"Does the literature, in other words, provide any evidence that the discipline knows anything at all?" is a sentence I mumble to myself every now and again, and it will haunt me for the rest of my life

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Each one of these is evidently written with a specific tradeoff in mind. That’s a really good sign.

This is a really good piece! The good parts of CSS are simple and powerful. But it's so easy to accidentally overcomplicate CSS and find yourself in the scary complex parts.

👈 hey you, trying to build reliable tests around fseventsd. yes you, absolute fool, lunatic

This is, far and away the #1 thing they don’t teach you about getting a successful paper: a good half of your citations are *actual nonsense that your paper directly contradicts*

Sometimes co-authors ask me “did you see what they cited us for???” and of course I didn’t, because if you want to keep faith in humanity, you don’t look up what people cite you for, just like you don’t read comment sections.

This isn’t *too* far from how Quake 3’s fast inverse sqrt works if you squint at it just right

Get’em. Zero sympathy for that kind of behavior here

Excuse me, I'll be over here thinking about Starfield shipping before "Slop" hit the vernacular

If I had one single piece of advice for people writing software today, it's "address your underinvestment in automated testing, even if you think you have good automated testing" It's old advice, but the leverage it gives you in 2026 is absurd.

Haha, this whole bun rewrite thing is- what the fuck do you mean *merged*?

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

This is the kind of negative externality that makes me lose all sympathy for people harboring the delusion that widespread prediction markets could be anything else in practice. wonkish information aggregation mechanisms cannot survive the reality of what the masses do with their money in 2026

I’m sure some people who work with AI are perfectly lovely and some applications of AI are net positive but AI has absolutely brought out the lowest class of sleazy grifters we have. They make the NFT folks look like Atticus Finch

Farrell has been teasing this for months and it’s fantastic

From spotting a compiler crash in CI to a confirmation by the rustc team in <1 day, including reducing a 300kLOC project to a 250LOC minimal reproducer via Opus 4.7 help github.com/rust-lang/ru... Once more: the problem we'll be facing is not that these things don't work. It's that they _do_ work

if you like this meme, you may also like this blog about the last time we set the counter to 0 (last week) bsky.app/profile/defe...

Hello Monday, I see you sent me an internal compiler error on the rust toolchain while compiling tokio in GitHub CI. I see you.

I experimented with this for the first time yesterday; "I want to solve X using Y, but I actually also want to learn Y. Please write a document that serves as a pedagogical reference with links to the literature? I know areas Z and W, so tailor your exposition" (I wanted to learn about POMDPs) 1/n

Listen, we get it, sometimes we get a bit too deep into that edible. But most of us are still properly embarrassed, it's just some of y'all posting those phone notes the next morning instead of doing homework physicists and CS types (insert collar-tug.gif here) never beating the arrogance charges

We’re once more reading skeets without thinking about where the skeeter works huh. Cool cool

This is my first time trying pi and qwen 3.6, not a great omen. This keeps happening...

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

it’s coming for math too. Reminder: Gowers is a Fields medalist gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...

(awww this is sappypoasting, please forgive the embarrassment) Every once in a while I'll take a longer look at the originator of Quarto bug report out of curiosity. And today I ran into one particular organization I've stanned for a long, long time using Quarto for their website. It's nice, y'all!

Now this is spirepoasting

Although this dichotomy remains effectively in place this day, Leibniz had already arrived at a proto-list-mysticism duality predating Kant (Monadology, 1714). That would eventually be reinterpreted by McCarthy two centuries later in its modern form (Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual, p. 13, 1960)

(Cliché at this point) but literally the stuff you imagine reading on a torn piece of paper while exploring a derelict building in a side quest of a dystopian RPG 😳

Announcing posit::glimpse() May 2026! ✨ Key open-source updates for #RStats, #Python, and now #SQL: 📊 ggsql: Grammar of graphics for SQL 🤖 raghilda: Simplified RAG in Python 🔭 Shiny + pointblank: Built-in OpenTelemetry support 🦀 Quarto 2: A Rust-based future Read more: posit.co/blog/2026-05...

MPLS monthly awooooooo

Holy cow this is aggravating. DO NOT PUT THE BUTTON THERE IF I CAN'T EVER CLICK ON IT, GITHUB, WHAT THE HELL

“Not for rinsing or washing,” they said. (Seen at Union Station.)

Everyone's making jokes about the cast, but my honest reaction was "look at all those children, they're adults now. Look at all those adults, they're _old_ now." ... oh. oh.

Today marks 50 years since John Chambers and Rick Becker presented a new project to colleagues at Bell Labs - an interactive environment that became the S language. For more details, see the #RStats blog entry "S at 50": blog.r-project.org/2026/05/05/s...

Actively blocking unhelpful people is not only good practice on bsky. It's good practice on GitHub too! It makes for a better community. You're probably not blocking enough people on your popular GitHub repository! Today's PSA brought up by "I don't like doing it, but I like having done it"

I'd love to learn more about how y'all are using AI for data science, so I've set up some times where you can chat with me: scheduler.zoom.us/hadley-wickh.... I'm interested in it all, whether it's your struggles, your successes, or what you're still trying to get your head around. #rstats

I hate it when I'm _right_ to point at my Pepe Silvia-style board. Like, seriously, I am. (there's no way you'll guess who this is about, so don't bother lol. I just want to vent that having a good memory and moral sense now makes you sound like a paranoid freak. Sigh)

Now, now. When system prompts tell LLMs to shut up about nasal demons, _that's_ when we worry.

Welcome home, Fraa Fuckley

please recognize the no-joke bravery to say this on bsky dot app

I think it is probably essential to renormalize the ability and willingness to distinguish between explaining something and endorsing it.

The Matrix was right: the future *is* really full of screens streaming terminal text no one is reading

This kind of post-mortem on a claude code session is all of these things: - squarely sci-fi in 2016 - completely mundane in 2026 - indicative to me that all the frenzy being sold under 'agentic blablabla' might be unnecessary. Tell the hungry ghost how it can improve itself. It often does! Trippy.

btw, from the 4% rule you can derive a good "1% a quarter" rule of thumb, which translates to "every $300 saved is $1/mo in perpetuity", which I honestly find super helpful to frame "now vs not" money decisions.

I have sufficiently weird tastes that advertisements often will just guess I'm a woman (which is fine and funny!) Still, every once in a while they'll recommend femme-coded haircare products, and I'm offended, but not for the reason I think most dudes would lmao

The contrapositive application of “don’t worry if it’s stupid or malicious when either cause is disqualifying” here is “don’t worry if being nice makes you competent at using LLMs or an empathic naïf that believes they’re conscious. Your own self will be better off either way”

this is a pretty cogent argument for banning payday loans on purely practical grounds and i think i agree with it

👀 we're ready to start cooking with Quarto 2 now (no, still not ready for public consumption! but now we can have a website documenting what's there and what's not :))