACK AND GET ON THE SAME PAGE DESPITE ALL MY RAGE THERE ARE STILL SEVERAL METRICS TO GAUGE SOMEONE WILL SAY TURN THIS IN BY THE END OF THE DAY DESPITE ALL MY RAGE YOU DON'T NEED MY SIGN-OFF AT THIS STAGE

Developers: Can you believe what ABC, CEO of DEF, has said? Me: Who? Developers: Check out what developer GHI has done! Me: Who? Developers: Company JKL released version X of the MNO library! Me: Who? What? I don't know if I'm old, out of touch with the tech community, or just living a happy life

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

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KPop Demon Hunters is like a 70s Hanna Barbera cartoon but they’re finally allowed to murder the monsters

is cheekface inevitable

On-prem infrastructure specialists when AWS and Azure faceplant: OPEN THE CAGE DOOR GET ON THE FLOOR EVERYBODY DO THE DINOSAUR

Not to be dramatic, but the upcoming time change is going to ruin my life.

Your package will be delivered sometime today. The driver has the package. The package is out. Oh you just left your house for a couple hours? The package was left outside your front door 5 minutes after you left…

Your grandparents bought a house on a single income. You have a master's degree and three roommates. But at least you can summon any song ever recorded in 2 seconds, so it evens out?

We stopped shipping new JavaScript frameworks every week so now I guess we're shipping new AI browsers every week.

Where in we learn that a us-east-1 outage teaches us a lot about what systems just went with the default 😅

shout out to Willy Wonka for improving on the lottery by adding chocolate and murder. absolute genius.

does anyone know a song about noodles

I think men are just too emotional to be trusted with the vote

The prophets of the 1950s promised robot maids by 1990. The prophets of the 1990s promised virtual reality workplaces by 2010. The prophets of 2010 promised self-driving cars on every street by 2020. The prophets of 2020 promised On-Chain Everything. 8/22

This is the sort of insider tip life hack that I come to social media for. Like when another person noted I could brew 2 shots of espresso but put a cup under each side instead of making 1 shot and then another shot after ☕️

the beatnik economy? you mean snapitalism?

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

AI agents being able to run unit tests is SUCH a massive unlock. If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense. And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...

yessssssssssssss

This is exactly right. It's happening about the internet itself, too. People are assigning false rose-colored nostalgia memories to the web, describing a "good old days" that elides how terrible and exclusionary the past eras of the internet were.

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

Going through my closet. We used to have dreams in this country

Evergreen post

very normal and good that “chasing people who look like immigrants” is a career with better benefits than “raising the entire future of the country”

i was just passing a new “ghost kitchen” opening soon and thinking about how we are truly such an unserious species but this really presses the bruise lol

“Wha?” The butterfly people! “Huh??” The Butterfly People! “Oh! I thought you said The Butterfly People”

PARENT: and this story is called the ugly duckling CHILD: ugly duckling? that’s not very nice PARENT: that’s right. the end

The good news is that we'll never know the truth about anything ever again

you only have as many replies you can give as you have regular posts you’ve made.

fired from my first day at waymo for suggesting they add a singular mannequin arm to each vehicle that can wave hi, signal "you go ahead" or engage in road rage

They tried to ban music in the 70s because they thought there were subliminal messages hidden in the recordings, but now we have a machine that convinces people to do murder-suicides and it’s being haphazardly and hurriedly installed into every aspect of our lives

i tore the tag off my mattress and it played a message from a princess asking for help from Obi-Wan Kenobi. i wonder if she means old Ben Kenobi

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam

on a more positive note it now takes less energy than running your microwave oven for a couple of seconds to come to this conclusion which apparently is a huge breakthrough over when it used to take much more energy to come to this same conclusion

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

*til Tuesday

huge if true