Co-signed

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Pluribus good

Reading this made me want to walk into the sea

it's also a very problematic rounding error because it's spurring fossil build out! Google cheerfully emailed me that they're doing a new gas CCS plant for this. and it eats up capacity (institutional and otherwise) to do better stuff! I hate it! AND if we can't do ~100 GW, we're in big trouble

LLMs are high on my list of Not Worth the Resource Allocation, but I am worried about how worried we are about the power demand. the US needs to go from ~1 TW of dirty and/or old capacity now to 2? 6? 7? TW of clean new cap by 2050 to keep us warm, cool, and transported. AI is a rounding error.

forgot to post about this, but i wrote up some ~practical learnings~ about ai agents for observability over on the honeycomb blog. curious for your thoughts! www.honeycomb.io/blog/fast-an...

> looking for a new ide > ask google if their new ide is vscode or an ide > they dont understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining the difference between rebadged vscode and an actual ide > they laugh and says its a good ide > look inside > vscode

To be honest I wasn't really interested in the Gemini 3 release, but then I saw @simonwillison.net's pelican! 😮 That's... that's recognizably a pelican on a bicycle

My tech struggle today is trying to get a @bambulabglobal.bsky.social X1C that's been in storage since early 2023 back up and running. There's no documented way of updating the firmware except over internet, but they've changed the account system so it can no longer log in 🙃

It feels like the only thing missing is for Valve to launch a game streaming service à la GeForceNow aftermath.site/steam-machin...

🤩 There’s a very – VERY! – exciting animations/performance change available in Chrome Canary: Under the right conditions, `width`/`height` animations will no longer automatically force a Main Thread animation, but can be allowed to run on the Compositor.

I’m calling this a success! (except that he has chosen @ctrlspice.bsky.social’s desk bed instead of my desk bed. He’s been there all day)

I’ve loved my Steam Deck so I’m very much looking forward to picking this up when it launches 👀 www.theverge.com/tech/818111/...

It must be so hard to get children down for bedtime in Lumiose City with people having pokemon fights on your roof every night “Go back to bed little love, it’s just a 3 ton fire camel fighting an actual god”

40 million people go hungry: Yawn. No big deal My flight might be delayed: THIS IS INTOLERABLE AND MUST NOT STAND

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

it’s very clear more democrats agreed with this deal but strategically had those who aren’t up for election soon do the dirty work. it doesn’t mean we can’t make their lives a living hell until & through then, and it doesn’t mean we should take the dems that performed “no” on here as being truthful

Fun new variant on my pelican riding a bicycle SVG benchmark by BeetleB, who instead used "Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle" to get ray-traced pelicans: blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/O...

From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I’m working on clearing out my garage of gear and stuff that I’ll likely never use again, and this is the listing I put up for these giant cams

Started my day by reading HN comments about OpenTelemetry. Would not recommend

ICYMI, servers got good, which means that if your data is smaller than ~8TB (yes, TB), it's not "big data", it's "thing you can grep in memory in near real time."

This post is awesome eavan.blog/posts/implem...

"What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats." prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

You can't compare the stock of *value* like corporate valuation to economic *output* like GDP. It's like saying your car makes up "30% of your annual income" because it's worth $30k and you make $100k. A $5T valuation is big but total US household net worth is like $167T

The dogpiling tendency of Bluesky Feels Bad, but I don’t begin to know how you would prevent it systematically

The kitten seems to have accepted the home-made cat bed I built for my desk 🥰

Trick or Treating is going to be… interesting this year. Kids are still psyched tho

@koaning.bsky.social marimo.io/blog/joining... Congrats! 🥳 I hope this acquisition is good news for y'all

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum. www.pbump.net/o/yes-most-a...

I’ve been browsing X for work reasons lately, and beyond the gutter racism pushed into my timeline some things jumped out at me

How many alt-wikipedias do you think we’ll have by next year? I am worried our already tenuous grasp on a shared reality is going to get completely obliterated 😬 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Whoever added the purring feature to cats deserves a raise. Delightful

There’s something magical about physics-based animation. When we use springs instead of Bézier curves, we tend to get way smoother motion. Up until recently, we’ve needed to use JS libraries for this, but a modern feature lets us emulate springs in native CSS. ✨ Just published a new post:

I joined Cloudflare to build this. It’s still very early, and there’s lots still missing, but I hope the vision is clear.

It launched! Get traces for your app with zero code changes. No libraries, no SDK, no config. Traces show up in your dash or you can export them to your favorite o11y vendor over OTLP blog.cloudflare.com/workers-trac...

We have a working dishwasher again and bless the domestic robots and the work that they do 🙏

I hope this kind of comparison becomes way more common, and people start to question the heaps of complexity pushed in React et al www.lorenstew.art/blog/10-kanb...

At this point in my career “good software” is anything that meets the needs of the business (today and tomorrow), and doesn’t wake me up too frequently

After being confused why I couldn't get one half of a ZMK keyboard to reset into its bootloader for many hours I finally thought to ask Claude Code which suggested it might be a power-only USB C cable issue, and solved my problem in under a minute

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

Playing around with @opentelemetry.io api in JS and @cloudflare.social wrangler bundles. Importing the trace module to generate spans probably shouldn't be bringing in 63kb of JS 😬

So much of what's wrong with tech started from one simple phenomenon: focusing on the money-movers instead of people who actually *make* shit. Real technology matters. Inventors over investors, every time. Founders over funders. Writing code > writing checks. www.anildash.com/2025/10/24/f...

Worth your time: terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-1... (can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)

Main takeaway from the Rivian ebike announcement is "This is definitely an ebike as imagined by a car company" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iapS... - 180Nm of torque (!) - Magnifies your effort 10x (!) - Pedal by wire - Regen braking - Full suspension - Very heavy - How do you lock this to a bike rack??

Imagine a browser where you type in “Taylor Swift” and it doesn’t even admit that her website exists. I write about Atlas, ChatGPT’s new anti-web browser that should come with a warning label. www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...

Soon 👀

"Manage subscriptions" is by far the best thing gmail has ever done since....gmail. discovered this last week, looks like it was rolled out in July.. have y'all found this?!? click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click-click, ahhhhh. simple joys. 🌱