Latest rabbit hole I've gone down: having Claude Code help me clean up and fine tune my Home Assistant configuration. Got through the basics and now it's moved into the "let's see what we can come up with next!" phase.

Things that not every product needs: - push notifications - chat - a perky AI assistant Jus’ sayin

This is a must buy. I've been reading the material @lethain.com has shared leading up to this and it's been enormously helpful in refining my own thinking about engineering strategy.

When you ask ChatGPT a question, you're in control of the information you're sharing, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @USAToday.com, but “when you're using the Atlas browser for day-to-day tasks, it's easier to forget that all of your activity could be sent to OpenAI." www.usatoday.com/story/tech/...

We're so screwed.

Still wondering why my brain decided waking up yesterday with the names of all four members of the classic line up of Mötley Crüe as its first conscious thought was actually worth the energy.

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...

The best introduction to a new musical artist is via Tiny Desk.

"I voluntarily gave up my rank as the president suggested...I have no regrets about my decision. I have given up the service I loved for the freedom to do the right thing, the freedom to speak my mind and the freedom to speak in defense of our country." wapo.st/4ofqqfy

You want to think that these ideas are dying out and yet…

This is very worthwhile if your schedule allows!

I don't think this is "the most solid indicator." We can do better than studies with 16 participants who were directly told the study was about AI speedup I wrote about this study & why I don't think it's particularly strong evidence for this effect: www.fightforthehuman.com/are-develope...

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

At the @rustfoundation.org we're hiring another Infrastructure Engineer to join my team. We'll work together to make #rustlang more scalable, sustainable and improve the developer experience of Rust contributors and Rust developers! 🌈

Qualcomm is acquiring Arduino, and they're launching a new SBC (Uno Q) combining a Dragonwing SoC with an Arduino microcontroller in the Uno form factor. What implications does this have for makers and education? Quick video covering the news: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfKX...

“Every model makes a choice about what is important, what categories we classify things in, what we see, what’s invisible, what’s valued, or even what’s valid.“ — @rebeccawb.bsky.social and @mathiasverraes.bsky.social from the paper we’re discussing on Monday, Oct 6 👇

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The dictators are becoming less benevolent by the day. We are in crisis.

"Complex systems have a history. Not only do they evolve through time, but their past is co-responsible for their present behaviour. Any analysis of a complex system that ignores the dimension of time is incomplete" - Paul Cilliers, Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding Complex Systems

Deno is hiring a systems engineer! www.notion.so/denolandinc/...

Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.

I'm more and more convinced that LLM coding assistants are the ultimate yak shaving enabler. I can't even remember the task I originally started out thinking I'd work on tonight, but at least I made some progress on a completely unrelated task that seemed important at the time.

Health insurance costs are about to rise by a record amount. This is happening after the seven largest publicly traded health insurance companies reported a combined $71 BILLION in profits in 2024. Instead of addressing this, Trump is spreading misinformation about Tylenol.

Yeah man the cause of autism is *closing my eyes and throwing a dart at a board* I dunno, Tylenol or some shit.

Eliana is a backend developer interested in data systems, looking for work based in NYC. She's a Recurse Center alumnus and has been an active member of NYC Systems and the Software Internals book club. She's smart and thoughtful. Talk to Eliana. RT for reach. www.linkedin.com/in/eliana-ab...

Are you an experienced software buyer? I could use your help. I'm working on the second edition of "Observability Engineering", and hoping to include the kind of advice an experienced principal engineer might give a staff engineer buying for the first time. charity.wtf/2025/09/19/a...

Note to self: do not put "let's connect" in a post on LinkedIn about a job opening.

I use AWS a ton but Lambda still astounds me. Throw some code in a function, send 1m requests as fast as you can. It ate up all available file descriptors on my little t3 box and still ran 18k RPS with a p99 of 0.3479s. Not many services can go from 0 to 18k RPS instantaneously with this p99.

To those for whom this means anything (both of you): I finally switched back to WezTerm after giving Ghostty a few months trial run. Spent more time getting my settings dialed in and it just feels so much more ergonomic. Found some useful ideas from this post: alexplescan.com/posts/2024/0...

That disorienting feeling you get after laying down for a quick 20-30 minute nap and then waking up almost two hours later. Especially when it's late enough in the day that the light outside changes significantly.

Dammit, RIP Graham Greene. Even movies/shows I didn't love were always better for your presence. Your role as Leonard on Northern Exposure (which I DID love) will always stand out for me. And I was thrilled when you showed up in Reservation Dogs. You will be missed.

At least I don't have to worry (yet) about Claude's morale issues when I yell at it because the CI checks are STILL failing.

Is there a lawsuit or something I can join to stop Act Blue from EVER sending me another notification? I'm getting 5-10 notifications every day from campaigns I know nothing about and will be even less inclined to support because they abuse this system.

RFK Jr. says you shouldn’t get a Covid vaccine. All doctors and research results say you should. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

We're launching a GoFundMe to cover legal fees to #FreeJavaScript trademark from Oracle. We need to raise $200k to make full use of the discovery phase in the trademark cancelation petition. This is a critical step in protecting the JavaScript name for the whole community. 👉 javascript.tm

If you wanna level up and learn more about #WebAssembly, my interactive course on the fundamentals is currently on sale. learn-wasm.dev

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

TWENTY YEARS AGO I posted about how easy it is to get around any sort of flag-burning law/amendment/executive order/whatever, and here we are today, having it have some relevance. Also our current president is a feculent spoon. whatever.scalzi.com/2005/06/23/c...

10 months ago, a company across the world put my neighbor's access to medical care at risk, giving us 2wks notice that software behind our 40 electric car chargers would be shut down. This is the story of how my neighborhood broke free from this potential disaster. natematias.com/portfolio/20...

I forget is there a philosophy that merged corporations and the state? Maybe was really into reconnecting with an idealized past? Politicized aesthetics? Dunno, feels like I've heard of it

TFW you haven't heard Jane's Addiction's Three Days in ages and you just immediately have to pick up the bass and start playing along.

I scored 13/21 on e-mail.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

My summer fitness program... or perhaps a few months of copays to my GP, PT, MT and chiropractor. :lolsob: That's a very small portion of the apples just from the last week or so.

*baseball pitch windup* What if the "don't ever comment in code thing" is mostly functioning as a strategic defense inside of a field with a climate that's so chilly that every disclosure of your thinking to anyone else just becomes a psychological attack vector

No matter what MAGA says about Portland or Oregon, remember this is the magic we experience all the time by living here. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Horrifying. I wish I felt more surprise at this.

The GOP has an enemy, and it’s the 86-year-old chairman of Texas’s beloved grocery chain, H-E-B. Charles Butt is the sworn enemy of the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. Charles Butt supports immigrants and sanctuary cities. His kindness makes him an enemy to Republicans.

Say what you will about LLMs, being able to point Claude at a PRD template and have it interview me, asking questions one at a time to gather enough information to produce a rough draft is such a sanity saver when you have limited resources (iow: no PM).