What if we're actually in the middle of the third golden age of software engineering? This is what Grady Booch (@booch.com) sees happening. If you are anxious about the state of the industry, you want to watch/listen to Grady's longer-term perspective: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMA... (cont'd)

#TIL Margaret Hamilton coined the term "software engineering" More here: www.vox.com/2015/5/30/86...

Pretty sure this museum is trying to pull a meme, here

according to my calculations, due to the shortened month of february, tomorrow... might... be... friday?

Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature

Proof Without Content xkcd.com/3201/

This is Gordie. He's demonstrating what is known in the business as a sweetie pie semi-sploot. It's when you haven't quite figured out how to sit yet but are so cute it doesn't matter. 12/10 (IG: rubyandgordie)

An unfortunate thing is that if you do a really bad job teaching, students will frequently assume that you’re clever and they didn’t understand it. Same thing for poorly written papers

The closest people in my life realise something’s up with me when I don’t send them as many memes

Although, I kind of eagerly await the angry three-sided Bsky split between the people for whom never getting delivery is a matter of social justice, the people for whom always getting delivery is a matter of social justice, and the people who say it must be nice to be able to eat food in any form.

My politics

Mansplainception: When you call out some mansplaining and the "well actually" crowd comes along to tell you it isn't.

Don’t shame me like this google

“like it’s not even cringe” is a top shelf Gen Z compliment (padme: right?)

Life goals

I wasn’t ready to be called out like that!!

“your clawdie is a generous upvoter”

> tailscale is the secure way to connect all your computers! > i've used tailscale to connect my molty to all my computers and internal services and gave it all my keys oh no, not like that

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

occasionally watching only connect i find myself asking, "is england real"

tbh i don’t get why blueskyers hate ai. you’d think they’d love something that doesnt get jokes

as an adult

Look at the current situation with bug reports for open-source projects. Coming to an academic journal near you this summer... bsky.app/profile/gerg...

A house in the hills away from everything except a pet dog is looking more and more attractive by the minute

It just occurred to me that a key difference between autistic masking and the masking "regular" people do is that the average autistic person will mask like crazy for self-preservation but refuse to mask if it means compromising their morals...

Also:

1. The thing about science that these jokers don't understand is that science cannot be vibe-coded. Whatever its flaws, the point with vibe coding is that you're trying to quickly make something that sorta works, where you can immediately sorta see if it sorta works and then sorta use it.

"olive oil" is the kind of special interest an autistic Arab can get behind can I also say: this is rich from a user who has "liquidity" in his name 🤔😒

a phd

wow two air fryers

"I do not read" or "I do not read fiction" are not the flex you think they are.

I once read a thread on sexism in international relations/spying where women were instructed to make wrong claims about X whenever they wanted to get secret information on X; a man would just disclose the key info by means of mansplaining

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

As seen here: eieio.games/blog/ssh-sen...

Hundreds of HTML elements, anchored to each other randomly, by using the CSS anchor positioning feature. Because, why not? A new kind of popup hell. This, and other fun experiments at patrickbrosset.com/articles/202...

It's a great moment whenever I do a dataviz talk, show this slide, point to the tiny woman on the right, and say 'That's me.'

Some quacks are interdisciplinary.

On the topic of online resources, worth spreading the word again about Ryan O'Donnell's "CS Theory Toolkit" course: "Covers a large number of the math/CS topics that you need to know for reading and doing research in Computer Science Theory" youtube.com/playlist?lis... @booleananalysis.bsky.social

for example

Where and when did the ".s" suffix for assembly-language source files originate? retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/24994

Finally ready to go public on my startup idea: powdered water. Water bottles are heavy and cumbersome to carry? No longer a problem! A simple powder: just add water, you get water

ladies and gentlemen. the thursdy

I just thought everyone should see this