hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.

Finally, Ben Shapiro has found someone he can make wet

This is perhaps why AWS announced their European only cloud service the other day: they are hedging on a complete severance of transatlantic ties

Doesn't this just make him an elongated Joe Rogan in a wig

Listening to documentary on Anna Karina, the New Wave actress, and it's like "having just moved to Paris and working odd jobs she got herself a little apartment off the Champs-Elysées".

"Why write code when Claude can do it for you?" "Why learn a foreign language when Google translate exists?" Why walk when you can take an Uber everywhere?

I wonder how Robert Heinlein would feel if (like his character in Door into Summer) he woke up in 2026 to find a throwaway invented word in one of his novels was the cause of a political crisis in the UK

My impression of the US political system is that it's a very messy, chaotic beast and most of the time that's not a good thing (compared to European peers) but if you have a mad president who wants to rule the country like a tyrant that messy, chaotic beast might be the thing that saves you

One thing I can say about Gas Town is that it reminded me how irritating the author is

I’m not going to share a link, but within 24hrs of being published my illustration has been fed into AI and used to generate a video of this dinosaur, and frankly I just need this world to stop. Seriously, what is the fucking point?

Anyone planning to launch an AI startup: the labs will just co-opt your idea into their own stack, don't bother.

"Clear, irrefutable evidence" "Mr Jenrick, you don't smoke, do you sir? My wife gave up smoking, she used to smoke Rothmans, can smell it a mile away. I wondered, why your office smells of Rothmans. You know who smokes Rothmans? Mr Farage. Officer, you can take him away now."

Let's take the vibe coders at their word. You can build a full SAAS in a weekend, near-zero effort, no more cost than a Claude subscription. Um...and? What's your moat? Why should I pay for your SAAS when I can just ask Claude to copy what you've done? The real winner? Anthropic.

Oh cool a death's head insignia which paramilitary death squad has used that historically I have no idea

Watching software developers you admired for years becoming full-on AI boosters and hype merchants is like watching punk musicians you loved as a kid going MAGA.

Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships

Thinking about side projects this year...I no longer see the point in them as anything more than a private hobby. A satisfying but ultimately pointless activity, like making your own chair rather than buying it from IKEA. The joy of building something to share with the world is gone.

"AI let's me, as a developer, avoid code entirely, I can just focus on building the product." Lol dipshit. That's what a Product Manager does. You are just a now very unemployed middleman.

We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

Erich von Daniken and now Scott Adams. Tough week for the crank community.

Gen X is at +5 support for ICE while millennials are at -25. Is this at all related to the United States banning lead paint in houses in 1978?

Somebody has met their KPI for this quarter, rejoice!

We’re hiring hungry ghost wranglers — I mean Machine Learning Engineers. As well as Typescript, React Native, and Go devs.

Banger argument lobste.rs/s/cmsfbu/don...

The AI boosters talking about how "we'll have to reorganise society when all the middle class jobs go to AI" prove again one thing: engineers are *astonishingly* naive and stupid when it comes to thinking outside their very, very narrow fields.

The Farage Clause sounds like the title of a Robert Ludlum thriller

When you hear "better than nothing," ask whose responsibility the "nothing" is, and whether the "better than nothing" solution simply lets them abdicate that responsibility & check the box. AI is the ultimate "better than nothing" technology. Don't negate this argument — reject the whole framing.

RIP Erich von Däniken, whose theories about ancient aliens were as accurate and honest as his hotel book keeping

Rich Hickey, the creator of the Clojure programming language, also hates AI gist.github.com/richhickey/e...

Yo anybody need a few hours of web dev consulting? Open to do a couple hours of freelance work, so shoot me a reply if you're into it and need a hand 👌

This looks genuinely interesting magicall.online/why-magicall

Friends don't let friends run their side projects on the cloud www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCIf...

www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/craftsm... AI is kind of the end point in the attempt to "industrialise" software production, but the groundwork was in processes like Scrum which force a factory production model on developers. Management after all wants cheap, replaceable, fungible workers, not artisans.

I'd love a job where I get to sleep all day and get paid for doing nothing Are Ofcom hiring

Best way for the free world to take on the US would be to covertly sponsor an Operation Gladio, push the country into a bitter and protracted civil war + fund insurgents in occupied countries such as Venezuela. Nothing that the Yanks themselves haven't done to others.

So sorry William Gibson you thought you predicted the future with Neuromancer but instead we got Asparamancer

The #indiehackers scene is so dead. Just scammers making little AI wrappers and people selling tools and newsletters to gullible idiots. Maybe was always like this.

It has to be the Future because NFTs was the Future but everyone laughed at the apes and crypto was the Future but everyone lost their coins in a rug pull and Metaverse was the Future but Zuck forgot to give the avatars legs and

Waiting for the official position from Airstrip One on the Venezuela invasion

Everyone has their favourite Hans Zimmer score but honestly this is mine tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Doctor_...

I know it's too much to expect from our spineless leaders but perhaps Europeans should think about what they'll do when US troops land in Nuuk

Whoooosh

There's quite a few of these. One wonders about their motivation.

Just back at work and got the usual excellent #Django newsletter before the weekend django-news.com/issues/318?s... which confused me because my brain says it's Monday but it's Friday already.

Hard to have faith in European leaders to defend our continent when - at zero cost - they could quit X, a propaganda and disinformation channel run by hostile foreign agents

So … let's say your kid was a tech genius who was throwing herself into website development and wanted to set up a web server. Open to hardware or software solutions. Currently knows Python, TypeScript, JS, HTML, CSS. Learning Django, React, and Bootstrap. Mac person, owns a Raspberry Pi. Thoughts?

Their thinking is purely transactional, "what's in it for me" rather than any thinking bigger about Europe as a project. Very British middle class.

Definitely one of John le Carré's more grittier and hard-hitting Cold War adaptions