joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this

What the hell happened to the Cursor UI man?

Only 34 years ago, yet we have become so complacent

The Sims (2000)

look at this crazy jello my mom makes

Opencode now also supports skills. Even Claude Code compatible.

As a Christmas present to you all I've got the blog up to date and given it a new theme. If you like reading out of date blog posts feel free to visit blog.jonathanchannon.com

Are you ready to read 5,600 lines of c++ code ported to rust per hour? I have the perfect job for you: Do not despair, it is just 100 lines of code per minute.

BREAKING: sparked by a mass exodus of X users in protest of a new function that feeds images to Generative AI for other users to edit, for the first time since April 8th, Bluesky gained more than 55,000 new users in a day. There are still 6.5 hours to go before the @bskycheck.com counter resets.

On Trump’s orders, the National Center for Atmospheric Research will be shut down after more than 50 years as a leader in global research on climate science and monitoring. This is what authoritarian science looks like. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

American social media platforms are banned in Russia. Have you noticed Donald isn't sanctioning anyone over that?

What was the Dotcom Boom like? Bryan Cantrill (@bcantrill.bsky.social - cofounder and CTO at Oxide): "One of my early life lessons: that boom will go on longer than you think possible, and when it switches, it will collapse faster than you can fathom."

NEW: Your most controversial F1 stewarding call of 2025: Verstappen’s Spanish GP penalty Formula 1 stewards were too soft on Max Verstappen and too hard on Oscar Piastri according to our readers. Here are the five most controversial penalty calls of 2025. More:

Wrote a short experience report on using Zed, Opencode and Claude models to implement a missing feature in a personal project of mine. Key elements of success: always plan, structured approach to testing using DSLs. hanlho.com/p/implementi...

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Claude Code has a bias for working as the lone ranger. Asking a few questions and then generating a big plan. Sometimes thats on but often not. So I built a small command to make it work in a step-by-step mode. Pretty happy with the results github.com/NTCoding/cla...

OKRs are ripe for disruption as strategy theater.

Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It was quickly convinced to give away free items to support the communist agenda by Katherine Long. But there where also other very amusing ways it failed. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

github.blog/changelog/20... gonna start charging for self hosted runners, wankers

Hey, my talk "6 Safe Refactorings for Untested Legacy Code" that I gave at @confooca.bsky.social 2025 is available online! How cool is that? 😄 So here it is: I'm presenting you with 6 moves you can use in VS Code to refactor untested code ✊ www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YEm...

This is an increasing problem that needs regulation. The big tech co’s have become so big, so powerful, but also so careless. All while we’ve trusted them with more and more of our work and lives. Which they can take away in an instant, “without recourse.”

If you want to make a copy of the entire Bluesky network (or some subset of it, or some other app built on atproto), Tap is now the best way do do it. I hope this will enable more people do do, for example, interesting social network analysis research

TUI DuckDB Explorer - github.com/tconbeer/har...

Did Cursor just try to reinvent #dotnet Webforms? cursor.com/blog/browser...

I got one for Miro — the online white-boarding tool! WTAF…

so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid

Curious about alternatives to Hexagonal Architecture? Revisit our session with Thomas Pierrain & @brunoboucard.bsky.social on using a Functional Core with an Imperative Shell to protect your domain. A great live-coding demonstration. Rewatch it on our website.

I think Marian is doing a great job of explaining how people learn can refactoring, the stages you go through and what it looks like. It's helping me design training for developers open.substack.com/pub/changeth...

I have a new favourite pizza..... Bolognese Pizza. Can't beat tradition.

I made a little prioritization tool johnpcutler.github.io/prioritizer/...

this is the guy who wants an AI Dead Nan

Ask us anything! The post is already up, so you can start asking questions now, we'll start answering tomorrow.

PSA:

New blog post! ✨ I argue that AI will make formal verification go mainstream. martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a... Three reasons for this: 1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.

Fast flow isn't just speed, it's sustainable, adaptive delivery. 3 sessions at Agile meets Architecture 2026: @esilva.net and Jan Solhøy: CircleK's journey from Norway to global markets @bitboss.bsky.social: Staffing strategies for fast flow

I am really enjoying having some time between contracts at the moment... I just wrote an article about the test desiderata - this has been on my mind to write about for several years at this point! coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/test...

Announcing Oxlint Type-Aware Linting Alpha 🎁 Just a few months after our technical preview, type-aware linting reaches the alpha milestone! ✨ Type-aware rules can now be configured 🙈 Inline comments to disable rules work for type-aware rules too ✔ Auto fixes for type-aware rules are now available

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

The basic idea is this. So much becomes clear when you actually label the relationships between things. It’s something I do every day, and I do it very naturally. But it is not something everyone does naturally. cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-393-wh...

Musk has continued to escalate this anti-EU rhetoric… with help from friends & leaders of industry, Joe Lonsdale and David Sacks. He’s also saying (falsely, by definition) that embracing far right ideology is just being normal.

Baker man is baking bread …

Reminder that I'm still looking fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! You can find my portfolio here: www.hazelmonforton.com

Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱

Elon Musk has continued to publicly endorse the far right and now he's trying to disband the EU. And Europeans keep using his products and putting money in his pockets.

Elon Musk is a global enemy to democracy.

Will the disadvantages of legacy systems be exacerbated or diminished over the next few years as AI improves? If AI provides advantages with newer tech and well maintained codebases = cost of legacy grows. If AI reduces the cost of changing legacy or modernization = legacy liability reduces 1/3

The Fastiv railway station in the Kyiv region before and after last night’s Russian attack.

Any product designers looking for work right now? I got a role open near me: job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly...

So what does the ending of Take Shelter actually mean?

It has been quite an odyssey, but now it is finally here: 📣 📚 Domain-Driven Transformation: Modernize Legacy Systems and Mitigate Risk 📚 📣 In this book, Carola Lilienthal and I present our approach to transform architecturally eroded systems. domain-driven-transformation.com