The US Dollar should do a reverse split.

Everyone is mad that a few Dems caved at the end, but I think it got the right outcome here. The Dems just made the Rs own their policies. Now they have the mid-term campaigns to talk about how the Rs raise your health care prices, and fought to take food away from poor people.

Not happy to see Jack Smith had a path to do the classified documents case in DC where it would have been an easy conviction. Instead took it to Florida and got a judge known to be in the tank for Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

The subtext is US GDP growth would be flat without investment in AI. If civil unrest erupted in SF it could stop or slow the AI development. This would be a self own by Trump going into the midterms next year, killing the only engine of US economic growth. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This is so spot on. Francis Fukuyama calls this repatrimonialization. It moves us to a patronage system. You pay tribute for favors. Donors get access, relief from tariffs, pardons, or the national guard leaves their city alone.

Good reporting from the NYTimes on Trump admin not even trying to come up with a legal justification for killing suspected drug smugglers. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

I still think this is the best explanation I've read of what is going on with US politics right now: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

I wonder how many of them actually understand what they've done. I don't think they can constrain him at this point. Probably the only power they have left would be to impeach him, which they of course won't do. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/u...

Why do people still use us-east-1?

The Trump admin both wants to weaponize and defund the IRS. And pull funding from blue states that pay more than they receive. I find myself wishing the US had a structure more like the EU, without direct tax payments from citizens to the IRS. This seemed like a crazy libertarian view years ago.

I think it’s time for a new generation to get familiar with Rage Against the Machine.

Imagine spending a ton of engineering time solving a problem like making databases scale to zero.... that is only ever going to be needed by customers who won't pay you any money.

The 2 most recent episodes of the Ezra Klein Show are must listen if you care about what's going on in the US right now. Spencer Cox, the Gov of Utah is a voice of reason: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... And the discussion with Ben Shapiro was also just great: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If the Dems strategy is to demand concessions on healthcare, they are going to blow it. They need to let Rs own their policy failures and feel the consequences in the mid-terms. This looks like a plan to save Rs from themselves… And an own goal by Dem leadership. www.politico.com/live-updates...

From the Economist: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

I think anonymous social media should simply be illegal. it’s toxic to democracy and a civil society. Probably some platform size threshold where identity becomes mandator.

Yacht rock sounds absolutely amazing on a Schiit Vali 3 with Sennheiser HD 600s.

I've tried some "tube rolling" experiments with the Schiit Vali. I think there is basically no audible difference. I'm no EE, but my understanding is with hybrid amps the tube is only for voltage gain, not current gain, which actually moves the headphone drivers. But there IS a gain difference.

I got a Schiit Modi, Magni and Vali. A DAC plus 2 different amps. Cool devices, but literally the only audible difference over the MacBook Pro's headphone jack is they get a lot louder. Hearing damage loud. A/B testing with HD600 and HD6xx.

This is getting very bubbly. This kind of thing tends to come down hard.

Orb Stack is so much easier for testing Linux stuff on a macOS than endlessly fucking around with docker compose... Just run a terminal that is in Linux, and you have access to the same filesystem. Amazing.

It's been years since I ran Debian/Ubuntu as a daily driver, yet I still have things like 'apt install build-essential' burned into my brain, but I always have to lookup 'pacman -Syu base-devel'.

I really want to see LLMs able to have some sort of actual memory and learning... I realize this is hard for many reasons.

Anyone want to jump on a zoom to import their postgres database to @planetscale.com? We've got a coupon $100 for you

We talkin' IOPS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r9P...

Last week we packed up and moved from North Lake Tahoe where we'd lived full time since early 2022 and half time since 2020. Back in San Francisco and it's absolutely wonderful.

I really really wish Apple would just ship a Parametric EQ for iOS. I don't usually care much about the platform limitations, but this one kills me.

Trump is terrible in many ways, but it's easy to forget that the Republican party used to be full of war mongers, and Trump seems to have removed those voices from any power. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/o...

The Sony WH-1000XM6 sounds like absolute garbage with their default tuning. Bass drowns out all other detail. It's like the Flamin' Hot Cheetos of audio.... But with proper EQ they actually sound close to amazing.

While this is absolutely not surprising. It's nice to see confirmation of what everyone suspected. Dude was high AF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Went full auto on a new project with Claude Code using Claude 4 Opus. It put all the code and tests into src/lib.rs until it was 3281 lines and the API refused to let it read the whole file. So... it still needs a bit more supervision.

What is the AI doomers response to the big red EPO (Emergency Power Off) button that is in literally every datacenter?

Very interesting take on what Trump and all the CEOs were doing in the Middle East. Securing data enter space and power for AI so the US beats China in AI. semianalysis.com/2025/05/16/a...

Why WHY does OpenAI keep reusing the name 'Codex' for multiple different things? Did they accept a challenge to get even worse at naming things?

Did anyone know there is actually a generation between Boomers and Millennials?

A lot of LLM criticisms make the valid point that the output for English or code is pretty mid. But it's said as if this is a bad thing and a reason not to use them. The fact is most jobs involve a lot of very mid code or writing. For most business logic software, a mid result, but faster, is great.

I feel like we're entering a golden age of developer tools. The new crop of AI enabled developer tooling is just getting started. It's going to drive up productivity AND quality.

This very closely mirrors my experie ce of the last several weeks of prototyping. It’s very easy to get something that’s 80% good. Carrying it the rest of the way really does mean thinking about the problem roughly as this link describes. github.com/humanlayer/1...

I think this is good take. I feel like those who went in for Trump lost their minds and completely ignored the evidence in front of them. If you know a bit of political science, psychology and history, it was incredibly obvious this was going to turn out badly. open.substack.com/pub/natesilv...

If you're a startup without any customers yet, or maybe 1 customer, literally do not design ANYTHING to scale to 100s or 1000s of customers. You are wasting your time. Work on getting feedback on your existing product and getting more customers.

I've been testing out Gemini 2.5 Pro with Cline in VS Code, and it's certainly better than Claude Sonnet 3.7 in some ways. I made some changes to BlueMastodon with Gemini and it could NOT figure out how to get to 100% test coverage. Claude Code finished the job in 1 shot.

I renamed my tool for cross posting from BlueSky to Mastodon. It’s now called BlueMastodon. The previous name was both a bit too generic and too similar to other names on PyPi. It’s now on GitHub and published as a pip. Works on command line and as a GitHub action. github.com/kelp/bluemas...

Claude and I just wrote Social Sync: github.com/kelp/social-... to auto-sync from BlueSky to Mastodon, via a Github Actions workflow. This also serves as my test post!

Setting up this new blog, I'm hosting it on GitHub Pages. I started with Jekyll, had Claude Code port it to Pelican. Then to Zola. Back to Jekyll....I learned that using tools Claude knows well is way easier. Claude knows Jekyll well, the others, not so much. I don't want to know any of them.

Cut my news consumption way back. Increased my vibe coding massively, along with my Anthropic API bill. Much happier.

I would hate to be on call for any of Anthropic’s services. They are sitting at 2 9s of availability. Downtime several days a week.

A new post on my blog: Vibe Coding: Auto-Crossposting from Jekyll to Bluesky On automated blog cross-posting: Created a GitHub Actions workflow using Claude Code to automatically cross-post Jekyll blog entries to Bluesky, with AI-generated summaries and clickable links, using ATProto ...

A new post on my blog: LLMs are an OS, or weird computers On LLM capabilities: Carter notes that large language models are fundamentally fuzzy systems that excel at approximation but require traditional computers for precise tasks.

Last night I vibe coded a GitHub Actions workflow that posts to BlueSky when I make a new post to my blog. It uses Claude 3.5 Haiku to generate a summary. It took a few tries to prompt a summary that didn’t sound like marketing slop. It works great!

A new post on my blog: Revenge of the Junior Developer On AI agents: Yegge argues that AI agents are rapidly emerging across industries, advising both individuals and companies to adapt by switching to chat-based coding, learning verification methods, and treating AI as an engineering...