Uh, witchsky.app is very good and you should use it. Thanks @xan.lol / @jollywhoppers.com!

SPICE IS BACK ON THE MENU

As a "Fallout: New Vegas" lover, I'm excited by the possibility of something approaching its high bar of quality. As a person, I feel awful for the staff losing their jobs because their corporate owners say the lines didn't go up enough.

1. Make it company policy to make shows that stink. 2. Release shows all at once so people forget about them. 3. Make seasons as compressed as possible. 4. Wait a long time to release the next season. 5. Cancel any shows that succeed. "Why aren't people watching our shows?"

The J-space when you ask about cats

Looking forward to this!

Fun difference between us and LLMs: For humans, thinking hard costs about the same as thinking normally. For LLMs, thinking hard may cost up to ~10x more tokens.

I'm trying to fight a misconception that I think I have about rustaceans. If you love Rust, please reply with another language that you're super excited about, that goes beyond Rust in some ways. That you see as potentially the future of some domain.

Good survey of OSS governance models by @chrisshort.net! Chris is right that many OSS projects mix governance models, assigning different issues to different flows as-needed.

Gave my second #jj-vcs demo at work today. Giving these just reminds me how bad things are in Git.

Great 4th of July weekend: - Bought a grill - Hit Master Ball tier in Pokémon Champions for the first time - Saw some fireworks - Fell asleep with my dog laying on me - Did not post Highly recommend all of the above.

you guys are all trying to bring back the panera lemonade that kills you. we can't. but we can recreate it in the aggregate

Citrus coffee drinks are S-tier. I've been making orange espresso tonics at home: just espresso, tonic water, orange syrup, and ice. They're amazing for the summer, highly recommend.

Anyone have good advice here?

git is a jj compatible vcs

Good morning from Microsoft Teams. Can I interest you in some tag mentions?

Riding the high of deleting ~1,500 lines of code.

Blacksky is building ~the intercommunal net~ where communities create virtual spaces collectively managed by their members -- from moderation policies to recommender algorithms. We're hiring a Founding Engineer (Rust) @ $180K base who will report directly to me and lead our atproto implementation.

This, IMO, is part of why conservatives no longer feel held back by the historic counterbalance of "what happens when my opponents get into power." Lifetime appointments of an absolutely ideological Court means they'll just rule the other way when the time comes.

Brian David Gilbert won an invitational tournament of Pokémon Champions today, dressed in all gold, with Goldengho taking the final opponent out using Make It Rain.

I recently moved out of a “Texas Donut”-style apartment, and man this old @strongtowns.org essay hits the nail on the head with the problems of that design.

I’m so glad I know enough networking to debug this myself. Cox support staff on their forums or the phone just try to sell you more equipment or a more expensive plan, rather than helping you honestly debug what’s wrong.

In today’s “company does a thing that is an outright scam”: Cox locks their company-provided routers to default channels, so everyone in your neighborhood with forced Cox Internet (they’re the only provider) will experience interference, and Cox support will tell you to buy more Cox stuff to fix it.

securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/a... is very very good. If you read my vulnerabilities post, this podcast episode is much more worth listening to.

it is amazing to me that the Linux Foundarion simply refuses to take social media seriously beyond a snapshot of what Marketing Agencies thought worked in 2014 I pushed against this so many times in multiple venues, and yet they simply refuse to change their completely impotent strategy in any way

Emacs has a (temporary, they say) no-LLM-generated-code policy, which IMO is 1) unenforceable, and 2) encourages people to lie to the Emacs project.

Still looking for a remote senior/staff-level SWE role that can provide health/vision/dental. I'm so good at what I do, and this job search dragging on is taking such a toll on me. Any help deeply appreciated.

Try Duolingo for Buddhism Sample Napster for Jainism They tried GoFundMe for Baha’iism, you won’t believe what happened next!

This is my version of "Keanu Reeves is immortal"

When people talk about how toxic masculinity harms men, this is what they mean! Dalton was struggling and his teammates helped him recover, and he feels *shame* for not being perfect and *shame* for needing help.

This slide is about OSS, to me

The Slate Truck is the market doing what it's supposed to: a company is trying something, and if they're successful it will draw others to copy them. People keep saying they want cheaper cars; you don't get that by refusing to purchase cheaper cars.

I feel this in my bones

I'd basically stopped commenting on Lobsters long before the rise of AI, but its abysmal handling of AI as a topic is indicative of the combative, corrosive culture it's developed.

I rarely preorder, but you bet I smashed that preorder button for this!

Apple Podcasts has never effectively helped me discover a new podcast, but YouTube absolutely has.

It's finally PREORDER DAY for The Psychology of Software Teams!!!!! Which means you are just a few clicks away from your own personal guidebook to being more human in tech 🥰 www.drcathicks.com#book

Computers want to be cubes

Oh cool, discourse is re-litigating whether people should be able to do a little Calls for Violence as a treat without getting suspended. The answer is: NO. Rules-based moderation really can't play fast-and-loose with "oh but maybe *this* call to murder someone is tongue-in-cheek."

If you're doing software development with AI agents, this is a very good guide on how to do it effectively and with rigor.

Going further: shifting security work further left matters more than ever. While no competent security professional recommended security through obscurity, we've still benefited from operational timelines lengthened by the obscurity provided by vuln-finding being hard. Those timelines are gone.

If you're cold, they're cold, let them inside (the House of Commons)

There we go. US Gov tightens post-quantum cryptography transition deadlines for high-value systems to 2030 for key exchange and 2031 for signatures. Also, speeding up the CMVP (FIPS 140 validation) processes. That’s how you know the rush is real. The quantum computers are (potentially) coming.

Oh wow who could have guessed? (link unrelated)

If you're in line to be the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, STAY IN LINE

When you make fun of the reflecting pool, the reflecting pool can’t hear you, but your friends who are full of algae and peeling paint can

brb telling my wife we need to roadtrip to Aurora, IL

New baseball canon just dropped

The best Facebook group I've been in had a friendly but tyrannical mod who would ban people quickly and decisively. The group was friendly, helpful, and informative about local events. The *worst* group was the protest group against this one; full of aggressive, argumentative, and bigoted chuds.

Oakland-area peeps, go watch Bryan get knocked out! (Also baseball ⚾️)