Widow’s Bay is fantastically weird and funny, so smartly done

I’ve decided that my anxiety is just my brain consistently doing premortems

Leaked image of new Apple EV.

we have talks on design systems which is the thing your team says they'll "get to eventually" and then never does. come learn how to actually build one so your components stop looking like they were raised by different parents

Ai coding has all of the boring parts of development (reading someone else’s code and babysitting someone while they make updates) and none of the fun parts (solving problems and writing code that both functions, and communicates how it functions)

People are weird sometimes if you don't have kids, they're like what about having a legacy, and I just point to my box of various wires and power cables

I made my very first cyanotype today with fresh cut cosmos and bulbine from my garden! I’ve been wanting to play around with this for years, and finally gave it a shot today

“To refuse is a creative act. […] To refuse is to create that which can only exist in the shade of that refusal, the refusal giving shelter to the choice that appears behind it. *To refuse is to choose.*”

Like surfacing tradeoffs, it requires leadership skills, not just technical ones. Read the full article: Tech Leadership: Create Alignment ▸ https://lttr.ai/Aq2bt #TechnicalLeadership #CreateAlignment

To paraphrase myself: You are the experts on your problems. We are the experts on the solution space. Together we can do this.

If you have a developer education budget at work, I would really encourage you to use it on your favourite developer educators. A lot of us are deciding whether or not to keep doing this stuff, and that support would help send a signal that we should keep going. ❤️

Nolan Schanuel tossed his entire glove with the ball stuck inside to get the out

(giant sentence incoming) i think failure to appreciate that slack is necessary for resilience is rooted in the destruction of the distinction between "systems exist to respond to a need" and "systems exist to create value and thus needs must be tailored to system optimization."

I will be speaking at the UC Irvine Research Forum on Developer Experience on May 15, 2026 and it looks like there will be a zoom option! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... LI post from organizer Tom Zimmerman here for more details and speakers: www.linkedin.com/posts/tomzim...

Woman on bus (50s): Waiting 'til every area of your life is sorted and you can enjoy it? Woman (30s): Yes. Woman (50s): Don't. Enjoy it now.

oh I like this, I wanna do one: Women in STEM (sitting through exhausting meetings)

You don’t want to be the person in July saying “I should’ve grabbed my ticket when it was cheaper.” Early bird pricing for RenderATL ends at the end of this month… and once it’s gone, it’s gone. Same access. Same experience. Just costs you more for waiting. Tickets: renderatl.com

New post on operational debt and how you identify and tackle it! leaddev.com/technical-di...

Me, always: "what has changed since the last time someone proposed a plan like this to make us think it will work this time?"

I'm over the moon that my talk "designing software that respects every identity" has been accepted at @agiletdzone.bsky.social This means that I'll get to share the most common hurdles gender diverse people face in software with the people who can fix them 🥰 agiletestingdays.com/2026/session...

The new ThoughtWorks Tech Radar reads like a warning letter. Cognitive debt. Broken productivity metrics. Terms nobody agrees on. If you've been reading my posts, none of it will surprise you. It's always nice to get evidence that I'm not completely crazy and making all of this up.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

I listened to a podcast about "assisted migration" for trees and plants. A fantastic topic for a systems thinker. I listened to an AI podcast just before that. And then a few uncomfortable synaptic connections clicked.

I made the switch to FreeTaxUSA this year. It felt easier and more thorough than using H&R Block somehow, and definitely ended up being less expensive!

you’ve moonscrolled your way to my art! I’ve been a full-time space artist since 2023 ✨

OH, 10-yr-old boy at a birthday party: “Why do people have to be complete man-children about stuff all the time?”

Max Muncy hit three homers tonight. And the third one was a walk off. UNREAL

I'm moonscrolling

The Royals accidentally went full bisexual flag with their new city connect uniforms, and I'm here for it.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

XANDER BOGAERTS WALKS IT OFF IN SLAM DIEGO FASHION

Successful roadmaps focus on value created for users and the business (outcomes) rather than just a chronological list of functions (outputs). This prevents the creation of "Frankenstein products" and allows teams the flexibility to experiment and learn. www.romanpichler.com/blog/get-the...

updates don’t move complex work forward they expand it the real job is getting it to converge over time—with leadership involved

I’ve made my calls to my representatives, so it’s time to share these four beautiful nerds. More here: images.nasa.gov #ArtemisII

Yes, Congress is in recess. Yes, they should probably come back now. Yes, you can still call them while they're out. Call a local office! We have those numbers for you @ 5calls.org 🔥📞🔥

the earth set. images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

oh, nothing, just me feeling the crushing weight of adulthood

The Artemis II crew just named one of the moon's craters after crew commander Reid Wiseman's late wife, Carroll. A genuinely touching moment.

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

“Copy heart, copy bracelet” 🫶😭

We obsess over writing code faster with AI, while PR queues, unclear requirements, and "what are we even building?" quietly eat all the time. Good read: andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-... by Andrew Murphy.

I love the absolute clarity of this. We all need to ask ourselves each time whether we deem it worth accepting all this (and what makes us think it is). Or just not worth it at all.

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA). It should be amazing to watch!

it seems more important than ever to give real thought to the difference between “busy” and “productive”. it doesn’t matter how fast the buttons get pushed if nothing of value comes out of that flurry of activity I’ve written about this a lot over the years jason.energy/context-swit...

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Some thoughts about AI-assisted coding and how it affects my brain. I'm more productive and more exhausted at the same time. marvinh.dev/blog/ddosing...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

In woodworking, glue strength depends on surface area. In teams, those surfaces are the moments where people connect. When we automate them away, we don't just remove work. We remove the thing that held the structure together.

Always going to be this one.