Just because you work at a clown show doesn’t mean you need to put on the shoes.

When an employee doesn’t understand the value they bring to a company, that’s a failure of leadership, not management.

Tired: Rotating passwords Wired: 2FA Inspired: Having more entries in 1Password than the app allows before locking you out

475 million of them are accidentally clicking on a link in Instagram and getting annoyed

You spent the weekend honing your bespoke agent setup. You've improved your throughput and reliability. ...now how do you share that?

It's well-documented that AI triggers anthropomorphic projection - "synthetic empathy" - but I wonder at the additional influence of nerd sniping engineers using tools that can sharpen themselves?

People fundamentally misunderstand the nature and source of inspiration.

Yellow-bellied marmot I spotted at the top of Lolo Pass yesterday.

🛫 Turbulence v1.3.0 released - first update in 12 years! Visualize churn vs complexity in your Ruby app to find refactoring candidates. ✨ What's new: • Ruby 3.0+ / 4.0 ready • --output DIR for custom report location • --no-open for CI pipelines github.com/chad/turbulence Clear skies ahead! ✈️

Is it bad that I'm googling "Warning signs an organization is a cult"?

🧜‍♀️ rails-erd 2.0 is out! After years of quiet maintenance, I shipped the biggest update ever to the Rails ERD gem! Mermaid is now the default. No more Graphviz — just bundle exec erd for text-based diagrams that live in your repo. github.com/voormedia/rails-erd/releases/tag/v2.0.0

The impulse in tech right now to grunt "FRICTION BAD!" is short-sighted. Every rule, process, or guardrail - "friction" - is there for a reason, a good reason, and has a name and a story behind it.

If you're a team lead, and you don't know who on your team would take over if you were hit by a bus, you've done something wrong.

Leaders don't mandate, they inspire.

Management by fear is like an energy drink - a burst of momentum, true, but followed by a sugar crash and growing dependency on the stuff.

"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

I think about this single panel more than I should.

In other news... I assume the flavor scientists at Oreo are now over at 5-Hour Energy.

It's easy to underestimate the impact that healthcare in the 🇺🇸 being tied to employment as to what employees will toleration.

🏍️ I picked up a used KLR a few weeks ago, and did 120 miles on it yesterday to see what I need to do to get it ready for a run to the Arctic Ocean later this summer, and let me tell you, I've never been happier to STOP riding a motorcycle in my life.

Just doing some live-streaming today.

Poorly run organizations say they want "better" engineers, but only understand that as "faster".

I am reminded, yet again, that far too many people confuse "management" with "leadership" - they are NOT the same thing.

Being in a place where I have so many things to say, but I can't because I live in America is a real reminder of the fragility of the American Myth.

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leafs a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

What if AI accelerated your collaboration, inspiration, and humanity, and not just your LoC?

“If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.”

In the 1880s, one European political theorist was asked "Why don't the Americans rebel the way the lower classes of Europe have?" "Too much roast beef and apple pie."

One of the hidden advantages that has given us AI success is our policies around commit messages, MR descriptions, and Issue discussions. Capturing the ephemera around a code change makes VCS useful not just for coordinating humans, but providing context for agents.

I've been enjoying the deep embrace of AI tooling that I started a couple months ago, but I keep coming back to this analogy of how the introduction of safety measures in cars has reduced the fatality rate, but the accident rate continues to climb.

All the velocity in the world doesn't make a lick of difference if you're heading in the wrong direction.

..but seriously, I've been banging on about this for the last 2 years -- the speed of writing code was _never_ the bottleneck.. AI is just revealing to us that our human processes are.

“With AI, you might have as many as six open pull requests!” *stares at her 14*

Going long on laser tag stocks.

"We'll have swarms of agents automatically fixing bugs as users open them!"

I feel like we're not saying eigenclass enough.

Code is like explosives - "quantity has its own quality." Large diffs have an authority, carrying a weight that small patches, spikes, and MVPs simply don't. Large MRs get rubber stamped - small ones get interrogated.

As I was poking again at some AI bullshit, I suddenly thought "Maybe I should go finally dig into rust and jj at the same time" and felt such a rush of joy and elation, I immediately put myself on a PIP.

A gem that randomly inserts ads for RAID: Shadow Legends into your logs.

Oh oh oh! ..and we can trace the history of beekeeping through tracing the linguistic ghosts of how the word "mead" diffused through Indo-European languages!

I know I'm late to it, but I have some lukewarm book takes - I can tell when a writer doesn't read - Dungeon Crawler Carl lives up to the hype, but doesn't really spin up until book 3.. but you can't skip 1 & 2. Do the audiobooks - Speaking of audiobooks - "Story is Story"

It’s disappointing to see people you respect disregard the social and political impact of the technology they build

Fuck hockey.

The vast majority of ideas you’ll have aren’t actually very good. That’s ok. That’s normal.

Tool creates more data ♻️ humans feel overwhelmed, create tool to handle data

“Soup is just an open-faced monad.”

The "Dead Sea Effect" applies not just to talent, but to drive and career progression. In roles where a substantial portion of compensation relies on equity awards, the incentives are to concentrate compliance by financially lopping the heads off the tall poppies.

RBQ Conf tickets go on sale today at noon. We’re opening Rare tickets a bit earlier and letting them run longer than usual, so folks can grab early pricing in the way that works best for them. Medium and Well-Done will follow later. Details: rbqconf.com#tickets