Very exciting to see @coyotemedia.org in CJR! I love this direction for local reporting: www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

If you don’t feel like celebrating America today, celebrate Peach, who was born on the farm on this day in 2017. Her full name is Impeachment.

this is also how maintaining software works

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

This butthole doesn’t run.

Got my Poem/1, and wrestling with the moral dilemma that I’m using AI to replace the work traditionally performed by our nation’s minute-by-minute-time-telling poets.

There is no price they wouldn't pay for half a chance at not paying you. isaiprofitable.com

This reminds me of the discussion I had with a coworker last week that I don’t want to do code reviews of AI-written code any more — I want to review the conversations engineers are having with their bots so I can give feedback on THAT.

Fantastic! Helps you avoid accidentally walking into the Nazi Bar that is Substack.

@profanity.accountant c’mon you cunt

Now feeling old because I searched my Twitter archive file and found out that it’s *15 years* since I observed “Glanced at BitCoin forums. Nothing inspires faith in a currency like realising it’s run by the kinds of folks who argue on Debian listservs.”

Only just noticed the irrational approach @iconfactory.com have been taking to incrementing the version number of iPulse in the App Store over the past few years. 🥧

Listening to one of my all-time favourite Super Furry Animals songs — a Welsh language track called Blerwytirhwng. Apple Music has English translations for the lyrics, and they’re even more delightful than I could have imagined.

I’m still a baby cryptic crossword solver (doing my daily minutecryptic.com clue or the Saturday Guardian Quick Cryptic), but it *delights* me how deeply complex the world of the cryptic can quietly get under everyone’s noses.

There is nothing that sounds faker than hearing someone describe the kids shows they grew up with if they are not your exact age.

80% of CEOs worry their job is at risk if AI fails this year, survey shows www.fastcompany.com/91537318/80-of…

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

ROAD TRIP TO SACRAMENTO TIME!

I’m looking forward to posting “This never would have happened if Tim Cook was still alive” when complaining about some aesthetic detail of the new iOS UI in September.

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…