"fell for it again" award

Just sharing a few random thoughts in the middle of the night.... jmichaelstraczynski.substack.com/p/everyone-y...

Have you seen the new /pulls view on GitHub, yet? If you opt in to the new experience, your pull requests get WAY more organized, with everything from custom views to collapsible sections to filtering by org and repo.

Peak Windows.

oh, nothing, just me feeling the crushing weight of adulthood

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

We've been discussing this at work too. We all have AI tools we can talk to, if I want to talk to a human it's because I want a human conversation.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Pulling out and connecting weird lil details until they provide an interesting picture is more interesting than a top-level summary that's the average of what everyone has ever said

If you haven’t done what you should have done years ago, get tf off of Vercel

When I role played as the computer at my starship bridge simulator job (we did Star Trek simulations for 5th and 6th graders), I would never use pronouns. “That is not a function of this computer.” “This vessel is under attack.” Etc. It helps keep the players as the main characters.

As humans cede more of our creativity to machines, it's more important than ever that we make art of any kind — painting, music, sculpture, dance, sport, and yes, code. How else are we going to process our grief at what we've lost? h/t to @whitep4nth3r.com and @lindsaykwardell.com

I wrote about some things I'm struggling with in the technology industry, preceded by an appreciation for folk music.

wrote a few words on why I think @npmx.dev might be going places

Congrats on the alpha launch @npmx.dev! Y'all are amazing ❤️ Let me tell you an open source story. A very personal one. A story of growth, downward spirals, and recoveries. Of a multitude of converging communities building tools for themselves. A story of collaboration and trust. And hope.

Going a bit more vulnerable today. In 2022, an hour before going on stage at Vue Global Summit, my spouse at the time told me she wanted to start seeing other people. I'm long since free from her, but I regret that I walked into it at all. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/an-hour... #blog

I am deeply aware I lucked out in career and spouse and spend a lot of time paying forward the luck, because why are we here if not to try to make the lives of others better.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

Once, technology solved problems. People liked having problems solved, so they liked technology. Tech execs started to think of that sentiment as their due. So when they stopped solving problems, and people stopped liking them, they became outraged. "How dare you not love whatever we give you?"

Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around. If you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it.

I had a moment of inspiration after fixing my 2013 Macbook Air, and wanted to capture a moment of learning in a new post. tl;dr: it's probably not a good idea to rely on AI if you're trying to learn something. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/keep-le... #blog

Doing some writing on things I've been noticing about AI. Plenty of people have said plenty about it, but I wanted to add my own voice to the mix. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/dont-re... #blog

Sometimes sharing things online is hard, because I just feel small. But from our perspective, so are stars. www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/moments... #blog

Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/

Interesting point raised by a smart friend today: Traditional DevRel/tech community building are over, because AI kills loyalty to platforms / frameworks / etc. Not just because it lowers switching costs ... but because it destroys the self-identification people used to feel with their tools.

And they say Java is bad for long names!

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

After working in international shipping, I've felt that this is true of basically everything large scale. Really love that so much in our world works together that, when examined, feels like it shouldn't.

Ferbruary #oldknees

It's been awhile since I just wrote blog posts, but I'm going to work to change that in 2026. Here's my first post to kick off the new trend! www.lindsaykwardell.com/blog/rekindl...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

This is absolutely worth a listen if in the software space, considering a career move, or just need encouragement to take a swing at that big idea ⚡ Jason is one of the best humans in the developer community and has so much incredible wisdom to share. Thank you for joining us on Overcommitted!

I originally wanted to do web design, but was told by college professors that I wasn't good at it. Started working at a freight forwarding company, and worked towards owning it with a co-owner as mentor. When that deal fell through, a friend suggested I try programming again, and here I am!

Print dictionaries: the original large language models 11/18/25

If you thought the story of Frankenstein was intense, wait until you hear about the life of its author. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s personal life was fraught with death, life, and a summer of volcanic ash. Buckle up. 🧵⬇️

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Proposition: You become a writer the moment you write, a musician the moment you make music, a painter the moment you paint, etc. You become an artist the moment you find your own voice as a writer/musician/painter/etc. Yes? No?

went to a tourist thing in Boston where you throw tea in the harbor. All the grownups were like "so does this mean we get rid of the tariffs now ha ha ha ☹️". So *that's* a mood.

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just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at wizardzines.com#posters

This is one of the best takedowns of AI art I’ve read. It perfectly articulates exactly my sentiments about the kind of people who are hyped for it, and why they’re wrong and bad. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

New in Deno v2.5.4: Deno tunnel Connect your local and your Deploy environments.

We all have a choice. The Internet is ours.

(solemnly) You've had mail.