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.

i think it’s beautiful that our society provides spaces for people to go out in public for the very first time in their lives. like in this grocery store

Kat Abughazaleh is the only political campaign I’ve donated to this campaign cycle. Regardless of whether she wins her primary (and AIPAC are spending heavily to try to stop her), funding shit like this feels like a productive investment of my money.

after exhaustive research I present to you the most Dickensian name on almost every MLB roster (*indicates non-roster)

Performance reviews are the scorecard of capitalism. They measure your value to that org at that moment. No more, no less. The goalposts move with market forces. What matters is: are you actually growing? cate.blog/2026/01/27/p...

I don't think it matters whether or not Alex Pretti had a gun www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

the mood is not subtle

this is it. this is the level. this is the standard for democratic officials. anything less is intolerable.

wikipedia page of the day: "The purpose of the trial was not only to try the defendants but also to assemble irrefutable evidence of Nazi war crimes, offer a history lesson to the defeated Germans, and delegitimize the traditional German elite." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurembe...

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

without downloading, where are you mentally

"ohhhh if you didn't mean to unsubscribe from our marketing emails you can resubscribe here" man shut the fuck up

If this gets me an EU passport again, I’m all for it!

@youranoncentral.bsky.social A new account for the Trump Regime blocklist.

I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.

This was trampled with traffic on Jan 1st, but I just went through the registration successfully. The deletion process will start in August, but completing your the form now will get your info dropped during the first batch.

Whoa. Pretty surprised by this at the end of the finale credits! #strangerthings #netflix

South Park alumnus Toby Morton saw the rename on the cards months ago and bought the trumpkennedycenter domain (com and org). https://www.trumpkennedycenter.org

I wish I could quote this with enormous flashing neon lights shouting “THIS!”. Machine learning has been with us for decades and is an invaluable tool for domain specific evaluation. That it’s now endlessly mixed up with AI LLMs is unbelievably infuriating.