Golden Gate Leopard? #WWDC

People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.

Yubikey for this, TouchID for that. All Day Long. The frequency at which my work laptop demands physical touch is bordering on an HR violation. If Demis is right and we are in the "foothills of the singularity" I'm reporting this to see who wins: HR or IT. 🍿

😅 @reckless.bsky.social over here dodging bullets like Neo > Eater, Popsugar, SB Nation, The Dodo, and The Verge are each in a strong place as distinct brands

Recruiting email: "We are looking for a strong executioner [...]"

We successfully avoided the ideal outcome - both Sam Altman and Elon Musk losing.

Same lazy energy from software "engineers" that want AI to write all their code, write all their tests, do all their code reviews, claim it's all good because the AI told them so, and get paid for their "taste."

I mean, this is cool and all but nobody and especially not Jarred is ever going to read that PR, so ...

IBM/Dehomag automated the final solution. Each concentration camp victim had a punch card with their identity, name, skills, ancestry and demographics. Leased Dehomag machines ingested stacks of cards for aggregate counts on various dimensions. Technology made the process brutally efficient.

The kids are all right www.youtube.com/live/zwYkHS8...

I'm going to be a tad vulnerable here. I probably wouldn't be alive today without SSRIs. They sometimes have side effects. Bad ones. But for the people I care about and depend on me, banning SSRIs would have resulted in a worse outcome for them. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

It is important to show resolve when prompting your clanker.

I had to re-watch the #clojure documentary and freeze frame to be sure, but Rich Hickey's hammock-time companion is a Boox Go 10.3 I'd recognize that distinctive metal strip on the back anywhere, and the left border is too narrow to be a Note Max. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24v...

The AI-driven hard drive shortage is making it more expensive for the Internet Archive to operate, causing problems for Wikimedia, causing delays in academic and hobby archiving projects. Normal people and non AI companies simply can't find reasonably priced drives: www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...

In two weeks, I'll have a net addition of 20 papers and 4 books to my reading pile. This wouldn't happen if I had a ballroom.

I don't know half of computers half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of them half as well as they deserve.

NASA releases insane new image of the mighty hexagonal storm on Saturn's North Pole.

We need to make "Yo monorepo" jokes a thing. As in "Yo monorepo's so big it needs its own CDN"

Balaji reading the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect wikipedia page with zero sense of irony. 👩‍🍳😘

@reckless.bsky.social on the last Vergecast.

Palantir just openly supporting fascism.

Allbirds sold their sole. I've been waiting all week for _somebody_ to make that headline, and ... nothing? #techjournalism, you disappoint me. It was the right there!

I think the #Clojure documentary release today is going to be Awesome, and I think even Rich Hickey would agree that's an appropriate use of the word. (peering over glasses) "Not everything is awesome." - Clojure/Conj 2010

During the sub-prime mortgage crisis, tech companies stopped hiring juniors and then paid for it through the nose after 2012. It's happening again. The companies that buck this trend and think of junior hiring as infra spend might just survive the slopocalypse.

AI has certainly moved the overtone window on what "deterministic" means. Apparently, bash scripts are now deterministic. Somewhere, someplace, Simon Peyton Jones is experiencing a gag reflex. 😂

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

Finally releasing that long-promised healthcare plan

Linux and Libre Office are woke.

Clippy getting roasted at that White House Correspondents Dinner led to this. Even reading tech blogs is no longer safe.

I'm enjoying @heavybit.com 's o11y_cast series. They should invite Olivier Pomel, Datadog co-founder, since they named their #observability podcast after him. ;) www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

So Steve Yegge gave an AI evangelism talk at Datadog this week. I find it absolutely hilarious he is still butt-hurt at Rich Hickey over #clojure and compiler passes. He brought it up! Talk about holding a grudge _and_ poor opinions.

If anything my read is that the bigger problem is false negatives. It cost, I assume, $19,999.99, and took 1000 attempts to find the OpenBSD vulnerability. If there happened to not be that vulnerability, or if it wasn’t found in the first 1000 tries and they gave up, that’s 20 grand down the toilet.

And the exploit requires an interleaving of particular SACK blocks and signed int overflow, the sort of bug that's right in the strike zone for deterministic simulation or property based tests.

Tired: This meeting could have been an email. Wired: This FIFA peace prize could have been a happy meal. Inspired: This skill could have been a bash script.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

"I understand the grief you're feeling about what AI can do.  I've mourned family members, I know what it's like." - Well Known Guest Speaker At Work-hosted AI Evangelism Talk Only explanation I can think of for a comment like that is the speaker is a sociopath.

I'd rather be a fantastic llama farmer than a mediocre LLM farmer. So I'll work as long as I can until some hack says I have to ship code without reading it. For now, I keep building with a bias toward quality, using AI responsibly, and getting better every day.

When the Germans say you haben ein Naziproblem, you might be haben ein Naziproblem, just sayin'

I keep saying “there are no great consumer AI products” and people keep replying to me with like model capability updates and wild OpenClaw setups and I really fear Software Brain is irreversible

I've been working professionally since 1999. This is the first time I've worked for a company that wouldn't buy necessary commercial IDE licenses no questions asked.

Just like machine guns weren't a known problem when the 2nd Amendment was passed. Right Alito?

Personally finding it difficult to work up empathy over Anthropic's work diminished by AI-generated derivatives. Not sure why exactly ...

It's true. Brendan Carr is a dummy.

People that strip debug symbols are not to be trusted.

It's hard for me not to see "skills" as mostly laziness. Code is supposedly free now. Have claude generate a program to deterministically do the same thing instead of have it interpret markdown non-deterministically every time. That or commit to executable markdown github.com/lloeki/promp...

"how do I get the LLM to only run a single test file" my sibling in web development, just run `npm run test filename` in a separate shell, this is a solved problem, we don't need to evaporate a wetland to run unit tests

per developer overhead/month catered lunch $250 office space $200 software: $300 claude tokens: $12,600 utilities: $100 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my company is dying

if your specific niche is also "bizarre intertwingled anecdotes about 1950s-1990s computer scientists" i have built your holy grail: just took a thousand oral histories from the @computerhistory.bsky.social museum and made them fully searchable and deeply interconnected 🎉welcome to f0lkl0r3.dev

This is the ideal language breakdown. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like (my very happy last ~1.5 weeks) #clojure

Alternatively... I'm just saying, we won't know until we try.