When I joined as the head engineer of the Torment Nexus project, it was to work on fascinating technical problems and make the world a better place along the way. I am appalled to discover that the Torment Nexus would be used this way and, now that my options have vested, will be leaving the project

Lots of thoughts on this but generally my takeaway is that the thoughtfulness to put into a product has stayed the same, but building it is different now. Throw things at the wall and see what sticks, it's easy now. Learn to kill things though.

Work AI initiative summary: C-levels are happy because we use AI. We are happy because we subvert it to build good internal tools that are useful to every developer regardless of their use of AI. Great start, keep the "initiatives" going.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

I wish I was born on Jan 1 1970. Would be so easy to know the number of seconds I have been alive for

I think my migration to @eurosky.social went well but it's so smooth I'm not sure I did it right 🔍

"putting off getting a haircut is working out great" vs. two days later

That but fixing CI

perennial surrealmemes favorite

This little guy just broke prod

troubleshooting CI

carefully building this ruby... sandcastle on rails application. 97% coverage, each grain of sand carefully inspected. Every single change makes the entire thing crumble. I love it.

Cute girls named outstanding cloudflare bill in my inbox. They're telling me to fix my pds backup situation

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

art of the deal, baby

Definitely questionable why an ID that has a picture of your face on it also needs a marker for Probable Underwear Contents.

Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days. The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

Easily one of the top charts of all time

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

cops on trial for shooting a teenager 13 times in the chest for pulling out their wallet:

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

And she'd be right

reminder

valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks

🎆 Go 1.26.0 is released! 🗒️ Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.26 ⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.26.0 #golang

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

I showed you my flake. pls respond

I think I'm starting to hate how the robots write code. Why are they so bad at software architecture? Individual functions suck, folder and module layout suck. Do I have to write every function skeleton I want and for it to complete?

Sometimes I regret before I even click post. But I must press forward and move on

@ixxz.zxcxvbnb.xn--6frz82g it works?

Another email has hit the inbox

I want drafts so I can open up my draft lists and remind myself what bad posting is like

Do you take notes? Have you taken notes? Will you take notes? When will you take notes?

Where are the note takers at. Do you ever read your own notes. Any note I have ever taken have never read again.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Hey Google what do I do if my bottomless pit has a bottom

woke but the sleepy kind

ATProto is now in IETF standardization process. BOF stage passed at IETF 124 Dublin. Working group formation is next. datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/

booking dot com trying to poach me because my company booked using their service and now they have my personal email?? Not a good look mentioning my current employer in the email