Today is the last day that you can repost this image

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

Part of what bugs me about all of the discussion around programmers potentially losing jobs due to LLMs is that many people seem to be operating under the flawed assumption that the primary function of programmers is to type code into a keyboard. The product is the software, and not the code.

Alongside the Ruby 4.0 release last week, I published charm-ruby over Christmas, bringing @charm.land's excellent terminal UI libraries to Ruby. A full TUI framework, reusable components, styled output, forms, markdown rendering, spinners, charts, and a lot more! Demos below ⬇️

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

no it’s not just weapons and knowing how to fight, there’s more to it than that. really there’s a whole world of warcraft

Hot take: smart phones are a terrible computing platform and are one of the reasons software and UX have been getting worse.

The utility of genAI—whether it can actually perform the task at hand—is irrelevant and OSS ultimately a trap to bother talking about it. There is literally no amount of usefulness it can add that could make it worthwhile. None. Willing users are either ignorant or willfully choosing massive harm.

Ah, the #ADHD experience of receiving a "stack level to deep" exception while cleaning up.

But I can see you Your bronze helm shining in the sun And there's Gilgamesh with scale armor on, baby And I can tell you and Enkidu will still be strong After the boys of Sumer have gone

After seeing the new #ruby homepage... Are there any programming languages that have a hard stance against GenAI and fascism? (I know, it's pretty much inseparable at this point)

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

Don’t never let these old folk try to moralize to you fam y’all have no idea how chaotically horny y’all’s parents were at 9pm on Mondays

Guess I'll post this again

*vibrates violently holding a degree in interdisciplinary communication and collaboration* You do not need genAI to communicate your ideas as a non-artist to an artist! A generated image doesn't actually share the key info that needs to passed on AND it discourages fruitful discussion

I honestly don’t know if this is 1:1 applicable, but I think it’s relevant that the Luddites didn’t “smash the machines” because they were being replaced, or they feared the machines. They did it because the machines let the companies make WAY more money, yet the Luddites’ wages weren’t increasing.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

When I hear twentysomethings describe themselves as “late diagnosed”, I wonder if that makes me “ancient diagnosed” at almost 50 🤔

please buy so many physical copies of the album so we can tour with strings & with Carolyn & Jamie and also Nicole who sat in in LA because that would be such an utterly killer tour youtu.be/pv53gRqjvxY?...

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my 2025 wrapped:

Here's a pretty incomplete list of YouTube channels owned or funded by private equity.

Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"

Normalize this reaction #art #artists

Rabbit holes? My dear, I have whole *warrens*

How can there still be software in the year of our lord 2025 that disallows umlauts in names? I am starting to suspect that software development is not a serious profession. (he said being a software developer himself)

This is fantastic writing. https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/

DM: Do you know Thieves Cant? Me: Not with that attitude

"there's a new serif in town"

An essential part of any creative process is “oh my god this fucking sucks what am I doing”

new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.

Look I’m not gonna say that DHH being an absolute piece of shit is turning out to be the biggest breath of fresh air for the Ruby ecosystem or anything but…

#Therapy feels a lot like jailbreaking your own brain

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Question for fellow macOS and #Bitwig users: have any of you successfully upgraded to macOS 26? Is the latest point release stable enough to consider upgrading?

How the current AI timeline feels: Everybody wants to have done something, but nobody wants to do anything.

Software was a mistake

Have you read the (originally Reddit, I think) post and webcomic based on it, where Mr Rogers meets Thor and Mjolnir? (The original is at the bottom of the page.) mediachomp.com/thor-meets-m...

Mr Roger’s is who Mjolnir was made for

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

Sloppers fuck off. If you can’t do it yourself maybe learn to be happy as the audience www.sonnyross.com/shop/aisucks

oops it's her again

They are all good, but this one is REALLY good!

if you ask an LLM about security and it doesn't just tell you to read a blog written by a furry it is wasting your time