no one told the Cloudflare agent not to deploy on a Friday eh?

given the rate of talent attrition to OpenAI, I’m amazed Meta could even find 8000 people to lay off.

streamyard is bad and you shouldn't use it

Claude: The issue is now clear. Voiceover: in fact, it was not

the AI takes are bad

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116540399553160940 having used the CloudFlare support AI chatbot, let me tell you how completely unfucking true this is.

Just tear down Jacob Wirth already. It’s not even that old.

Windows: if the Walmart circular were an operating system

if your product requires installing docker, it's not a fucking product

it's not better on the app. and if it is, you're an asshole for making it that way.

Meta's new LLM fails the only benchmark that matters

this remains the perhaps the greatest life advice I've ever offered

still haven't upgraded to any Apple OS's that use Liquid Glass AMA

I hate this mf platform

Don't get me wrong—Cloudflare's UX is pretty fucking drunk. But Cloudflare's AI support bot is on the roof screaming "I AM A GOLDEN GOD!"

pretty sure that's supposed to be "Hidden Imam" source: 9th grade Western Civ course, Massachusetts public school system.

it's telling to see how quickly developers went from shitting on each other for being bad at writing code to shitting on each other for being bad at managing code-writing robots.

rounded contrasting rectangle behind text should be a default fucking feature for any application that does graphical text editing in 2026 and I will die on that hill

RE: https://www.threads.com/@jkottke/post/DVGlJh8EcAF THANK. FUCKING. GOD.

Final Cut 24.0 is DOGSHIT do not upgrade

Gmail has added AI-powered grammar suggestions, which—bluntly—is fucking moronic. If I wanted to sound like an LLM, I'd use a fucking LLM.

beneath the frothy AI hype, there is the economic fact that products like this jacked-ass excuse for an interface element require probably half a dozen people to produce, at a median income of ~500k USD per year

20+ years and a crazy-ass chain of adaptors later, FW800 still rips. Way better than USB’s never-ending shit-show game of slow connection wack-a-mole

fucking Google every fucking time

The iOS weather app is telling me two different forms of precipitation are currently falling in my town and they’re both wrong. I know there’s a lot wrong in the world, but Tim Cook, why the fuck didn’t you just throw an Apple logo onto Dark Sky and leave well enough alone?

ages ago, I worked for an NGO. among other programs, they did some policy work on nuclear non-proliferation that an Important Donor felt was a waste of resources. in particular, they cited the "no-first-use" policy the org advanced because "the US would never initiate a nuclear weapons strike"

Bosquet Ski’s ticketing system has failed at every step of the process. I am honestly impressed.

There’s no footage of McClane delivering this line because it was added after the fact to make the movie more fun.

performance issues at Internet Archive are routinely interfering with my ability to do actual research.

This is incredible. I remember this Star Market shutting down because I was living in Winter Hill when it happened… *17 years ago* https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/115708701767757200

"copyright infringement"

Trying to Make a Useable Archive Volume from a Time Machine Backup, Day 72

I know there's a lot wrong in the world, but can we stop making fucking images function as links without actually linking them?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cosmocatalano/115661756779236682 Also, if you're gonna say the company name was inspired by The Matrix, please at least *mention* that The Matrix scene was in turn referencing the 1970's flimflam of warping flatware with "mental energy".

how the fuck do all these pieces on Bending Spoons omit the fact that the company turns the product to absolute dogshit for the end user? https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/what-is-bending-spoons-everything-to-know-about-aols-acquirer/

the only thing that makes me ashamed to be from Massachusetts these days is how little snow it takes to cancel school and related activities.

trying to us Google in 2025 is just so fucking heartbreaking "buT thE StOCk PriCE is uP"

Last Crusade was good because Tom Stoppard was great.

python devs really looked at the javascript landscape and said "here, hold my beer"

having to go on Facebook to do it is a red flag and I will die on that hill

😑🙃

On Sept 9, this 2808 sq ft home listed at $895k despite a $1.1MM Zestimate at that time It sold on Halloween for $865k individual houses are notoriously unreliable data points, but starting to feel like maybe line goes down

if you won't use it, don't built it

As many of you know, my preferred recession indicator is the Burlington Mall parking lot. At 11am on a Monday, the great spots are still taken but mostly by smaller and older cars. On the whole, finding a space was quick and easy. It’s still early in the holiday season, but feels a touch ominous.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cosmocatalano/115491908266067389 I had mistaken a fast-charge USB-C cable without data spec (USB 2) for a similar-looking 40Gbps USB 3.2 cable (overkill anyway because HDD) This situation has been corrected, resulting in a ~10x increase in transfer speed

That’s not how this works. That’s not how *ANY* of this works.

not sure I want these guys doing my surveying work tbqh

Sitting here, watching an HDD->HDD transfer of less data than I can fit on a flash dive hit the 24 hour, mark wondering how the hell we built an entire digital ecosystem on 5400 rpm SCSI drives.

bro was in the bathroom for a while. Harlem Shake didn't come out until 2012 and the meme didn't materialize until 2013.

I know there’s a lot of bad stuff going on right now, but why is the iOS weather app still a slab of flaming shit?