Private schools seem mostly designed to indoctrinate, specifically of the Christian kind. So is a majority of home schooling. I’m pretty sure that both are a major contributing factor on growing number of ignoramuses in the US.

They really think that somehow enabling the world to come to the US and get educated here *disadvantages* the US. It’s hard to overstate the long term damage this will do to US academia and the US in general. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Me: I’m glad Germany doesn’t have idiotic billionaires who get way too much coverage in the press Germany: Sorry to interrupt, we need to present our yearly award to Peter Thiel www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

Good.

The people in Germany who oppose European armament haven’t paid attention to what is happening. The idea that not being armed is somehow the guarantee for peace and freedom shows a remarkable obtuse read on history and current affairs.

Posted this earlier. It’s an AI manipulated image. However, the screenshot isn’t — Trump has posted this image to Truth Social. That doesn’t really change the spirit of what I said but in many ways that makes it even worse. Either Trump doesn’t know it’s AI generated or —worse IMHO— he does.

Putin doesn’t need an off-ramp. He needs a dead end. That’s the central argument of my latest NY Post column. Russia has a long history of escalating when given exits and backing down only when the costs become unbearable. nypost.com/2026/07/11/o...

1. I hate the clear attempt by republicans to delay the declaration of Mitch Mconnel’s death to avoid a special election. 2. I also hate the memes about him and his death.

“SQL isn’t cloud scale” First of all, you’re not doing cloud scale work. Second, you can scale SQL DBs rather well. youtu.be/YLoYcwnqVzM?...

I don't who to blame for the but Outlook (classic) and Gmail don't work at all any more. Syncing takes ages.

IMHO: don't use IEnumerable<TheoryData<...>>. Just return TheoryData<...> directly. It makes the code much less verbose. Thanks @andrewlock.bsky.social! andrewlock.net/creating-str...

Seems to be largely on point youtu.be/ER0jRB3nhK4?...

Apple just announced FinalTerm, the long awaited modern terminal client for macOS

Uhm. I’m still astonished by all these conspiratorial posts about the ID check. Mythos was pulled due to a US injunction. If you suddenly couldn’t sell your product because the government demands to only sell it to US citizens, you’d be investing in some kind of mechanism to be compliant too.

The emperor isn’t sliding into showing more skin, he was naked all along.

Watched the Mandalorian and Grogu. Not the best Star Wars but way better than Solo, and episodes 7-9. I mean low bar, but still. Very heartwarming, highly recommended.

Talk about having a unique name

Damn. It happened. I got addicted to tmux. AMA. I miss this experience deeply on Windows. Yes, I know of psmux but it’s not close enough. It’s too sluggish and the themes don’t work super well.

This is shocking to nobody. Also, Eric Trump‘s refutation isn’t credible. It’s far more credible that this happened.

The more honest headline would have been: Anthropic prepares to be compliant with governmental regulations

It says my package was delivered. But what if I ordered a liver?

I’m of two minds here: 1. I’ve got zero doubt that the document is authentic and that certain executives at MS pursue this strategy. 2. I can believe that this isn’t Satya’s approach That said, I’m not convince that 2. doesn’t mean that he wouldn’t turn a blind eye on 1. If it works though.

Holy fuck windows: Using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost shaves off 2s per network request because it skips DNS and IPv6 lookup attempts.

I get the anger towards tech, but I don’t believe tech is the root of the problem here. It’s the anti competitive behavior of John Deer in particular. So I hope they succeed and it creates a big ecosystem of various providers that create affordable solutions for the tech as well.

“The emperor is wearing the finest robes the like of which the world has never seen the like of which“

Good post from the author of rsync on the recent pile-on: medium.com/@tridge60/rs...

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

The problem isn’t using an LLM. It’s when people let an LLM generate code that they put into production without proper review and/or testing. Folks have done this before with templates, stack overflow, source forge and git hub too. Fly by mob commentary like this post are utterly unhelpful IMHO.

We baked chocolate chip cookies in small cast iron pans for the kids. Me: how is the inside? Is it gooey? My 12 yo: it’s gone, that’s what it is 😂

That would be shocking — if he had any troops to spare

Soooooo. I‘m typing for about 35 years now and finally decided enough is enough and started to learn how to touch type. It’s not a quick transition but it’s a kind of a rabbit hole… Hit me: what’s The One Correct Ergonomic Split Keyboard?

Holy cow.

This makes me so sad 😢. My heart goes out to his family.

Any Atlassian bamboo users out there? I’ve got a task that runs out CI script. How the heck do I get it to find the errors in the build log to summarize them? Surely reading the build log with CTRL F isn’t the answer?

‘Learning Recession’: New Report Shows Below-Average Test Scores in Majority of U.S. States https://bit.ly/4wsbWy3

Between the two Rubio would be the less problematic choice but I believe it will largely come down to how Trump is perceived towards the end of his term and who can either look like the most like Trump or the least like Trump. And sadly Vance is likely the better chameleon.

Just asked chat GPT who Immo Landwerth was. Asked whether he’s good at python, whether he likes YAML and whether he’s a fan of WordPress. The answers were pretty solid. When it didn’t know it extrapolated but couched it as such.

Anybody using jj? i looked at it a while ago but struggled getting anything concrete in terms of workflows how it changed my life over git.

After several weeks of working on Linux with Python, make, cmake, bash, SSH, tmux, nvim, lazygit, zioxide, sesh, rg, fd, Starship, and bat I think I finally get the years of feedback that the Windows dev experience stinks… 🧵/rant

I’m not exactly a fan of the vast majority of takes The Register has on Microsoft, but this one is spot on. In my 15 year experience Microsoft usually doesn’t lack ideas or talent. But there has been many issues with its leadership and how it wants to go about delivering customer value.

Anyone using podman? I want to build and run docker images from inside a container and I run into all sorts of problems. Anyone done this successfully?

Very disappointing. It’s obviously government mandated preferential treatment of Christianity over other religions. apnews.com/article/texa...

Considering how much the right argued that they care about big pharma and public health it’s sad how little these news seem to make the round.

I have said it before and I’ll say it again: the US has zero credibility to judge war crimes. It has refused to recognize the ICC and it has a long history (under either party‘s government) of actions that reasonable people would consider war crimes.

Sigh.

I‘m not gay but I live in a loving and caring patch work family. People pushing this narrative (one dad, one mum) are also pushing against no fault divorces and openly commiserate that women used to be more trapped. Don’t let these assholes define what love and family ought to be.

So far I like it a lot. If you’re interested in media, bias, especially your own, you should definitely sign up. If you ever used media bias rating sites like Ad Fontes, Ground News serves the same data except their UX is much better.

Well lols www.donotcall.gov Isn’t that a summary of the state of our government right now