Omg I’m waiting on my mammogram & ChatGPT is giving instructions loudly on someone’s phone. The rest of us are all just looking at each other while they talk back and forth to ChatGPT. Me:

You could count on the Batman soundtracks to have hits 🦇

Batman Forever

The cloud isn’t expensive but bad cloud decisions are. This post breaks down five costly patterns I’ve seen repeatedly in cloud development from poor scaling decisions to misunderstood architecture tradeoffs. www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-clou...

Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

This is a hot topic rn: www.theverge.com/news/716004/...

Why Every Engineering Manager Should Read This 50-Year-Old Book Most software projects don’t fail because of bad code. They fail because of communication drift, bloated teams, and optimism bias. Fred Brooks explained this in 1975. His advice still holds up. www.linkedin.com/pulse/every-...

Just saw a video asking if “LLMs are an oracle or a prophet” and it spent me spiraling

WIRED has relaunched subscriptions with a bunch of new exclusive stuff. To give a sense of what readers get for $2 a month, I'm going to highlight some of the collaborative stories I've been a part of this year, one of the most inspiring in my 11+ years in this newsroom. Thread!

How Big Tech Designs Al That Feels Human What Google, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAl are teaching us about the future of Al interaction tinyurl.com/9ru3bhbe

hmm

Too many features can sink even the best product. Learn how top product teams deprecate features without losing users, growth, or trust. This guide shows how top product managers remove the right features without breaking growth or trust. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

youtu.be/qRd9qB8EWTk?... #RetroGaming

✨How l'd Revive Starbucks as a Cultural Icon and Drive a New Wave of Digital Growth ☕️ Starbucks was once a cultural powerhouse. In the early 2000s, it was more than a coffee chain. It was where trends happened, where people met, and where every Frappuccino felt like a lifestyle flex. bit.ly/4f3OFKD

AI Isn’t Just for Big Tech — It Could’ve Helped The Bear Grow The Beef What if Ebraheim had used AI to grow his wildly successful sandwich window? I explore how AI could unlock restaurant growth with better forecasting, smarter operations… tinyurl.com/48dd4snx #AI #Tech

Tip: supermarkets might sell out of ice, but they’re more likely to have frozen fruit pieces, like mango or pineapple. Substitute ice in a cold drink for these, then eat afterwards!

True Stories by David Byrne! Why didn’t y’all tell me this existed?!

TIL Martha Stewart has a gardening show that’s exclusive to Roku and it’s fantastic! 🌱 🌻 also, one of my sunflowers just bloomed!

Bring back the Drive Scorpion jackets so that we can feel something

Catching up on some light reading during vacay 🌴

I will forever mourn David Lynch

Tobe Nwigwe and Moses Sumney got me through the early pandemic

cowboy like me 🎵

Halloween They Live Halloween 2

Frankenstein Creature from the Black Lagoon Casablanca

oh god I forgot how much of coding is just fighting with dependencies

Playing Earthbound for the first time and this dialogue is hysterical

i miss when they talked in parts of the song

My dream yard needs a snowball bush, red camellia, and a Peggy Martin rose growing along my fence, connecting to the side of my house.

Users of: All Aeronautical Products and Digital Services From: Aeronautical Information Services, AJV-A Subject: Discontinuation of selected charting products and services www.faa.gov/air_traffic/...

Apple used to sell a windsurf board for $1,100

David Lynch’s estate sale auction is next month 💔

Lechon asada again today. It’s so delicious. If you ever get to a Cuban restaurant, you gotta try it. (Roasted Pork served w/ white rice, black beans, and yuca w/ mojo sauce.)

Excited about the new banana tree

Twin Peaks X-Files Seinfeld KOTH Original Twilight Zone

Chicagoooo

Y’all never wanna talk about music

I still remember recording “Take a Bow” off the radio onto a cassette

The movie Notting Hill makes me miss London

I have a load of really awesome electronics and phone manuals sitting in a museum in Santa Cruz that needs them gone basically in the next few days. Is someone around and willing to take a car trunks worth of these things up to the archive?

We had excellent tacos today (carne asada, al pastor, cecina). Really good food day. The horchata was top notch too. 🥰

If we end tonight being in the top 5 on Product Hunt launches today, I will feel so excited and so proud. Truthfully, I already am 💚 Also tho…we’re sooooo close to top 3 👀

Anyone I know working at Oracle?

Take more photos and start archiving them. You’ll want them.

Chicago hotdogs for dinner tonight!

!!! He was at the White Sox World Series game eating a Chicago hot dog!!

What a beautiful thing, to want something so much as a kid and to finally get it! He was trying not to cry. It’s all so precious.

You know what, I’m gonna have Chicago dogs this week

Congrats, Chicago! Such a wonderful city with the best hotdogs.