We still suffer under this delusion that design, and I include all sufficiently novel interventions, is the work of lone geniuses or "individual contributors". Systems of any complexity require the sustained attention and interaction of several-many people to and with each other.

This summer, join the Foldie Fondo, our signature social ride experience. Sunday, July 19, 2026 Meet at the south side of George C. King (Skipping Stone) Bridge in East Village at 8:45 am. Wheels roll at 9 am. 60 kms, rolling at about 15 to 18 kms/h. All types of bikes and their riders welcome.

thin models, fat controllers, obese workers. 🦣 why not? 🫠

had lots of fun painting this intersection (Center St x 13th Ave SW) for the "Paint the Pavement" program. Thanks to @stefannibrasil.me (who led the project) and many volunteers, this part of the City is much safer and prettier now! 😎🎨

Doing a fundraising blitz for @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social. Sign up as a monthly member for $12/mo and I'll mail you a copy of my book! You're welcome to sign up for less than that too, we'll send you some cool transit stickers. SUPPORT LOCAL JOURNALISM! sprawlcalgary.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Whenever an engineer says "It's not possible" always remember that what they actually mean is "I don't know how to build that" which sounds different, but means the same thing.

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unpaid technical debt becomes karma

I think about this poem all the time

Systems that function are invisible, unfortunately

headlines in 2026: "tic-tac-toe is solved. Experts still skeptical"

Fixing a cryptic fetch error when installing a Ruby gem from a git repository 👀 hexdevs.com/posts/instal...

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

bike commuting is so much fun! 🚴‍♂️

my children will inherit real wealth: 96GB of DDR5 memory. 🫰

RubyGems has locked sign ups due to an attack. But it's still unclear what has happened. Stay safe out there! 🙏 xcancel.com/maciejmensfe...

If you haven't upgraded yet, Ruby 4.0's garbage collection is generally much faster than 3.4. This patch release fixes the one area there had previously been a notable regression (allocating/freeing Classes).

last year was very cool 🚲

the CTrain free fare zone is one of the nicest things we have in Calgary. The numbers from the recent survey are pretty clear: people use it, they like it, and they want it to be expanded. City Hall should just listen to what people want.📣

new post about the garbage can model and persistence as a design method. mikegallagher.org/posts/from-g...

I see no lies here

If something is supposed to be a tool, you have to ask a tool for what. If everyone is talking about the experience of using the tool and not the outputs or outcomes, then it's a tool for self…soothing.

I just learned such a great word for our times. An epiphany is sudden true understanding. An *apophany* is a false understanding based on seeing a relationship in data or perception that doesn't actually exist. Pareidolia (seeing faces in things) is a subtype of apophenia.

It's not that difficult or expensive to understand people if you really want to understand them. Many organizations prefer to spend huge amounts of money to keep that confirmation bias high going.

> production is down due to cosmic rays today working as a "datacenters-in-space" devops engineer doesn't sound that fun.

it’s very weird, as a creative myself, to see other creatives who are proudly telling the world how much they loathe their craft and the process of making things.

Writing my action items on a piece of paper that I will burn to ward off spirits

The idea that every social problem needs a technical solution is so myopic. If you're worried about the smarts of the population, why not just fund public education? And if you're worried about Skynet, maybe try regulating the AI industries...

very exciting! 🎉🤩

loving this new technique where we replace making mistakes as we work though a programming task and learning from them with letting an AI do the same, allowing us to learn next to nothing.

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

The thing that really makes people stupid is wanting to look smart more than they want to learn.

good horse deserves cake 🍰🐎

let's go! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...

Everyone talking about social media ruining attention spans, and no one talking about ruined attention spans undermining software development If it takes longer than 2 weeks to do, you can't get anyone to understand it anymore

First time speaking at city council, it was fun! 🎉 Very excited that Calgary becoming a more affordable, diverse and inclusive city. Hope the trend continues! 🙏

"a school may almost be conducted by machinery (phonographs)" that could have been nice, actually. 📣

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Winter colors

too cold for photos

Jotting down some thoughts. www.stefannibrasil.me/posts/notes/...

Look, it's a mess out there and you can react to that mess by deciding everyone else is a moron or you could react to it by deciding most people are trying to get by with a different context than yours and start working the problem. Those are your choices pretty much, can't choose "no mess"

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Have you noticed that digital products and services are getting worse? So have we! Today we are publishing our new report, Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future. vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

this is nice

I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

“A purely private language, which refers to experiences known only to the user, cannot function because there would be no distinction between following a rule correctly and merely thinking one is following it.

"it is easier to come up with a defensible idea than it is to come up with a productive one." "By calling for a theory to be more comprehensive (...) we paradoxically end up with less clarity. We lose information by adding detail."

New blog post on the high costs of coordination and the implications for large organizations: surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/24/b...