It's #Pebble Time (2)! My original Pebble Time Steel had a battery rupture back in 2021. Very happy to have a new one. Almost no setup. Everything works just like I remember so far. Still at 94% battery after almost two full days.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

btw Ecto version 3.14 is out and has UUIDv7 support! #elixirlang

Bad : that this rubbish is going around again Good: I get to share this excellent history by @bretdevereaux.bsky.social acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c... It’s long but in depth and shows really well the amount of work it took to survive for the vast vast majority of people in the past.

Since the announcement of our union, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro have hired Fisher Phillips (a union avoidance firm), and chosen to engage in a daily union-avoidance campaign by sending emails to the Arena team that is spreading misinformation and sowing fear among our colleagues. #uwotc-cwa

It’s not a coincidence that the Cavs stopped playing ball stopping iso ball and this being their best showing in the playoffs.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Very proud of my brother. First video from his band, Wulver, is out. Full EP coming soon. #metal youtu.be/nzEkgqvHfKg?...

Published and walked out for game night. Did not expect to come back to being on the front page of the orange site. 😅

I dusted off my blog to explain the AI engineering policy I wrote for work. It morphed into more of a rant on the lack of leadership in tech than I intended. Yelling "MOAR AI!" is not leadership and your teams all feel it. brianmeeker.me/2026/05/14/h...

We’re pleased to share that UWOTC-CWA has a scheduled election date! While WOTC still has the chance to voluntarily recognize our union before then we're looking forward to voting and winning recognition of our union. ✊

This can extended to just about any profession where AI is being pushed heavily. The sheer number of software engineers crippling their ability to think by offloading everything to AI is just an advantage for future me.

President Donald Trump’s abrupt reversal on his plan to help ships go through the Strait of Hormuz came after a key Gulf ally suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, according to two U.S. officials.

Never expected to see another Triosphere album, but they still sound great #metal youtu.be/0y41T4GKoxs?...

A legitimately clever way of asking "Have you noticed that the president is a sundowning old man in poor health?" without asking the question directly. Because yeah, obviously, most fit adults could win a fight with an overweight old man who sometimes needs assistance to move around.

Oban Pro v1.7.0 is out with: 📡 Signals and awaiting 🫆 Unique workflows ⚖️ Rate limiting overhaul 📦 Chunking overhaul 🪝 Global cancel/discard hooks 📇 Improved indexes Plus dozens of other improvements, and it unlocks all the features in Web v2.12. oban.pro/docs/pro/1.7... Signaling shown here:

Past me recommended Fly.io as a host to various folks. I am deeply sorry for this error in judgement. Can't get off it fast enough. I am so tired of production incidents. Feel free to run your hobby products there, but trusting it for real production app is a mistake.

I don't recommend doing it all the time, but a solid week of Spite Driven Development can go a long way on occasion.

There are many embarrassing parts of "founder mode", but the one that jumped out to me initially was that VC Startup Land apparently hadn't realized that using headcount as a scoreboard of success is maybe a bad thing? Congrats. You have become aware of coordination costs. Welcome to Management 101.

Continuing to get more flowerful with every tattoo session.

I guested on a podcast to talk about tech unions and managed to only sound mildly unintelligent! I'll consider that a win. youtu.be/QoxuqRGFfZY?...

Pumped to see Emperor and Blood Incantation in Chicago tonight. Far less pumped for the four hour drive back after the show. Good chance I'm passing out a hotel and finishing the drive in the morning instead.

This is so, so well-articulated.

people view themselves as computers, like they can load in information, but that’s not how it works at all. all learning - even book learning - is experiential. handwriting, restating, organizing are all learning tasks. you can’t “buy” it done by someone else & expect it to work at all

Clawmaxxers will mass-email 10,000 strangers using AI to "personalise" a pitch about "authentic connection" and see absolutely no irony in that. None. Zero. The irony detector has been automated and it also doesn't work.

The call for talks for #ElixirConf Chicago (September 10-11) is out! Now to put together some proposals... elixirconf.com #ElixirLang

I gave my Unionization, AI, & You talk at @virtualcoffee.io today. Thanks to everybody who attended and asked questions (both publicly and privately afterwards). I'll share the recording once it goes up on YouTube. We're at an inflection point in tech. If you're scared, feel free to reach out.

“sorry about the fascism you’re dealing with; here’s a $10 coupon that expires next week.” via @marisakabas.bsky.social

If you're not a hockey person, what happened here is that one of the MAGA-est dudes in the NHL just got used and embarrassed by Trump because no amount of kissing Trump's ass is enough to make him respect you or hesitate to humiliate you for his own entertainment.

We are hosting a virtual rally this Friday, 2/27 at 12pm ET on Zoom. Join us to hear from our speakers and support the re-instatement of unit members who Kickstarter retaliated against, 3 months after our historic 42-day remote strike won our latest contract bit.ly/ksrurally

Conference CFP rejection season is now in full swing. Two rejections and one waitlist so far this week.

Oh noooo, the company that extracted our data for their models is having others extracting data for their models

joyce is going after elon again

I never thought I would say this, but Opera might be Fleshgod Apocalypse's best album. I never thought King would be topped in my pantheon. #metal www.youtube.com/watch?v=Catk...

My RSI lightning talk from #CodeMash is up! This one was very personal. RSI ruled my life for almost a decade. I'm very happy to only have it relegated to a low priority background process these days. youtu.be/fNT6NXaZcZk?...

The truth is winning out this time. Do not assume it will win next time. www.theringer.com/2026/01/28/n...

But these fascists, like many fascists and other authoritarians, confuse the pageantry of violence for power - they imagine that the state with armed men walking the streets is strong. But only a weak government needs to put armed men in the streets to exert power. A strong government has no need.

Finally got around to writing my 2025 year in review blog post. It was a pretty quiet year as I kind of chilled after a lot of public speaking (for me) in 2024. brianmeeker.me/2026/01/25/2...

365 days straight of morning pages! ~300k words over the past year

I'll never stop being a sucker for #metal covers of pop songs. I did not think Blothar had those belted high notes in him. Long live Gwar. youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I?...

I had a great time giving this talk. Big shoutout to #CodeMash for accepting a talk so out of left field and to my audience for having so many great questions at the end.

Come check out lightning talks tonight at #codemash starting at 7! I’ll be talking about my 20+ year journey with RSI.

Lightning talk submitted for #codemash! Doing one at CodeMash in 2023 got me back into public speaking. I was so nervous to get on stage again. I've since done enough public speaking that I've gotten over the nerves. Excited to get back up on the big stage and give a much different talk this time.

FOX: Where’s the protest against the regime that's killing people in the street right now? Trent: They are doing those today. It’s called the ICE protests FOX: Are they talking about Iran at the ICE protests? Trent: No, I think they are talking about the regime that is shooting people in the face

“An axiom of organizers is that every good organizing conversation makes everyone at least a little uncomfortable” - Jane McAlevey Step outside your comfort zone and get a little uncomfortable with me at #CodeMash on Thursday. Let’s talk about unionization in tech.

This is some real, Severance-level dystopian corporate behavior…

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

Giveaways have arrived for my unionization in tech talk at #codemash next week. Come ask questions and/or chat to get one! Check out @organizeworkers.bsky.social if you're interested in learning more about it beforehand.✊

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this: