Writing something in your company values doesn't make it true. If it isn't already a part of your company culture, if you aren't incentivizing that behavior, then it isn't a company value. It's just words on a screen.

I understand why they are making this switch and it is probably the right decision for their business. But for folks on the annual plan they should have honored that until the end of the plan period. NGL it sure feels like a bait-and-switch. github.blog/news-insight...

The number of recruiter reachouts coming my way has really increased recently. Is this: - Coincidence? - Seasonal timing? - Job market improving? - My skill set becoming more desirable? - Resources moved from inbound to sourcing?

This is going to be my favorite professional communication of the week. Me: The way we get slugs is I have a ton of slugs. Colleague: how'd you collect the slugs? Me: Manually.

I guess its an invalid handle kind of day

And I'm just going to go over to my unused Cursor account... Now where is it? Ah, there it is. *Delete Account* news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4785...

TIL npm --workspaces won't stop on failure. This means that if you are doing something like `npm run test --workspaces`, test failures in an earlier workspace won't stop the process. You need to be able to review all the outputs, no simply that last output to be printed to the terminal.

Today is April Fool's Day But every single day The news is full of Fools. Our country's actions are jokes, The deals it makes are tricks, It's leadership, clowns. Today is April Fool's Day But I cannot tell.

Nice. The noncompete ban went through. All existing noncompetes will be void as of June 30, 2027. Thanks @staterepjuliareed.bsky.social and state rep Liz Berry for sponsoring!

I spent most of the day in bed recovering from sickness, so I didn't get to No Kings this time. Glad to see that so many others made it out. Fed up with this lunacy.

An EU alternative to the standard Delaware C-Corp would probably be quite helpful for Europe's startup scene. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Ugh, VSCode update switched the theme around so it looked obnoxious to me. Took a bit before I found and enabled the previous theme again. Or maybe it is the closest-to-previous theme? I can't tell.

Oh, they actually finished it. Hooray!

Farewell, free coding CLI. "Model restrictions for free tier users: Starting March 25, 2026, Gemini Pro models will only be accessible via paid subscriptions. Free tier users will be limited to Gemini Flash models." github.com/google-gemin...

I was trying to figure out why I've been so enamored the past few days with the whole afroman / lemon pound cake thing. I think it is because it is an unabashedly good time during a month when a lot of the other national/global news coming my way is such a bad time.

I have the Lemon Pound Cake song stuck in my head today.

Dropping some great calendar knowledge here.

⚡️ Vite 8.0 is here! The most significant architectural change since Vite 2. ⏬ Powered by @rolldown.rs bringing faster production builds and more consistency 🛤️ New features such as tsconfig paths and emitDecoratorMetadata support vite.dev/blog/announc...

Node.js is moving to one major release per year starting with Node 27! 🚀 ✅ Simpler: Every release becomes LTS. ✅ Predictable: Version numbers now align with the year. ✅ New: A 6-month Alpha channel for early testing. https://bit.ly/4rnosLg

Of all the op-eds I've seen, this is the one that resonates with me most.

Gross Windows 11 update changes start menu to make it more noisy no way to turn it off just another day with windows 11 what I don't even

Truth. "So, for some companies that have used AI and have a really healthy system, it has amplified that system. ... On the other side, we have organizations which were dysfunctional already and are now more dysfunctional: they’re dysfunctional faster." - Laura Tacho

I'm surprised that "what does this website look like on both mac/windows?" is still such an annoying problem if you don't own both device types. It is 2026.

Two weeks ago with npm v11.10.0 they introduced a `--min-release-age` argument that works like `--before` but lets you specify a number of days instead of a date string. So now ergonomic workflow.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

*Restart after Windows update* Windows: Hi there! It's time to get your Windows set up! (for the 21st time) Win: Let's make Edge your default browser! Me: No Win: Get ready to "Decline"/"Skip" 10 times! Me: Clicks 10 times Win: Welcome! We've broke your background image, so it looks messed up!

LOL privacy policy template

Love to see it! Boo to non-competes.

Wow this looks like a great set of utilities

Once upon a time, I did not need to read the VSCode release notes every month. Now I do. There is always something useful about a new setting or capability that is really useful. I wonder how much of this from AI in general and how much is from trying to compete with the VSCode forks and LLM CLIs?

I tried Wispr Flow for awhile because I really like the idea of it, but man it could not understand what I was saying. So many edits needed I'm not sure if any time was saved at all. Maybe it will be cool in another year.

Dang, Notepad++ used to be prolific. Updates June 2025 through December 2, 2025 are affected.

A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you. 'Tis, as they say, a banger. justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

I'm doomscrolling and furious

TIL: "English and many other languages present number categories of singular or plural. Some languages also have a dual, trial and paucal number or other arrangements." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammat...

I can't stand "fairness" arguments that are actually "I want other people to have it as hard as I did" arguments.

*Restart after Windows update* Windows: Hi there! It's time to get your Windows set up! (for the 20th time) Windows: Do you want to turn on Windows Backup? Me: Clicks *Opt Out* Windows: Are you sure? Some PM really wants you to because it is part of their KPIs Me: Clicks *Opt Out*

New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

Personal annoyance: When I specifically select "thinking" in ChatGPT and it ignores my selection and blurts out the first thing that comes to mind.

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Ok, hear me out: Home Alone remake but the bad guys are bumbling ICE agents trying to deport the dad. A Central American immigrant family in Chicago, the Ramírezes, leaves town just before Christmas for a high-paying construction job. In the chaos, their youngest son Mateo gets left behind. 1/

backend eng? come build this app with us. jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i... we’re a tiny team building a very big app. if that sounds fun, lfg!

I will never get over the fact that Lever ATS's API uses case-sensitive company ids in the url

I learn many new things by paying attention to Patrick McKenzie.

As a dev whose grasp of CSS is rather limited, I found this short learning game fun and helpful. flexboxfroggy.com

So I was aware of GOG, but thought it was just a lesser Steam competitor. Only recently did I learn about 1. GOG's focus on DRM-less games + downloadable installers 2. GOG's effort to ensure older games remain playable on modern systems. And I am so into it www.gog.com/en/

The basic idea: 1. Private Equity (PE) buys up all the software providers 2. PE jacks up the price on one and shuts down the others 3. Fire Department (FD) has only one expensive option left This is terrible for the FDs and the people they serve. But in theory it is straightforward to stop. 1/

TIL npm update has a `--before` argument to ignore versions that are too recent, ie. for supply chain attack mitigation. Not quite as ergonomic as a cooldown argument as it requires a date rather than "7 days ago". But it fits my existing workflow and I will take it! docs.npmjs.com/cli/v11/comm...

"The leaders of [group where your family's doctors are] have informed [your health insurance provider] of their intent to end their contract for commercial lines of business effective Jan. 1, 2026, unless a new agreement can be reached on what we pay them to provide care to members." Boo to that.