I used to think that the tokenmaxxing gigachads using –dangerously-skip-permissions were being super irresponsible. But I recently discovered sandboxing tools like nono.sh and have been dipping my toes in the dark side of the pool.

I was at a dinner with staff+ engineers a few weeks ago and someone was suggesting interviewing candidates on their skills for using AI coding tools. Wtf. That’s like interviewing folks about their IDE usage skills.

Also, I’m an adult and like to be treated as such, so: ❌ no thumbnails with funny faces. ❌ enthusiasm is fine, but no hype-hype-hype, over-energetic stuff ❌ no clickbaity stuff like “15 tips that will TOTALLY blow your mind.” Such content has an audience too but maybe I'm too old to be part of it 🙂

Fairphone put out a document that takes a holistic look at the environmental impact of electronics. Everything detailed by component, material, process, etc. Really interesting for those looking to dig deeper www.fairphone.com/wp-content/u...

I’m looking forward to this succeeding wwwrise.org

Got added to a techno pessimists list today lol :confused-dog: This site is wild.

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/

good night, and good luck printing blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/09/g...

I have problem stopping my self from playing one more turn in video games. I’m seeing the same thing play out for myself with Claude code

The thought of soldering 20 buttons with a gazillion wires on a perfboard kills me. Time to learn kicad I guess

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Turned off autoplay. Saw a couple of posts today about news coming in. I’m conflicted about wanting to not look at those images, but my body is already having a reaction from just reading the descriptions.

Working on a new project to control my media devices (AV receiver, TV, Fire TV dongle) and a couple of lights/scenes. Using ESPhome with commands going through home assistant and Bluetooth.

Watch this by @lukemiani.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzHa...

In case you need it: I made a calculator that tells you how long until the daylight increases again. Hang in there! benholmen.com/sunlight

Staggering releases by holidays is diabolical

Stumbled across kittycad language few days ago. Kinda obsessed with the name.

I do very much appreciate that Valve's latest hardware announcement is just like - hey, here's some cool shit for games! No AI bullshit, no metaverse web3 nonsense. Just - hey, here's a better version of our shit.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Oof. blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...

Mamdani DJ a little too eager to play the dhoom theme. Don’t blame them, it’s a banger

Hugops to everyone dealing with the aws outage.

Took me a couple of hours to figure out how to publish to my own blog (lol lmao), but finally published this prodlog.xyz/posts/hittin...

If you spend time in the terminal, try bat, a replacement for cat (yes, I know that sounds utterly deranged) It adds syntax highlighting and Git integration, but still works like cat in when piped with other programs. Alias it to cat! Great for peeking at readmes, code, logs, etc

Solution was to create a new ssl context (not reuse the default) and then add the cert to it. I’ll write up a blog post on this tomorrow

Working on a project with a @pimoroni.com pico plus 2w that needs to access APIs at multiple domains. I am seeing that circuitpython might have issues with accessing multiple https websites on the same program… does anybody have workarounds for this?

My neighborhood tech meetup started a 5-week sprint for personal projects. It’s been great meeting every Thursday to share progress, swap ideas, and get inspired by what everyone’s building. Great motivator! I’ve caught myself coding late on Wednesdays just to have something to demo 😅

I want to write about how developers can collaborate better with folks they work with regularly. Starting with product managers. I would love to chat with you if you’re a PM

Oh yeah I wouldn’t have caught this until later without unit tests. Write your unit tests kids!

My coding clanker hallucinated about a very basic method for Django transactions. I then had to spend more tokens fixing its lie. Feels like a scam

Why even publish this wtaf

On my on call rotation at work this week. First night on Monday was awful and now my sleep schedule is screwed 😭 Hopefully it gets back to normal by the time this week ends

What’s a quick way to go to a specific window of an app in macOS? Looking for something other than cycling between windows with cmd+’ I basically need to navigate quickly between different windows of my ide

fzf might be of interest if you're not already familiar alias fcd='cd "`fzf --walker=dir`"' github.com/junegunn/fzf

True, but only if your agent doesn’t delete the failing tests and confidently say “All tests are passing now 💪

I love tools that are “invisible” and do one thing well. zoxide is a great example. It replaces cd in the terminal, remembers the directories I visit most, and lets me jump to them with just a few letters. I use it all the time! It saves me time and keystrokes, without making me think about it.

Just soldered 4 5m long LED strips together. Not a fun time.

Got my shipment of led strips and controllers earlier than expected from aliexpress! Time to play with them

Started playing with onshape last night as a form of productive procrastination. It’s quite nice!

Started a new gig a few months ago. I was very nervous going in because I haven’t been new at a company in many years. Finally starting to get my confidence back!

I need to design the model for a scale that can hold a load cell with a plate to hold an object to weigh. But I can’t get myself to begin

A big reason for loving programming for me was the ability to go into flow state. That’s becoming difficult to achieve for me in this world of agentic coding. How are folks working around this problem?

A big reason for loving programming for me was the ability to go into flow state. That’s becoming difficult to achieve for me in this world of agentic coding. How are folks working around this problem?

I sometimes worked really long hours in my twenties. I can’t do that anymore. When I did do it in my 20s, without fail I would soon find out that my output was awful and I had to eventually redo it or fix a bunch of things.

The very best developers I know are still figuring things out, and they are getting some good results, but they are still figuring it out. Critically, they are finding how to make AI work for themselves, but no where near the confidence to say “This is the Way”.

I will pack the randoms, but to help me avoid forgetting stuff I have started creating a checklist in obsidian and also create a copy of it. I check off the original list as I pack and then go through the copy an hour before leaving for the airport.

Wild that some googler was able to get this pull request approved and merged

Used parchment paper instead of the regular liner for my banneton for proofing sourdough. Worst looking loaves I’ve cooked since i started bread making

Got a cheap used dell xps from a friend. Using it to experiment with stuff I wouldn’t put on my daily driver (mbp). Any ideas for things I could do with it? I use arch, btw.