Out here figuring out how to get system info out of /proc files cause Microsoft did give C# and API for it on Linux. how are spending you Sunday at 6 am.

All web frameworks fall into one of 3 categories: too bloated (like angular), overly complicated abstraction (like svelt), or react. And you should avoid all of them and use JQuery instead. Updating the content after an async request should be table stakes. Not 6 hours of research.

"gemini needs to feel safe and loved to generate quality output" we used to beat the shit out of office printers

I like when dudes try to act all tough by threatening you with weapons I not infrequently get such threats and it's always along the lines of "you think you're so tough, come meet me and my *literal gun*" Like yeah bro I bet a gun would kill me too what's your point

Hey @samperson.bsky.social you like esoteric software projects right? Found pictures of a moving box label maker I made with receipt printers from work you might enjoy. also shopping lists I guess?

I swear to god mongodb is to most obtuse piece of software I've ever encountered. The shell sucks and the documentation actively gives me a migraine. No wonder people forked it.

Me at midnight after hours of trying to diagnose random CI build errors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv2... Thanks @samperson.bsky.social

My whole life we’ve been told that The US is simply too big to have high speed rail

We need to do something about this shit. Props to @bennjordan.bsky.social for pressing this issue so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

anybody got a source for this video? the editing is inspired and I need to know if the person responsible has more where this came from

This post brought to you in part by all the goddamn drivers who somehow can't see the big thick white line they're supposed to stop *behind.*

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

Here’s the panel I did with Cory Doctorow a few days ago in Seattle! youtu.be/Tz71pIWbFyc?...

I love Guillermo del Toro calling ages 19 to 29 "sublime confusion"

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

@theoatmeal.bsky.social absolutely nailing the sadness in AI art and dissecting the myth of “talent” in art/artist discourse. Art is "emotional nutrition" and "consuming AI art is like eating Styrofoam." theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Keeping the U.S. government funded now is to participate in the most atrocious misuse of the power of the United States in modern times. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f*cking thing down. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/should-democrats-shut-the-government

In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here. That work is the social part of social media.

When someone started tampering with Tylenol bottles in 1982 the company recalled $100 million worth of bottles immediately even though they clearly weren't at fault

me, April 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-troub...

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

I have long been trying to figure out how to describe the part of me that is innately averse to/understands the concept of "paying for convenience" because if I could infect with world with it I would.

@techconnectify.bsky.social found this at a diner in the finger lakes and it looks like it’s almost exactly the Aztec one you looked at but with a theme change

I think one underdiscussed reason that people are gravitating towards these games is because they ask so little of your life *going forward*, too. Most of them don’t have XP, or battle passes. For almost any larger multiplayer effort that’s coming out these days, who could claim the same?

Remember that Democrats and Lefties are the only ones with agency, Right-Wingers are just the way they are with no hope of change

@samperson.bsky.social thank you from the bottom of my heart for also bitch about windows using react (native) for shit. It shouldn’t take 5 fucking seconds to open a context menu FUCK AAAAAGGGGHHH!

OpenAI/ Anthropic have begun price-gouging their customers, Anthropic doing so brutally to their largest customer, Cursor, who has had to change their entire business model and may die as a result. Right now, my gut instinct is Anthropic’s Claude Code customers are costing them at least $20 a user.

Anyone who says "This is what they voted for" in response to the tragedy unfolding in Texas is having a vile thought and needs to sit shamefully in a corner until they learn what solidarity is.

With just over a day left until the @voxmediaunion.bsky.social contract expires, our members are preparing to do what it takes to reach a fair contract. The clock is ticking, @vox.com. ⏰ June 12 at 11:59pm ET

This is my specific worry about the current trajectory. "Why learn any of the cool human talents when a computer can just do that for you?" is a completely rational statement when the importance of the humanities have been overshadowed by the need for credentials and status.

𝒾'𝓁𝓁 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝓎ℴ𝓊𝓇 𝓉ℴℯ𝓈

Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?" Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.

It's true and we should say it. Describe good virtues as American. Call bad things Un-American. Not reinforcing it is how we let them get redefined.

When the smoke coming out of the Vatican is black and white checkerboard:

Some people have on the internet validated my opinions and now I can’t stop checking for those sweat notifications badges. How do I turn this off?

You know you’ve done something right when someone comes out of the woodwork to try and hit you with the AI copium.

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

In the 90s, I genuinely thought the Internet would cure loneliness. But it turns out that for me anyway the Internet addresses loneliness the way alcohol addresses anxiety.

Humans are very weird and mostly do things because the people around them do them. This is true for me and you and everyone. Interpreting bland, default human weirdnesses as repugnant, intentional immoralities will 100% make you miserable while alienating people from your ideas.

Am I depressed because of what's happening or am I depressed because of the people who somehow didn't see it coming? Both. It's both.

The thing we learned from Web2 is that the most impactful businesses became the most impactful by optimizing for addiction. Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.