GitHub status is almost at two nines again (99 recent incidents)

“I also noticed, when you came up with abstract data types, …” Love these interviews with Turing Award winners on the Peterman Podcast

I wrote about tech companies' move to promote universal basic income to calm the AI backlash and why it's probably not going to work www.platformer.news/ubi-ai-publi...

Asked lefos.com to wish me a happy Monday. Kinda cute.

After the AI Engineer conference, which was full of useful criticism, I remembered that the most confident takes on AI often came from the least exposure. Rejection is easy, trial and error is expensive. I wrote about it. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/11/th...

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Oh no our corporate training website was invaded by rabbits ❤️🐰 directus.io/tv

How’s it possible every time @bcantrill.bsky.social gives a talk it ends up being super funny

"The essence of software is somebody sat down and figured out a workflow that's hopefully right for you" (paraphrased)

“LLMs don’t know what success looks like” — Hanselman

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight” — heard on Hard Fork

i am usually not much into promoting paid services but y'all should really use kagi.com, their founder is a sensible person and their incentives are explicitly aligned towards NOT doing this kind of stuff against your will i've been using them since 2023 and google is genuinely unusable for me now

Google keeps reinforcing that the decision to switch to Kagi was the right one www.theverge.com/tech/896490...

Hello from #QConLondon! I am going to liveskeet as much as I can while very, very jetlagged. Right now we are going through conference intro and "how to attend a conference". Gotta be a couple of thousand people here

@mariozechner.at Happy Pi day!

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

Putting Linux Foundation on my email blocklist. I unsubscribed all but they can’t stop spamming me. Fuck you.

blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony... it was going to happen, death comes for us all. but man. what a legend

With all this talk of consciousness, which is just another word for magic, I thought I’d look back on my essay about magic (I mean engineering) from 2.5 years ago. It’s held up pretty well! apenwarr.ca/log/20230415

Oh no they wrapped our government building!

oh no, this goes way too hard

🎧 Nice to hear about culture change at Windows in the ‘10s. And about how it hugely impacted people’s lives

🎙️ Interesting to hear Epstein ask advice on turning his network into money “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”

i kinda see code bloat the same way i see entropy. it's an inevitable losing battle, but that doesn't mean it's not worth fighting to slow it down as much as possible. just because you can't build a bridge to last a billion years doesn't mean you shouldn't build it to last a century.

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"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." — Guindon "Maths is nature's way of showing you how fuzzy your writing is; "formal maths is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your maths is" — Leslie Lamport

you cannot trust anything that is on archive today, archive is, archive ph, etc. there is no accountability for it (anon owner), they host doxxing data and refuse to take it down, they alter things (defeating their one reason to exist), and they massively copyright infringe news sites etc.

contest is over, y'all. my colleague already won linkedin

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theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... chat, are we cooked?

Come work with me! We're hiring a staff-level Rust engineer @directus.io . Greenfield federated query engine / backend-as-a-service, private preview coming soon. Big sense of ownership. We already ship a very successful product used by major enterprises and governments.

Outcome Engineering (via @charity.wtf): o16g.com

Food for thought in a changing world

Shame on @nytimes.com for publishing what seems like p-hacked pseudoscience.

Who needs SQL when you have Markdown 👀

Played a bit with Claude Code today, and discovered what I like about pi.dev: Pi streams output — CC can't. Follow along as AI thinks. Queue messages, or interrupt when you've seen enough.

Nice shot by AlphaPhoenix youtu.be/0rGaTwxWuz0

what the hell am I doing here? i don’t belong here

Schöner Podcast: DLF Amerika verstehen, mit einem Historiker.

Shoutout to @thoughtworks.com for having interesting media. They are consistently ahead of the curve AND free of bullshit. Don’t see that very often.

iPAddress dNSName does this cursed casing style have a name? www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280

@genmon.fyi my current favorite "you can just do things" is a bit of a stretch, but apparently you can just build a successful software company for 20 years then use the proceeds to start a theater in Baltimore (for "research") and give the space away to artists for free bmoreart.com/2024/09/the-...

Lovely interview with a veteran engineer — regardless of how you feel about Clawdbot

Der letzte Arbeitstag, ohne dass ich es wusste Ich habe meine Karriere nicht geplant beendet. Sie ist einfach zu Ende gegangen – an einem Tag, an dem ich noch arbeitete, recherchierte, schrieb. Zwei Jahre später habe ich meine Zutrittskarte zurückgegeben. Dieser Text ist mein Abschied von einem…

Package Management is a Wicked Problem: nesbitt.io/2026/01/23/p...

Tried using MS Copilot for counting who is most cited by a paper. It completely excludes one commonly-cited author, John Power — probably because his surname is a common word? Bias is not cool.

Scheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.

Every Linux distro (including macOS) is just a different cinematic universe of gains/losses You’re more familiar with the enemy tactics of some distros, and you’re missing out on the flowers of another

“At some point, you have to have principles.”

I summarized my thoughts of my MiniJinja porting experience if you're curious. There is also a video linked in there with a narrated coding session sped up. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/14/mi...