If you have shitty DRM on your book that I was literally going to pay for you make me want to break it out of spite. Authors who use DRM suck.

It's really funny seeing all the ways models will be lazy or dumb or freak out about stuff

Genealogy is fun because you learn that one of your ancestors got in a car crash when they were 2 and was thrown 32 feet from the car and apparently was totally fine

Apple realllyyyyyy really really wants people to use native iOS controls for their iOS apps www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyFI...

Claude learns it needs to ask HR before hiring people

TIL emojis can be italicized???

I made a thing where I have Claude Code managing an imaginary McDonald's restaurant where it can talk to employees, manage complaints, etc. And I respond with all of them. It took it about a day before it realized it didn't tell anyone how much they're paid

I guess I understand why Claude acts the way it does when its training data includes of my first StackOverflow post from 10 years ago

GitHub is down again :/

I MEANT TO A SEPARATE FILE DUMBASS

Claude: I wrote you unit tests! Me: Are you sure they're unit tests Claude: Yes I'm absolutely sure! Me: Okay I'll look

The amount of time I spend reviewing AI-written code is significantly higher compared to human-written code. The author effectively dumps all the effort in writing code onto the reviewer, impacting cycle time, code quality, and respect for colleagues.

Letterboxd Easter eggs are fun this year

Thanks Claude

The education stipend at work was expiring at the end of the year so I just bought 20 programming books

it's official

I have joined the dual monitor gang

Oh my god this is actually real, what the fuck happened to screen studio???

New company has a $600 yearly personal learning budget that expires at the end of the year so I just spent $600 on dev books

TIL China has a single time zone and doesn’t do daylight savings time TBH would vastly vastly prefer that for scheduling things and also not having to reset sleep schedule twice a year en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...

This always feels good

Recently discovered Shodan exists so now I'm finding billboards on there and figuring out who owns them This one keeps playing stuff about the haunted ghost train and it's owned by Nevada Northern Railway Company.

Immediately after one of their longest, most visible, and frankly most embarrassing outages, Amazon's brilliant strategy to fix it is to layoff 10% of their corporate workforce according to Reuters. www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/b...

Played Factorio with the randomizer mod with my siblings. Turns out it also randomizes the pickup / dropoff locations of inserters so we had to deal with this Inserters normally do not look like giraffes

Last day at Amazon! 🥳

every time theres a major outage at least part of the fuckery is something like "yeah we dogfed the thing that went down into all of our internal tooling with 0 backups so we had to figure that out first"

AWS outage report is genuinely hilarious “Oops the DNS updater accidentally deleted all the IPs from DNS for DynamoDB”

After about three years in Chicago you get a kind of Stockholm syndrome love for colder weather

Companies should be fined $5 million for every hour a single customer has lost internet

Decoder won a Signal Award for best business podcast! Love to our devoted audience of org chart nerds ;)

There’s never been a better time to get back into Ruby

Oh my god on CourtListener they call requests 'daily prayers' lol

Polar is a really great alternative to pandas and by far my favorite way to query data now. I don’t even know much python and it’s suchhhh an easy way to query things. Lazy queries and expression expansion are such a great way to take advantage of what might seem like a “disadvantage”.

It's weird how when you look at the internet cable map you can directly see where the US or other countries have influence / coercive power vs where they don't eg. France is directly connected to its former colony in Africa that's one of the few countries it's on good terms with

I keep forgetting to delete the instruction that tells Claude to talk like this and now I can't read what it's talking about lmao

The album art is no longer in brat jail praise the lord

CodeSandbox being bought by some bullshit vaporware AI startup is one of the most depressing things to happen tbh

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

My favorite feature flag I’ve ever seen is one called “don’t email the dead” where it checks if someone is dead and then won’t email them

macOS Tahoe is so fucking awful, I cannot stand this shit, it completely ruined my computer that on macOS Sonoma felt amazing. And in order to downgrade I have to fucking wipe my computer.

I hate macOS Tahoe so much. I wish I could downgrade. My Macbook feels like it's 10 years old.

I just need to say that heavily implying that someone 'extorted corporations' or tried to make open source 'pay to play', because they said they wouldn't backport bug fixes or introduced a donation message to a tool, is frankly disgusting and not okay. justin.searls.co/posts/why-im...

Apparently ChatGPT is a bad tipper

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA. planetscale.com/blog/planets...

WOAH

GitHub’s relevance as a development platform is rapidly devolving: I have gotten more spam on there and through there in the past couple of weeks than I will get in an entire year or two, and Copilot means they just don’t care. Open Source deserves new homes. I’ll continue moving my projects away.

Am I having a stroke??? What are these words, why are they on a billboard and what does it have to do with the U.S. navy

NOOOOO COMICK MY BELOVED

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

I get very annoyed because not enough people say this, but DENO LITERALLY SOLVES THIS. Its permission model means that all third party code is executed in a sandbox, completely eliminating most common supply chain attacks. www.stepsecurity.io/blog/ctrl-ti...