Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

I adore this project by Robin Sloan. www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/sh… In a world where communicating & sharing with friends can be so easy, this adds just the right tiny amount of “friction” to show you’re being mindful and purposeful sharing something to a friend, not just running on autopilot.

Jenn nails this! I love passkeys, use them for primary and second factor auth whenever I can, and would be THRILLED to see them become ubiquitous. But I have spent ZERO work time advocating we integrate them to our product, because there is no good way to explain them to my peers OR our customers.

This is the most California version of a “Florida Man” story.

SEIU California has un-endorsed Scott Wiener for Congress because he opposes the CEO tax. But San Francisco SEIU members have wanted a sole endorsement for Connie Chan since the beginning. via @io-y-g.bsky.social missionlocal.org/2026/04/sf-c...

If you see this post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

Thank you to @theverge.com for writing such a clear and unambiguous essay. Whatever nostalgia you have for your early 2000s self, you *have* to acknowledge the *very* really harm that continued patronage of Joanne R causes.

I would die for the anglepoise iMac G4.

Search your camera roll for hell

It’s the new “Compiling” ⚔️

Gourmet Magazine is now worker-owned and AI slop free. There's possibly multiple recipes for eating the rich. It also lowers your blood pressure when you read nice things people write about food. gourmetmagazine.net

SO the NYT thought it was cool to profile the indie media project relaunching the Gourmet brand here: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b... BUT they've now FIRED @nzle.bsky.social for it. So subscribe to Gourmet, hire Nozlee, and as ever the NYT can get in the sea.

Got an NPS survey from my fucking *landlord*. Jesus, people! I pay your extortionate rent, isn’t that feedback enough? Who the hell is “recommending” their landlord anyway? (The Detractor/Promoter colour scheme to try and bias the respondent is a nice touch)

what’s your sign?

Reading this and nodding my head vigorously. Most companies’ approach to “growing” engineers is “stick them near more senior people and hope for the best”. (No, your paltry “learning” stipend doesn’t count) How do we help our engineering staff of ALL levels grow their ability to have impact?

There are bands I still instinctively strongly dislike purely based on the opinions of the girl I had a crush on in 1994.

Yeah.

Y’all keep pointing out the hypocrisy like they’re capable of shame. You’re gaslighting yourselves.

Blimey O’Reilly! Rosalía’s performance at today’s Brit Awards was unreal. German opera, Björk, and an all-out rave, delivered in four minutes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyufP…

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Old enough to remember when Dropbox’s CEO got frustrated by how little engineering managers understood their teams’ technology, having to rely on their tech leads’ expertise to answer his questions. Except now we’re actively pushing that problem onto our engineers relying on their AI bot.

The same as Hannah Einbinder’s Emmy acceptance speech, just with a more specific bird.

My iOS Shortcut which immediately replies “STOP” to any SMS message containing a link to actblue dot com has been doing sterling work this week.

It is 1991. I am 15 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East. It is 2003. I am 27 years old. The US has gone to war in the Middle East. It is 2026. I'm too old for this shit. The US has gone to war in the Middle East.

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

May we all live to see these fucking fascists meet proportional consequences.

TIL that the word “milquetoast” originated as a character name in an American 1920’s comic strip. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/milquetoa…

@s.ly It was great seeing you today! Apologies for any moments where I was staring off into the distance — you were getting my wetware cogs spinning! I’d love to get coffee in a quieter spot in a month or two and compare notes once I’ve had more time to put ideas into motion at work!

Spent some time this evening dinking around vibe-coding an iOS app to track British TV show schedules. It’s gone pretty great (Shout out to @s.ly’s “Superpowers” skills for running the development loops) but this tells me there’s still work to do… No, “Songs of Praise” is not a good rec for me!

25 years I’ve worked in tech as a gay man. If there’s a secret gay mafia running everything you’d think I’d have stumbled upon it, instead of near infinite wildly entitled straight white men who have barely read a book giving a tiny amount of venture to women, people of color and LGBTQA+ people.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

unbelievable things are happening in glasgow cuisine

Whoop whoop! It’s Friday night and I am IN DA CLUB* * in line at the Walgreens pharmacy counter picking up my adhd meds

"the left isn't excited about technology" How many 3D printed whistles have been sent out to ICE watchers

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Went to the cinema and had my Heights well and truly Wuthered. Emerald Ferrell is now almost certainly my favourite maker of the movies-I-am-glad-I-watched-but-never-need-to-see-again genre. Fuck subtlety and nuance! Gimme two hours of visceral sensory overload that doesn’t withstand scrutiny!

I look forward to the news article on Feb 13 2036 where we catch up with where this kid is now.

One way of looking at agentic coding is that it satisfies every real engineer's itch to do anything but start writing actual code, the ultimate in not just bike shedding and yak shaving, but managing someone else to do the bike shedding and yak shaving

Probably my favourite news photo of the year so far. Well played to whichever group got this billboard placement outside Old Trafford so quickly. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Blogged: The Code has _always_ been the easy part - laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...

Everything sucks. We are all overwhelmed. What can we do? Well… we can help others. Let’s help some Brooklyn Park, Minnesota folks make their rent payments. We're going to clear the board, folks get their rent money, and it’s gonna feel amazing. Wins all around! www.gofundme.com/f/minnesota-...

Love this! I’m going to donate $10 for each point from the final game score to Minneapolis rent relief funds. I’ll consider it my ticket price to a live-streamed Green Day & Bad Bunny concert! #AGoodGame

Couldn’t even manage to reach the heights of “THERE ARE DOZENS OF US! DOZENS!”

hallo, I am hiring again! - SF Digital Services is looking for a new Engineering Director careers.sf.gov/role/?id=374... This reports directly to me, & I’m looking for a practical & flexible technical expert with excellent communication & coaching skills, who is excited to do both. More below...

The great paradox of 2026 SF: There’s plenty of people who would do this for a bit, and there’s just as many people who would do this with a straight face.