*squints* Wait, do ai tokens work the same as file compressors?

Which one of you motherfuckers said out loud "you know what cream soda need? To be more sour." 6/10, needs work

I don't live in Maine, I wish the best for Mainers, and I remember John Fetterman. I also just helped build the Maine Campaign Financing Disclosure system, and I know for absolute sure that I do not believe for one goddamn minute that Janet Mills ran out of money. It's public data, go look.

Oh look, she's getting in her feelings about using AI again and she's gunna post through it. First of all, shut up. Second of all, I just got off a very productive weekend call with my principal engineer and basically put a bow on an entire new feature the front end needs. It's cool.

I worried that I was being stubborn for the 10 years I put my foot down and refused to engage with React, because it was a bad idea that produced overcomplicated and poor results most of the time, and I was right the entire time, and the industry is finally catching up with me. 🧵 1/x

I think the funniest part of Kash Patel flying off to get drunk at The Poodle Room on weekends is, while it is a private social club designed to feel like a rich-people secret society, it's dues are 2500 bucks a year, and it has several "Apply Now" button on its website in big, friendly letters.

Code Vein is a deeply flawed game that swings for the fences. It's fun and weird! (And for the love of God don't waste money on the dlc)

I have a new hobby: going up to all the women who have suddenly developed an intense interest in ice hockey and going "yes, and, I have a sport full of monterous strongmen who are contractually obligated to be giant himbos. Interested?" This is most effective on girls into goalies.

I know a lot of people criticize the pilot custom 92 for being plasticy and feeling cheap for the price, but before the price went up last year it was $125 bucks for a good gold nib, piston filler demonstrator fountain pen with a lifetime warranty that will write with the toughest inks effortlessly.

Jesus Christ there's an app now where you pay a low monthly fee and the app reports "timely payments" to the credit bureaus. It's obvious how this improves bad credit, and it's fucking diabolical. We've finally made good credit for poor people a subscription service.

The Asvine P20 fountain pen is impressive for the cost, but kind of useless if you already own the nearly identical but objectively better Nahvalur Schuylkill. Instead, swap the stock nib with a Majohn flex nib for a few dollars and get a much more exciting ,wet flexy piston pen.

I would venture to guess that is TWO good-ass boxes

Who's got two thumbs and enjoyed chopped liver sammies for lunch?

Small-batch high-quality subsidized print-on-demand services for writers and artists. Come to me if you want 20 copies of the comic you just finished. Fractional housekeepers for disabled people.

It 100% makes sense that this guy would stumble ass-backwards directly into the PWA discourse. He'd be so happy if someone took an afternoon and explained it to him lol

Why does the tiktok app take up an entire gig on my phone, not counting data or cache, and yet still the one time I open it up in a week somehow it starts playing 3 videos at the same time and I have to force-close it to make the playback stop

Data centers are bad for the environment actually. In this video essay I will

Ok, forcing myself to go all in on Cursor and ai dev. Step one: make cursor look and move exactly like VSC to quiet to voices in my head

BBC wants to paywall me from their text news, fine. LET ME PAY FOR IPLAYER YOU COWARDS

After 15 years of the industry trying to pull the frontend into the backend and munge it all into full-stack development, I honestly didn't expect AI of all things to re-widen that divide, but here we are.

Q: Why aren't kids today buying houses? A:

Thinking about how I hate "self styled wizard vibecoding" but now Im thinking of wizards binding familiars and summoning demons up in their weird towers and it's like oh no wonder everyone hates wizards, they don't know jack shit, all they can do is be creepy and ask the extra-planar turk to do shit

A question for smart people: why does matter have phases? I don't know if this is a physics question or a chemistry question but also, it's both because they're sorta the same thing

The stability of YouTube and Nebula apps on my android phones has been a problem for A While. I decided to try casting from my newish iPad to see what happens. It's working so well I'm genuinely angry.

TV ads for the biggest tech companies out there. If you're seeing ads for websites so huge they're verbs, the economic vibes are way off. Either that or they've passed their peak profitability and have officially run out of ideas. Neither is a *good* sign.

My dumbass podcast that never had more than about a hundred listeners (about 6 years)

Today's reminder: An accessible component can be inaccessible once populated and put on a page. Users are imaginative and will do things you have never even thought of just to get their work done without bugging you. Yes, even if you lock things down. Never underestimate the power of your users.

Sinclair Lore in the wild @sinclairlore.bsky.social @alhazred.bsky.social

Arm trans women, now including cameras.

There are few things that make me more furious than the Tailwind page on Reusing Styles. v3.tailwindcss.com/docs/reusing...

I don't use this pen enough, it sparks joy every time I pick it up. The problem is that it handles the most difficult inks with grace and I love difficult inks and so I also need to clean it a lot and I should really just do that more.

Look, of all the shit in the world this is relatively minor, but also Ding Dong the Whitehouse ballroom as officially doubled in price to $400 million share.google/7QAnYuEuOs83...

Me: I feel insecure in my position because I don't know how to do a lot of things my coworkers do? Also Me: *concisely explains that the bug is because the mobile navigation abstraction is wrong and needs to be replaced instead of fixed, in terms Product can understand* Me: Oh right.

Are bots worse recently or did my account exposure just level up?

I finally put my finger on what bothers me about agentic AI software development and why it doesn't feel ready yet: to be safe and wildly productive, the person orchestrating agents has to rely on a ton of developer discipline. It's mostly our most senior devs who are seeing the highest gains, right

Hey cat people, any advice on working with a cat in heat? I am fostering a little sweetie who is getting fixed at the end of the week, but in the meantime this little girl is HornyAF. She's also a cuddler and very attention-seeking. This means I think I'm her boyfriend now?

I used to be able to gauge the economy and the job market for nerds by how many recruiters would call me in a week. That doesn't work anymore, I've gotten three calls from different recruiters today and they're all for the same job. I mean obviously this is bad.

New game: Shoot, Shatter, Smooch If you had an unreliable time machine, who would you risk blending your DNA with a fly for the chance to headshot, punch in the nuts, and kiss on the mouth? I'll go first: 1. Hitler 2. Paul of Tarsus 3. Mary Fields

Ok, so: if we're moving towards a sort of software engineering where the interfaces and apis and contracts are what we work with and the code behind that is executed via ai in a black box, fine. But if that's the case and humans won't read the code, we don't need ai to write human readable code.

I appreciate the sentiment, but that's a really strange claim from a guy whose whole deal is Bible stuff

Today's deep thought: the UI is a contract.

Deep thought for today: software innovation tends to skip a generation

While I don't want to encourage the slopmeisters, I've discovered a whole bunch of fake rust removal ai slop shorts on yt that are so bad they shot the moon and became utterly fascinating.

Ok question for all you nerds but particularly @errant-signal.com because I think you might know, can any of you think of a video game that gives a similar satisfying experience to grooming a Calibre database?

We forget the hoards of people trying like mad to post themselves into problogging. And so, so much SEO.

User fixingmedaybyday on Reddit came up with "Agilecadabra" to describe management thinking that if they use the word "agile" without changing anything else it magically makes people complete tasks quickly, and I love it and am stealing it right now.

I mean, the name of the place is absolutely a hate crime, but I live in a city that's done its own local, bonkers interpretation of texmex, itself a local, bonkers interpretation of northern Mexican food, so fuck it, let's get drunk and pick up wok-a-moley, I'm into it

Ethical question: if one is seeking an ADHD assessment and manages to schedule it, is it better to show up self-medicated as it's your "daily normal" or to skip it that day for "accuracy"? Honestly the very thought of trying to raw dog an intake survey is chilling.

Become ungovernable youtu.be/0RLbXvUBzaY?...