A few things I have learned the last week while building an app using F#: 1. 🚨 F# won’t save you from missing pattern cases. Haskell treats non-exhaustive matches as warnings; F# treats them as a suggestion. Turn on --warnaserror+25 if you want the compiler to act like it cares.

Should introducing a pervasive type as `string | undefined` that isn't just describing existing APIs in the wild in JS land be punishable by death? Asking for a friend.

I can't imagine how many children the DoJ's Epstein files show Trump violated if Whiskey Leaks is taking us to war against Venezuela.

Do you think MAGA believes one of Epstein's victims sat around for hours with Trump talking about tariffs in Epstein's apartment? Is that why they are so quiet today?

Aurora borealis lit up our skies yesterday.

Notion is like the macOS user's version of emacs orgmode.

The fact that the Trump admin first reaction to people peacefully exercising their rights is to launch federal investigations against citizens to intimidate them is exactly why we were out there.

#NoKings protest chant: No ICE, No K-K-K, No racist, fascist U-S-A

No Kings

South Korea: #NoKings! Thousands of people came to show support to the US democracy!

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

#NoKings ad for Dubuque, Iowa 🤣🔥

“NO KINGS” is more than a slogan; it’s the foundation that the United States of America was built upon. We wouldn't be a country if the founding fathers didn't believe that. As such, the people peacefully protesting today in the streets across the country love the premise of this country. No hate.

As a tween/teen, this show had me in stitches. Spitting Image is savage, unrelenting satire that skewers politicians, celebrities, and anyone else caught in the public’s crosshairs. It exposes the absurdities and hypocrisy of the world around us. www.bbc.com/news/enterta...

I have never heard of the "Hate American Rally" that the Trump sycophants are talking about. However, I have heard of the #NoKings rally for this Saturday which is for Americans who believe that there should never be any absolute monarchies or dictators in the USA. Ever. Hope that clarifies.

I'm against fascism which makes me antifascist. I am not part of a terrorist organization but I'll call fascism when I see it. I see fascism in the current regime of the United States led by Trump. These are the terrorists and enemies of the people. The call is coming from inside the [White] house.

We should assume now that every tech bro who came out to say last year that Kamala Harris was a threat to democracy and Trump was the only way to save the country are fascists. They wanted a civil war and we know some believe in slavery. They have fuck-you money and they keep nodding. Incriminating.

Call me Aunt Tifa.

The masters of rage and grievance. Fucking snowflakes. www.newsweek.com/maga-rages-o...

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

Solidarity to Chicago.

Why is modern commercial software "engineering" filled with busywork or workarounds applied to temporary solutions instead of building software with tools and practices that allow engineers to reason about code in holistic ways? One common answer: those hiring center on shitty stacks/practices.

If you’d rather search via Google without AI overviews in the way, here’s a small search entry page I made that launches classic Google search using a "hidden" query parameter: reclaimwebsearch.com I should probably create a bookmarklet...give me a few.

Republicans: Biden was trying to buy votes with student loan forgiveness. Also Republicans: We need taxpayers to bail out farmers who vote for us since Trump put them out of business.

DHH is what techno-fascism looks like in the little leagues: A now-wealthy immigrant whose life's story embodies the promise of open societies now writes as though openness is cultural suicide. Same for Musk & Thiel. An open and accepting society made them who they are. They'd be nothing otherwise.

Trump's former "spiritual advisor" plead guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old. How is Trump connected to so many men who rape children? apnews.com/article/texa...

Chuck Schumer needs to go.

This along with the TikTok takeover by MAGA faithful billionaires and Google settlement with Trump is deeply troubling even after Trump dies. Never trust a tech CEO or billionaire. They are coordinated in their techno-fascist aims. www.404media.co/google-ad-tr...

Choreo for @quint_lang is what I wanted 7 yrs ago when I was designing distributed pipelines. No reinventing message passing from scratch every time, with built-in patterns, state isolation, and timeout behaviors that practitioners can use as reusable building blocks. quint-lang.org/choreo

This is fucking insane but typical for a sadistic narcissist. Vengeance instead of governance because he is flailing at the latter. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-poi...

As a developer I do miss using capable and performant runtimes so I can focus on correctness instead. There are so many excuses made by monoglot/monoruntime developers that promote busy, error-prone work that doesn't aid the software product at all. That is all I am going to say. I miss polyglots.

I am kind of surprised that my local-only EXIF scrubber tool (exifscrubber.com) is getting a few dozen visitors each day now. This was an experiment where I used the Cavas API to remove EXIF metadata from images selected locally without uploading any data at all. Feedback appreciated.

Absolutely right!

A LinkedIn discussion this week reminded me how much the Nix ecosystem has evolved since 2015. Flakes, unified commands, 80K+ packages... my old blog posts needed serious updates! Refreshed everything at ops.functionalalgebra.com with summary updates.

Assassination is objectively bad and Charlie Kirk was an extremist ideologue. Assassination is never ok. Someone being killed by an assassin doesn't make their life lived any less hate-filled. Both can be true at the same time and are in this case.

We miss you too Susan

I miss functional programming. It is exhausting updating side effecting codebases.

"Abrego Garcia is en route to his family in Maryland, Sean Hecker, one of his attorneys, said." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Morons Are Governing America

We might all die because of a fucking SharePoint vulnerability. Maybe! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

There is a new data structure where elite nodes are tightly coupled in a private graph, their connections encrypted behind layers of untouchable privilege. Despite its graph characteristics, it is called an Epstein List.

Also, these tasks don't train [human] juniors other than training tooling complacency. We need to rethink our professional training & progression. Many devs have only been exposed to one way of doing things for a long time and their mental model for dev potential is fixed due to legacy decisions.

I'm surprised how many experienced devs have a superiority complex that LLM-based coding assistants are entirely useless. I don't want to spend time bumping dependency versions and fixing API uses until our CI/CD pipeline succeeds. What a waste of time. 1/3

While AI can make coding more fun and help with testing, it doesn't necessarily save time. Validating productivity claims is key! www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/a...