SquiggleConf 2025 was an absolute, incredible blast. We had a wonderful time learning with you all. A HUGE "thank you!" to all our attendees, speakers, sponsors, and volunteers for making this a wonderful experience. We can't wait to see you in Spring 2027. 💙

Didn't even manage to hold off long enough to take a photo. Maybe I need to work on my patience in this coming year. Shana tovah, y'all 🍎🍯

I feel like em dashes get all the hate when we're picking on AI-generated content, but "it's not just X, it's Y" is always the one that sticks out like a sore thumb to me

Shout out to the guy who put these stickers on all the gas pumps at the local grocery store

Well damn, if I knew all I had to do was "sudo rm -rf congestion" this could have been a lot easier.

SquiggleConf deserves an order of magnitude more attendees

Every time I mention knitting while at a tech conference, I find at least one other knitter! We're gonna have to start a DevsWhoKnit discord or something

Pretty sure the entire speaker list at @squiggleconf.com 2025 has a secret agreement to use the Senior Engineer Phrase "it depends" somewhere in their talk or Q&A answers :)

Good morning from @squiggleconf.com! First talk was already so, so good. It feels like such a treat to just get to attend a conference and not have to speak or work a booth, haha 😅

if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys

GOT A SHIRT OF THIS ONE AT dashare.zone - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

Two more days until SquiggleConf 2025! Wow! We're so pumped to welcome you all to the Simons Theater at the New England Aquarium. See you soon! 🥰

With the caveat that I'm not fully in agreement with the "Frameworks Being Suffocated" section, I thought this was an interesting and insightful read on the stagnation of React: www.lorenstew.art/blog/react-w...

if i were still on twitter, i'd retweet this; instead you get this poor quality screenshot. happy Call the Midwife season 14 drop day, to all who observe

we finally caved and got an appleTV subscription, and i'm very excited to finally be able to watch severance (just in time for everyone to be done talking about it forever)

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I know it means "are you still considering buying it" but I checked it out from the library, devoured it one sitting - and holy shit yes, am I ever absolutely still thinking about it. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a long time, Kindle automatic notification system.

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If I may add: - decaf coffee & teas (in the afternoon especially) - a vegetable of literally any kind at meals (lettuce on the sandwich does not count) - a place to refill reusable water bottles - easily accessible outlets - N/A drink options at the afterparty / speaker dinner / social event

the really important question here is: how would you spend the $1000 when you win? 👀

DND will surely fix me

i constantly think about this post

“not here to make a careful comprehensive argument... people have already done that. if you’re pushing slop or eating it, you wouldn’t read it anyway. you’d ask a bot for a summary & forget what it told you...proceed with your day, unchanged by words you did not read & ideas you did not consider.” 😮‍💨

If you thought the Sunday Scaries were bad, turns out they've got nothing on the Tuesday Scaries

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Currently experiencing extreme DragonCon FOMO

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Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

The vibe difference between these guys is so stark, they simply cannot be considered the same emoji

best way to learn things: 1. encounter something that isn't working 2. learn about why 3. write about it on the internet 4. get told you're wrong about something 5. learn some more 6. repeat

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@alyssanicoll.bsky.social 's KCDC talk is absolutely PACKED!!

everything i have learned about the new taylor swift album has been against my will

Officially DONE with grad school 🙌🏻

Packing for @kcdc.bsky.social ✈️💻

Worked out today and now my knee hurts. This is unfair; I already have a list of things that hurt sometimes and knees were not on it. They shouldn't be allowed to just change the list like that with no warning.

this is my last week of being a grad student before i finish my masters degree, which means it's time for me to really lock in on what's most important: what student discounts do i need to claim while i still have access to my .edu account and a valid student ID?

Counterpoint: my entire audience is human, and every layer of bots trying to intercept our communication is a failure of the network. It's not enough that the billionaires want to DDOS the web and strip mine our work for their profit, we're supposed to make it easier? I'm so tired.

I thought you were an LLM skeptic, so why are you learning about LLMs? So I can determine if I should remain an LLM skeptic.

For a short while, a lamp in my office had a bulb that was going out and would occasionally flicker. The bulb was replaced months ago and the light hasn't flickered since, but my dog still side-eyes that thing like it owes him money every time he walks past. It has lost his trust forever.

i like how we've all unanimously landed on "slop" as the right word to describe AI generated content

This but for conference talks. If you can’t be bothered to write the abstract, that speaks to your ability to write the talk

i can't think of anything witty to add to this that's funnier than what's already been written, so you're just gonna have to read it www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

environmental storytelling

Over-discussed: "use AI to vibe code an app/idea" Under-discussed: "ship a product that customers love [because it solves a persistent pain point, is delightful to use, and just works]" Without the latter outcome in mind, you're mostly wasting time with the former...

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Happy 34th birthday to websites

“Use AI or else” is certainly not the product strategy I would go for but what do I know

Vibe code is legacy code blog.val.town/vibe-code