i am generally sympathetic to the idea that it's important to have a full understanding of systems yourself instead of outsourcing it all to a chatbot. yet, there are certain domains of knowledge that only make you stupider, such as celebrity gossip, youtube drama, burgerpol, or the Linux IP stack

I heard about a software company that hired human coders 😬 and then they had to hire a whole second team of people (they called it “quality assurance” 😅) whose job it was to try and catch the mistakes the first team made 🤣

"we are really human process engineers" should probably be laser engraved in the walls of all the computer science and software engineering departments in the world

Feels so good to be a long term terminal only freak and be completely validated by the invention of llms. Long live text based computer interfaces.

Microsoft spending billions trying to figure out the best way to integrate ai into windows when the perfect ai computer use interface already exists and its bash.

Research questions which arose: - Will alt text be editable too? if so, can one use it as a back-end for CRDTs? - Since bad rkeys make it through the firehose, could one run hidden network underlays through there? - Can one serve static sites by jamming unsupported mime types in blob titles?

update: it most definitely didn’t on the way back 😴

that’s how they get you

"I can't leave because they've locked me in" Once again, Substack is the opposite of independence. Also, classic @molly.wiki breakdown of how you win when you leave Substack:

At proto holds this space in my life where it’s quite literally the only unambiguously positive thing that’s going on in tech. Anyone can look at it without convincing and agree it’s great direction for the industry.

additionally: productivity doesn’t matter if you’re working on the thing wrong

monthly goal just dropped

Happy Pride month, from VGAPride and my 60mhz Pentium running MS-DOS.

Happy pride month 🌈

Cure. 🧛

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...

What fear? Pushing bugs to prod? I have no reputation to maintain and the stakes couldn’t be lower. Just be whimsymaxxing

The Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of their land 100 years ago. They sued, got the land back, and used their sovereignty to ignore local zoning and build 6,000 new homes over the loud objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs. Now other tribes are getting in the game.

My pre-coffee brain thinks there's something to this. It's too easy. Yes, the compute is vast, but it's *too simple.* Arrange floats in a particular way, show the arrangement trillions of examples, backpropagation, and then the arrangement starts to talk? I'm frankly suspicious.

lets go

the pope: hey just checking in on the AI encyclical designs- the pope's digital comms intern (looking up from Figma, the ancient spirit of Michalangelo speaking through him): WHEN I AM FINISHED!!!

whoa, buddy. Claude got your timeline wrong. I'm just here to take credit for the bits that work

feel like plotting my search traffic for Forgejo against GitHub outages would yield interesting results

Just read this great quote: > boot camps. when capitalism finally got its sea legs on the web, and began mass-moving the economically oppressed into the tech industry lottery through the language of militarism. (@burrito.space)

gonna be mulling whether I like this one

My nana was the last family member I personally came out to. She was a lifelong catholic. When I told her I was trans, she told me, “God gives us all our own journeys. God made you trans and that’s beautiful. Who would I be to have an issue with the gift God has given you?”

cv generator / LinkedIn component / @sifa.id integration thing getting more shape, turns out that porting something midway implementation from boring three tier DDD/postgres/graphql to atproto native is actually pretty challenging. obviously dreamt up an AT native app over the long weekend

we truly are indeed all slowly turning into project managers oops

monday again is it

another beautiful day of looking at screens ahead of us

Valid computer command in the year twenty twenty six.

Claude code is a sex worker

AI: "Who's a good boy? Who's the goodest, goodest boy?" Powerful and wealthy CEO: "Me? Am I the goodest boy?"

rare HN eloquence news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815...

... there's a dawning realization that I might finally be pushing it

great post, although I have some asterisks about Chrome not doing some of their things with nefarious if not actively malicious intent

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

In case you were wondering how the non-computer people are using Claude, one of our potential clients straight up sends us the markdown file which ends with their negotiation tactics and decisions

sorry emacs bros, but this is what peak text editing looks like

its me

it's ok

World is fucked up and evil and complicated. Cat is soft and warm and fluffy. He is not a big fan of me crying into him like a pillow but nevertheless he endures

Of course you would hold to this truth. You are but a youth newly arrived from the Lyceum where you gorged yourself on the scrolls of Plato. You shall cling to that anchor until the next moon, when the logic of Aristotle ensnares you.

Amazing write up by Sarah Friend @isthisa.com who predicts the transformation of “software dev as type of guy” & more. “The coming software renaissance will lead to more genuine creativity in cultural areas that have been underserved by the software developer, possibly for demographic reasons”