When did modern tech companies get so bureaucratic? I know you all hate managers but can we talk about all the PRDs and ADRs and Jira and Asana and like, anything to avoid having a synchronous meeting it sometimes seems?

If you call yourself a "software engineer" you better be able to: 1. Flip a linked list 2. Flip it again 3. Bop it 4. Twist it 5. Twist it 6. Pull it 7. Bop it

"More than 140,000 children — over 15% of students — lack permanent housing. The city’s population of homeless students is larger than the entire enrollment of the Dallas public school system." New York needs more housing — and that means voting @YesOnAffHousing.bsky.social props 2-5.

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

Wut

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

And he's so good in House of Guiness

I swear I think of this every other time I open this website

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters. He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

my current favorite thing online is this restaurant in peru that serves ceviche and also c*nt

Our SIGMOD paper with our friends at Tsinghua + @wesmckinney.com + @pateljm.bsky.social on creating a next generation open-source data file format is out. F3 is a future-proof file format avoids the mistakes of Parquet. 📄 Paper: db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/... 📁 Code: github.com/future-file-...

There was collaboration attempt between CMU, Tsinghua, Meta, CWI, Nvidia, Voltron, & SpiralDB. But then lawyers got involved and it fell apart. Everyone released their own format: → Meta Nimble: github.com/facebookincu... → CWI FastLanes: github.com/cwida/FastLa... → SpiralDB Vortex: vortex.dev

I really need to stop paying for Clear it's such a waste of money, their process is terribly slow

"Females," as ever, is the biggest red fucking flag

Once you realize that some journalists are trying to make their name by being the first to call AGI you also start to realize other journalists are trying to make their name calling the AI bubble burst. Everyone wants to talk their book.

Some thoughts on a new study purporting to show an increased risk of cancer from the COVID vaccines. mazer.substack.com/p/coming-to-...

After 3D printing my first file handle, I realized my missed opportunity and bought a second file so that I could correct my error

Gen X showed up for the Hollywood bowl LCD Soundsystem/pulp show tonight

W H A T T H E A C T U A L F U C K ?

To understand the challenge inherent to measuring productivity, consider how many more "Yes" answers the Hasidic Jews would get if they asked each other whether they are Jewish (100% hit rate!) instead of random passers-by (0% hit rate)

Satire is dead.

The hot dog cart vendor is more stylish than anyone else pictured in this article

to me, the “column” is less a form than an opportunity (and a challenge). you’re telling me i have as much space as i’d like to make an argument about anything i’d like to an audience inclined to pay close attention? well let’s see if they’ll read 2000 words on democratic legitimacy. (gift link)

Is it just me or does navan kind of give scam vibes when using it for travel booking? I'm trying to change a work flight and every change is both absurdly expensive given listed ticket prices and becomes the same amount more expensive than that when I try to click on it

I'm going from NYC to LA to Atlanta and somehow the weather is basically the same in all 3 locations????

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

New @wired.com cover!!!! It's the Politics Issue

How many renovate bot emails do I have to mark as spam before Gmail takes the hint

Please, no more papers with cartoon 'team members' to anthropomorphise slightly different prompts to the same LLM.

Cannot believe ityool 2025 I still have so many WiFi problems

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

This is a critical point, and one the media MUST handle better. Don't want to say this is "trafficking"? OK, say the asylum seekers are being "shipped to foreign prisons without due process." But this is NOT deportation! They are not being returned as free people to their homeland!!

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Get out of your comfort zone and put yourself in situations that help you learn more about yourself (and the world). If you keep doing this as you age, you will feel less old.

The best years of your life are ahead of you. Also: don't overthink everything. You really can't control things, not even if you become a billionaire, look how crazy they go trying. Live, do your best day to day, be kind to yourself, and don't put things off hoping for the perfect moment.

It has long been my opinion that Hollywood is frittering away the generational dance talents of Channing Tatum & Tom Holland by not putting them in a musical together. Not a remake, but akin to Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor in Singin’ In The Rain. I strongly believe this would make a billion dollars

This fucking sucks and is terrible for America

Woo that 12 hours post COVID vaxx kick ugh

If you can be a horrid person and belief alone secures your heavenly home… perhaps we’ve misplaced our values

Teaser for the project I'm working on at Medium: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPnc... We've got a bit of work to do before it's ready for the masses, but you can join the waitlist: medium.com/tk

oof, what a disappointing way to end more than 15 years of open source work. (summary by @duckinator.bsky.social at pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...). good luck to the remaining RubyGems team, and it’s time to focus my energy on new projects that I’m truly excited about, like rv.dev

haven't got any work done for an hour because I can't stop chuckling at my own intro: "Risk management is a lot like Warhammer 40K. Partly because it’s a nightmarish dystopia dominated by mutant cyborgs, but mainly because in order to play, you have to have a lot of expensive models"

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

👀 "the US experience is peculiar. Young Euro area workers have record low unemployment. In the UK, the young persons’ unemployment rate has fallen steadily. Employment by young Japanese workers is near all-time highs. It seems implausible that AI uniquely hurts the prospects of younger US workers."

Next week is the start of @db.cs.cmu.edu's latest seminar series: Future Data Systems @samarchdb.bsky.social and I are hosting speakers from leading systems in the datalake / lakehouse space. Mondays @ 4:30pm ET via Zoom. Open to the public. Videos posted to YouTube: db.cs.cmu.edu/seminars/fal...

Big news: With RFK Jr waging an all-out war on science, Northeast states are standing up the Northeast Public Health Collaborative to make our own vaccine recommendations and coordinate strategy. Includes NYS, NYC, NJ, MA, CT, RI, PA & ME. We need much more of this.

Sorry in what world do Republicans want the media to decide what people think? Who is this speech for?