This is the best article I’ve read to date on the state of the USA in 2025. Sad, but critical read: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Best stress-reduction purchase of 2025 so far: a Steam Deck. This thing is amazing. It’s so relaxing playing Stardew Valley when waiting around for things, in a Lyft, etc. A++++ can’t recommend it enough.

Just got a new work laptop. Feels like I just started a brand new job. =)

I find this terrifying: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/p...

Anyone here use @synthesia.io ? I've heard so much about it, but after creating an account it's nearly impossible to generate a video. The onboarding is busted in a lot of ways. Is there any simple way to just try it out BEFORE paying? oO

Fuck this: www.wilderness.org/articles/blo... PROTECT PUBLIC LANDS!

Finally trying out Claude Code for the first time. Let's see if it can make some test fixes for a massive codebase. >:D

Using AI to write unit/integration/performance tests is so clutch. I've been experimenting with it for test generation on a massive project with lots of complexities and it's working absolutely fantastic with Claude 4. A+++.

Am I being phished by North Korea?

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

The refusal to provide people due process before shipping them off to foreign prisons is criminal and intolerable. It must not be normalized. Everyone who believes in justice and America needs to speak up now.

Senator Chris Van Hollen has requested an urgent meeting with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to address the situation involving Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was “mistakenly”deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador.

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

The biggest Nazi concentration camp wasn't in Germany itself. Trump and Bukele aren't special and new, they're shitty and old.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.

As a US citizen, this news makes me absolutely sick to my stomach: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd5G... Not only is Trump and his entire administration directly defying a conservative Supreme Court's orders, they're blatantly lying about it to all of us. If this isn't fixed, democracy is 100% dead.

It is essential for the rule of law that everyone involved in this end up in prison. Nothing else is a sufficient deterrent against the intentional, repeated abuse of government power to systematically deny fundamental rights.

Reminder for NC residents: There are likely only ~ 9-10 days left to check if your name is one of the 60K being challenged and confirm your identity. Check your family's names too. Link to check in the article. abc11.com/post/jeffers...

🚨 By a vote of 220-208, the House has PASSED HR 22 the SAVE Act that will strip voting rights away for millions of Americans. All Republicans voted YES as well as 4 Democrats: Jared Golden (D-ME) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) Henry Cuellar (D-TX) Ed Case (D-HI) The bill now moves to the Senate.

Fell a bit behind on email this week. Went from inbox 0 to inbox 110 >.>

For this year's April Fools' at Snyk, I built and released a thing! If you've ever found yourself thinking that security tools were "boring", check out our new Snyk Greybeard tool: bit.ly/42pk70R It's a wrapper for our Snyk CLI tool that adds sarcastic commentary to your security scan results!

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-... fantastic article by @krebsonsecurity.com.web.brid.gy TL;DR: The Trump regime is rapidly pushing the USA into a dictatorship. Only time will tell how this ends.

I'm officially addicted to these cotton candy grapes. Save me.

So tired of being sick. Had the flu for the past ~2 weeks and still coughing a lung. Ugh.

Great article everyone should read: www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SellYour...

"The response to authoritarianism isn't acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing and one thing only: a punch in the face." - @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Storytime: I've been a member of a non-profit group that's attempting to build various personal AI solutions. Today, someone shared some disturbing posts from one of the organization's leaders who was promoting Trump.

Fantastic event so far. Great speakers and a ton of interesting thoughts on building personal AI tools that have trust from the ground up.

Anddd, the one and only Bruce Schneier is giving a keynote. He’s legit one of my all-time tech idols. Read his Practical Cryptography book cover to cover at least three times.

The founder of Atari, creator of Pong, and Chuck E. Cheese founder Nolan Bushnell, is here giving a talk :D Epic!!

The AI summit has started!

Today I’m hanging out at the Kwaai AI summit in Pasadena. Will be sharing some fun tweets about the event as it is ongoing.

Claude-3.7-thinking is my homie now. I FEEL THE POWER FLOWING THROUGH ME.

blog.chasingbrains.co/p/just-write... <-- gah, he makes a great point. This is something I need to work on =)

Pleasantly surprised to see Apple's product feedback page today. It's so well done: simple list of products, easy feedback form, tells you they'll read every piece of feedback, etc. It's perfect. Every company should have this exact thing.

For all my US-based tech friends, I'm submitting some talks to KCDC this year (the Kansas City Developer Conference). If you haven't been, it's a spectacular community-run event that has some great content and friends around. Their CFP deadline is tonight: www.kcdc.info

I'm looking for some sort of AI application (web, mobile, desktop, or otherwise) that I can point to a ton of photos/videos, and have it build a nice video out of them by selecting the good ones, maybe adding some music, etc. Any suggestions? I've tried a few over the last weeks and none work.

About to give a brand-new live-coding presentation for the first time. No matter how many presentations you give, it never feels less stressful =D

Are we officially a dictatorship now? www.thedailybeast.com/trump-signs-... Fuck.

It's funny to me that RescueTime continuously tells me "I'm distracted!" when I'm chatting with AI about work topics. It's not a distraction! AI is a core work tool!

I truly love the vibes of this: furbo.org/2025/02/07/m...

It’s a little chilly today.

The main feature I wish more email interfaces had is the ability to reply to a message & archive it simultaneously. 99.99% of the time, when I'm replying to an email, my intent is to: - Get the reply out - Then archive the message so it isn't in my inbox taking up mental energy

I think this is the best article I've read to date in 2025: winnielim.org/journal/mini... Highly recommend checking it out for personal inspiration.

Everyone in the US should be *OUTRAGED* at a lot of things right now, including the insane defunding of some of the most critical areas of research in *the world*: the NIH & NSF. www.science.org/content/blog... The NIH & NSF produce some of the most valuable scientific research worldwide.

I'm having so much fun right now. I'm working on a DevRel presentation I'm giving to Craft's portfolio companies later this week (craftventures.com). It's fun to reflect on all the things I've learned over these past ~25 years in tech. It's a nice break from doom-scrolling the news =D

Are there any AI tools out there which connect to your email, then simply unsubscribe from all the annoying junk mail you get? I need that. Everyone needs that.