This feels a lot like the emails I get from my local Parks and Rec about billing that look like phishing attempts... emails don't match, domains are super weird, like at least 5 things they covered in my work training, thank you very much

This is now my most popular post... fourteen-year-old me would feel so proud

I have been describing my current company as a place where we work reasonable hours, the product is profitable, and people are kind to work with, and people keep responding variations of awe and disbelief. Which says a lot about where the tech industry is right now, I guess :-(

The pottery barn fantasy of what your kids' room will look like, compared to the fever-dream reality of what you *actually* negotiate with your kids to make them happy inhabitants of their room...

This is my constant refrain as an eng manager!!

What if the real vulnerability all along was NPM? 😜

Love this thread. I spend a lot of time thinking about all the tiny unseen things in systems that we take for granted, and that make them better. When I am sitting in a manager role, I try to notice and reward them; when I'm in a professor role, I try to help students think more deeply about them.

These are so cool!

Observation while working from coffee shops this week: Ballard seems to be very invested in making it difficult to access bathrooms.

I just saw "AI-infused" as a descriptor and was like... sir, AI is not essential oils, this is a very goofy marketing term, 2/10

In our quest to be The World's Nerdiest Family (TM), we just sang "Cookie Cat" at our neighborhood's Block Party karaoke (at the request of my older kid). I'm happy to report that the 3 people who recognized it were delighted.

Finally a challenge I KNOW I can succeed at!!!

Clever

I could live with never seeing words like "unrelenting," "daring," "fearless" in job descriptions ever again. Just let work be work, and let people go home and unplug!

AI shifting the future of work 🙃

Watching the tech industry's AI push (and surrounding debates) feels a lot like watching the cerulean sweater moment in The Devil Wears Prada: A small group of people at the top decide this *is* happening, the question is how it will trickle down to the "regular sweater" version for others.

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

It’s true. Sorry folks. There’s nothing that will tell you if an app is vibe coded except a 20+ year career in web services and a childhood of too much time on the computer. Good luck out there.

Some of those people were the ones who were the most welcoming to me when I switched careers into tech... they were like "isn't that how we all got here, really?" (Also, this thread is great!)

Troubleshooting walkthrough: Cascade Into Darkness This is a real issue I solved in Windows, the hurdles I faced, and what I'd do differently. 🐥🐥YOU CAN MUTE JUST THIS CONVERSATION THREAD🐥🐥 It starts with the user editing "HKLM\HARDWARE" and misunderstanding an instruction and breaking Windows.

What if turtle, but fast?

"42" for a new generation

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

🧵 Technical leadership in open source isn't about control — it's about stewardship. In OSS, you don’t manage people. You manage trust.

Hi! I'm one of the people who learned to code! Here's the thing: I didn't know if I would like it. And like a lot of women from my generation, no one told me "I think you should try this." So sure, if you don't like coding, don't do it just for $$$. But also consider who never tries for {reasons}

Management is hard. Reading this thread is not :-)

Ooh I didn't have a word for this before! Definitely resonates!

I have been a part of some WILD negotiations

Laugh-cries in working-parent

Nothing like when Spotify is having 503 login problems so you switch to Pandora... where the "Forgot Password" screen is disabled behind a giant "Want to Hear More?" modal

The update we all needed

same

Now I'm glad I logged in today

The goodest boi

sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes

The result is probably just background color and margins, overridden 100 times

OMG, national summer reading challenge *for grownups*. www.nationalbook.org/adventure/ With a @bookshop.org discount code! And prizes! 📚

This feels like yet another example of complexity moving elsewhere, not disappearing

Gonna show this to a non-technical friend the next time they ask about what AI-generated code feels like... seems kinda ok until you dig in at more than surface level

What you don't see: @kylethayer.com cackling with glee when this failed exactly as he had hoped 😈😈😈

One of the best things about Posting is you never know what obscure preoccupations your followers have. There will be a guy who has followed you for years and never said anything but then one day you disparage applesauce and he activates like a sleeper agent and dedicates his life to destroying you

I remember teaching College Composition classes in 2013 and this was the #1 chosen essay topic, with students overwhelmingly arguing in favor

I don't think I've even clicked on a link so fast

And I see how, in building a life that's truly mine, I give others a greater sense of possibility, seeing an option available that they might not have known existed. To clearing the path for those who will come after us. Happy Pride.

🧑: why do old people end their sentences with three periods lmao 🧓: *ends their sentence with one period* 🧑: oh shit are u mad at me

Me: oh wow when I emptied my Desktop Recycle Bin, I had so many files the warning message didn't give a number! This is so exciting I should go post on Bluesky! Me, 5 min later: wait what happened today???

Oh hey here’s a relevant paper from 1985 about exactly this! pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985...

Last Client-Side dev class of the quarter today. It was bittersweet, the way that transitions always are... and what a time for junior devs to look for their first jobs! Proud of everything they learned, and sending them out with all the good thoughts and wishes :-)