Tbh I thought ICEblock was performative nonsense but if the doj is pressuring Apple to remove it from the App Store I guess it wasn’t?

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

996 sounds better in Chinese

how *would* you explain this. "imagine if the only company making serious investments in JavaScript was, like, Mailchimp, and the language's only killer app/framework was written by JK Rowling, whose own business was utterly insignificant"

“We’re just standing around the sink eating green beans from the colander, this is a new level for us” “You mean…low?” “I didn’t want to say new low but yeah.”

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Baby led weaning is a scam by people who don’t like salad

I grew up in the South so I have heard from many a white person argue passionately that they don’t care what somebody says they just care how they say it. It took leaving the South to realize this meant that they didn’t care what somebody said as long as they were also white or agreed with them.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

"There no more water in Marin!" (because we use it all watering the lawns). h/t @bedform.org

Maybe my problem is that I want to work in person in the Bay Area with the kind of person who lives in nyc

Found a late season volunteer sungold in a corner of my garden (probably from seeds that dropped last year - volunteer tomatoes tend to not start really fruiting until now bc they don’t germinate until it gets warmer) and I decided to lovingly stake and water and fertilize it for a few weeks.

“Dress for the job you want” So how do I dress like somebody who never has to wrestle with bazel.

Before having a child I never would’ve guessed how much money I would be willing to spend on (colorful, cute) baby clothes

Did a garden tidy up and found that the watermelon we planted which I stg was just watermelon greens has an honest to god melon growing on it

rfk jr is literally a murderer

My PRC born in 1959 mom says Silicon Valley right now feels like china 1958 da yue jing (great leap forward)

B made a celery salt that starts with “first dehydrate a celery root” from some British cookbook and it’s super good actually. Tasty on popcorn

watching people rubberducking themselves into writing longer and longer specs, repeating themselves to eliminate any global context, using formal words to avoid ambiguity, and finding the right tokens to recreate the training set and telling me that the machine is doing all the work and thinking

Collaborating with only robots and not humans seems like a fundamentally lonely endeavor, a cul de sac approach to anything worth building. I keep thinking about how even in video games we were quick to add chat and group interaction.

Sad about the end of stone fruit season

I am tired of the smash burger moment

The fraction of people in Germany who were Jewish in 1933 (~0.75%) is lower than the fraction of people in the US today who are trans (~1%). Anyone willing to sacrifice trans people now, would have sacrificed Jews then. Refs: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a... usafacts.org/articles/wha...

A friend calls this time of year “crispy season”

Home! 12 hour jaunt to SoCal for an event.

Flying out of OAK today and the airport design is so car culture — premier lot exits straight to the check-in area. When I’ve taken air train it’s like a 15 min walk.

Here’s a nice simple guide to the US immigration process. Easy peasy

It’s probably bad that everyone has ready access to a psychosis machine www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

A friend brought us a magic spell from Taiwan

Do I know any **Powerful** product managers looking for a role? Would you like to help provide telemedicine reproductive care? Do you like very tiny startups? Then you should click: jobs.lever.co/heyjane/ad03...

The ones that log off from Omelas

I would simply not discriminate on the basis of national origin

Deeply unclear why I convinced myself it’d be ok to try to fly out of Newark again

When did BART get so loud again? I didn’t capture a screenshot but my NIOSH app on my phone measured over 100 decibels for a few minutes between south city and colma

Frustrated about the San Rafael Richmond bridge weekday bike lane closure but also for gods sake announce a date ??? All the press releases just say “the fall”. Bro when is that.

A student at Public School 89 in Queens was detained along with her brother and mother at an ICE check-in in lower Manhattan this week — the first known ICE arrest of an NYC child under the age of 18 during the second Trump administration. buff.ly/BtgXPqS

Growing corn this year and I finally viscerally understand why it’s an “ear” of corn

It seems possible that my strong, sturdy, and p97 weight and height baby might be able to ride on a bicycle soon!!! I’m getting excited. I have a tern quick haul that I’m going to equip which is very like, the Toyota Prius of cargo bicycles. Kinda wisting after something with more personality

Realized that it’s the 14 year anniversary of my time as a working computer programmer. For a multitude of reasons I never really thought I’d still be doing this now.

Accomplishment: setting a backup alarm because I might need to get up before the baby

Given the backlash to his photo, I encourage Asian people to gather in groups and make-up stories about them taking over some traditional WASP institution, just to make racists mad. "Went to a fancy dinner and everyone was part of the Daughters of the American Revolution."

the king is forcibly quartering soldiers in american cities and levying import taxes that nobody voted for. measles sweeps the nation. the hottest trend is the no poo lifestyle which you can achieve with finest grade of corn starch at home

OH “new article about the zizians just dropped” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...

CBP agents were also wearing those glasses during the July 7 MacArthur Park operation. Here’s a few of the images I took on that day—one of the agents appears to have scraped off the RayBan logo from the front of his glasses, but you can see it on the side in another image

Now that we know ICE is targeting workers at Home Depot as a matter of strategy, it’s important to note that the stores are blanketed in ALPR surveillance, and per their privacy policy, they’ll store and hand over vehicle data to ICE. We specific warned about this at the Virginia lege this year.

That they overturned Roe and immediately the media started a nationwide moral panic over “male loneliness” has got to be one of the least subtle moments in the long history of antifeminist backlash.

Rode my analog bike across town to go sing songs with friends while B put baby V to sleep. Showed off pictures of V and gossiped, pedaled home slowly in the dark, bike lights bright.

Here's my unpopular opinion: The 996 schedule isn't actually about productive work output, it's about having work take the place of an active social life and family as a person's primary obligations and sources of emotional support.

Really good post from @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social on the sinister appeal of homogeneity