Now I really want to see what changed in that ToS…

You either die a Web 2.0 hero, or live long enough to be acquired by Bending Spoons.

When IBM’s CEO drops a “and here’s the catch” in his interview with @reckless.bsky.social and your brain immediately thinks “this dude is AI?”

AI engineers are being built by people whose only professional experience is solving coding puzzles competitively, to replace people whose only real professional skill is solving coding puzzles in interviews. And to be fair, they’re really good at that.

Teen Vogue in 2016 The Verge in 2025

Base44 guy on a podcast: — Salesforce, Atlassian… just a UI on a DB. People will build their own — Funny, those guys told me they built their own internal Base44 in-house in 3 months — Look, anyone can build a vibe-coding app… they just don’t get our platform’s complexity… like async jobs!

For a small-ish neighborhood, Carroll Gardens really punches above its weight in random recognizable people who live around here. There’s a wealth of internet-famous comedians, a few tech household names, and the occasional actor just like buying bread.

True story

True story

In hindsight, letting the ducks type was a mistake.

SLOs are a psyop designed by big tech to nerdsnipe smaller companies into arguing about outages, “availability,” and whether a chair is even a chair, instead of shipping anything.

when you work in a monolith, need to stack PRs, and that one PR everything else was rebased off is finally reviewed

Corporate email inbox these days is either a million irrelevant notifications or that one HR email that, if you miss it, they cancel your health insurance and legally declare you dead.

My new favorite way to be passive-aggressive when someone says some stupid shit is to start with: “You are absolutely right!”

What phase of the bubble is it when JetBrains is wheatpasting AI ads in a sleepy Carroll Gardens corner. someone’s about to switch IDEs on the walk to get fresh mozzarella from Caputo’s?

OH: We send a lot of stuff to Datadog, but mostly money.

Every podcast since the pandemic is just people trying to recreate the feeling of happy hour conversations and the hangs we never got back.

Love when an AI influencer who sells courses on how to use AI crowdsources the one thing every AI demo swears AI solves.

AWS is down, and this coffee shop has turned into an empathy circle. Every five minutes, another pager goes off. We just nod. Just a beautiful shared experience.

I really wish ClickHouse had picked different names for “Materialized View” and “ORDER BY.” Spent half my day explaining they don’t mean what everyone thinks they mean.

I really wish ClickHouse had picked different names for “Materialized View” and “ORDER BY.” Spent half my day explaining they don’t mean what everyone thinks they mean.

lol you guys remember when we laughed at Google Wave for trying to replace email with one unified, structured thing? and now we replaced it with Slack chaos and Google Docs comment soup? Classic us amirite

I can’t recommend this video enough for those of us who are trying to get a good idea of what could happen in the next decade. It made me feel like 20 things at once. And it features Stanford Beer, the OG cybernetics guy! youtu.be/AYGt_UN0DpM...

As a chronic em-dasher, had to disable auto-conversion and use -- instead of — so people don’t think I’m AI-slopping them.

2000s: Story points 2020s: CAPEX points Agile, but make it deductible.

Overhearing two random VCs talking at Canal Street’s Think Coffee: “Once you vibe coded the prototype, taking it to production is very easy. You can have like one DevOps guy part time working for five companies”

I step out for a week and OpenAI decides the future of AI agents is… BPEL?

Biggest gift ten years of jiujitsu gave me is the experience of training with my older brother… …who’s a blue belt and I can finally kick his ass as payback for all those years

WTF is a AI WAN

BREAKING: Startups adopting the Nvidia business model

IT support at Hilbert’s Hotel

I don’t find Inngest particularly interesting as a durable workflow framework , but it tickles my programming language nerd brain that TypeScript is such an utilitarian language that things like these are idiomatic without much syntactic sugar

When Leftpad hit the spotlight, we couldn’t believe anyone imported a lib to save 11 lines of code. Now we burn a million LLM tokens just to indent a file.

At too many unicorns “AI” stands for "A lot of Ifs"

Phil Calçado’s 10th Rule: Any company claiming to be a “majestic monolith” is surrounded by an ad-hoc, bug-ridden, slow swarm of one-off microservices—including the monolith itself.

>Even if the prompt was version-controlled, there is no guarantee that the same prompt will create identical output. It's analogous to throwing away code and committing binaries to version control! >It is something entirely new, and new systems come with new problems uptimelabs.io/you-vibe-it-...

“OpenAI, the everything app” techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/o...

Guess who is absolutely right?

If your emacs went completely mad with setting/activating the mark a while ago, this is the culprit: MacOS at some point seized C-spc Took me a very long time to debug, LLMs took me down useless rabbit holes and the correct answer was on StackOverflow from six months ago.

I want someone to produce a documentary about the ten different documentary producers rushing to turn this into a Netflix documentary by next year’s.

I love that the Rails community has finally embraced modular design with packwerk, but we’ve had answers to this “privacy vs dependency” debate since forever—cf. Fowler’s “Published vs Public Interfaces” from 2002

Famously, Burning Man was like an electric fence that kept SF free of startup bros for a week. But life finds a way and the raptors learned how to open doors.

Regular reminder of why you should be skeptical about the Rails guy’s hot takes

I knew AI had a water consumption problem, but this is getting out of hand. www.bbc.com/news/article...

One of these days when you either hold one of the cats during work calls or have to mute yourself every 30s when they go crazy chasing each other.

The title of first talk in the RailsConf 2025 playlist tells you a lot about how Ruby and Rails are stuck in the early 2010s.

Uncle Baby Billy is now hawking AI? www.tiktok.com/@bloombergbu...

We whined about too much email but never specified what we actually wanted instead. Memos and announcements on Slack sure as hell ain’t it.

I’m always skeptical when people use this “mind virus” stuff, but the point is my man’s not rejecting RAG. He’s just using grep instead of vector search for retrieval, which is extremely common. I’d recommend he look into language-aware semantic search as the next step in his RAG journey.

In today’s episode, AI helps a tech bro finally get software engineering. He proceeds to immediately rebrand and sell it.