If you were wondering like I was, it takes five months of public GitHub inactivity to wear off your free maintainer copilot subscription.

Ayyy, an entire summer (and then some) went by, and Friends! With code. didn't even hang out once. We miss each other, so come hang with @pav.vin, @jonallured.com, and I as we take turns giving summer reports to start the school year. www.youtube.com/live/tGxbsQA...

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I bought a shirt at a concert 25 years ago from the band hum (you'd prefer an astronaut is a perfect album -- all rippers no skippers -- & it still holds up). It's the oldest band shirt that I still wear. The design looks...very homemade. It is one of my favorite shirts. But it's on its last legs.

i can't think of anything witty to add to this that's funnier than what's already been written, so you're just gonna have to read it www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

"There’s real value in faster prototyping, scaffolding, and automation. But LLMs don’t remove the need for clear thinking, careful review, and thoughtful design. If anything, those become even more important as more code gets generated." ordep.dev/posts/writin...

Buried in the tax bill: "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during the 10-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act."

me solving a rubiks cube: algorithm based on mnemonics... more mnemonics....more mnemonics....COMPLETE BLACKOUT WHILE MY HANDS PERFORM WIZARDRY BASED ON MUSCLE MEMORY...mnemonics, mnemonics, done. I am astonished every single time that middle part works out and I don't understand what's happening.

"I, too, was once a little skeptical of the Giant Plagiarism Machine™. But that was before I attended The Conference for Big Boy Business Owners™." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

Blink twice if you need help, YouTube ai caption robot.

Hello, I am a creative professional. Generative AI is incredible and empowering, and will only get better. I love generative AI. In the last 12 months, my creative business has dropped more than 50%. I hate generative AI. Read more... reverentgeek.com/ai-really-is...

This week's friday micro-improvement: a pre-commit hook to remind me when I've marked a file as `skip-worktree` from the git index. (Sometimes I want to keep a non-prod change locally, without accidentally including it in a commit.)

> Trump would be “a creative disposal strategy” sentence fragment of the year 👆

MY KINGDOM FOR A FIGMA CODE GENERATOR PLUGIN THAT *DOESN'T* USE AI.

2 things I changed in my aerospace (nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/gu...) config while setting up a new laptop this week, both of which I am pretty excited about:

MY KINGDOM FOR AN LMS PLATFORM THAT USES THE KEYBOARD INSTEAD OF MOUSE INPUT ONLY!!!!!!!! IT'S 2025 WHY CAN'T I HIT ENTER TO PLAY THIS STUPID TRAINING VIDEO OR ADVANCE TO THE NEXT STUPID TRAINING VIDEO??!!?

Today I went whitewater rafting for the second the time in my life. We nearly flipped, the rower fell out, I chucked a rope across the river and dragged them in. It was....intense yet satisfying. I can see why people would do this. Also 10/10 sightseeing 😍😍😍😍.

Sssooooo today was my last day at Camunda! I wrote about my first experience as a "Developer Experience Engineer," and the things I'll take with me from that experience: www.stevenhicks.me/blog/2025/04... Shout out to all my friends at Camunda that I will miss dearly.

I'm not sure who is a/b testing the new Spotify feature today that switches playback randomly between my laptop and my phone every ten minutes, but please add me back to the control group 🙅‍♂️

All together -- this looks pretty good, I'm mostly happy.

I have been hemming and hawing about actually printing this shirt, practicing on white undershirts because I just could. Not. Get enough ink to transfer. I finally discovered a process that works reasonably well, and got this sucker printed.

In an attempt to escape watching the great american collapse I've been finding time for art again. Working on a rainbow trout print to bring to my college bestie in a few weeks (which I *think* is his favorite fish but I guess we'll find out).

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

fr, if the COBOL works you just don't touch it.

Hey friends, come hang with me, @pav.vin, and @just-be.dev for a little dev show and tell in 15 minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mve...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Uuuuggghhhh I just submitted a survey to our school district stating that my biggest concern with taking phones away from students all day is that, in the event of a school shooting, I want to get a text message from my kid that says they're okay. This is freedom? 👊🇺🇸🔥

I wrote up some thoughts about the effect of AI on programmer salaries: seldo.com/posts/ai-eff...

The best part about these Confluence ads during season 1 of the Severance Podcast is that they don't realize how appealing the idea of severance is as you're waiting for the confluence search box to load. "Ha ha obviously no one would ever choose severance over our product" ARE YOU SURE 👀😬😐😵😵‍💫

Hey come hang with us at www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdYW... for a dev show & tell!

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

For a few hours I forgot everything.

Dev Show & Tell #3 tomorrow, our first episode with all 4 "friends! with code." Come hang! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Iv7...

Last summer, I helped organize a triathlon at our company retreat. Obviously, I had to write my own timing app for it. I never blogged about it. I still haven't! But, I did finally publish some notes to my digital garden: sprouts.stevenhicks.me/sprouts/dev/...

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

I've been a party-pooper lately, but 2 Rad Dads is back this week! Join us tomorrow (Wed Feb 12), www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhpA..., when we will surely fumble with TypeScript....and also hopefully do some refactoring, and add a configuration setting to our Raycast wormhole extension.

Them, in an interview: "what's the common slogan used to describe the enforcement of a minimum dress code in a store prone to customers in swim-wear?" Me, sputtering top-of-mind somewhat related sentence fragments until my brain finally finds the answer:

Can someone smarter than me plz phish the dorks currently hacking the US government out of existence, and get them to unwittingly install this?

I am back in the US after a week in Austria and... Holy fucking shit this is escalating quickly.

Eek. It took me nearly all of January, and I almost missed my self-imposed imaginary deadline, but here it is! My 2024 year in review. Thanks for reading. "Verdict? I had a pretty good year, but need to figure some things out." www.stevenhicks.me/blog/2025/01...

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

In a couple days, I am leaving the country for a week for work...and I have no idea what country I'm coming home to.

AI Ruined My Tacos: a story about Google Lens completely mutilating an imo very clear screenshot of a taco seasoning recipe, telling me to triple the paprika and onion powder, and now gaslighting me with the exactly correct quantities when I try to capture a screenshot of the offense.

Some (ex-)Artsy friends and I are doing a Show & Tell in an hour. One of our favorite meeting, where people could join and show what they use, what they created, what they discovered, and more. Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFb2... Join us! Or don't, that's point of this meeting. :)

Big news! While 2 Rad Dads will continue, @jonallured.com and I decided we want more friends to hang with us. So the 2RadDads channel is now FriendsWithCode, and we're getting our friends @pav.vin and @jpotts244.bsky.social involved! www.youtube.com/@friendswith...

Can all this ai tech energy please be redirected toward me having to reconnect to my car via Bluetooth three times before it works, plz.